Arnoud De Meyer

Summary

Arnoud De Meyer PBM is a Belgian business academic at the Lee Kong Chian School of Business of Singapore Management University (SMU). He was previously President of SMU, Director of the Judge Business School of the University of Cambridge, and founding Dean of INSEAD's Asia Campus in Singapore.

Arnoud De Meyer
Born
NationalityBelgian
OccupationAcademic
Awards
Academic background
EducationPhD
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
University of Ghent
Academic work
DisciplineBusiness
Sub-disciplineManagement
InstitutionsSingapore Management University
University of Cambridge
INSEAD
Main interests
  • manufacturing strategy
  • R&D management
  • international management in Asia

Career edit

An electrical engineer by training, De Meyer obtained a graduate degree in business administration from the University of Ghent and worked as an instrumentation engineer for a few years before returning to the university to complete a PhD in management. After that, he started on the path of being a business academic.[1][2] He was associated for 23 years with INSEAD as a professor and as Dean for INSEAD's MBA programme, Executive Education and the Euro Asia Centre. He was also the founding Dean of INSEAD's Asia Campus in Singapore and wrote extensively with Frank-Jürgen Richter.[3] After that, he was appointed Director of the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge from 2006 to 2010.[4] He was also Professor of Management Studies and Fellow of Jesus College at Cambridge. De Meyer resigned as the Director of the Judge Business School in August 2010 to assume the position of the President of Singapore Management University (SMU) on 1 September 2010.[5][6][7] He stepped down as President of SMU at the start of 2019 and was succeeded by Lily Kong.[8] He remains a faculty member at SMU's Lee Kong Chian School of Business.[2]

References edit

  1. ^ Davie, Sandra (30 May 2016). "Arnoud De Meyer: 'If I were 18 again...'". The Straits Times. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
  2. ^ a b "Arnoud De Meyer". Singapore Management University. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
  3. ^ De Meyer, A., Mar, P.C.M., Richter, F.R. and Williamson, P. (2005) Global future: the next challenge for Asian business. Singapore: J. Wiley and Sons.
  4. ^ Arnoud De Meyer, Cambridge Judge Business School Profile Archived 27 July 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ Professor Arnoud De Meyer to step down as director of Cambridge Judge Business School 18 January 2010
  6. ^ "Press Release: SMU President Howard Hunter passes the baton to President-designate Arnoud De Meyer". Singapore Management University. 11 August 2010.
  7. ^ Bradshaw, Della (25 September 2011). "Professors take academic road to the east". Financial Times. Retrieved 27 September 2011.
  8. ^ Davie, Sandra (3 April 2018). "Social scientist Lily Kong to become first Singaporean academic to helm SMU". The Straits Times. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
Academic offices
Preceded by
Howard Hunter
President of Singapore Management University
2010–2019
Succeeded by