The University invites three new individuals to its Board of Trustees on 1 April 2016. The new NUS Trustees are Mr Loh Chin Hua, CEO and Executive Director, Keppel Corporation Limited; Dr Leslie Teo, Chief Economist and Director, Economics and Investment Strategy, GIC Private Limited; and Mr Wong Fong Fui, Chairman and Group CEO, Boustead Singapore Limited.
"Button Hua, Leslie and Fong Fui are extraordinary pioneers in their fields — NUS is undoubtedly special to welcome them to our Board. The University will advantage extraordinarily from their worldwide experience and skill as we endeavor to exceed expectations as worldwide college in a quickly changing advanced education scene, and to separate ourselves by having a profound effect through examination greatness," said Mr Wong Ngit Liong, Chairman of the NUS Board.
Mr Loh has more than 25 years of land contributing and store administration, traversing the US, Europe and Asia. He seats a few organizations inside Keppel including Keppel Offshore and Marine, Keppel Land and Keppel Infrastructure Holdings. In 2002, he established Keppel Group organization Alpha Investment Partners, which today has amassed over $12 billion in resources under its administration.
Dr Teo, who additionally originates from the venture business, directs the group in charge of advantage distribution, complete portfolio development and ID of key long haul inclines that would effect GIC's portfolio. He is a Council Member of the Economic Society of Singapore, a non-benefit association of financial analysts and different experts intrigued by financial aspects, and a Board Member of Pacific Pension and Investment Institute, a worldwide association of institutional speculators.
Mr Wong, a Co-picked Member of the Entrepreneurship Committee at NUS, is credited for restoring the 188-year-old Boustead into a beneficial modern land, vitality, natural building and innovation bunch. Among his accomplishments are the initiation and privatization of Myanmar Airways International and the change of the close bankrupt aggregate QAF.
NUS Chairman Mr Wong communicated his appreciation to three Trustees who have ventured down from the Board — Mr Hans-Dieter Bott, previous Managing Director of Siemens Private Limited; Ms Chan Chia Lin, Director of Holywell Private Limited; and Mr Han Fook Kwang, The Straits Times' Editor-on the loose. Mr Bott and Ms Chan ventured down on 31 March 2016 while Mr Han's spell with the Board finished on 31 December 2015.
This year likewise stamps NUS' tenth year of corporatisation, when it turned into a self-sufficient college with the capacity to practice more prominent adaptability to roll out broad improvements to make a remarkable instructive ordeal for understudies, and in addition contend internationally.
"Over the previous decade, the more prominent self-sufficiency and solid backing from the legislature has permitted NUS to position itself deliberately, and commit assets to new activities and unmistakable projects. NUS today is a flourishing group containing a significant number of the brightest understudies in Singapore, with a percentage of the best personnel and specialists in their fields. The University's solid execution in the most recent 2016 Quacquarelli Symonds World University Rankings by Subject — which set NUS among the world's 10 best colleges for 13 subjects and Asia's best crosswise over 25 subjects — is demonstration of the advancement that NUS has accomplished in the most recent 10 years," said Mr Wong.
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