Profiles in Leadership | Simon Chesterman

[A Conversation with Simon Chesterman]

Delighted to sit down with Simon Chesterman, Vice Provost for Educational Innovation at the National University of Singapore and founding dean of NUS College, to chat about his perspectives on life and leadership. Highlights include:

– Is the world of international affairs a jungle?

– One thing he wished he knew at each career stage.

– Why be a dean?

– Where did he look to in charting his vision for NUS Law?

– His biggest ‘hiccup.’

– 360-degree communication.

– On being young and foreign.

– On mentors.

– On getting into international humanitarian law.

– Infusing diversity into international law.

– NUS College and his KPIs.

– On being Vice-Provost of Educational Innovation.

– On his prodigious fiction and non-fiction writing.

– On running, family, and mental wellness.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APifT6pBG-I&t=1s