HO Teck Hua

Professor Ho Teck Hua is the fifth president of Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, where he is a Distinguished University Professor. He is also the founding executive chairman of AI Singapore; president of the Academy of Engineering, Singapore; and an academician of Academia Sinica.

Teck is a prominent behavioural scientist with a PhD in decision sciences from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. From 2018 to 2023, Teck served as senior deputy president and provost at the National University of Singapore. As provost, he was responsible for developing and enhancing NUS’s Lifelong Learning (NUS L3) Programme and recruiting promising and leading academics for the university. In 2015, he was the first awardee of the Singapore National Research Foundation’s Returning Singaporean Scientists Scheme. Before returning to Singapore, Teck was the William Halford Jr Family Professor of Marketing at the University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. In 2015, he was also conferred the Williamson Award, the Haas School’s highest faculty award, named in honour of Oliver Williamson, recipient of the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

Teck was the first non-US citizen to be editor-in-chief of Management Science. In Singapore, Teck is on the boards of the Defence Science and Technology Agency, DSO National Laboratories, the Government Technology Agency, and Greenland Linklogis Group Holdings.