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Professor Tan Chin Tiong

 

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Professor Tan Chin Tiong
President
Singapore Institute of Technology

 

Professor Tan Chin Tiong is the President of Singapore Institute of Technology. He was a founding member of Singapore Management University and was its Provost and Deputy President from 1999 to 2009. 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 Programs of the Faculty of Business Administration, Co-Director of the Stanford-National University of Singapore Executive Program and Director of the NUS Office for Continuing Education. Professor Tan received his PhD in Business from the Pennsylvania State University, USA.

Professor Tan is active in management development and consulting. He designed and taught in many executive programs around the world, a regular speaker in the US, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Asia and South Africa. Professor Tan is on the Board of Citibank Singapore Ltd, and is the non-executive chairman of Superior Multi-Packaging Ltd. Prof Tan is also independent director of several publicly listed companies. He is the Past President of the Marketing Institute of Singapore.

Professor Tan is a co-author with Philip Kotler on Marketing Management: An Asian Perspective, 5th Edition, 2009, Prentice Hall; Principles of Marketing: A Global Perspective, 2009, Prentice Hall, and Principles of Marketing: An Asian Perspective, 2005, Prentice Hall. He also co-authored New Asian Emperors: The Business Strategies of the Overseas Chinese, 2009, The Chinese Tao of Business: The Logic of Successful Business Strategy, 2004, John Wiley; Marketing Management: An Asian Casebook, 2004, Pearson Education; Marketing in the New Asia, 2001, McGraw-Hill; Strategic Marketing Cases for 21st Century Asia, 2000, Prentice Hall (with John Quelch); New Asian Emperors: The Overseas Chinese, Their Strategies and Competitive Advantages, 1998, Butterworth-Heinemann; and Marketing Insights for the Asia Pacific, 1996, Heinemann Asia.

Professor Tan is active in many government agencies, he has served on committees of various government bodies. He was Council Member of the Singapore Export Institute, Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts’ Promote Mandarin Council, Institute of Banking and Finance, Singapore Institute of Management, a member of the Entrepreneurship Sub-Committee of the Economic Committee and served on the Retail Plan Consultative Committee, National Tourism Plan Committee, National Quality Strategy Committee, Action Community for Entrepreneurship (ACE), and the Council for Third Age.