NUS geographer Brenda Yeoh awarded ‘Nobel Prize for Geography’ – the prestigious Vautrin-Lud Prize
Professor Brenda Yeoh from the Department of Geography at the NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences has been awarded the international Vautrin Lud Prize 2021 in Geography. Modelled after the Nobel Prize and widely regarded as one of the highest honours in geography, it is awarded to geographers for outstanding achievements in the field. Currently Research Leader of the Asian Migration Cluster at the Asia Research Institute, NUS, the prolific scholar has also published extensively in 35 books and over 230 journal articles. She serves as editor of Asian Population Studies and sits on the international advisory boards of notable migration journals such as International Migration Review and International Migration.