Professor Neo Boon Siong is the Canon Chair Professor of Business and served twice as Dean of the Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Professor Neo taught at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in the National University of Singapore from 2006 to 2010, and is a Fellow of the Civil Service College, the Centre for Liveable Cities and the Healthcare Leadership College. He was the founder Director of the Information Management Research Centre in NTU, and the Asia Competitiveness Institute in NUS. He is a Certified Public Accountant (Singapore) and holds a Bachelor of Accountancy (Honours) from the National University of Singapore, and MBA and PhD degrees from the University of Pittsburgh, USA. He received a Public Administration Medal (Silver) from the President of the Republic of Singapore in the 1999 National Day Honours Awards.