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.
Christopher Gee, Institute of Policy Studies, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy 18 August 2025
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Speaker: Speaker: Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, Singapore’s Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3 March 2017
Speaker: Speakers: Mr Jonathan Darby, Acting Deputy High Commissioner at the British High Commission in Singapore; Frank Lavin, former US Ambassador; Assoc Prof Tan Ern Ser, NUS Arts and Social Sciences | 28 February 2017
Speaker: Speaker: Prof Amitav Acharya, Boeing Company Chair in International Relations, Schwarzman Scholars Program, Tsinghua University | 1 February 2017
Speaker: Speaker: Mr Ong Ye Kung, Minister for Education (Higher Education and Skills) & Second Minister for Defence, Singapore | 23 January 2017
Speaker: Speakers: Professor Mary C Brinton, Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology at Harvard University; Mrs Josephine Teo, Singapore’s Senior Minister of State | 19 January 2017
Speaker: Speaker: Mr Pavlo Klimkin, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ukraine | 16 January 2017
Speaker: Speaker: Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Deputy Prime Minister & Coordinating Minister for Economic and Social Policies, Singapore | 7 January 2017
Speaker: Speaker: Professor Wang Gungwu, Chairman, NUS East Asian Institute | 6 January 2017
Speaker: Speaker: The Honourable Kirk Wagar, United States Ambassador to Singapore | 3 January 2017
Speaker: Speaker: Mr Tshering Tobgay, His Honorable Prime Minister of Bhutan | 29 November 2016