Arnoud De Meyer is a Belgian business academic at the Lee Kong Chian School of Business of Singapore Management University (SMU). He was previously President of SMU, Director of the Judge Business School of the University of Cambridge, and founding Dean of INSEAD's Asia Campus in Singapore.
Career An electrical engineer by training, De Meyer obtained a graduate degree in business administration from the University of Ghent 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 INSEAD as a professor and as Dean for INSEAD's MBA 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 Frank-Jürgen Richter.De Meyer, A., Mar, P.C.M., Richter, F.R. and Williamson, P. (2005) Global future: the next challenge for Asian business. Singapore: J. Wiley and Sons. After that, he was appointed Director of the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge from 2006 to 2010.Arnoud De Meyer, Cambridge Judge Business School Profile 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 Singapore Management University (SMU) on 1 September 2010.Professor Arnoud De Meyer to step down as director of Cambridge Judge Business School 18 January 2010 He stepped down as President of SMU at the start of 2019 and was succeeded by Lily Kong. He remains a faculty member at SMU's Lee Kong Chian School of Business.
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