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Professor David De Cremer is a global thought leader with a specific interest in leading individual and organizational transformations in the 21st century. He holds the Provost Chair at National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School and an honorary fellowship at Cambridge Judge Business School and St. Edmunds College, Cambridge University. He is also the Founder and Director of the Centre on AI Technology for Humankind (AiTH) and academic director of several executive certificate programs at NUS Business School. Before moving to NUS, he was the KPMG endowed chaired professor in management studies, Department Head and Academic Director at Cambridge University. In the past, he was also a visiting fellow at the Hoover institution, Stanford University and the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, a visiting professor at London Business School and is currently an affiliate member of the Justice Collaboratory at Yale Law School.
He received many career awards for his scientific work, and became a fellow at the prestigious Royal Dutch Academy of Science in 2005. He was named the most influential economist in the Netherlands (2009-2010), named a Global Thought Leader by the Trust Across America in 2016 – Trust Around the World organization, whose annual list recognizes people for efforts “in elevating societal trust, named one of the world's top 30 management gurus for 2020 by Global Gurus among the likes of the late Clayton Christensen, John Kotter, Philip Kotler, and Jeffrey Pfeffer, listed as one of the World's top 2% scientists in 2020, and named one of the 2021 Radar Thinkers50, which brings 30 top minds across the globe together.
His specific expertise concerns developing knowledge and applications to understand more deeply how leaders can be effective and transforming in the new technology era, how building trust can be used as a business asset, what it takes to manage and lead global business transformations, and why ethics-based compliance should be the future perspective in the corporate world, especially with intelligent technologies being adopted at a rapid pace.
He provides services as a speaker and consultant that spans the levels of knowledge creation, knowledge transfer and knowledge implementation. He also has considerable experience in executive teaching and corporate consultancy at a global scale, which he enjoys enormously as it is a significant way to see change in our world.