Service to Community and Country - Secondment

The following faculty members were on secondment during the academic year, serving the country in different capacities:

Associate Professor BALAKRISHNAN, VIVIAN (Faculty of Medicine) – as Minister for Community Development, Youth & Sports and Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Trade & Industry.

Professor CHAN HENG CHEE (Faculty of Arts& Social Sciences) – as Singapore’s Ambassador to the United States of America.

Professor CHONG TOW CHONG (Faculty of Engineering) – as Executive Director, Data Storage Institute and Executive Director, Science& Engineering Research Council, Agency for Science, Technology & Research (A*STAR).

Associate Professor HO PENG KEE (Faculty of Law) – as Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Home Affairs and Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Law.

Associate Professor YAACOB IBRAHIM (Faculty of Engineering) – as Minister for the Environment & Water Resources and Ministerin-charge of Muslim Affairs.

Professor SHANMUGAM JAYAKUMAR (Faculty of Law) – as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Law.

Professor KOH THONG BEE, TOMMY (Faculty of Law) – as Ambassador-at-Large, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Professor LAM KHIN YONG (Faculty of Engineering) – as Executive Director, A*STAR Graduate Academy.

Associate Professor LEE HEOW PUEH (Faculty of Engineering) – as Acting Executive Director, Institute of High Performance Computing.

Associate Professor LIM KHIANG WEE (Faculty of Engineering) – as Director, Science & Engineering Research Council, A*STAR and Executive Director, SIMTech.

Professor LIU TAK BUN, EDISON (Faculty of Medicine) – as Executive Director, Genome Institute of Singapore.

Professor LOW TECK SENG (Faculty of Engineering) – as Principal/CEO, Republic Polytechnic.

Dr MOHAMAD MALIKI BIN OSMAN (Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences) – as Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Health and Ministry of Community Development, Youth & Sports.

Associate Professor REN EE CHEE (Faculty of Medicine) – as Deputy Director, Genome Institute of Singapore.

Professor SATKUNANANTHAM KANDIAH (Faculty of Medicine) – as Director of Medical Services, Ministry of Health.

Associate Professor TAN, MILTON (School of Design & Environment) – as Project Director, National Arts Council.

Professor WONG WAI CHOONG, LAWRENCE (Faculty of Engineering) – as Executive Director, Institute for Infocomm Research.

Professor WOON CHEONG MING, WALTER (Faculty of Law) – as Singapore’s Ambassador to Belgium.

Professor YAP GEK SIM, MIRANDA (Faculty of Engineering) – as Executive Director, Bioprocessing Technology Institute.