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Mr Paul MA Kah Woh Member of the Board of Trustees, Member of Audit Committee, and Member of Campus Planning and Development Committee

Mr Ma is currently chairman of Mapletree Logistics Trust Management Limited. He also holds directorships in Mapletree Investments Pte Ltd, Golden Harvest Entertainment (Holdings) Limited; Asia General Holdings Limited, The Asia Life Assurance Society Limited; The Asia Insurance Company Limited, Ascott Residence Trust Management Limited, Capitaland China Development Fund Pte Ltd, SMRT Corporation Limited and Hwa Hong Corporation Limited. Mr Ma was a senior partner of KPMG Singapore where he was in charge of the Audit & Risk Advisory Practice and the partner in charge of Risk Management of the firm until his retirement in September 2003. Mr Ma is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and a Member of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore.

 
       
 

Mr Chandra Mohan K NAIR Member of the Board of Trustees, Member of Executive Committee, Member of Audit Committee, and Member of Nominating Committee

Mr Nair, an Advocate & Solicitor, is currently a partner of Messrs Tan Rajah & Cheah. He had served as a Nominated Member of Parliament of Singapore from 2001 to 2004. He was also the president of the Law Society of Singapore, the vice-president of the Singapore Academy of Law and a member of the Board of Legal Education from 1995 to 1997. He was the president of the Roundtable, a civic and non-partisan organisation from 2001 to 2003. He is currently the president of the National University of Singapore Society (the Guild House), a member of the Governing Board of Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore and a member of the Board of Governors of NUS High School of Mathematics and Science. Mr Nair received the Public Service Medal (PBM) Award in 1997 and the Long Service Award for work in the Criminal Law Advisory Committee (Review) in 1996. He holds an honours degree in Bachelor of Laws from the University of Singapore.

 
       
 

Mr Philip NG Chee Tat Member of Board of Trustees, Member of Nominating Committee, Member of Campus Planning and Development Committee, and Member of Investment Committee

Mr Ng is currently chief executive officer of Far East Organization and chairman of Orchard Parade Holdings Limited. He is concurrently chairman, managing director and chief executive officer of Yeo Hiap Seng Limited as well as chairman of Yeo Hiap Seng (Malaysia) Berhad. He also holds directorships in the Hong Kong based Sino Group and various private companies in Singapore and overseas. Mr Ng serves as a member in various community groups and statutory boards in Singapore including the Governors Board of The Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and the Board of Governors of The Singapore-China Foundation, and he is the chairman of Sentosa Development Corporation. Mr Ng is currently Singapore’s non-resident Ambassador to The Republic of Chile and Argentina. Mr Ng holds a degree in Civil Engineering from King’s College, University of London, a Master of Science in Technology and Policy and a Master in City Planning from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

 
       
 

Lieutenant-General (LG) NG Yat Chung Member of Board of Trustees, Chairman of Campus Planning and Development Committee, Member of Executive Committee, Member of Audit Committee, and

Member of Remuneration Committee LG Ng is Singapore’s current Chief of Defence Force. He is also a director of Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd and Defence Science and Technology Agency, and is the deputy chairman of SRCC Pte Ltd. LG Ng was awarded the Public Administration Medal (Gold) (Military) award in 1998 for his significant contributions to the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF). LG Ng holds an honours degree in Bachelor of Arts (Engineering) and a Master of Arts (Mathematics) from the University of Cambridge; a Master of Military Art and Science (General Studies) from the US Army Command and General Staff College; and a Master of Business Administration from Stanford University.

 
       
 

Professor SAW Swee Hock Member of Board of Trustees Professor Saw is currently a Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. He first served the

University in 1963 as Lecturer in Statistics, returning to be Professor after two years as the founding Professor of Statistics at the University of Hong Kong. He was also the founding chairman of the National Statistical Commission in Singapore. Besides his public service, academic appointments and advisory role to the government, Professor Saw has made significant contributions to public discourse through his membership of some 45 committees, including the United Nations Committee on Salary Adjustments. Professor Saw is a leading expert on population policy and investment management, and has published 40 books, 25 book chapters, 15 monographs, and 90 articles in learned journals on statistics and demography and investments. Professor Saw was conferred the inaugural University’s Distinguished Alumni Service award in 2005 in recognition of his dedicated service and generous support to the University over the five decades. He holds an honours degree in Bachelor of Arts in Economics with Statistics and a Masters of Arts from the then University of Malaya in Singapore. He received his doctorate in Statistics from the London School of Economics.

 
       
 

Professor SHIH Choon Fong President & Vice Chancellor, Member of the Board of Trustees, Member of Executive Committee, Member of Campus Planning and Development Committee, and Member of Investment Committee

Professor Shih is concurrently chairman of the Singapore-MIT Alliance Governing Board as well as an executive committee member of the Economic Development Board. Prof Shih also sits on the boards of directors of Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR); the Biomedical Research Council; the Science and Engineering Research Council; National Research Foundation; and the Institute of Policy Studies. He is a founding member of the Singapore International Foundation, and has been a consultant to National Aeronautics Space Administration in US, Oak Ridge National Laboratory in US and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in US, among others. Prof Shih is also a member of the MIT Corporation Visiting Committee for the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Engineering and a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Professor Shih was awarded the Swedlow Award in 1997 and the George Rankin Irwin Medal by the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) in 1998. He was also awarded the French decoration Chevalier in the Order of the Legion d’Honneur by the French Republic. Prof Shih received his doctorate from Harvard University, Division of Applied Science.

 

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