Advancing societal impact : SMU establishes the Office of Impact in 2025
The pioneer team members from Office of Impact (OIM) with SMU President Professor Lily Kong at a lunch gathering in 2026. (From L – R) Dr Han Ei Chew ; Mr Muhamed Al Ameen ; Ms Erin Lee ; Professor Lily Kong, SMU President ; Mr Xinming Sim ; Ms Serene Tam ; Professor Scott Fritzen, Vice President, OIM ; Ms Asha Choolani and Ms Preeti Gaonkar. Established in July 2025, the Office of Impact leads SMU's efforts to advance, track, and communicate its contributions to society. In partnership with faculty, schools, and units across SMU, OIM strengthens impactful initiatives, develops frameworks for measuring impact, and helps build a shared, university-wide culture centred on societal impact.
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    First Board of Trustees
    Singapore President S R Nathan hosts a reception for Singapore Management University’s first board of trustees and senior management on 15 March 2000. Pictured on the steps of the Istana, front row, left to right: Trustee Kuok Khoon Ean, Trustee Victor Fung; Chairman Ho Kwon Ping; Singapore President S R Nathan; SMU President Janice Bellace and Trustee Han Cheng Fong. Middle row: Dean Tsui Kai Chong; Provost Tan Chin Tiong, Trustee Fang Ai Lian, Trustee Gan See Khem, Trustee Seah Jiak Choo, Deputy President Tan Teck Meng, Deputy Dean Low Kee Yang. Back row: Trustee Latiff Bin Ibrahim, Trustee Loo Choon Yon, Trustee John Niland, Trustee Jaspal Singh, Trustee Ong Keng Yong, Trustee Sunil Sreenivasan.
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      DPM Tony Tan Visits SMU
      Deputy Prime Minister Tony Tan speaking with students on his first visit to Singapore Management University on 8 September 2000. Dr Tan also held a press conference where he announced that SMU would offer an accountancy program in 2001.
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        Education Minister Visits SMU
        Associate Professor Low Kee Yang (on right) welcoming Minister for Education Teo Chee Hean on his first visit to Singapore Management University. The minister met with SMU faculty and staff at the Evans Road building and toured the renovation work being done on the Bukit Timah campus. Left to right: Professor Phang Sock Yong, Minister for Education Teo Chee Hean, Dean Pang Yang Hoong, Dean of Students Low Aik Meng, Associate Professor Low Kee Yang and Professor Tan Lee Chuan. A map of the SMU’s planned city campus Is displayed on the wall behind the group.
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          City Campus Opening Ceremony
          Singapore Management University's student ambassadors at the university's city campus opening ceremony on 20 January 2006.
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            Li Ka Shing Library Opening Ceremony
            Left to right: Dr Li Ka Shing and Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew at the opening of SMU's Li Ka Shing Library on 24 February 2006.
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              Celebrating the 15th anniversary of SMU in 2015
              Celebrating the 15th anniversary of SMU in 2015. From L back row: Mr. Jaime Augusto Miranda Zobel de Ayala, Professor Ng Swee Lian Ivy, Mr Lim Tse Ghow Olivier, Mr Dilhan Pillay Sandrasegara, Mr Zulkifli bin Baharudin, Mr Robert Michael Tomlin. From L front row: Professor Arnoud de Meyer (President), Mr Lim Boon Wee, Mr Timothy Chia, Mr Anil Thadani, Mr Ho Kwon Ping, Professor Thomas S Robertson, Ms Saw Phaik Hwa, Mr Edmund Yeng Li, Professor Rajendra K. Srivastava (Provost and Deputy President).
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                Professor Wang Heli having a discussion with two students in a roof top garden
                Professor Wang Heli having a discussion with two students in a roof top garden. In addition to seminar-style teaching, students and faculty may interact in small group discussions in conducive learning spaces around campus.
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                  First Day of Classes
                  Lecturer-in-Law Saw Cheng Lim teaching business law on Singapore Management University’s very first day of classes, 1 August 2000. Classes were held in the Evans Road building. Faculty welcomed SMU's very first students by handing out Fuji apples.
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                    First Day of Classes
                    Visiting Economics Professor Jinook Jeong and students on Singapore Management University’s very first day of classes, 1 August 2000. Classes were held in the Evans Road building.
