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Management University. He is a Board
Director of Standard Chartered Bank plc,
a Director of the Government of
Singapore Investment Corporation, and
a member of the Regional Advisory Board
of the London Business School, among
other appointments.
Mr Ho graduated with a Bachelor of
Arts in Economics from the University of
Singapore.
Edmund Cheng Wai Wing
Mr Cheng has served on the SIA Board
since June 1996. He brings his wealth of
experience in the tourism industry to the
Board, having served as Chairman of the
Singapore Tourism Board until 2002. On
22 May 2003, Mr Cheng was appointed
Chairman of Singapore Airport Terminal
Services Ltd and among other Board
appointments serves as Deputy Chairman
of Wing Tai Holdings Limited, the
Esplanade Company and National Arts
Council, Managing Director of Wing Tai
Land, and as a Director of Clipsal Holdings
and SNP Corporation.
Mr Cheng holds a Bachelor of Science
in Civil Engineering from Northwestern
University and a Master of Architecture
from Carnegie-Mellon University in the
United States. He was awarded the Public
Service Star Award (PBB) in 1999.
Fock Siew Wah
Mr Fock has served as a Director of SIA
since July 2000. He is also Deputy Chairman
of Fraser & Neave Ltd., Senior Advisor of
Nuri Holdings (Singapore) Private Ltd., and
a Board member of Temasek Holdings
(Private) Ltd., DBS Bank Ltd., DBS Group
Holdings Ltd. and DBS Bank (HK) Ltd.
Mr Fock’s illustrious career started in
Commercial Banking in DBS. At the time
of his leaving DBS, he was the Head of the
Commercial Banking Division. He was the
Regional Head and Senior Vice President
and then Senior Banker and Regional
Treasurer (Asia Pacific) of JP Morgan. This
was followed by his tenure at Overseas
Union Bank as President and Chief Executive
Officer from 1988 to 1991. Subsequently,
Mr Fock was appointed Special Advisor to
the Minister of Finance of the Republic of
Singapore and was the Chairman of the
Land Transport Authority and East West
Bank in the United States.
In 1997, Mr Fock was awarded
the Meritorious Service Medal by the
Government of Singapore.
Lim Boon Heng
Secretary-General of the National Trades
Union Congress since 1994, Mr Lim has
been a Member of Parliament since
1980 and is currently Minister without
Portfolio in the Prime Minister’s Office.
He has been a Director of SIA since July
1997 and is also Deputy Chairman of
the Singapore Labour Foundation.
Mr Lim graduated with a Bachelor
of Science with Honours in Naval
Architecture from the University of
Newcastle-upon-Tyne in Britain and
was conferred an Honorary Doctorate
in Business by the Royal Melbourne
Institute of Technology and an Honorary
Doctorate in Civil Law by the University
of Newcastle-upon Tyne.
Davinder Singh
Mr Singh, the CEO of Drew and Napier
LLC, became a Director of SIA in July 2000.
A Director of Petra Foods Private Ltd.,
Singapore Technologies Private Ltd. and
Zagro Asia Ltd., Mr Singh is also a Member
of Parliament for Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC.
Mr Singh has been a Senior Counsel since
1997 and was one of the first to be so
appointed in Singapore.
Mr Singh graduated with a Bachelor
of Law with Honours from the University
of Singapore.
Sir Brian Pitman
Sir Brian Pitman, knighted in 1994 for his
services to banking, became a Director of
SIA in July 2003. He is also a Director of
ITV plc, Tomkins plc and The Carphone
Warehouse Group plc, Senior Advisor to
Morgan Stanley and a Governor of
Ashridge Management College. Sir Brian
started his career in Lloyds Bank in 1952
and subsequently held a number of
managerial positions in the group, leading
to his appointment as Chief Executive of
Lloyds Bank in 1983 and Group Chief
Executive of the Lloyds TSB Group
following their merger in 1995. From
1997 to 2001, Sir Brian served as Chairman
of the Lloyds TSB Group.
Sir Brian received an honorary doctorate
in Science from The City University in 1996
and from the University of Science and
Technology, Manchester in 2000. He was
the winner of the 1999 Gold Medal of the
Institute of Management.
Chia Pei-Yuan
Mr Chia became a Director of SIA in
October 2003, having retired in 1996 as
Vice Chairman and a Director of Citicorp
and Citibank, N.A., where he had been
responsible for global consumer business.
He was also Citibank’s senior customer
and government contact in Asia. Mr Chia
is a Director on the Board of American
International Group, Inc. (AIG). He is a
member of the Board of Trustees of the
NYU Hospital and the SEI Center for
Advanced Studies in Management at the
Wharton School.
Mr Chia holds a Bachelor of Arts degree
in Economics from Tunghai University in
Taiwan and an MBA from the Wharton
School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Stephen Lee Ching Yen
Appointed a Director of SIA on 26 April
2004, Mr Lee brings extensive business
and commercial experience to the Board.
In addition to holding the position of
Managing Director of both Shanghai
Commercial and Savings Bank Ltd. (Taiwan)
and Great Malaysia Textile Manufacturing
Company Pte. Ltd., Mr Lee serves as
President of the Singapore National
Employers Federation, Chairman of both
the Singapore Business Federation and PSA
Corporation Limited and a Director of Fraser
& Neave Ltd.
Among other distinguished appoint-
ments, Mr Lee was a Nominated Member
of Parliament from 1994 to 1997 and
Chairman of International Enterprise
Singapore, formally the Trade Develop-
ment Board of Singapore, from 1995
to 2002. Mr Lee has also served on the
Boards of Vertex Venture Holdings Ltd
and Neptune Orient Lines Ltd.
In 1998, Mr Lee was awarded the
Public Service Star for his contributions
to both the public and private sectors.
He holds an MBA from Northwestern
University in Illinois.
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