Singaporean professors Chin Tiong Tan, former president of the Singapore Institute of Technology and Kulwant Singh, Deputy Dean of the Business School, National University of Singapore, have arrived in T&T for the formal launch of the UTT School of Business.
While here the professions will also participate in the Singapore Experience II which will focus on new business models in a diverse and competitive environment, leadership in national development and the role of business schools in economic transformation. Professor Narayan Pant, Dean of Executive Education, INSEAD will deliver a message via video presentation at the Singapore Experience II Forum.
The Singapore Experience II Forum is a continuation of the Singapore Experience I which started under the auspices of Tertiary Education Minister Fazal Karim when he was CEO of the National Training Agency (NTA) in 2001.
"It is an honour and a privilege to have distinguished professors from Singapore visit us at this time, on the historic occasion of the opening of the UTT School of Business, and especially at a time when a lot of discussions are taking place with respect to the diversification of the economy of Trinidad and Tobago, and from which we can benefit from the experiences of the Singapore model that has become a world success story among the league of competitive nations," Karim said.
"I am honoured that they have accepted my personal invitation and as such I want to express my deepest gratitude to Professors Kulwant Singh, Chin Tiong Tan and Narayan Pant who will be forwarding his message by video."
Kulwant Singh's research focuses on firm adaptation to exogenous shocks, particularly in the context of firm alliances, and strategy in the Asia Pacific region. His research has been published in the Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Journal, Organisation Science, Journal of Management, Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation and other journals.
He is the Associate Editor of the Strategic Management Journal and was previously Editor of Asia Pacific Journal of Management. He has also written several book chapters and books on business strategy in Asia. He received the Research Achievement Award in 1997 and the Outstanding Educator Award in 2005, both by the National University of Singapore.
Professor Tan Chin Tiong was the founding Provost and Deputy President of Singapore Management University from 1999 to 2009. He was the founding President of Singapore Institute of Technology from 2009 to 2013. He spent 20 years of his career at the National University of Singapore where he was Head of the School of Management, Chairman of Executive Programmes of the Faculty of Business Administration, and Director of the NUS Office for Continuing Education. Professor Tan Chin Tiong received his PhD in Business from the Pennsylvania State University in the United States.
The theme for the Singapore Experience II is Successful Strategies for the Diversification of the Economy using the Singapore Model. It takes place today and tomorrow at the Southern Academy for the Performing Arts, San Fernando.