Jude Chua Soo Meng is Associate Professor, Associate Dean (Graduate Education, Research) of the Graduate Programmes and Professional Learning Office (GPL) and a faculty member of the Policy, Curriculum and Leadership Dept (PCL), National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He was previously Head of the Policy and Leadership Studies Department, and then Policy, Curriculum and Leadership Department (seven years). Prior to that he was Sub Dean at GPL. He was programme leader for the dual award EdD offered with IOE London and programme director for the joint Masters in Leadership and Educational Change (MALEC) offered with Teachers College, Columbia University, USA.

He is also a Visiting Research Collaborator with the prestigious James Madison Program at the Department of Politics, Princeton University, USA, and works with the leading natural law theorist Professor Robert P George. He is critically engaging John Rawls' conception of "public reasons" by drawing on Aquinas' natural law theory and George's work on natural law perfectionist political theory, and working on other publications orbiting natural law theory.

He won the prestigious Novak Award (2003) awarded by Acton Institute for work at the interface of religion and economic liberty. He was co-awarded (with another Novak Laureate, Dr Giovanni Patriarca) a Templeton World Charity Foundation grant (2021) to study scholastics and their relevance for ethics, economics and education.

He was president’s graduate fellow at National University of Singapore (NUS) and examined in his PhD dissertation eastern and western theories of law and governance, with a focus on John Finnis' new natural law theory and Wang Bi's thought, under the supervision of the leading scholar of Chinese philosophy, Professor Alan Chan K-L.

He won a visiting graduate fellowship at the Centre for Philosophy of Religion, University of Notre Dame, USA (2003), and worked with the eminent natural law theorist Professor John Finnis, who was half time there from Oxford. In 2003 he joined Finnis in debate at Notre Dame against leading legal positivists (Raz, Leiter, Endicott).

He has been a Visiting Scholar at the Aquinas Institute, Blackfriars Hall, Oxford University, as well as Visiting Academic and Hon. Research Associate at the Institute of Education (IOE), University College London and has also been a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Business and Humanism at the University of Navarra, Spain.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS), London and a Fellow of the College of Teachers (FCollT), London [now Chartered College of Teaching]. He was a Salzburg Global Seminar Fellow, Salzburg Austria (Session: Young Global Leaders) and a 21st Century Trust Fellow (Session: Climate Change). He is also an Acton Institute and Mises Institute Alumnus. He has also been a Visiting Fellow at the Thomas Moore Institute, London.

He continues to work on philosophy of education and policy studies, and new natural law theory as well as aspects of Aquinas' thought. Very recently, he has developed a great interest in semiotics, in particular the thinking on signs by John Deely and his work on the17th Century Iberian Thomist Jean Poinsot (John of St Thomas OP), and its relevance for analyzing Peircian abductive logic.

An enduring interest is also in Aquinas’ thought in conversation with the later Martin Heidegger (especially Heidegger's reading of Aristotle) and he has engaged the eminent leading scholar of the later Heidegger, Professor Richard Capobianco, also a friend and colleague, for many years, and continues to appropriate the themes in Capobianco's illuminations of the later Heidegger's concern with the core matter.

He was section editor for new natural law theory of the Springer Handbook for Virtue Ethics in Business and Management, edited by Alejo Sison, He was previously Editor of the Asia Pacific Journal of Education, and is an associate editor with Journal of Markets and Morality,