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.
    Collection: People


    Start-Up Team
    The team working on the start-up of Singapore Management University. Standing, left to right: Professor Tan Chin Tiong, Associate Professor Low Aik Meng, Associate Professor Tsui Kai Chong, Deputy Director of Human Resources Wang Siew Fu, Associate Professor Leong Kwong Sin, Associate Professor Pang Yang Hoong, Associate Professor Toh Tian Ser, and Associate Professor Low Kee Yang. Seated, left to right: Professor Tan Teck Meng and Ho Kwon Ping, Executive Committee chairman and Campus Development Committee chairman. Picture was taken at Wah Chang House in late 1998.
      Collection: People


      Model of Proposed City Campus
      Mr Ho Kwon Ping (left), Executive Committee chairman and Campus Development Committee chairman, with Professor Tan Teck Meng, Deputy President and Provost, examining a three-dimensional model of Singapore Management University's proposed city campus. Photo taken in 1998.
        Collection: People


        Wharton-SMU Research Centre Agreement
        Signing ceremony held on 10 June 1999 at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel to establish the Wharton-Singapore Management University Research Centre. Left to right: SMU Chairman Ho Kwon Ping, Deputy Prime Minister Tony Tan, Minister for Education Teo Chee Hean and SMU President-Designate Janice Bellace. The joint research centre will focus on international business issues relevant to Singapore and Asia, and help establish a research culture at SMU. Professor Janice Bellace is named as the centre director.
          Collection: Purpose


          SMU's Offices at Goldbell Towers
          SMU President Janice Bellace and Chairman Ho Kwon Ping at the ribbon cutting ceremony for the opening of Singapore Management University's new offices at Goldbell Towers on Scotts Road. Mr Ho Kwon Ping also announced the seventeen winning ideas from the city campus ideas competition. The public had been invited to submit their ideas on the design of the new city campus, specifically on how it could engage the public. Photo taken on 13 October 1999.
            Collection: Places


            Wharton-SMU Research Centre Agreement
            Signing ceremony held on 10 June 1999 at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel to establish the Wharton-Singapore Management University Research Centre. Left to right: SMU Chairman Ho Kwon Ping, Deputy Prime Minister Tony Tan, Minister for Education Teo Chee Hean and SMU President-Designate Janice Bellace. The joint research centre will focus on international business issues relevant to Singapore and Asia, and help establish a research culture at SMU. Professor Janice Bellace is named as the centre director.
              Collection: Purpose


              SMU and National Library Board Agreement
              The National Library Board and Singapore Management University sign a memorandum of understanding on 3 September 1999. Under the terms of the agreement, NLB will plan and manage library and information services for the university. Seated, left to right, NLB Chairman Tan Chin Nam, NLB Chief Executive Christopher Chia, SMU President Janice Bellace, and SMU Chairman Ho Kwon Ping.
                Collection: Purpose


                SMU's Offices at Goldbell Towers
                The opening of Singapore Management University's offices at Goldbell Towers on Scotts Road. Left to right: President Janice Bellace, Director of Campus Development Eddie Wee, and Chairman Ho Kwon Ping. Photo taken on 13 October 1999.
                  Collection: Places


                  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.
                    Collection: People


                    SMU's Offices at Goldbell Towers
                    Crowd at opening of Singapore Management University's new offices at Goldbell Towers, Scotts Road on 13 October 1999. In the centre, left to right: President Janice Bellace; Mr John Yip, CEO and Executive Director of Singapore Institute of Management; Chairman Ho Kwon Ping.
                      Collection: Purpose


                      SMU and Wharton Sign Five-Year Agreement
                      Professor Tan Teck Meng, SMU Deputy President and Provost, and Professor Janice Bellace, Deputy Dean, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, sign a five-year collaboration agreement in the areas of curriculum and course design, faculty development, and student exchange. This agreement follows an earlier memorandum of understanding signed in January 1998. Ho Kwon Ping, Chairman SMU Executive Committee, is looking on. Agreement was signed on 2 February 1999 at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel.
                        Collection: Purpose


                        SMU's Logo
                        Press conference held at library@Orchard on 15 December 1999 to introduce Singapore Management University's new logo. Left to right: Associate Professor Tan Lee Chuan, Deputy President Tan Teck Meng, Chairman Ho Kwon Ping, Provost Tan Chin Tiong and Dean Tsui Kai Chong.
                          Collection: Purpose


                          Inaugural Convocation Dinner
                          Gala dinner at the Istana, the official residence of Singapore's president, on 29 July 2000 to celebrate Singapore Management University’s inaugural convocation. Left to right: SMU Chairman Ho Kwon Ping (partial view), Singapore President S R Nathan, SMU Deputy President Tan Teck Meng, SMU President Janice Bellace and Teo Soon Hoe, Group Finance Director, Keppel Corporation.


