INSEAD’s 2025 Global Talent Competitiveness Index ranked Singapore No. 1 globally for talent competitiveness, overtaking long-time leader Switzerland. The report, produced with the Portulans Institute and authored by Felipe Monteiro and colleagues, evaluated 135 economies on education quality, workforce skills, institutional strength, innovation capacity, and talent retention. INSEAD dean of research Lily Fang framed the ranking around ‘‘resilience and transformation’’ amid technological change. The shift in the top spot reflects Singapore’s policy investments in vocational and adaptive skills and has implications for where universities recruit faculty, place students for internships, and pursue international research partnerships. Higher-education leaders, international offices, and research strategy teams should treat the GTCI as a practical signal of where policy, funding, and talent pipelines are aligning — a metric that can inform campus recruitment, global partnerships, and international student strategies.