Speaker: Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim (20 Sept 2018)

Leadership in the 21st Century: Winds of Change 20 September 2018Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim started by addressing the student population, and shared that the purpose and aim of education is the assimilation of knowledge for the dissemination of truth. He also regaled the audience with his journey as a politician in Malaysia, and how he overcame the many tribulations that were in his path.Following that was a vigorous Question and Answer session moderated by SMU Chairman Mr Ho Kwon Ping. The…

International Trade

The GATT/WTO has played a central role in coordinating trade policy across countries via multilateral trade negotiations since WWII. Since 1947, the GATT/WTO has also grown in its membership from a small set of 23 (mainly developed) countries to a roster that now includes more than 150 countries. Not only have tariffs been lowered substantially from their historical high (witnessed during the Great Depression), but nontariff barriers have also become increasingly regulated under the GATT/WTO.…

Liquidity Risk of Hedge Funds

During the 2008 financial crisis, the use of redemption gates by hedge fund managers caught many investors by surprise. Gates allow hedge funds to limit the percentage of fund capital that can be redeemed by investors at any time. There were also underlying concerns about an asset-liability mismatch in the hedge fund industry. Could a disparity exist between the liquidity that hedge funds say they can provide and the liquidity of their underlying assets? How liquid are these liquid hedge funds?…

Urban Logistics: Collaborative Urban Delivery Optimisation

Last-mile deliveries in urban areas often raise environmental and social issues in Singapore and urban cities worldwide. As the e-commerce market and urban logistics spending continues to grow globally (and locally), the social aspect of this trend i.e. congestion and environmental pollution needs to be addressed. In this video, Professor Lau Hoong Chuin shares about his research in Urban Logistics, and how its strategic goal is to deliver an ecosystem that addresses the various aspects of…

Evolutionary Mismatch - Implications for the Modern World

Associate Professor of Psychology Norman Li from SMU’s School of Social Sciences holds a PhD and Masters in Arts in Social Psychology from Arizona State University. He also has a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Michigan and a Bachelors degree in Economics from Northwestern University.His research interests include mate preferences and mate value, evolutionary social psychology, economic psychology and the mismatch of modern conditions and adaptive…

Making Sound Decisions Through Data Analytics

In the last couple of decades, we saw an ‘information revolution’. Lately, it has been changing the way we think of data. We already see the early ramifications of this evolution in the data landscape, in the form of highly personalised web portals and micro-targeted advertising. What does this mean for students? What kind of skill-sets will they be expected to have? One of the first things taught in introductory analytics courses is "clustering" – an algorithm…

A.I. for Safety and Security

Effective and efficient safety and security systems are critical for the smooth functioning of urban environments. Given the widely reported attacks in several major cities of the world, augmented intelligent systems that can anticipate, detect and plug any gaps in incident prevention and response, are a need of the hour.A.I. researchers are pursuing techniques at the intersection data analytics, decision theory, game theory and behavioural economics to improve incident prevention and…

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