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.
Speaker: Adjunct Prof Chong Siow Ann 2 January 2026
More patients are turning to AI for their health concerns, with a recent article reporting that many rated chatbot responses as more empathetic than those written by physicians. However, the risk of AI in medicine is not simply that it can make mistakes, but that it offers certainty without accountability and confidence without consequence.
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Speaker: Dr Parag Khanna, Managing Partner of FutureMap | 16 January 2019
Speaker: Speaker: Dr Cheong Koon Hean, the Institute of Policy Studies' 5th S R Nathan Fellow, CEO of the Housing and Development Board | 6 December 2018
Speaker: Speaker: Dr. Kai-Fu Lee, Chairman and CEO of Sinovation Ventures, Former President of Google China | 22 November 2018
Speaker: Speaker: Professor Tan Tai Yong, 6th S R Nathan Fellow for the Study of Singapore | 31 October 2018
Speaker: Speaker: Professor Tan Eng Chye, NUS President | 29 October 2018
Speaker: 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 October 2018
Speaker: Speaker: Associate Professor Tan Kenneth Paul, NUS Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy | 4 October 2018
Speaker: Speaker: Mr Ong Ye Kung, Minister for Education, Singapore | 28 September 2018
Speaker: Speaker: Professor Mark Tushnet, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School | 20 September 2018
Speaker: 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 September 2018