Poh Kam WONG is concurrently an Emeritus Professor at National University of Singapore (NUS), and was a tenured Full Professor at the NUS Business School and Professor (by courtesy) at the LKY School of Public Policy until end June, 2022.   He obtained two BSc.’s, an MSc. and a Ph.D. from MIT.  He has published extensively in leading international refereed journals on entrepreneurship and innovation, and was ranked among the top 2% most highly cited scholars in the world by Stanford/Elsevier in 2020-23. He has also consulted widely on innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem development policies for various international agencies including the World Bank, OECD, Asian Development Bank and WIPO, various government agencies in Singapore including Ministry of Trade and Industry, EDB, ASTAR, Ministry of Law, MPA and IPOS, and many private corporations and government agencies in Asia. He was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at U.C. Berkeley, a visiting scholar at Stanford University, Oxford University, Tsinghua University and GRIPS (Japan), and a Pacific Leadership Fellow at UC San Diego. 

Besides his academic position, he was concurrently the Director of NUS Entrepreneurship Centre from August 2001 until July 2019, where he created or provided academic leadership for several high-impact experiential entrepreneurship education programs, including the NUS Overseas Colleges (NOC) program, and the Singapore National Research Foundation-funded National Lean Launchpad (LLP) Program on technology commercialization for professors and graduate students in the four leading universities in Singapore (2017-22).  He also played a strategic advisory role in the development of NUS Enterprise’s Global Startup Incubation program, including Block71 in Singapore, Indonesia, Suzhou and San Francisco.  He has served on the investment committee of NUS Enterprise since its founding, and was a mentor to many tech start-ups incubated by NUS Enterprise.  He initiated StartUp@Singapore, the largest annual business plan competition in Singapore (1999-2012), and the DBS-NUS Social Venture Challenge Asia, the largest annual social entrepreneurship competition in Asia (2013-18).  He also initiated Port Innovation Ecosystem Re-imagined (PIER71), a joint program of NUS Enterprise and the Maritime Port Authority (MPA) of Singapore (2018-19).  He was an advisor to Hong Kong S&T Park (HKSTP), and is currently a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Asia School of Business (ASB) in Malaysia, and an advisor to Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Entrepreneurship Academy.  

An entrepreneur prior to joining academia, he has been an active angel investor in tech start-ups in Singapore, Silicon Valley and China.  He was the founding chairman of Business Angel Network Southeast Asia (BANSEA), and is a Senior Advisor to iGlobe Partners, a global venture capital fund based in Singapore.  He received the Public Administration Medal (Silver) Award from the Singapore Government in 2013 for his contribution to entrepreneurship education in Singapore, and the “Entrepreneur for the World” Award (Educator Category) from the World Entrepreneurship Forum in 2015.  He was a board member of the Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore (CCCS) 2016-22.