Chew Choon Seng is director of the GIC Board and chairman of the GIC audit committee, as well as a member of the Human Resource and Organisation Committee. GIC is a sovereign wealth fund established by the Singapore Government in 1981 to manage the country’s foreign reserves.

Chew’s corporate experience includes a stint as the CEO of Singapore Airlines from 2003 until his retirement in 2010; he was concurrently a governor at the International Air Transport Association, as well as its chairman from 2006 to 2007. He was also a board director and chairman of the Singapore Exchange, chairman of the Singapore Tourism Board and chairman of the council that revamped Singapore’s Code of Corporate Governance in 2017.

Chew holds a first-class honours degree in Mechanical Engineering from the then University of Singapore (now NUS), and a Master’s in Operations Research and Management Studies from the Imperial College of Science and Technology at the University of London.