The Ngee Ann Kongsi Professorship in International Relations
The Ngee Ann Kongsi Professorship in International Relations was established on 27 November 2007 through a donation of S$3 million from The Ngee Ann Kongsi and a matching grant from the Singapore Government. Income from the endowment will be used to engage renowned scholars in international relations to teach and to research at RSIS.
The Ngee Ann Kongsi has a long history of promoting education in Singapore and Nanyang Technological University has benefited from its many generous donations. The University’s association with The Ngee Ann Kongsi began in the 1990s when the kongsi donated S$1 million to the Chinese Heritage Centre located in the University. In 2005, The Ngee Ann Kongsi also donated S$1.5 million to set up The Ngee Ann Kongsi Professorship in Traditional Chinese Medicine to help build up the University’s expertise in traditional Chinese medicine. Besides these, it has also awarded many scholarships and bursaries to students at NTU over the years.
The Endowed Professorships at RSIS are detailed HERE.
Read the press release HERE.
The scholars who held this Chair previously are listed below, and their talks are accessible at the link given.
- Professor William Terry Tow, Professor of the Department of International Relations, School of International, Political and Strategic Studies, College of Asia and Pacific, Australian National University, from 15 July to 30 November 2012
- Professor David Shambaugh, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs; Director, China Program at George Washington University; and Senior Fulbright Research Scholar at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences’ Institute of World Economics and Politics, from 9 to 20 March 2011
- Professor Sumit Ganguly, Tagore Professor in the Department of Political Science at Indiana University, from 1 February to 31 May 2010
- Professor Zhang Yunling, Professor of International Economics and Director of the Division of International Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, from 26 October to 7 November 2008
Note: Lectures from 2013 are available for viewing. Click on links above to watch the videos.