Tamsin Greulich Smith

Founding Director @ School of X, DesignSingapore Council

Tamsin Greulich-Smith is the Director, Design Practice at the DesignSingapore Council and the founding director of School of X, the Council’s real-world learning platform for design thinking. She leads the Council’s organisational transformation design and teaches at the Centre for Healthcare Innovation. Over the past 25 years, Tamsin has specialised in co-designing solutions for complex, high-concern environments, integrating human-centred design, systems thinking, risk communications, and change leadership to deliver win-win strategies across transformation programmes.

Before her role at School of X, she established and led the Smart Health Leadership Centre at the National University of Singapore’s Institute of Systems Science, where she harnessed design, data, and digital technologies to improve health outcomes. Beyond her institutional roles, Tamsin spearheads the Learning by Design initiative, curating the biennial Design Education Summit. This one-of-a-kind summit brings together educators, designers, researchers, and innovators to explore how design thinking can make learning more inclusive, accessible, and sustainable. As part of the Design X Care effort, she is also faculty at the Centre for Healthcare Innovation, shaping design interventions that tackle societal and care challenges.