Mr Wong was the Chairman of the University’s Council from August 2004 to March 2006 prior to the corporatisation of the University in April 2006. He is currently chairman and chief executive officer of Venture Corporation Limited, a listed Singapore-based leading Electronics Design, Manufacturing and E-fulfilment Group. He sits on the boards of various public listed and private companies in Singapore and overseas including DBS Bank Ltd and DBS Group Holdings Ltd and Royal Philips Electronics. He is also a member of the Research, Innovation and Enterprise Council. As an entrepreneur, Mr Wong has been accorded a number of accolades including Asiamoney’s Best Chief Executive Officer (Singapore) Award in 2004, the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2002, and the Singapore Business Times/DHL Worldwide Express Businessman of the Year in 1998. Mr Wong holds a First Class (Honours) degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Malaya, and a Masters degree in Electronics Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley where he was a Fulbright Scholar. He also holds an MBA degree with distinction from McGill University under the Canadian Commonwealth Fellowship.

Ms Chang is currently Deputy Secretary (Policy) of Ministry of Education, Singapore. She is also a member of
various public institutions and organisations including the Singapore-MIT Alliance Governing Board; A*STAR
Board; Graduate Medical School Governing Board; Institute of Southeast Asian Studies Board of Trustees; Civil
Service College Board of Directors; and Board of Governors of NUS High School of Mathematics and Science.
She was awarded The Public Administration Silver Medal (Singapore National Day Award) in 2001. Ms Chang, a
President scholar, received her Master of Arts in Economics from the University of Cambridge, UK and Master in
Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University, US.

Mr CHEONG Yip Seng Member of the Board of Trustees, Member of Audit Committee, and Member of Nominating Committee

Mr Cheong is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the English and Malay Newspapers Division in Singapore Press Holdings Ltd. He is also the chairman of The Straits Times Press Foundation (S) Private Limited and sits on the boards of directors of SBS Transit Ltd, Singapore Press Holdings (Overseas) Limited, The Straits Times Press (1975) Limited and the STP ( London) Ltd. Mr Cheong was awarded the ASEAN Award for Information in 1997. He has attended the Executive Programme at Stanford Business School and Advanced Management Programme at Harvard Business School .

Ms Elim CHEW Soo Gim Member of the Board of Trustees, Member of Entrepreneurship Committee, and Member of Investment Committee

Ms Chew is the founder and the current president of 77 th Street (S) Pte Ltd. She also chairs or co-chairs several public service, youth and community groups including the SME Sub-Group for the Going the Extra Mile for Service (GEMS) of Workforce Development Agency (WDA); the Programming Committee for *scape, an iconic youth community space for youthful expressions and involvement by the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS) and National Youth Council (NYC); and Culture AC Committee for Action Community for Entrepreneurship (ACE) of Ministry of Trade and Industry. She co-founded Singapore Street Festival, a platform for local talents in the performing arts, visual art forms, fashion, entertainment, sports and lifestyle trends; The Young Entrepreneur Mastery (TYEM), an academy which supports youth entrepreneurship and inculcates an entrepreneurial mindset in out-of-school youths. She is also a founding member of the Social Innovation Park (SIP), a social enterprise incubator which provides a replicable set of integrated services and resources that help create a platform to support social entrepreneurs’ business solutions that advocate societal change. Ms Chew has won many accolades including Most Promising Woman Entrepreneur awarded by The Association of Small and Medium Enterprises (ASME) in 2001; Mont Blanc Businesswoman Award in 2002; and Young Woman Achiever Award awarded by Her World , and Leadership and Mentoring Award awarded by Research Communications International in 2003. In 2004, 77^th Street became the first fashion retailer to win the prestigious Singapore Promising Brand Award - Most Distinctive Brand by ASME and Lianhe Zaobao .

Mr Lucas CHOW Wing Keung Member of the Board of Trustees, Member of Audit Committee, Member of Remuneration Committee, and Member of Entrepreneurship Committee

Mr Chow is currently chief executive officer and a board director of MediaCorp Pte Ltd. He chairs the communications advisory group of the National Art Gallery and serves as a consultant to British Telecom’s Asia Pacific Advisory Board. He also sits on various other boards of directors and advisory committees including Singapore Tourism Board, Health Promotion Board, SingHealth IT, DesignSingapore Council and Creative Community Singapore partnership. Mr Chow holds an honours degree in Bachelor of Science from the University of Aston, Birmingham, UK.