Professor Lily Kong is SMU’s President and Lee Kong Chian Chair Professor of Social Sciences.   

Professor Kong is SMU’s fifth President, and the first Singaporean to lead the 19-year old university.  She is also the first Singaporean woman to head a university in Singapore.  She was previously Provost of SMU, Vice Provost and Vice President at the National University of Singapore (in various portfolios), and Executive Vice President (Academic) of Yale-NUS College.