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                      A professor conducting a lecture in a seminar room
                      A professor conducting a lecture. Instead of big lecture theatres, students in SMU are taught in seminar rooms in classes of not more than 45. Students are encouraged and guided to speak up and present their opinions and arguments cogently, enabling them to learn from both the professors and peers.
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                        Groundbreaking for the Evans Road Building
                        Chairman Ho Kwon Ping and President Janice Bellace showing the architect’s design for the Evans Road building at the groundbreaking ceremony on 12 January 2000. Singapore Management University operated out of the Evans Road building for the first academic year.
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                          Farewell for Robert Mariano, Dean of School of Economics on 29 June 2010
                          Farewell for Robert Mariano, Dean, School of Economics (2002-2010) where Howard Hunter presented a framed photograph. From L-R: Pang Yang Hoong, Robert Mariano, Howard Hunter, Rajendra Srivastava, Howard Thomas
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                            Farewell for Howard Hunter, SMU president (2004-2010)
                            Howard Hunter making his address at the farewell. Howard Hunter was SMU president from 2004-2020.
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                              DPM Tony Tan with SMU and SIM Representatives
                              Deputy Prime Minister Tony Tan examining a three-dimensional model of the Singapore Institute of Management (SIM) campus on 5 December 1998. Left to Right: Professor Tan Teck Meng, Deputy President and Provost; DPM Tony Tan; Ho Kwon Ping, Executive Committee chairman and Campus Development Committee chairman; and four members of SIM. Photo taken at SIM. In the early days before Singapore Management University had a campus, some major activities were held at the Singapore Institute of Management campus.
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                                Lectures by Professors Sir James Ball and John Quelch
                                Singapore Management University hosts public lectures by Professors Sir James Ball and John Quelch of the London Business School on 15 January 1999. Left to right, Deputy President and Provost Tan Teck Meng; Chairman Ho Kwon Ping; Minister for Home Affairs Wong Kan Seng; John Yip, CEO and Executive Director SIM.
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                                  Talk by Chairman of the Board of Trustees
                                  Students from Singapore Management University's pioneer class of undergraduates with questions for Ho Kwon Ping, Chairman of SMU’s Board of Trustees. The talk was held at the Singapore Art Museum on 19 July 2000.
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                                    SMU’s First Graduates
                                    Singapore Management University’s first-ever graduates are twenty-one students who earned master of science in applied finance degrees. Photo taken at SMU's Bukit Timah campus on 19 July 2003.
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                                      Topping Out Ceremony for City Campus
                                      Trustee Loo Choon Yong, Chancellor Richard Hu, Minister for Education Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Chairman Ho Kwon Ping, and President Howard Hunter viewing the three-dimensional model of Singapore Management University’s new city campus. Picture taken on 18 October 2004 at the city campus topping out ceremony.
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                                        City Campus Opening Ceremony
                                        Students waiting at the campus green for Singapore Management University's city campus opening ceremony on 20 January 2006.
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                                          City Campus Opening Ceremony
                                          Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong addressing the crowd at Singapore Management University's city campus opening ceremony on 20 January 2006.
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                                            A performer dive onto an exciting audience after a Starry Nite performace
                                            A performer dive onto an exciting audience after a Starry Nite performace in 2015. Starry Nite is a large scale campus-wide concert that marks the end-of-semestser with the community and serves as a platform for SMU's musicians to showcase their talents.
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                                              Students performing on stage in a concert
                                              Students expressing their talents by performaing on stage in a 2015 concert.
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                                                Inaugural address by SMU President Arnoud De Meyer on 12 October 2010
                                                Inaugural address by SMU President Arnoud De Meyer on 12 October 2010
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                                                  Chairman Ho Kwon Ping, SMU President Arnoud De Meyer and incoming SMU Chancellor J.Y Pillay pose together with former Chancellor Yong Pung How at an appreciation dinner to thank him
                                                  Chairman Ho Kwon Ping, SMU President Arnoud De Meyer and incoming SMU Chancellor J.Y Pillay pose together with former Chancellor Yong Pung How at an appreciation dinner to thank him for his contributions to SMU
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