Drexel President Constantine Papadakis to Serve on International Academic Advisory Panel in Singapore
January 15, 2003

PHILADELPHIA (January 15, 2003) — At the invitation of the Singapore government, Drexel University President Constantine Papadakis is serving as a member on the fourth International Academic Advisory Panel (IAAP) from Jan. 13 - 16, 2003. The other panelists are:
- Dr. William R. Brody, President, Johns Hopkins University;
- Dr. Molly Corbett Broad, President, University of North Carolina;
- Dr. Hunter R. Rawlings III; President, Cornell University;
- Dr. Xu Zhihong, President, Peking University
- Dr. Robert A. Brown, Provost, Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
- Sir Alec Broers, Vice Chancellor, University of Cambridge;
- Dr. Laura D’Andrea Tyson, Dean, London Business School; national economic advisor to President Clinton;
- Leonard Baker, Yale University Board of Trustees Investment Chair;
- Dr. Tsutomu Kanai, Chairman, Hitachi;
- Dr. Akito Arima, former President, University of Tokyo; Holds an Honorary Degree from Drexel University.
- Sir Ronald Oxburgh, former Rector, Imperial College of London;
- Norman Augustine, former Chairman/CEO, Lockheed Martin.

“Dr. Papadakis’s experience in leading Drexel University and his involvement in the higher education sector in America will bring invaluable perspectives to the panel,” said the panel’s chair, Dr. Ng Eng Hen, Singapore’s Minister of Education and Manpower.

This year’s meeting will focus on how the university sector should respond to Singapore’s new economic strategy of establishing itself as Southeast Asia’s financial and high-tech hub. In particular, the panel will review the long-term structure of Singapore’s university sector and how it can better serve the needs of the country’s highly developed free market economy.

The conference will begin with site visits to Nanyang Technological University, National University of Singapore and the Singapore Management University (SMU). Following three deliberation sessions and meetings with the Senior Minister of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, and the Prime Minister of Singapore, Goh Chok Tong, the panel’s final recommendations will be made on Thursday, January 16.

The IAAP was founded in 1997 to advise the Singapore government on how to develop the country’s universities into world-class centers of excellence in scholarship and research. The panel has convened in 1997, 1999 and 2001.

While in Singapore, Papadakis will meet with former Drexel tenured associate professor of finance Dr. Jeremy Goh, an associate professor of finance at Singapore Management University (SMU) who teaches corporate finance and risk management. Goh is helping SMU in its goal of generating leading-edge research with global impact and producing entrepreneurial leaders for the world’s knowledge-based economy. Officially incorporated on January 12, 2000, SMU is the country’s first private university funded by the government.

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