Veritas Singapura
As the official club of Harvard alumni in Singapore, the objective of the Harvard University Association of Alumni in Singapore (HUAAS) is to advance the mutual welfare of Harvard University and its alumni in Singapore. Our motto is “Veritas Singapura” combining the ethos of our alma mater and referencing the national anthem of Singapore. The association’s activity will be focused on three areas: Programming, Outreach, and Structure.
Rebecca WOO, AB ’89, President (Term Ending 2021)
Titus YONG, EdM ’03, Vice President (Term Ending 2020)
Andrew NAI, GMP ’14, Treasurer (Term Ending 2020)
Allen Chu, AB ‘92, Secretary (Term Ending 2021)
En-Ming ONG, AB ’11, Member (Term Ending 2021)
“KC” CHEW Kheng Chuan, AB ’82, Member (Term Ending 2021)
Michael KOH, MDes ’93, Member (Term Ending 2020)
Nadine YAP, AB ’92, AM ’95, Member (Term Ending 2021)
Stephen JACOB, MPP ’00 , Member (Term Ending 2021)
It has been five years since our founding and it’s a moment to celebrate! The HBS Club of Singapore is pleased to invite you to our second Gala Dinner to celebrate both our vibrant and thriving community and the milestone of completing five years serving not just our alumni but indeed the broader Singapore society. We are very excited to share with you the stellar line up for our two panels at the HBS Club of Singapore’s Gala Dinner…
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Join us for a joint KPMG and HUAAS event where Three illustrious Graduate School of Design alumni -- Paul Tange, Nina Yang and Ong Ker Shing -- will share their best practice and development experience in Singapore and internationally. Paul Kent, partner for Economics and Regulation KPMG will also give comments. Join us on Monday 11 November 19 at the KPMG clubhouse, at the 1st storey of City House at 36, Robinson Road, S 068877, 6:30 pm. Free for HUAAS…
Find out more »After last year's inaugural success, the SECOND Ivy League Ball Singapore 2019 will be held on Saturday, Nov 16th again at the Hilton Hotel Ballroom. This year, the event is led by Cornell University and Harvard University, as Columbia and U Penn passed on the baton. We invite alumni, their friends, and family to join us for a cocktail reception, dinner, drinks, a bit of competition!!, music and dancing with renowned DJ Shigeki. We have a very exciting lineup of…
Find out more »The alumni associations of Columbia, Harvard, and Penn invite you and your family for an evening of theatre guaranteed to make you laugh, cry and sing, no matter what your age! Join us for “A Spoonful of Sherman”, a smash hit show featuring stunning sets and a stellar local cast, including music from films we have grown up with: Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Winnie the Pooh and The Jungle Book. The Oscar-winning Disney songwriters, the Sherman brothers, created…
Find out more »The Annual General Meeting this year is happening on 29 March 2019 at Resorts World Sentosa.
We hereby notify all members interested in running for a leadership position to submit their interest by midnight SGT 26 February 2018 here: goo.gl/forms/AbIPADenKict54AW2
The following positions are up for election: President, Secretary, and 2 at-large Committee members.
The Young Harvard Alumni panel event “Back in Singapore and Following their Passions” brought together a wonderful group of alumni and Prize Book recipients at the iPreciation gallery on the evening of Jan 24, 2019. We were fortunate enough to have Vincent Leow, a pre-eminent Singapore artist, to give a quick walk through and talk of his artwork as well. The panelists shared their different...
Global Networking Night Singapore was organised by the HUAAS and held at SEAR restaurant 45 storeys above Singapore’s Raffles Place financial district.
It was a bustling evening filled with laughter and good cheer. Old acquaintances were renewed and new ones made. Attendees came from all schools across the Harvard campus and we welcomed visiting Harvard students as well.
Greetings fellow alums and members of HUAAS! I have more than “three points” to share with you, but here are the three most important ones: The date of our upcoming AGM and Annual Dinner for you to mark in your calendars and sign up to attend.Our Inaugural HUAAS Fellow AwardCommencing the collection of membership dues from 2019 Third HUAAS AGM and Annual Dinner To the first point — our...
We hosted a lovely intimate evening discussion on Nov 13th, 2018 with Professor Karen Thornber on her latest research project “Women and leadership in Asia”. Many interesting statistical observations were made and there was lovely debate over whether some of the phenomenon was historically gender-stereo-type based (from all sides) or whether this was self perpetuated or not; and what has been...
A very successful inaugural Ivy League Ball in Singapore!! We held our own in both table decorations and the fight song rendition … looking forward to the next one in 2019!
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HUAAS had a very successful joint panel discussion with the Columbia University Club of Singapore and our gracious hosts the SP Jain School of Global Management. We thank our panelists from Columbia: Brian O’Dwyer, Wendy Goh & Tang T. Heng, and Harvard: CJ Meadows – who collectively provoked and challenged the incumbent concepts of education and proposed different alternative...
Mid-Autumn Lantern Festival for the Kids!!HUAAS VP Rebecca Woo hosted some HUAAS & HBS Club families to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival with moon-cake making, bubbles, paper lantern-making and the final lighting of lanterns of all shapes and sizes – dragons, rabbits, pandas, chickens, butterflies – whilst looking for the full moon in the Singapore sky, all the kids left happily...
HUAAS members and friends were privy to a bespoke guided tour of the special Angkor exhibition at the ACM where highlights from the Guimet Museum were shown; some of which had never before been brought outside of France. We had an incredibly knowledgeable docent as a guide who really made the exhibition come alive. Many thanks to the staff at the ACM for making the arrangements!
Aug 28: Where to Find Value in Fintech? The discussion was very lively that evening at The Straits Clan, with over 60 in the audience. Panelists Pietro Ventani of APP Advisors (Harvard MBA ‘93), Neil Davidson of Coda Payments (Harvard AB ‘03, MBA ‘09) and Chandrima Das of Bento – spoke about their own experiences, what major trends they felt would drive the industry longer term, the...