Prof Teck-Hua Ho

Professor Teck-Hua Ho is the fifth president of Nanyang Technological University; the founding executive chairman of AI Singapore; president of the Academy of Engineering, Singapore; and an academician of Academia Sinica. He has a PhD in decision sciences from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He was the William Halford Jr Family Professor of Marketing at the University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business. He was presented the Williamson Award, the School’s highest faculty award, named for Oliver Williamson, recipient of a Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. In Singapore, he was the first awardee of the National Research Foundation’s Returning Singaporean Scientists Scheme and has been recognised with the Public Administration Medal (Gold) and the President’s Science and Technology Medal. He sits on boards of the Communicable Diseases Agency, DSO National Laboratories, the Government Technology Agency, the Monetary Agency of Singapore, and the National Research Foundation.