10 Jul 2021
SMU President Professor Lily Kong spoke with The Business Times in a special feature about her vision of a university, global exposure for our students, the Institute of Innovation of Entrepreneurship and its flagship Lee Kuan Yew Global Business Plan Competition. The interview was published in BT’s The Raffles Conversation on 10 July 2021.
Madam President: Lily Kong, SMU President
The days of a university that sits in its ivory tower should be banished, says SMU president and geographer Lily Kong
IN September 2017, the Singapore Management University (SMU) announced a global search to replace its outgoing president, Arnoud De Meyer. Seven months later, that search ended where it had begun: in the university s own backyard, where Lily Kong was standing.
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Left (top-bottom): SMU Associate Professor of Science, Technology and Society Winston Chow; SMU Associate Professor Humanities Orlando Woods.
Right: SMU President and Lee Kong Chian Chair Professor of Social Sciences Lily. view more
Credit: Singapore Management University
SMU Office of Research & Tech Transfer - For most of human history, populations across the world lived in low-density, rural settings. Over the past few centuries, however, this changed dramatically with the trend of urbanisation. Today, more than four billion people live in urban settings worldwide; by 2050, about two thirds of the world s population are expected to live in cities.
Despite their rapid growth, cities do not spring up fully formed, but are shaped by evolving human constructs including government policy, legal frameworks and emerging technologies. It is precisely because much of human life is now led in cities that it is essential to examine these constructs and their implicat