Topic: An Outside View of China
Speaker: George Yong-Boon Yeo
Time： 18th November 2011 14:30
Place：Room 207 at Leo KoGuan Building, school of Government
Hosted by：Prof. FU Jun, Executive Dean of School of Government
George Yong-Boon Yeo
Visiting Scholar of School of Government at Peking University
Visiting Scholar of Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at National University of Singapore
BA (Cambridge), MBA (Harvard)
George Yeo is in transition from the public to the private sector. From September 1988 to May 2011, he served 23 years in Government, and was Minister for Information and the Arts, Minister for Health, Minister for Trade and Industry and Minister for Foreign Affairs.
Before entering politics in 1988, George Yeo was an officer in the Singapore Armed Forces, retiring as the Director of Joint Ops and Planning holding the rank of Brigadier General.
George Yeo chairs the International Advisory Panel of the Nalanda University Governing Board. He is a member of the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum, the Nicolas Berggruen Institute’s 21st Century Council and the International Advisory Boards of Harvard Business School and IESE Business School.
He is Patron of LASALLE College of the Arts and Advisor to the Sun Yat-Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall.
He is also a Senior Advisor to the Kuok Group.
