Thought Leadership

Some of the world’s leaders, and leading thinkers from NUS and overseas, regularly gather and add to the rich diversity of thoughts and ideas on our campuses, in Singapore and across the globe.
Here’s what they had to share.

Bad numbers in the news: How to spot them, and how to stop them

Bad numbers in the news: How to spot them, and how to stop them

Speaker: Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor for the Public Understanding of Risk at Cambridge University 16 Jun 2017

In this lecture organised by the Lloyd’s Register Foundation Institute for the Public Understanding of Risk at NUS, Professor Spiegelhalter highlighted his concerns on how numbers, risks and evidence are used in the media today.

Learn more

Budget 2025: How far can financial support push the third-child dream?

Budget 2025: How far can financial support push the third-child dream?

Speaker: Dr Tan Poh Lin, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at NUS 26 Feb 2025