Vice-Chair of INSEAD Board, Professor Emeritus, Singapore Management University
Arnoud De Meyer is a global academic leader with more than 40 years of experience in top international institutions in Europe and Asia. Until December 2018, he served as President of Singapore Management University (SMU).
Before joining SMU, Arnoud De Meyer was from 2006 until 2010 Director of the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom). From 1983 until 2006, he was a faculty member at INSEAD and assumed between 1990 and 2006 several management positions e.g. that of Associate Dean of the MBA programme, Associate Dean for Executive Education, and Director of the Euro-Asia Centre. From 1998 until 2002, he was the founding Dean of the INSEAD campus in Asia (Singapore) and became then Deputy Dean for the whole of INSEAD.
He is currently Independent Director of Viva Energy Pty Ltd (Australia), Banyan Group (Singapore) and non-executive director of upGrad Tech Pte Ltd (Mumbai, India). In Singapore he is also involved in several non-profit institutions: he is the chair of the Stewardship Asia Centre, the Human Capital Leadership Institute, and the Arts House Group.
A citizen of Belgium, Arnoud De Meyer graduated as an Electrical Engineer from the University of Gent (Belgium), where he also obtained a Master’s in Management and a Doctorate in Management. He is an internationally recognised empirical researcher in the areas of R&D and Innovation Management, Manufacturing Strategy, and International Management. He published more than 100 academic articles and 12 books.
