Shih Choon Fong (Chinese: 施春风; born 1945) is the former president of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and a fracture mechanics expert. Before joining KAUST as Founding President in December 2008, he was president of the National University of Singapore (NUS) for 9 years and has been widely acknowledged for creating the University's research-intensive focus with an entrepreneurial dimension, as well as for NUS' elevated global reputation. Drawing from his experiences abroad, Shih institutionalised a performance- and market-based evaluation and compensation system for academics.
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1945 (age 80) Singapore
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