HUMANE Study Visit Southeast Asia - Driving Success: Strategic Innovation through transformative leadership, 9-14 November 2025

HUMANE Study Visit Southeast Asia

The University of Nottingham Malaysia
 St.Gallen Institute of Management in Asia (SGI), Singapore

November 9-14, 2025

Driving Success: Strategic Innovation through transformative leadership in Southeast Asian Universities

The HUMANE Study Visit is a unique opportunity for senior university leaders and managers to understand what makes Southeast Asia a strong powerhouse of innovation and economic success, and how universities in the region are playing a key role in driving this success.   

ASEAN is the world's fifth-largest economy only just behind the US, China, Japan, and Germany.  With a growing population of close to 700 million inhabitants there is strong appetite for higher education and a growing research production with leading areas of research excellence.  Malaysia and Singapore are transforming their higher education system, building significant capacity for higher education and research excellence, and by doing so contributing to major societal and economic growth. 

Our main hosts will be The University of Nottingham Malaysia (UNM) in Kuala Lumpur and the Swiss St. Gallen Institute of Management in Asia (SGI) in Singapore.  There will be visits to several universities such as the National University of Singapore (NUS), the Nanyang Technological University Singapore (NTU) and the Singapore Management University (SMU).   

The Study Visit will among others focus on the following themes: 

• Transformative university leadership to support economic and societal growth
• Strategic positioning in the region 
• Support to the national talent strategies: skilling, upskilling and reskilling for the labour market
• Delivering research and innovation for economic and societal growth  
• Delivering transnational education for capacity building, innovation and economic growth  
• Sustaining global and local partnerships

Participants will have the opportunity to engage in high level conversations with those who are leading large scale educational developments, seeing first-hand what it means in practice and getting a sense of the university life, innovative teaching approaches, student engagement and the local startup ecosystem.

More information is available here and you can register here.