3 of 4 S'pore universities to be led by foreigners

With the appointment of Swedish professor Bertil Andersson as the next president of Nanyang Technological University (NTU), three out of four heads of universities in Singapore will be foreigners. While some see this as a reflection of how keen the universities are to import best practices from overseas, some wonder if this shows a lack of home-grown leadership talent in tertiary institutions. Professor Arnoud De Meyer, 55, a Belgian, now heads SMU while Professor Thomas Magnanti, 65, an American, is the founding president of the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD).