Brenda Yeoh

Brenda S.A. Yeoh is a Singaporean academic and geographer.[1][2] Yeoh is Raffles Professor of Social Sciences and Director for Humanities and Social Science Research at the NUS Office of the Deputy President (Research & Technology) at the National University of Singapore.[1]

Brenda Yeoh (2021)

Biography

Yeoh completed a degree in geography at the University of Cambridge, England, and a doctoral degree at the University of Oxford, England.[3] 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]

Yeoh was accorded the 2021 Vautrin Lud Prize. The award is one of the highest honours presented for outstanding achievements in field of geography, and widely considered the 'Nobel Prize in Geography'. In the same year she was elected a corresponding fellow of the British Academy.[4]

References
  1. "Brenda YEOH". ari.nus.edu.sg. Archived from the original on 2021-01-26. Retrieved 2021-07-01.
  2. "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. "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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