The
National University of Singapore has produced numerous notable alumni (mostly Singaporean and Malaysian nationals) including four Singapore Presidents and two Singapore Prime Ministers. This list included those who attended or graduated from the predecessor institutions: King Edward VII College of Medicine, Raffles College and the University of Singapore.
Goh Chok Tong, 2nd Prime Minister of SingaporeTony Tan, 7th President of SingaporeS. R. Nathan, 6th President of SingaporeMahathir Mohamad, 4th and 7th Prime Minister of MalaysiaMargaret Chan, 7th Director-General of the World Health OrganizationKishore Mahbubani, President of the United Nations Security Council (2001–2002)Ho Ching, wife of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and former CEO of Temasek Holdings
Notable alumni
Business
Adam Khoo - Best-selling author I am Gifted So Are You; entrepreneur[1]
Andy Ong - Chief Executive Officer of ERC Group of companies[2]
Bachtiar Karim - Executive Chairman of
Musim Mas, a large palm oil conglomerate in Indonesia and based in Singapore.
Tan Teck Meng - Former Professor of Accounting at the Singapore Management University (SMU) and member of the Board of Directors of four public companies in Singapore
Yaacob Ibrahim - Former Minister for Communications, Singapore and Information and Minister-in-charge of Muslim Affairs, Singapore, also former faculty member
Yam Ah Mee - Chief Executive Director of the People's Association
Ngiam Tee Liang - Head, Department of Social Work, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore
Simon Tay - Singaporean professor, author, and former nominated member of Parliament
Su Guaning - President Emeritus of Nanyang Technological University
Teck-Hua Ho - William Halford Jr. Family Professor of Marketing, and the Chair of the Marketing Department at the
Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley
Tan Cheng Han - Former Dean of Faculty of Law at National University of Singapore
Tan Chorh Chuan - Former President of National University of Singapore
Tan Eng Chye - President of National University of Singapore[16]
Hassan Farhangi - Known for his work in the development of Canada's first Smart Microgrid
Henry Ergas - Regulatory economist who has worked at the OECD, Australian Trade Practices Commission (now the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission) and the Australian Centre of Regulatory Economics (ACORE) Advisory Group
John van Wyhe - Historian of science, with a focus on Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace
Kofi Annan - Seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations
Lalith Athulathmudali - Sri Lankan politician and former Cabinet Minister of Trade, National Security, Agriculture, Education and deputy minister of defence
Louis Chen Hsiao Yun - First East Asian to be elected President of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Louxin Zhang - applied mathematician and computational biologist [25]
Paul Theroux - American travel writer and novelist
Prasenjit Duara - Raffles Professor of Humanities at the National University of Singapore and Director of Asian Research Institute and Research in Humanities and Social Sciences
The
National University of Singapore has produced numerous notable alumni (mostly Singaporean and Malaysian nationals) including four Singapore Presidents and two Singapore Prime Ministers. This list included those who attended or graduated from the predecessor institutions: King Edward VII College of Medicine, Raffles College and the University of Singapore.
Goh Chok Tong, 2nd Prime Minister of SingaporeTony Tan, 7th President of SingaporeS. R. Nathan, 6th President of SingaporeMahathir Mohamad, 4th and 7th Prime Minister of MalaysiaMargaret Chan, 7th Director-General of the World Health OrganizationKishore Mahbubani, President of the United Nations Security Council (2001–2002)Ho Ching, wife of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and former CEO of Temasek Holdings
Notable alumni
Business
Adam Khoo - Best-selling author I am Gifted So Are You; entrepreneur[1]
Andy Ong - Chief Executive Officer of ERC Group of companies[2]
Bachtiar Karim - Executive Chairman of
Musim Mas, a large palm oil conglomerate in Indonesia and based in Singapore.
Tan Teck Meng - Former Professor of Accounting at the Singapore Management University (SMU) and member of the Board of Directors of four public companies in Singapore
Yaacob Ibrahim - Former Minister for Communications, Singapore and Information and Minister-in-charge of Muslim Affairs, Singapore, also former faculty member
Yam Ah Mee - Chief Executive Director of the People's Association
Ngiam Tee Liang - Head, Department of Social Work, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore
Simon Tay - Singaporean professor, author, and former nominated member of Parliament
Su Guaning - President Emeritus of Nanyang Technological University
Teck-Hua Ho - William Halford Jr. Family Professor of Marketing, and the Chair of the Marketing Department at the
Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley
Tan Cheng Han - Former Dean of Faculty of Law at National University of Singapore
Tan Chorh Chuan - Former President of National University of Singapore
Tan Eng Chye - President of National University of Singapore[16]
Hassan Farhangi - Known for his work in the development of Canada's first Smart Microgrid
Henry Ergas - Regulatory economist who has worked at the OECD, Australian Trade Practices Commission (now the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission) and the Australian Centre of Regulatory Economics (ACORE) Advisory Group
John van Wyhe - Historian of science, with a focus on Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace
Kofi Annan - Seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations
Lalith Athulathmudali - Sri Lankan politician and former Cabinet Minister of Trade, National Security, Agriculture, Education and deputy minister of defence
Louis Chen Hsiao Yun - First East Asian to be elected President of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Louxin Zhang - applied mathematician and computational biologist [25]
Paul Theroux - American travel writer and novelist
Prasenjit Duara - Raffles Professor of Humanities at the National University of Singapore and Director of Asian Research Institute and Research in Humanities and Social Sciences