Director of the Wee Kim Wee Centre at SMU and Associate Professor of English Literature Kirpal Singh has been globally acknowledged as a creativity guru who engages “with central questions pertaining to the entire notion of creativity especially as it manifests itself across cultures and political borders”. He is the author of “Thinking Hats & Coloured Turbans: Creativity Across Cultures” (2004), and also the first non-American to be elected to the board of directors of the American Creativity Association, of which he is now the vice president. Associate Prof Singh conducted an interview with former Philippines president Fidel V. Ramos as assigned by the Institute for Societal Leadership (ISL), which SMU established to advance an applied understanding of “Societal Leadership” in Southeast Asia.