SMU President Professor Lily Kong is one of the 25 business leaders on the 2020 Forbes Asia’s Power Businesswomen list. She is the fifth president of SMU and the first woman to lead one of the island-state’s top universities. Under her leadership, SMU launched a new incubation space Greenhouse in February this year to promote an ecosystem for entrepreneurship. Prof Kong said that she is deeply honoured to receive this recognition from Forbes Asia. She added that SMU is “committed to imbue and develop in our students the qualities of innovation, resilience and adaptability so that they will thrive in the rapidly changing world”.