Understanding China and Hong Kong
Professor Wang Gungwu, NUS University Professor
7 Sep 2019
Generation Unlimited: The calling of our time
Ms Henrietta Fore, Executive Director, UNICEF
23 Aug 2019
Improving social and economic outcomes in Asia
Speaker: Mr Jin Liqun, President, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
16 Aug 2019
Advancing health through innovation
Professor Lim Chwee Teck, Director, NUS Institute for Health Innovation & Technology
10 Aug 2019
We, the Robots?
Professor Simon Chesterman, Dean, NUS Law
30 Jul 2019
The lower immunity behind the current dengue outbreak
Associate Professor Alex R Cook, Vice Dean (Research), Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health
24 Jul 2019
How can scientists become role models
President’s Assistant Professor Benjamin Tee, NUS Engineering
1 Jul 2019
A deep dive on AI in Singapore
Professor Ho Teck Hua, NUS Senior Deputy President and Provost
20 Apr 2019
How the West can adapt to a rising Asia
Professor Kishore Mahbubani, Distinguished Fellow, NUS Asia Research Institute
18 Apr 2019
Before Nation and Beyond: Places, Histories and Identities
Speaker: Professor Tan Tai Yong, 6th S R Nathan Fellow for the Study of Singapore
9 Apr 2019
Who is responsible for the ethical implications of AI?
Speaker: Professor Leong Tze Yun, NUS Computing
4 Apr 2019
U@live: Education – Still a Social Leveller?
Speaker: Mr Ong Ye Kung, Minister for Education
27 Mar 2019
The Future of Global Order
Professor Danny Quah, Dean, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
25 Mar 2019
Sustainable cooling for all
Speaker: Associate Professor Ernest Chua, NUS Engineering
26 Feb 2019
Capturing atmospheric carbon to power clean, alternative fuels
Speaker: Professor Liu Bin, Head of NUS Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
26 Feb 2019
Net-zero energy buildings for sustainability and well-being
Speaker: Professor Lam Khee Poh, Dean, NUS Design and Environment
26 Feb 2019
For the Love of Robots
Ms Janneke Ritchie, CEO of Orange Gate
20 Feb 2019
IPS-Nathan Lecture III - Singapore’s Story: A Port City in Search of Hinterlands
Speaker: Professor Tan Tai Yong, President and Professor of Humanities (History) at Yale-NUS College
30 Jan 2019
Singapore and the World
Speakers: Professor Wang Gungwu, Chairman Board of Trustees ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute; Mr Yeo George, Visiting Scholar, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and Former Minister for Foreign Affairs, Singapore
28 Jan 2019
The Future is Asian
Dr Parag Khanna, Managing Partner of FutureMap
16 Jan 2019
Seeking a better urban future
Speaker: Dr Cheong Koon Hean, the Institute of Policy Studies' 5th S R Nathan Fellow, CEO of the Housing and Development Board
6 Dec 2018
AI Super Powers: China, Silicon Valley and the New World Order
Speaker: Dr. Kai-Fu Lee, Chairman and CEO of Sinovation Ventures, Former President of Google China
22 Nov 2018
Circulations, Connections & Networks: Early Globalisation & Cosmopolitan Singapore
Speaker: Professor Tan Tai Yong, 6th S R Nathan Fellow for the Study of Singapore
31 Oct 2018
Higher Education in Singapore
Speaker: Professor Tan Eng Chye, NUS President
29 Oct 2018
Diversities – New and Old
Speakers: Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Deputy Prime Minister and Coordinating Minister for Economic and Social Policies; Ambassador Tommy Koh, Special Adviser, Institute of Policy Studies
25 Oct 2018
Governing Global-City Singapore: Legacies and Futures after Lee Kuan Yew
Speaker: Associate Professor Tan Kenneth Paul, NUS Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
4 Oct 2018
The Future of the Separation of Powers
Speaker: Professor Mark Tushnet, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
20 Sep 2018
The United States and South Asia: Assessing the New Dynamics
Speaker: Dr S Jaishankar, Distinguished Visiting Research Fellow, ISAS; Former Foreign Secretary of India; and India’s Former Ambassador to the United States and China
14 Sep 2018
IPS-Nathan Lecture I - The long and short of Singapore history: cycles, pivots and continuities
Speaker: Professor Tan Tai Yong, President and Professor of Humanities (History) at Yale-NUS College
12 Sep 2018
Transition in Afghanistan: Past Challenges, Future Prospects
Speaker: Professor William Maley, Professor of Diplomacy, ANU college of Asia and the Pacific, Australia
12 Sep 2018
The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India's New Gilded Age
Speaker: Associate Professor James Crabtree, Associate Professor of Practice, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
21 Aug 2018
Regional Integration: What Lessons from Europe?
Speaker: Dr. Enrico Letta, Former Italian Prime Minister and Dean of the Paris School of International Affairs (PISA)
17 Aug 2018
Learning from Singapore’s Journey to Greater Water Security
Speaker: Mr TAN Gee Paw, Special Advisor to Chairman, PUB
17 Aug 2018
Forum on Religious Harmony 2018
Speaker: Mr Wong Kan Seng, Former Deputy Prime Minister and Former Minister for Home Affairs
3 Jul 2018
Kevin Rudd: U.S. - China Relations, North Korea & the Future of the Global Order
Speaker: Kevin Rudd, Former Prime Minister of Australia and President of the Asia Society Policy Institute
26 Jun 2018
Data Protection Law in Singapore: Privacy and Sovereignty in an Interconnected World
Speaker: Simon Chesterman, Dean and Professor National University of Singapore Faculty of Law
6 Jun 2018
Future Warfare and Humanitarian Implications
Speaker: Dr Hugo Slim, Head of Policy at the International Committee of the Red Cross
24 Apr 2018
Addressing the societal implications of an AI-Powered World
Speakers: Dr Janil Puthucheary, Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Communications and Information & Ministry of Education; Mr Brad Smith, President and Chief Legal Officer of Microsoft
6 Apr 2018
Costa Rica and its Relations with Asia: Thoughts and Opportunities
Speakers: HE Iris Manzanares, Ambassador of Costa Rica to Singapore
27 Mar 2018
Kazakhstan and China's Belt and Road Initiative: Implications for the Region
Speaker: Amb Dr Usen Suleimen, Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Singapore
26 Mar 2018
What Makes A City Successful? Lessons from Inspiring Cities.
Speaker: Dr Cheong Koon Hean, 5th IPS Nathan Fellow
26 Mar 2018
Discrimination and rights as critical dimensions of public policy
Speaker: Dr. Hasheem Mannan, Associate Professor at the University College Dublin
26 Mar 2018
The Future of Public Health: Leadership Perspectives from East & West
Speaker: Professor Sten H. Vermund, Dean, Yale School of Public Health
19 Mar 2018
India at 70
Speakers: Mr. Rahul Gandhi, President of the Indian National Congress Party; Member of India's Parliament; Prof Danny Quah, Dean, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS; Ms. Pallavi Rachel George, Graduate Student, Master in Public Policy (2016/2018), Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
8 Mar 2018
Singapore in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Speakers: Professor Ho Teck Hua, NUS Senior Deputy President and Provost; Mr Tan Kok Yam, Deputy Secretary of Singapore’s Smart Nation and Digital Government Office; Mr Lim Kok Kiang, Assistant Managing Director of Singapore Economic Development Board; Professor Daniel Hastings, Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology CEO
13 Feb 2018
University alliances in research
Speaker: Professor Tan Eng Chye, NUS President
6 Feb 2018
Water & Food Security Challenges and the Role of Think Tanks
Speakers: Mr Eli Weiss, Senior Agriculture Economist, The World Bank; Dr Liong Shie-Yui, Deputy Director, Tropical Marine Science Institute, National University of Singapore; Dr Cecilia Tortajada, Senior Research Fellow, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore
30 Jan 2018
Peace and Prosperity in a time of disruption
Speaker: Senator the Hon Penny Wong, Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs, Australia
24 Jan 2018
Importance of ageing with vigour
Speaker: Mr Teo Chee Hean, Singapore’s Deputy Prime Minister
22 Jan 2018
Solving issues together
Speaker: Mr Heng Swee Keat, Singapore’s Minister for Finance
22 Jan 2018
Communicating risk in a complex world
Speaker: Mr Peter Ho, NUS Trustee and Senior Advisor, Centre for Strategic Futures
17 Jan 2018
The Indian Civil Service: Has it delivered?
