Michael Frese is a German psychologist who teaches management and organizational behaviour at Asia School of Business, Malaysia and Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany.
He was head of the department and Provost Chair at National University of Singapore Business School.
After studying psychology, Frese worked at the chair for educational and social sciences at Technische Universität Berlin.
From 2009 until 2020, this was with the National University of Singapore Business School, where he served as department head, and was promoted to Provost Chair in 2016.
In 2020, he took a period of leave from the National University of Singapore, and took a position as professor of organization and management at the Asia School of Business.