Tan Eng Chye () is a Singaporean college administrator who has been serving as the third president of the National University of Singapore since 2018. Prior to his presidency, he served as Deputy President (Academic Affairs) and a provost at the National University of Singapore. Education Tan attended Raffles Institution between 1974 and 1979 before graduating from the National University of Singapore in 1985 with a Bachelor of Science (First Class Honours) degree in mathematics. He later went on to obtain his PhD from Yale University in 1989, under the guidance of Roger Howe. Career He joined NUS as a faculty member in the Department of Mathematics in 1985, as a Senior Tutor, eventually becoming the Department's Deputy Head in 1999. In June 2003, he was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Science, a post he held till March 2007. Up till 2017, he served as NUS’ Deputy President (Academic Affairs) and Provost. Tan Eng Chye's research interests are representation theory of Lie groups and Lie algebras, invariant theory and algebraic combinatorics. In collaboration with Roger Howe, he has written a well-known graduate-level textbook on non-Abelian harmonic analysis and contributed to several subjects in representation theory including degenerate principal series representations and branching rules. He has also been active in promoting mathematics, having established the Singapore Mathematical Society Enrichment Programmes in 1994, revamped the Singapore Mathematical Olympiad in 1995 to allow more participation from students, and initiated a series of project teaching workshops for teachers in 1998. He served as President of the Singapore Mathematical Society from 2001 to 2005 and President of the South East Asian Mathematical Society from 2004 to 2005. 2018–present: NUS presidency On 28 July 2017, Tan was named as the next president of NUS, taking over Tan Chorh Chuan. He assumed office at the start of 2018. Along with the appointed, he was appointed to A*STAR's board as well, taking the seat meant for the university's president. In 2020, NUS raised US$300 million through its first green bond. In the same year, it established a research institute called the Asian Institute of Digital Finance along with the Monetary Authority of Singapore and National Research Foundation. In 2020, Tan said in an interview that he had plans for NUS to "tear down structures that inhibit interdisciplinarity", with Professor Joanne Roberts of Yale-NUS College commenting that there were similarities between Yale-NUS and Tan's plans. On 22 September