Wee-Liang Tan

Wee-Liang graduated with a LL.B. from the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 1983, a LL.M. from Cambridge University in 1984 and subsequently completed MSc(Management), MIT in 1992. He completed his PhD in 2010 at the Eindhoven University of Technology. He is also a Fellow of the Chartered Governance Institute and an advocate and solicitor in Singapore.

His academic career began at the Faculty of Accountancy and Business Administration at NUT in 1985. In 1987, he joined Nanyang Technological institute, which was constituted as Nanyang Technological University(NTU) in 1991. After serving as the Director of NTU Entrepreneurship Development Centre, Wee-Liang joined Singapore Management University (SMU) as a member of the core team that started the university. After serving in various capacities at SMU, including chairman of the Faculty Senate twice, Wee-Liang retired from full-time academia in May 2023.