SMU's focus on areas of excellence propels it to the top

SMU has held a series of workshops and seminars in Mumbai, Bangalore and New Delhi about innovation. Continuing its focus on India, SMU is organising the second Singapore-India Business Dialogue (SIBD) on the changing financial landscape in Singapore and India on 21 May at its campus. Explaining SMU’s continuing efforts to strengthen its knowledge and insights into the country by creating knowledge networks with academia and industry in India, SMU Provost and Deputy President (Academic Affairs) Professor Rajendra Srivastava aptly summed up, “We have to learn about Asia by going to the ground. For SMU, ‘Asianisation’ is our mantra as we become a global player. The more we know about Asia, the more valuable we become to the world.” Separately, Director of the SMU Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics Professor David Lee noted that even in “reports by analysts, India is not covered adequately which can be a huge handicap for financial institutions as it will be costly to assess the complex situation on the ground.”