Speaker: Mr Vinod Rai, Distinguished Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of South Asian Studies, NUS; and 11th Comptroller and Auditor-General of India
16 Jan 2018
Coercion in the New Nuclear Age
Speaker: Dr Toby Dalton, Co-Director of the Nuclear Policy Program at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
10 Jan 2018
Siri goes to Medical School
Speaker: Dr Jeffry Mann, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
28 Nov 2017
ASEAN Economic Integration: Myth or Reality
Speaker: Tan Sri Datuk Dr Rebecca Fatima Sta. Maria, Senior Policy Fellow, Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia
27 Nov 2017
Balancing Internet democracy with Greater Accountability
Speaker: Mr Dan Shefet, President of the Association for Accountability and Internet Democracy
22 Nov 2017
Birds, Humans and our Sustainable Future
Speaker: Ms Patricia Zurita, CEO of Birdlife International
3 Nov 2017
The Powerful Lenses of Leadership
Speaker: Professor Tan Chorh Chuan, NUS President
3 Nov 2017
Breaking new frontiers globally in scientific engineering
Speaker: Mr Peter Ho, NUS Engineering alumnus and CEO of HOPE Technik
25 Oct 2017
Finance Science, Technology and Financial Innovation and their Impact on the Economy
Speaker: Professor Robert C. Merton, School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management
25 Oct 2017
The Accidental Nation
Speaker: Mr Lim Siong Guan, Professor (Practice) at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS
20 Sep 2017
What makes a good leader?
Speaker: Emeritus Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong
20 Sep 2017
Future of Higher Education in the Digital World
Speaker: Professor Diana Laurillard, Professor of Learning with Digital Technologies, University College London
12 Sep 2017
Shuffles towards the fourth prime minister
Speaker: Dr Gillian Koh, Deputy Director (Research) at Institute of Policy Studies, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at NUS
7 Sep 2017
The Economics of Business Contracts
Speaker: Professor Michael Klausner, Nancy and Charles Munger Professor of Business and Professor of Law at Stanford Law School
31 Aug 2017
Agency Reasoning – A Formula or a Tool?
Speaker: Professor Francis Reynolds, Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Oxford
17 Aug 2017
The Great Powers in Southeast Asia and the Fall and Rise of China
Speaker: Professor Wang Gungwu, Chairman of NUS East Asian Institute
17 Aug 2017
A tale of two cities
Speaker: Professor Lam Khee Poh, Dean of NUS Design and Environment
15 Aug 2017
Age is Unnecessary: Shakespeare and the War between Old and Young
Speaker: Professor Stephen Greenblatt, Harvard University
10 Aug 2017
Preparing business students for a volatile, uncertain world
Speaker: Professor Bernard Yeung, Dean, NUS Business School
31 Jul 2017
Start-ups, Outer Space and you
Speaker: Commander Jeffrey Williams, Retired NASA Astronaut
12 Jul 2017
Life lessons in law
Speaker: Mr V.K. Rajah, Former Attorney-General of Singapore and Judge of Appeal
8 Jul 2017
Shaping the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Speaker: Professor Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum
5 Jul 2017
The Big Picture on Oceans
Speaker: Dr Neo Mei Lin, Research Fellow at NUS Tropical Marine Science Institute
27 Jun 2017
Bad numbers in the news: How to spot them, and how to stop them
Speaker: Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor for the Public Understanding of Risk at Cambridge University
16 Jun 2017
Honouring EW Barker
Speaker: Mr Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister of Singapore
30 May 2017
Low carbon economy after the Paris Climate Agreement
Speaker: Professor Tan Chorh Chuan, President, National University of Singapore
9 May 2017
Revolutionary approaches in Science Education
Speaker: Professor Carl Wieman, Nobel Laureate and Physicist, Stanford University
28 Apr 2017
Relevance of Liberal Arts Education for Asian Development
Speaker: Professor Tan Tai Yong, President-designate of Yale-NUS College
