Tan Tai Yong

Tan Tai Yong
2nd President of Singapore University of Social Sciences
Assumed office
1 January 2023
Preceded byCheong Hee Kiat
Personal details
NationalitySingaporean
Alma materNational University of Singapore (BA, MA)
Cambridge University (PhD)
ProfessionHistorian
Awards

Tan Tai Yong (Chinese: 陈大荣; pinyin: Chén Dàróng) is a Singaporean academic who is the current President of Singapore University of Social Sciences.[1] He served as the President of Yale-NUS College from 2017 to 2022. He is also Chairman of the Management Board of the Institute of South Asian Studies, an autonomous university-level research institute in NUS.[2] He was a former Nominated Member of Parliament and served from 2014 to 2015.[3]

  1. ^ "Key Academic Leaders | SUSS". www.suss.edu.sg. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
  2. ^ "Professor TAN Tai Yong". www.nus.edu.sg. Archived from the original on 20 January 2011.
  3. ^ "Yale-NUS picks Tan Tai Yong as new president". Channel News Asia. 14 March 2017. Archived from the original on 16 August 2017. Retrieved 15 August 2017.