                            Inaugural Convocation
                            Closing procession of Singapore Management University’s inaugural convocation ceremony on 29 July 2000. The procession is led by SMU President Janice Bellace carrying the mace which symbolises scholarship, research and innovation. She is followed by Minister for Education Teo Chee Hean, Chairman Ho Kwon Ping and Chancellor Lim Kim San.


                              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.
                                Collection: People


                                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.
                                  Collection: People


                                  DPM Tony Tan Visits SMU
                                  Deputy Prime Minister Tony Tan visiting with students in Singapore Management University’s library at the Evans Road building on 8 September 2000. Standing, left to right: Dean Tsui Kai Chong, Chairman Ho Kwon Ping, DPM Tony Tan, Trustee Gan See Khem and Deputy President Tan Teck Meng.
                                    Collection: Purpose


                                    Inaugural Convocation
                                    The inaugural convocation ceremony marking the opening of Singapore Management University and the beginning of the academic year. Ceremonies were held on 29 July 2000 at Bras Basah Park, the site of the university’s future city campus. Front row, left to right: Associate Professor Low Kee Yang, Deputy Dean, School of Business; Associate Professor Tsui Kai Chong, Dean, School of Business; Deputy President Tan Teck Meng; Chancellor Lim Kim San; Education Minister Teo Chee Hean; Mr Ho Kwon Ping, Chairman, Board of Trustees; President Janice Bellace; Professor Patrick Harker, Dean, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania; and Provost Tan Chin Tiong.


                                      Groundbreaking for the Evans Road Building
                                      Singapore Management University Chairman Ho Kwon Ping and President Janice Bellace don yellow boots and hard hats for the first foundation pile for the Evans Road building on 12 January 2000. Located adjacent to the Bukit Timah campus, SMU operated out of the Evans Road building for the first academic year. This date also marks the incorporation of SMU and it is celebrated each year as Patron’s Day.
                                        Collection: People


                                        Talk by Chairman of the Board of Trustees
                                        Ho Kwon Ping, Chairman of the Board of Trustees speaking to the pioneer class of Singapore Management University undergraduate students at the Singapore Art Museum on 19 July 2000.
                                          Collection: People


                                          Convocation 2001
                                          Left to right: Chairman Ho Kwon Ping, Chancellor Lim Kim San, Minister for Education Teo Chee Hean, President Janice Bellace, Provost Tan Chin Tiong and Deputy President Tan Teck Meng. Photo taken at Singapore Management University’s second convocation, held at Suntec City Convention Centre. The renovated Bukit Timah campus is pictured behind the group.


                                            Reception for President Ronald Frank
                                            Left to right, Chairman Ho Kwon Ping, Deputy Prime Minister Tony Tan, Director of Facilities Management Ho Thim Seng, and President Ronald Frank touring Singapore Management University's newly-renovated Bukit Timah campus. Photo taken 18 September 2001.
                                              Collection: People


                                              Groundbreaking for the Evans Road Building
                                              Examining a three-dimensional model of Singapore Management University’s city campus, left to right, Provost Tan Chin Tiong, architect Ted Cullinan, President Ronald Frank, Chairman Ho Kwon Ping and Minister of Education Teo Chee Hean. Photo taken at the groundbreaking ceremony in Bras Basah on 27 March 2002.
                                                Collection: People


                                                Patron's Day 2002
                                                Left to right: Singapore Management University Chairman Ho Kwon Ping, SMU Patron and Singapore President S R Nathan, SMU President Ronald Frank and SMU Provost Tan Chin Tiong officially opened SMU's renovated Bukit Timah campus at Patron's Day celebrations on 11 January 2002.
                                                  Collection: Places


                                                  Convocation 2003
                                                  Convocation 2003, left to right, Dean Pang Yang Hoong, Dean Roberto Mariano, President Ronald Frank, Chancellor Richard Hu, Minister for Home Affairs Wong Kan Seng, Chairman Ho Kwon Ping and Provost Tan Chin Tiong. The event was held at Suntec City Convention Centre on 16 August 2003.


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