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The S. T. Lee Distinguished Annual Lecture

The S. T. Lee Distinguished Annual Lecture Series at RSIS was established in 2007. It is funded by an endowment established from a generous personal donation by the late Dr Lee Seng Tee, a well-known Singapore philanthropist, and a matching grant from the Singapore Government. Dr Lee was a well-known benefactor of educational establishments both local and overseas, including the Nanyang Technological University, which RSIS is a part of. Income created from the S. T. Lee Distinguished Annual Lecture Endowment is used to invite renowned scholars and policymakers to speak to a Singapore-wide audience on key strategic issues of our time.

The Endowed Professorships at RSIS are detailed HERE.

The scholars who held this Chair previously are listed below, and their talks are accessible at the link given.

Professor Jia Qingguo, Former Dean, School of International Studies, Director, Institute for Global Cooperation and Understanding (iGCU), and Director of Global Governance, Peking University, from 13 to 19 October 2024

Lieutenant General (Ret) H. R. McMaster, Fouad and Michelle Ajami Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, from 31 January to 2 February 2024

Professor David Cohen, Founding Director of Center for Human Rights and International Justice, Stanford University, from 16 July to 15 August 2023

Dr Parag Khanna, Founder and Managing Partner, FutureMap, gave the Lecture on 25 August 2021 in a webinar

Dr Volker Perthes, Executive Chairman and Director of SWP (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik), German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Berlin, Germany, from 26 to 31 August 2019

Professor Brahma Chellaney, Professor of Strategic Studies, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, from 28 to 31 October 2018

Baroness Valerie Amos, Director, The School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, from 25 to 28 October 2017

Mr Hitoshi Tanaka, Chairman, Institute for International Strategy, Japan Research Institute, Ltd; Senior Fellow, Japan Center for International Exchange; and Former Deputy Foreign Minister, Japan, from 5 to 8 February 2017

Professor Takashi Shiraishi, President of the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, from 19 to 24 September 2015

Professor Lawrence Freedman, Professor of War Studies, King’s College, London, from 9 to 12 September 2014

Professor Sir Steve Smith, Vice Chancellor of the University of Exeter, from 12 to 19 August 2013

Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, 8 to 9 April 2012

Professor Aaron Friedberg, Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, from 4 to 7 January 2012

Lord Christopher Patten, Chancellor of the University of Oxford, 3 to 5 September 2010

Professor Hew Strachan, Chichele Professor of the History of War, University of Oxford, 13 to 15 January 2010

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