BOARD OF
DIRECTORS
CHEW GEK KHIM, 54
LLB (Hons)
Executive Chairman
First appointed: 20 March 2008
Last re-elected: 30 April 2015
Ms Chew Gek Khim is a lawyer by training. She has been
Chairman of The Straits Trading Company Limited since
24 April 2008, first as Non-Executive and Non-Independent
Chairman and then as Executive Chairman since
1 November 2009.
Ms Chew is also Executive Chairman of Tecity Group, which
she joined in 1987. She is Deputy Chairman of ARA Asset
Management Limited, Chairman of ARA Trust Management
(Suntec) Limited, and sits on the boards of Singapore
Exchange Limited and Malaysia Smelting Corporation Berhad.
Ms Chew is also Deputy Chairman of Tan Chin Tuan
Foundation in Singapore and Chairman of Tan Sri Tan
Foundation in Malaysia. She is a Member of the Securities
Industry Council of Singapore, the SSO Council and Board of
Governors of S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies.
She was the chairman of the National Environment Agency
Board of Singapore from 2008 to 2015. Ms Chew was
also previously a director of CapitaLand Retail China Trust
(formerly CapitaRetail China Trust Management Limited) and
a board member of the Singapore Totalisator Board.
Ms Chew graduated from the National University of
Singapore in 1984. She was awarded the
Chevalier de l’Ordre
National du Mérite
in 2010 and Singapore Businessman of the
Year 2014 in 2015.
ELIZABETH SAM, 77
BA (Hons) Economics
Non-Independent and Non-Executive Director
First appointed: 30 April 2008
Last re-appointed: 30 April 2015
Mrs Elizabeth Sam brings with her more than 40 years
of experience in the financial sector, having held senior
positions in the Ministry of Finance, the Monetary Authority
of Singapore, Mercantile House Holdings PLC (a company
listed on the London Stock Exchange) and Oversea-Chinese
Banking Corporation Limited. Currently an Adviser to the
Tecity Group, Mrs Sam is also a Director of Banyan Tree
Holdings Limited, AV Jennings Limited and SC Global
Developments Ltd. She is also the Chairman ofHon Sui Sen
Endowment CLG Limited.
Formerly a director of Boardroom Limited, Mrs Sam was
also the chairman of the Singapore International Monetary
Exchange of Singapore, from 1987 to 1990 and from 1990
to 1993, and Investment Management Association of
Singapore, from 1997 to 1999. She was a member of the Trade
Development Board from 1989 to 1994.
In 1996, Mrs Sam was awarded the Public Service Star (BBM),
Republic of Singapore, for her contributions to financial centre
developments.
Mrs Sam graduated from the University of Singapore with
a BA (Hons) Economics.
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