Laure Lam Hung was born and raised on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius before moving to the UK to study biology at University College London and Cambridge university. When it came to studying for an MBA, however, Ms Lam Hung chose Singapore Management University.
The choice was partly about career advancement: Singapore is a leading biotech force in Asia. But Ms Lam Hung was particularly attracted by the gender balance on the SMU course.
On average just 38 per cent of the intake across the top 100 MBA courses in this year’s Financial Times ranking were women, a figure that has barely changed in the past decade. At SMU the gender split is almost exactly 50:50.