Ngoh-Tiong Tan, PhD ('88), has been named Dean, School of Human Development and Social Services at the Singapore Institute of Management, better known as UniSIM. He will oversee graduate programs in social work and counseling as well as undergraduate programs in social work, counseling, human resources, and child education.

Prof. Tan was a tenured Professor at Augsburg College before he joined UniSIM. He spent 17 years at the National University of Singapore's Department of Social Work.Over the years, he has been a visiting scholar at Harvard University, Cambridge University, UC Berkeley, Oslo University and Sydney University.He has extensive experience and research in social work, social enterprise, dispute and conflict resolution, parenting and community mediation, dynamics of change and crisis and disaster management. He has served and contributed in numerous social work organizations and agencies in Singapore and abroad.