Professor Arnoud De Meyer will step down from his tenure as head of Cambridge’s Judge Business school in August 2010, it was announced last week.

Professor De Meyer, a management studies professor who was appointed to the role in September 2006, has accepted a position as the president of Singapore Management University. He will be that university’s fourth president.

The Judge Business School underwent a period of expansion during Professor De Meyer’s tenure. The School launched a Master’s of Finance course and an Executive MBA degree. It also expanded its MBA programme to attract more diverse and outstanding applicants.

Previously, Professor De Meyer spent 23 years at the European Institute of Business Administration (INSEAD) as both an academic and an administrator. As a member of the INSEAD faculty, he oversaw a Singapore campus extension and spent four years there from 1999 to 2002.

Upon announcing his resignation, Professor De Meyer wrote, “I have truly enjoyed my experience at Cambridge Judge Business School and I am proud of the developments that it has achieved during my tenure.”

He added, “I had the privilege of working with a strong and professional staff and was able to rely on a culture of collaboration, distinguished by the innovative, international and collaborative ethos that makes Cambridge such a unique and exciting place to discover and learn. It will be difficult to leave this behind.”

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