Brenda Yeoh Saw Ai
Yeoh in 2021
NationalitySingaporean
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
University of Oxford
Occupation(s)Geographer, academic
Known forVautrin Lud Prize

Brenda Yeoh Saw Ai FBA (Chinese: 杨淑爱) is a Singaporean academic and geographer,[1][2] currently serving as Raffles Professor of Social Sciences at the National University of Singapore.[1]

Biography

In 1985, Yeoh received a Bachelor of Arts in geography from the University of Cambridge, earning a first class honours degree. She went on to read a Diploma in Education from the Institute of Education before completing a stint as a teacher at Victoria Junior College. After leaving the teaching service, she read a DPhil in geography from the University of Oxford, and joined the National University of Singapore as an academic.[3] She joined NUS as a senior tutor in 1987, was made full professor in 2005, and served as the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences from 2010–2016.[4]

In 2000, she received a Fulbright Program scholarship to study at the University of California, Berkeley.

Yeoh is editor of the journal Asian Population Studies and a member of the International Geographical Union’s Population Geography Commission.[2]

In 2021, Yeoh received the Vautrin Lud Prize "for her contributions to migration and transnationalism studies".[1] The award is one of the highest honours presented for developments in geography, and widely considered the 'Nobel Prize in Geography'. In the same year she was elected a corresponding fellow of the British Academy.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Brenda YEOH". ari.nus.edu.sg. Archived from the original on 2021-01-26. Retrieved 2021-07-01.
  2. ^ a b "Prof. Brenda Yeoh – United Nations University". unu.edu. Retrieved 2021-07-01.
  3. ^ "YEOH Brenda S. A. : World Who's Who". www.worldwhoswho.com. Retrieved 2021-07-01.
  4. ^ Auto, Hermes (2021-10-13). "NUS professor awarded prestigious 'Nobel Prize' for geography | The Straits Times". www.straitstimes.com. Retrieved 2022-07-11.
  5. ^ "The British Academy elects 84 new Fellows recognising outstanding achievement in the humanities and social sciences". The British Academy. 2021-07-23. Archived from the original on 2021-07-23. Retrieved 2022-01-22.
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