Sau Kim is Associate Vice President (Global Relations) at NUS and oversees the NUS Global Relations Office (GRO). GRO manages the university’s mobility programmes and uni-to-uni relationships through Alliances, Networks and other collaboration arrangements. She is also a faculty member of the Department of Real Estate at NUS Business School. A former ASEAN scholar, she obtained her B.Sc. (Estate Management) honors degree from NUS and her Masters in Land Economy from University of Aberdeen. After joining NUS as a Senior Tutor, Sau Kim pursued a PhD in Business Administration (Finance and Real Estate) from University of California at Berkeley.

Winner of several teaching awards in the university, Sau Kim teaches real estate finance, wealth management and securitization. She has research interests in the areas of housing and land policy, and green finance. Her work on index construction led to the development of various house price indices that are used for measuring both public and private housing price movement in Singapore. She has also consulted for various public and private organizations including Citibank, GIC , Housing & Development Board, Ministry of Housing of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Ministry of Law of Singapore, Singapore Land Authority and Urban Redevelopment Authority. She currently sits on the Land Acquisition Appeals Board of the Ministry of Law.

Sau Kim has three girls. In whatever spare time she has, she enjoys cooking (and eating), reading, and movies.