Professor Bernard Yeung
President, AAPBS
Dean, National University of Singapore
President’s Message
Our Association of Asia-Pacific Business Schools (AAPBS) has grown from eleven business schools to a membership of more than 130. We have expanded our representation to 21 countries, including those in Asia-Pacific, as well as Europe and North America. In addition, I believe we have built on the foundations laid with vision and patience by the AAPBS Council, and have created an association of reputation and strength. An Association to which we all contribute and in which we can all take pride.
As we are so often told, we stand at the threshold of the century for Asian-Pacific business: a time when this region will re-emerge as the economic engine of the world. Statistics already bear out this claim. I believe that we also stand at the threshold of the century for Asian-Pacific business schools.
Students around the world are realizing that it will be by their performance in the powerhouses of Asian-Pacific business that they will be judged. The business leaders of tomorrow may or may not be Asians, but it will be Asian businesses that provide their greatest challenges and opportunities.
As a result, I am confident, that the brightest and the best will be drawn to learn, in Asia, at schools of Asian-Pacific business. We can already see the increased focus by business schools on Asia. Global players are entering the region, making Asia-Pacific one of the most competitive arenas for management education in the world. Hopefully this increased competition will spur our established Asian-Pacific b-schools to ever greater heights.
Now is the time we must to ensure that we have quality business schools able to focus, in their research and their teaching, on the essence of business with an Asian-Pacific flavor. We have the opportunity to put an Asian-Pacific impress on management education: this is the challenge that we must accept.
In 2010, with our Presidential Office in Singapore, AAPBS looks forward to welcoming new members, and renewing ties with existing members. It is our aim to work, co-operate, and compete, together to bring our member schools to a higher level of competence and strength.
As the President of AAPBS, I sincerely hope you will join us in forging a new level of standards and cooperation in business education throughout the Asia-Pacific region.
Welcome to AAPBS!
Vice President / President Elect 2010 |
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| Professor Tim Brailsford Vice President / President Elect, AAPBS Executive Dean, Faculty of Business, Economics and Law, University of Queensland |
AAPBS Past Presidents
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| AAPBS 4th President Professor Toemsakdi Krishnamra Current Director, Sasin Graduate Institute of Business of Chulalongkorn University |
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| AAPBS 3rd President Professor Yingyi Qian Current Dean, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University |
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| AAPBS 2nd President Professor KC Chan Current Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury (Government of the Hong Kong SAR) Former Dean, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology |
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| AAPBS Founding President Professor Sung Joo Park Current Professor, KAIST Business School Former Vice President & Dean, KAIST Graduate School of Management |