Professor Tan Eng Chye was appointed President of the National University of Singapore (NUS) on 1 January 2018. He is the University's 5th president, and the 23rd leader to head Singapore's oldest higher education institution.

Sir Keith Burnett CBE, FRS, FInstP (Physics, 1975) is a British atomic physicist and past Vice-Chancellor of Sheffield University. He was formerly Head of the Division of Mathematical and Physical and Life Sciences at Oxford University.

He graduated from University of Science and Technology of China with master’s degree in June, 1992, and his doctor’s degree is received in July, 2006. At the present, he is the director of National Astronomical Observatories, chairman of the Key Laboratory of Dark Matter and Space Astronomy, director of the School of Astronomy and Space Science of the University of Science and Technology of China. He obtained the title of academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2019.