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Former deputy prime minister S. Jayakumar has been appointed a pro-chancellor of the National University of Singapore (NUS).
The university announced on Thursday (June 18) his appointment to a three-year term, which will start on July 1.
Professor Jayakumar will join the other current pro-chancellors – Council of Presidential Advisers member Po’ad Mattar, ex-chief justice Chan Sek Keong, former banker Theresa Foo, Blackstone Singapore chairman Gautam Banerjee, and business owner Teo Siong Seng – in the university’s chancellery.
The chancellery is headed by President Halimah Yacob, who is also NUS chancellor.
NUS said the pro-chancellors act on behalf of the chancellor during the chancellor’s absence from the university, and preside at the annual commencement ceremonies.
Prof Jayakumar graduated at the top of his cohort at the then University of Singapore’s Faculty of Law in 1963, and joined the faculty as a lecturer in 1964.
He was appointed dean and served from 1974 to 1980.
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