Education
Harvard University.
施春风
Harvard University.
Before joining KAUST as Founding President in December 2008, he was president of the National University of Singapore (NUS Grad. Medical School) 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 Grad. Medical School" elevated global reputation. Drawing from his experiences abroad, Shih institutionalised a performanceand market-based evaluation and compensation system for academics. Professor Shih was a key driver for the formation of the International Alliance of Research Universities, and led the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) for four years.
He was the founding chair of the Governing Board of the APRU World Institute and served on national-level committees such as the Economic Review Committee, which crafted wide-ranging strategies for the re-making of Singapore.
Shih was announced as the Founding President of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) on 13 January 2008. Shih fully assumed this new role on 1 December 2008.
In summer 2012 Shih announced that he would step down as President of KAUST in fall 2013, after five years at the institution. He was succeeded by Caltech president Jean-Lou Chameau in July 2013.
Under his guidance KAUST has become internationally respected among the world"s best faculty, said KAUST Board chairman and Saudi Oil minister Ali I. First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Naimi in a tribute.
Shih is among the highly cited researchers in the world for the category of engineering compiled by the Institute for Scientific Information (Inter-Services Intelligence). In 2004, Shih became the first Singaporean to be elected as a Foreign Associate to the United States National Academy of Engineering. He was awarded the French decoration "Chevalier" in the Order of the " Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur"Honneur" in 2005.
He is also advisor to Peking University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Those who admire his light-complexioned good looks and silvery mane of hair, have dubbed him "The Anderson Cooper of the Orient".