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Soon Ang, PhD (Minnesota)
Nanyang Business School
Nanyang Technological University
Block S3, 01C-93
50 Nanyang Avenue
Singapore, 639798
Phone: +65 6790 4717
Email: [email protected]
Soon Ang is the Distinguished University Professor at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Professor of Leadership & Management in the Nanyang Business School; and founding Executive Director of the Center for Leadership and Cultural Intelligence (CLCI). Professor Soon Ang is a world authority in Cultural Intelligence (CQ) & Leadership. She pioneered CQ and authored foundational books (published by Stanford University Press). She has also created the world’s first validated multi-media iSJTs (intercultural situational judgment tests) for measuring and assessing cultural intelligence of people, teams and organizations.
A multiple award-winning scientist, Soon Ang has published extensively in top management and information systems journals including the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Management Science, Organization Science, and others. Among the key Senior and Associate editorial appointments of top journals, she was one of the founding Associate Editors of the Academy of Management Discoveries, a transformative journal created by the Academy of Management to steer innovative research that adopts a more abductive approach to evidence-based science.
Soon Ang mentors Ph.D. students and leads teams of scientists in sustained inquiry into in-situ and culturally intelligent leadership in organizations. Together with Kok Yee, Ng, the research director of the Center, she has attracted grants from international agencies such as IATA, ISO, and multi-year, multi-million dollar research grants from Defense Science and Technology Agency, the Prime Minister’s Office (Singapore). Her honors in her leadership in science and technology include the Distinguished Leadership Award for International Alumni (University of Minnesota); the Distinguished Walter F Ulmer, Jr Award (Center for Creative Leadership, USA); the inaugural Nanyang Award for Research and Innovation in the Social Sciences.