Pericles Lewis: a humanities education produces truly creative leaders

Pericles Lewis is president of Yale-NUS College in Singapore a collegiate liberal arts college set up by Yale University and the National University of Singapore. Largely funded by the Singaporean government, it opened its doors in July 2013 to its first cohort of 150 high-achieving undergraduate students, recruited from some 25 different countries including Wales.

Lewis taught English and comparative literature at Yale University for 14 years and designed the humanities curriculum at Yale-NUS. He tells me why canny employers see the value of humanities graduates.