Arnoud De Meyer is a Belgian business academic at the

Lee Kong Chian School of Business The Lee Kong Chian School of Business is the business school of the Singapore Management University (SMU). Established in 2000, the school was the first to be established under the Singapore Management University's charter. It is a research-dr ...

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

Judge Business School Cambridge Judge Business School is the business school of the University of Cambridge. The School is a provider of management education. It is named after Sir Paul Judge, a founding benefactor of the school. The School is considered to be pa ...

of the

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, and founding Dean of

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'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 PhD 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

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. After that, he was appointed Director of the

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 Lily L.L. Kong is a Singaporean geographer currently serving as president of the Singapore Management University (SMU). She is the first female and Singaporean academic to helm a Singapore university. Prior joining SMU, she was a faculty member ...

. He remains a faculty member at SMU's

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