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Topic:
China in a Multipolar World
Speaker:
Mr George Yeo
Visiting Scholar, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore; former Singapore Cabinet Minister 1990-2011
Date & Time:
Thursday, 15 December 2022
5:00 pm – 6:30 pm (Singapore Time)
Venue:
Auditorium, Blk B, Level 3
NUS Bukit Timah Campus
469 Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 259756
Abstract:
Multipolarity has different dimensions, not only political, economic and military. There will also be differences in value systems which will be expressed in social relationships and in the relationship between the state and the individual. China has always been its own pole and is a natural proponent of multipolarity in the world.
About the Speaker:
George Yeo is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy of the National University of Singapore, and the Founding Patron of its Asia Competitiveness Institute.
Mr Yeo was with Kerry Group in Hong Kong from 2012 to 2021. He was Chairman and Executive Director of Kerry Logistics Network from 2012 to 2019.
From September 1988 to May 2011, he served 23 years in the Singapore Government, and was Minister for Information and the Arts, Minister for Health, Minister for Trade & Industry and Minister for Foreign Affairs.
Mr Yeo has a BA in Engineering (Double First) from Cambridge University and an MBA (Baker Scholar) from Harvard University.
He began his military career as a Signals Officer in the Singapore Army, crossed over to the Air Force, became Chief-of-Staff of the Air Staff, and Director of Joint Operations and Planning in the Defence Ministry attaining the rank of Brigadier-General.
Mr Yeo was a Member of the Pontifical Commission for Reference on the Economic-Administrative Structure of the Holy See in 2013-2014 and the Vatican Council for the Economy from February 2014 to July 2020.
Mr Yeo is a member of the Board of Trustees of Berggruen Institute on Governance, International Advisory Panel of Peking University, Senior Advisory Council of Beijing Forum, International Advisory Board of IESE Business School, International Advisory Council of China’s Eco Forum Global Guiyang, International Advisory Board of Japan’s National Graduate School for International Policy Studies (GRIPS), Global Advisory Board of MUFG, the External Advisory Board of the European University Institute’s School of Transnational Governance and the Board of Governors of the Singapore Manufacturing Federation. Mr Yeo is an Independent Non-Executive Director of AIA Group listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, Pinduoduo listed on NASDAQ and Creative Technology listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange. He is an advisor to Brunswick for its Geopolitical Initiative, Singapore’s V3 Group, Huawei International Pte Ltd in Singapore, Winning International Group and Gurin Energy Group.
Mr Yeo was the Conference Chairman of the Singapore Summit from 2012 to 2016.
The Goh Keng Swee Lecture on Modern China series was inaugurated in 1997 to honour the founder of the East Asian Institute (EAI), Singapore’s former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister Goh Keng Swee. Dr Goh (6 October 1918 – 14 May 2010) was one of the founding fathers of the Singapore Republic, and an architect of its renowned financial and economic management. Dr Goh joined the first government of Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew as Minister for Finance in 1959. Upon Singapore’s independence on 9 August 1965, Dr Goh became the nation’s first Minister for the Interior and Defence. He served as Finance Minister (1967-70), Minister for Defence (1970-79) and Minister for Education (1979-80, 1981-84). Dr Goh Keng Swee was the recipient of the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Government Services (1972) and conferred the Order of Sikatuna by the Philippine government. Following his retirement from politics, in 1985 Dr Goh was awarded the Darjah Utama Temasek (Order of Temasek), First Class, Singapore’s highest civilian honour. He was also made the first Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Development Board Society in 1991. Dr Goh received his PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics (LSE) in 1956.
EAI gratefully acknowledges the support of the late Professor Saw Swee Hock for the lecture series. Professor Saw was the founding professor of statistics at the University of Hong Kong (1969-1971) and professor of statistics at NUS (1975-1991). NUS’ Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health and the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre at the LSE are named after him. Professor Saw had dedicated his sponsorship of the lecture series to Dr Goh, in particular for founding EAI and for promoting strong economic relations between Singapore and China.
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