Looking to the Future We have come a long way since our humble beginnings as Nanyang University struggling against all odds, and the first engineering schools of Nanyang Technological Institute with 500 students. Today, we are a global top 100 university with an outstanding global reputation for technology. We reach deep into China with our Chinese programmes. Our research reputation has been rising rapidly, especially in recent years. I have in recent years pictured us as the Multi-Cultural Research University. This is a combination of our heritage from Nanyang University and Nanyang Technological Institute. We are actively developing beyond the current English-Chinese bicultural programmes by engaging rising economies such as India, Korea and Japan in Asia, and reaching out to the old European civilizations and the high-energy innovation centres of the North American economies. Entrepreneurship is a vital ingredient we are developing for this university. Being Multi-Cultural and Research-Intensive helps us do so. The higher education landscape in Singapore has been characterised by rapid changes in recent years, punctuated by meetings of the International Academic Advisory Panel of the Ministry of Education. NTU has risen to the challenge. The three new Schools from 2003, the Autonomous University framework from 2005, the Research Intensive drive from 2007, all drive us forward with energy boosts towards the top among Global Universities. Today, with moves to once again transform the Singapore university landscape, NTU is poised to be one of the two truly Global Universities in Singapore competing in science and technology. We are well on our way in our journey “To be a Great Global University founded on Science and Technology”.