Univer-Cities: Reshaping Strategies to Meet Radical Change, Pandemics and Inequality: Revisiting the Social Compact?: Vol 4

Univer-Cities presents its fourth instalment, building on the success of its predecessors: I: Strategic Implications for Asia; II: Strategic View of the Future; III: Strategic Dilemmas of Medical Origins and Selected Modalities. This fourth volume, based on Univer-Cities Conference 2019, sets against a backdrop of the continual global economic re-structuring as well as technological, virtual and social disruption, exacerbated by a pandemic. Amidst these disruptions, it is needful for universities to re-visit their roles in serving their cities, to deal with such questions as:

How can universities prepare their graduates to excel in a disrupted world? How can universities contribute to the re-skilling of a disrupted workforce? How can universities help cities to grow in a sustainable manner? How can universities be promoters of social inclusion, rather than being inadvertent bastions of exclusive elitism? Can univer-city be an alternate model ― ranging from Berkeley, Cambridge, Singapore and rising Asia? With contributions from senior-level academic, government and industry leaders from around the world, this book addresses these questions and more, as well as illuminates their insights, experience and aspiration on the symbiotic role of universities and cities in our disrupted world.

Readership: Academic leadership of Institutions of Higher Learning, educators, campus planners, architects, place-making consultants, city planners, mayors, futurists, policy analysts in think tanks.

Mr Anthony Teo Soon Chye is Adjunct Professor at Singapore University of Social Sciences. He is a Harvard-trained banker, consultant, business and entrepreneur turned educator, and an Emeritus visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge, Wolfson College, Chevalier of the Order Palmes Académiques and NTU Pioneer Educator Award 2015. He held numerous positions in Nanyang Technological University (NTU), including Chairman of the S$100 million Youth Olympics Games Village 2010 Steering Committee and was a member of the NTU Cabinet in the troika of President, Provost and himself as Secretary to the University and Advisor. He also served on the Board of Greenship Gas Holdings serving INEOS in Europe, Subsidiary of Jaccar Holdings of France, SGX-listed InnoValues Limited and latterly as Advisor to Vertical Axis WindFram LLP. His academic engagement includes lecturing at NTU's Nanyang Technopreneurship Centre, INSEAD's Professor Henri Claude De Bettignies SE Asia Executive Programmes, Munich-based TUM's 'Re-Attracting Overseas German Talent' and Air Liquide Global Senior Executive Development Programme. He was also involved as Panel Chairman for various Panels such as 'Building World Class Universities, QS University Rankings & Asia Pacific Conference' and member of its Conference Academic Committee, conference Provost for Harvard Business School Global Leadership Forum in Hong Kong on Pre-Handover in 1997 and Shanghai on Post-WTO in 2004, besides co-chairman of Univer-Cities Conference 2013 and 2016 and editor of the proceedings.