26 Apr 2017
Future-ready Asia
Speakers: Dr Beh Swan Gin, Economic Development Board Chairman; Prof Kishore Mahbubani, Dean of Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy; Prof Brian Kennedy, Buck Institute for Research on Aging
21 Apr 2017
Risk & Resilience, Imagination & Innovation
Speaker: Mr Peter Ho, NUS Trustee and Senior Advisor to the Centre for Strategic Futures
19 Apr 2017
US-China Relations and the Evolving Order in Asia
Speaker: Professor David Shambaugh, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University
12 Apr 2017
New era, new opportunities
Speaker: His Excellency Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
7 Apr 2017
The Black Elephant Challenge for Governments
Speaker: Mr Peter Ho, NUS Trustee and Senior Advisor to the Centre for Strategic Futures
5 Apr 2017
China-India-US Relations under the Trump Administration
Speakers: Major General Zhu Chenghu, Dean of China’s National Defense University; Ambassador Shyam Saran, India’s former Foreign Secretary
10 Mar 2017
South Asia and the world
Speaker: Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, Singapore’s Minister for Foreign Affairs
3 Mar 2017
Deconstructing populism
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 Feb 2017
World Order in the Age of Trump
Speaker: Prof Amitav Acharya, Boeing Company Chair in International Relations, Schwarzman Scholars Program, Tsinghua University
1 Feb 2017
Looking ahead
Speaker: Mr Ong Ye Kung, Minister for Education (Higher Education and Skills) & Second Minister for Defence, Singapore
23 Jan 2017
Putting families first
Speakers: Professor Mary C Brinton, Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology at Harvard University; Mrs Josephine Teo, Singapore’s Senior Minister of State
19 Jan 2017
The Challenges Ahead – Europe and the World
Speaker: Mr Pavlo Klimkin, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ukraine
16 Jan 2017
Has the game changed?
Speaker: Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Deputy Prime Minister & Coordinating Minister for Economic and Social Policies, Singapore
7 Jan 2017
Cultural Transfers in History
Speaker: Professor Wang Gungwu, Chairman, NUS East Asian Institute
6 Jan 2017
Perspectives on the Pacific Century
Speaker: The Honourable Kirk Wagar, United States Ambassador to Singapore
3 Jan 2017
Democracy
Speaker: Mr Tshering Tobgay, His Honorable Prime Minister of Bhutan
29 Nov 2016
Driving Singapore’s War on Diabetes
Speaker: Professor Paul Zimmet, Monash University’s Professor of Diabetes and Honorary President of the International Diabetes Foundation
24 Nov 2016
Geopolitics & Pakistan’s Position in the World
Speaker: Mr Shaukat Aziz, Former Prime Minister of Pakistan
18 Nov 2016
New Frontiers in International Regulatory Science
Speaker: Professor Guido Rasi, Executive Director of European Medicines Agency
25 Oct 2016
India in the World of the 21st Century
Speaker: Dr Shashi Tharoor, Indian politician and former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations
7 Oct 2016
Humanitarianism and Challenges to Humanitarian Action
Speaker: Dr Unni Karunakara, Senior Fellow, Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, Yale University
5 Oct 2016
A Cloud for Global Good
Speaker: Ms Toni Townes-Whitley, Corporate Vice President, Worldwide Public Sector, Microsoft
4 Oct 2016
No limits to being better
Speaker: Professor Tan Chorh Chuan, President, National University of Singapore
28 Sep 2016
Be a global citizen
Speaker: Dr Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General
30 Aug 2016
Value of Humanities and Social Sciences
Speaker: Mr Ong Ye Kung, Minister for Education (Higher Education and Skills) & Second Minister for Defence, Singapore
30 Aug 2016
Creating a Distinctive Singapore: Our next 50 years
Speaker: Mr Lawrence Wong, Singapore's Minister for National Development
11 Aug 2016
On globalisation and the Indian diaspora
Speaker: Mr Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister of Singapore
18 Jul 2016
