Joining SMU

Well, I think the challenge. You know the alternative was going back to United States and I'd been there, done that. I figured, I knew what I was talking about in terms of United States. I've been to Canada; I've been to Europe; I knew Australasia from the time I've been in Australia and New Zealand. So we came and what made me come? Well I saw a challenge, I also saw, in truth, a business school which I though was in strategic drift. It had not really developed significantly. You could tell, and I knew enough about Singapore from prior experience, you know, the global school had projects that, the Ministry of Education has done here that I knew intimately. And I knew that they would invest in this university, I therefore knew there was government money, which in the UK and European context is not quite as clear.