Arnoud De Meyer is a Belgian business academic at the Lee Kong Chian School of Business of

Singapore Management University Singapore Management University (SMU) is a publicly funded private university in Singapore. Founded in 2000, SMU is the third oldest autonomous university in the country, modelling its education after the Wharton School. The university is trip ...

(SMU). He was previously President of SMU, Director of the Judge Business School of the

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, and founding Dean of

INSEAD INSEAD ( ; French: ''Institut européen d'administration des affaires'') is a non-profit business school with locations in Europe (Fontainebleau, France), Asia (Singapore), the Middle East (Abu Dhabi, UAE) and North America (San Francisco, USA ...

's Asia Campus in Singapore.

Career

An electrical engineer by training, De Meyer obtained a graduate degree in business administration from the

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and worked as an instrumentation engineer for a few years before returning to the university to complete a

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in management. After that, he started on the path of being a business academic. He was associated for 23 years with

as a professor and as Dean for INSEAD's

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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. After that, he was appointed Director of the Judge Business School at the

from 2006 to 2010. 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

(SMU) on 1 September 2010. He stepped down as President of SMU at the start of 2019 and was succeeded by Lily Kong. He remains a faculty member at SMU's Lee Kong Chian School of Business.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:De Meyer, Arnoud Living people Belgian academics Ghent University alumni Presidents of Singapore Management University Year of birth missing (living people) Fellows of Jesus College, Cambridge