[2] Its Executive Education, the consultancy arm of the school, established also in 2010 provides short term training programs for over 2,000 senior professionals annually from over 90 countries worldwide.

It serves as a regional repository of competitiveness information that enables analyses of long-term trends in economic policies and development.

It also undertakes projects to assess current competitiveness of key economic clusters and provide policy inputs for enhancing growth.

It focuses on Singapore's domestic developments and external relations taking a multidisciplinary approach with an emphasis on long-term strategic thinking.

The institute's research is also funded by many local partners including Sembcorp and Temasek Foundation; local and international government agencies such the National Environment Agency (NEA) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA); and international organisations such as the Asian Development Bank (ADB).

IWP brings together a diverse group of scholars from various disciplines across the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.

Global-is-Asian[11] is the school's flagship digital platform focusing on policy issues affecting Asia and the world.

Backed by research and grounded in practitioners' experience, its content aims to shape global thinking and steer meaningful conversations on Asian policy issues, especially among policymakers and academics.

It is edited by graduate students from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore.

The journal was established in July 2007, featuring an editorial from Kishore Mahbubani, dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, among full-length articles from graduate students in the UK, US, China, and Singapore.

Visitors who have spoken at the school include former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair,[14] former Australia Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, Pulitzer prize-winning author Thomas Friedman,[15] Nobel laureates Elinor Ostrom, Amartya Sen, Muhammad Yunus,[16] Aung San Suu Kyi,[17] and former US Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker.

There are 20 alumni chapters around the world, including in Beijing, Shanghai, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, India, the United States and Europe.

[20] The LKY School is situated at the Bukit Timah campus together with the NUS Law Faculty, next to the Singapore Botanic Gardens.