Brenda Yeoh Saw Ai FBA (Chinese: 杨淑爱) is a Singaporean academic and geographer,[1][2] currently serving as Raffles Professor of Social Sciences at the National University of Singapore.
[1] In 1985, Yeoh received a Bachelor of Arts in geography from the University of Cambridge, earning a first class honours degree.
[3] She joined NUS as a senior tutor in 1987, was made full professor in 2005, and served as the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences from 2010–2016.
[4] In 2000, she received a Fulbright Program scholarship to study at the University of California, Berkeley.
[2] In 2021, Yeoh received the Vautrin Lud Prize "for her contributions to migration and transnationalism studies".