Earlier this month, the director of the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge announced that he plans to leave his post this summer to become president of Singapore Management University (SMU), the Financial Times reported.
Arnoud De Meyer, who has served as Judge’s director for the past four years, will become the fourth president of SMU, which the Singapore government opened just 10 years ago. In accepting the post, he will move from one of the world’s oldest universities to one of its newest, the FT added.
Singapore, however, is not new for De Meyer. Before coming to Judge, De Meyer spent 23 years at INSEAD, including helping to set up that school’s Singapore campus and serving as its founding dean.
SMU has experienced enormous growth in its first decade, according to the FT report. In addition to its Lee Kong Chian School of Business, it boasts departments of law, accounting, social sciences, economics and information systems. The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania was instrumental in SMU’s inception and maintains strong ties with the school, the FT added.
Howard Thomas, until recently the dean of England’s Warwick Business School, will join De Meyer in Singapore, serving as the new dean of SMU’s Lee Kong Chian School, the FT reported. Meanwhile, Judge Business School has begun a search for a new dean.
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