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History
The Sun Tzu Art of War Institute is an independent, non-governmental International Think Tank based in Singapore with the mission to promote strategic thinking and leadership using Ancient Chinese strategies. The institute is a research-driven Institute in Asia and has on its advisory panel a team of highly respected researchers and professors from across Asia and Europe. Under the support of Aventis Leadership Centre, Aventis School of Management, STI aims to enhance the competitiveness, leadership and strategic capabilities of organizations through the interchange of ideas knowledge and leadership development. STI supports the research and adoption of ancient Chinese strategies by world leaders and business communities to promote business excellence, ideas interchange and economic cooperation.

Founder
Dr Foo Check Teck is known for his empirical, rigorous statistical studies on Art of War corporate strategy (Organizing Strategy; Blackwell in Oxford, Spring’s Choice). After his corporate studies, he then embarked on an in-depth psychological analysis of the mind of Sun Tzu (Reminiscences of an Ancient Strategist: Mind of Sun Tzu; Singapore’s top NBDCS prize). He is currently an associate professor of Nanyang Technological University. He is also noted as a keynote speaker. He is concurrently Honorary Chair of Competitive Strategy, University of St Andrews.He had held visiting professorships across Europe, Asia and America. He is multi-disciplined with qualifications in law, finance, accounting and strategy: LLB (Hons., London), MBA (Finance, Award Winner, City University of London), PhD (Strategy, St Andrews) Barrister-at-Law (Lincoln’s Inn), Advocate and Solicitor (Singapore). FCMA, FCCA, CPA, ACIS.

His works on Art of War had attracted widespread press publicity including BBC,, Korean Times, The Australian, Japanese Radio as well interviews. The Straits Times in selecting him as one of Asia’s movers and shakers, hailed him as Singapore’s “Man of Renaissance”.paramMainTab=News&paramNodes=823&paramCmd=2, Recently he was invited to act as expert on US History Channel ’s production on Sun Tzu.

He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal: Chinese Management Studies. and the founder of Sun Tzu Art of War Institute Sun Tzu Art of War Institute, a research think tank based in Asia with the mission to promote strategic thinking and leadership using Ancient Chinese strategies. Besides, he is an Editor with Cognitive Neurodynamics as well as on boards of several international journals including Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, Emerging Markets, Management History, Business Environments, Corporate Communication, Management Decision, Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

He is currently leading the research in Sun Tzu Art of War Institute and he is principle speaker for the Institute.

Key functions
The main scope of research and services of STI is as follows: >
 * Online Program that serves to stimulate strategic thinking using proprietary materials generated through research in chinese ancient strategies.
 * Event and Workshop that provide a platform for interaction and coaching of management and leaders in adopting Chinese strategic thinking as part of their strategy initiatives.
 * Research and Publications that collate and disseminate information, promotes continuous learning and thought leadership.
 * Business Associations that strengthen relationship between people and foster economic cooperation.
 * Membership Programmes that enable corporate leaders to make more informed decisions.
 * Consultancy services to both private and not for profit organizations about enterprise development strategy, management decision-making, investment and market expansion

Publications

 * Organizing Strategy - Sun Tsu Business Warcraft by Foo Check Teck and Peter Hugh Grinyer ISBN: 9789810431129
 * Reminiscences of An Ancient Strategist - The Mind of Sun Tzu by Foo Check Teck ISBN: 9810420064
 * Duel of the Soul by Foo Check Teck ISBN: 9789810516314
 * The Imperial Mind by Foo Check Teck ISBN: 9789810455699
 * Thinking Around Stratagems by Foo Check Teck ISBN: 9789810422981