Shih Choon Fong

rdf:langString Shih Choon Fong

rdf:langString Shih Choon Fong

rdf:langString Shih Choon Fong

rdf:langString Vice Chancellor

rdf:langString Harvard University

rdf:langString 施春风

rdf:langString Shī Chūnfēng

rdf:langString Office established

rdf:langString Li Cheng

rdf:langString June 2013

rdf:langString December 2008

rdf:langString President of the KAUST

rdf:langString President of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

rdf:langString President of National University of Singapore

rdf:langString President of the National University of Singapore

rdf:langString Shih Choon Fong (Chinese: 施春风; pinyin: Shī Chūnfēng; born 1945) is a Singaporean college administrator and fracture mechanics expert who served as the founding president of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) between 2008 and 2013. Prior joining KAUST as its founding president, he was the president of the National University of Singapore (NUS) for nine years and has been widely acknowledged for creating the university's research-intensive focus with an entrepreneurial dimension, as well as for NUS' elevated global reputation. Drawing from his experiences abroad, Shih institutionalised a performance- and market-based evaluation and compensation system for academics. Shih was a key driver for the formation of the International Alliance of Research Universities, and led the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) for four years. He was the founding chair of the Governing Board of the APRU World Institute and served on national-level committees such as the Economic Review Committee, which crafted wide-ranging strategies for the re-making of Singapore.