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Arnoud De Meyer
President of Singapore Management University

Professor De Meyer is the fourth President of Singapore Management University. Previously, he was Director of Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge where he was Professor of Management Studies and Fellow of Jesus College. He was associated for 23 years with INSEAD where he held various senior academic and administrative positions, including founding Dean of INSEAD’s Asia Campus in Singapore.

Professor De Meyer has a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, MBA and PhD in Management from the University of Ghent in Belgium. He also pursued his studies as a visiting scholar at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA). His research interests are in manufacturing and technology strategy; the implementation of new manufacturing technologies; the management of R&D; how innovation can be managed more effectively; project management under conditions of high uncertainty; management and innovation in Asia; the globalisation of Asian firms; the management of novel projects; and e-readiness in Europe.

Professor De Meyer has been consultant to a number of companies throughout Europe and Asia. Currently, he is an external director of Dassault Systèmes SA (France), as well as a board member of the National Research Foundation, Singapore International Chamber of Commerce and Temasek Management Services.

Santiago Íñiguez de Onzoño
President of IE University

Santiago Íñiguez de Onzoño joined IE Business School in 1991. Since then he has combined his academic work as Professor of Strategic Management with management positions that include Director of External Relations (1995) and Dean (2004).

Iñiguez’s outlook is a decidedly global one and in addition to his role as Chairman of AACSB, Iñiguez serves on the boards of Renmin University Business School (China), CENTRUM (Universidad Católica, Perú), Antai Business School (Jiao Tong University, China), Mazars University (France) the Russian Presidential Academy-RANEPA (Russia) and FGV-EASP Fundaçao Getulio Vargas (Brazil). He has been portrayed by the Financial Times as one of the most significant figures in promoting European business schools internationally.

Iñiguez holds a Degree in Law, a Ph.D. in Moral Philosophy and Jurisprudence (Complutense University, Spain) and an MBA from IE Business School. He was a Recognized Student at the University of Oxford, UK. He has co-authored several books on moral and political philosophy as well as articles and case studies on business management, and is also a LinkedIn Influencer. His books The Learning Curve: How Business Schools Are Reinventing Education (Palgrave McMillan, 2011) and Cosmopolitan Managers: Executive Education that Works (Palgrave McMillan, 2016) deal with the future challenges of management education.

Íñiguez de Onzoño is a frequent guest speaker at international conferences and one of LinkedIn’s 500 Global Influencers. He is also a regular contributor to press and media.

Katharina Lange
Executive Director of Singapore Mangement University, Executive Development

Katharina is Executive Director of SMU’s Executive Development as well as Affiliated Faculty at Singapore Management University.

As regards content, she provides expertise in leadership, strategy and entrepreneurship. She published case studies designed to teach in Executive Education classes, including topics of entrepreneurial leadership and business model engineering. She is certified in Hogan, MBTI and Globe Smart.

Prior to joining SMU, Katharina was Programme Director and Head of Practice Group Life Science Industries at the European School of Management and Technology in Berlin, Germany.

She has extensively designed and taught in executive education programs. Her clients include European and multi-national corporations such as UTC, Otis, Sumitomo Chemicals, Mondelez, Barclays Bank, Johnson & Johnson, Sanofi-Aventis , Bayer AG, Skolkovo Foundation, Infineon, Shangri-La, IBM and Bio-Rad.

For Open Enrollment, she directs the EDB-SMU programme on Infrastructure Excellence, ALPINE, and the J&J Hospital Management Programme.

9 years of strategic consultancy with Arthur Andersen and Deloitte honed Katharina’ s analytical, strategic and practical leadership skills. Her PhD in pharmacology &
Katharina has published case studies on entrepreneurship and leadership on Harvard Business Publishing http://hbsp.harvard.edu/

• B&C crossing borders in Russia (ES1361-ENG)
• Medneo – Radiology as a service (ES1331-ENG)
• Pina Bausch – Leadership as collective genius (ES1321-ENG)
• Sarulla Geothermal Power Project (SMU 14-0034)
• Building the Sportshub through a Public Private Partnership (SMU 15 – 0037)

Her book chapter on “Leading collective genius” is published in “Servant Leadership”, ESV, 2014

Maarten Kelder
Senior Vice President, Strategy & Solutions, Zuellig Pharma

Rohit Girdhar
Vice President & Head of Strategy and Market Development Asia Pacific,
Infineon Technologies Asia Pacific

Rohit Girdhar – Vice President & Head of Strategy and Market Development Asia Pacific, Infineon Technologies Asia Pacific. Infineon Technologies is a semiconductor and solutions provider with revenues of approximately 8bn USD and 36,000 employees worldwide.

Rohit has lived and worked in the US, France, India and Singapore. He holds a Masters of Engineering from Stanford University, being the only recipient from India of Stanford’s Graduate Engineering Fellowship in 1996, as well as an MBA from INSEAD Fontainebleau.

He started his professional career at Teradyne Inc. San Jose/Boston in 1998 as an engineer/project manager. In 2005 he joined Infineon Technologies in Singapore, Infineon being Germany’s largest semiconductor company. In his current role he is part of the regional top leadership team and works on corporate assignments for Infineon legal entities in the Asia Pacific, e.g. in India, China, Taiwan, ASEAN, Korea and Australia.

Besides strategy development, Rohit is also responsible for engagements with startups, incubators and accelerators in Asia Pacific. From April 2017, he is part of the board of directors of Infineon Technologies India Private Limited.

Arthur Leong
Senior Vice President | Strategy & Projects
Group Channels & Digitalisation,
United Overseas Bank Limited

Arthur is senior vice president for Group Channels & Digitalisation Strategy at United Overseas Bank, a leading SME bank in Asia with offices across 19 countries, with annual revenues of S$8B and 25,000 employees. His role is to help UOB define its digitalisation and FinTech innovation strategy and how we can enable banking in a digital world for our customers.

Prior to joining UOB, Arthur was a director and executive advisor for CEB’s financial services practice in Asia, providing best practice insights to senior executives in wealth management, retail and business banking on their most pressing strategic priorities. Early on in his career, Arthur was responsible for management reporting at ABN AMRO transaction banking in Asia and was involved in financial services consultancy at Accenture.

Arthur holds a honours degree in Business Administration from the National University of Singapore and an MBA from The University of Chicago.

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Jeevan Vasagar
Singapore and Malaysia correspondent
Financial Times

Jeevan Vasagar is Singapore correspondent for the Financial Times, focusing on financial services and capital markets. Prior to this appointment he was the FT’s Berlin correspondent, where he covered the relationship between politics and business in Germany. Before that, he spent 12 years at the Guardian, including spells covering east Africa and writing about education policy. His freelance writing has appeared in the New Statesman, the Economist and the LA Times.

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