Opportunities of Convergence
Speaker: Mr Ranil Wickremesinghe, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka
18 Jul 2016
From adversities to opportunities
Speaker: Madam Halimah Yacob, Singapore Speaker of Parliament and NUS Honorary Doctor of Laws Graduate
7 Jul 2016
Humanist’s Heart, Scientist’s Mind and Artist’s Eyes – Stories behind my Planning Journey
Speaker: Dr Liu Thai Ker, Former CEO of the Housing & Development Board and Chief Planner of the Urban Redevelopment Authority
20 Apr 2016
Fireside Chat at InnovFest unBound 2016: Bringing Angry Birds Alive
Speaker: Mr Peter Vesterbacka, Chief Marketing Officer of Rovio Entertainment
16 Mar 2016
Judges as moral arbiters
Speaker: The Honourable Antonin Scalia, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
16 Mar 2016
Translation of the genetic code to proteins: the cell workers
Speaker: Prof Ada Yonath, Nobel Peace Winner for Chemistry (2009)
16 Mar 2016
What's Happening to the World?
Speaker: Mr Robert B. Zoellick, Former President of the World Bank, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State and White House Deputy Chief of Staff
16 Mar 2016
Conversation with Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam
Speaker: Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Deputy Prime Minister & Coordinating Minister for Economic and Social Policies, Singapore
16 Mar 2016
Forging A Strong Partnership to Enhance Prosperity of Asia
Speaker: His Excellency Xi Jinping, President of the People's Republic of China
16 Mar 2016
Perspectives on Indonesia's Policy Challenges
Speaker: Dr Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Former President of Indonesia
16 Mar 2016
My Hyflux Journey: Daring to Dream Big
Speaker: Ms Olivia Lum, Executive Chairman and Group CEO of Hyflux Ltd
16 Mar 2016
Global Leadership needed in the Era of Fourth Industrial Revolution
Speaker: Professor Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum
16 Mar 2016
Rooting out the 'rot of corruption' in U.K.
Speaker: His Excellency David Cameron, Prime Minister of UK
16 Mar 2016
Governance and Economic Outlook of the Monetary Union in the Eurozone
Speaker: Prof Pier Carlo Padoan, Minister of Economy and Finance, Italy
16 Mar 2016
Capturing the Value of Prevention
Speaker: Prof John Ioannidis, C. F. Rehnborg Professor in Disease Prevention at Stanford University
16 Mar 2016
Leading Change through the United Nations: A Personal Journey
Speaker: Dr Noeleen Heyzer, Former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations
16 Mar 2016
Global Threats to the Global City
Speaker: Professor Tan Chorh Chuan, NUS President
16 Mar 2016
Clean energy, climate and the Artic
Speaker: His Excellency Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, President of Iceland
16 Mar 2016
Global Equity and Security - Towards a Peaceful and Humane World
Speaker: Dr Mohamed ElBaradei, 2005 Nobel Laureate for Peace, former Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency and former Vice President of Egypt
16 Mar 2016
Has the European Experiment Failed?
Speaker: Prof Romano Prodi, Former Prime Minister of Italy
16 Mar 2016
Facing Public Health Challenges in the Post-2015 Era: Need for a New Paradigm
Speaker: Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization
16 Mar 2016
The Future of Opportunity: Innovation, Talent and Work in the Next 50 Years
Speaker: Dr Byron Auguste, Managing Director of Opportunity@Work and former Deputy Director of the White House National Economic Council
16 Mar 2016
Public Health School moves to new home
Speaker: Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization
16 Mar 2016
Asian Economic Outlook and the Role of Asian Development Bank
Speaker: Mr Takehiko Nakao, President of the Asian Development Bank and former Vice Minister of Finance for International Affairs at the Ministry of Finance of Japan
16 Mar 2016
Conversation with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong
Speaker: Mr Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister of Singapore
16 Mar 2016