Mr Roy Tan was appointed Chief Agility Officer at the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2024. He has led the NUS Agility Office (AO) since 2023 and was previously Director of the Organisational Excellence Transformation Unit, the AO’s predecessor.

As Chief Agility Officer, Roy spearheads strategic projects and change initiatives across NUS’ corporate, academic, research and infrastructure clusters to enhance the University’s agility. This includes leading systems thinking efforts, aligning and streamlining processes, and conducting organisational structure reviews. Under Roy’s leadership, the AO has launched several key initiatives, including the university-wide Organisational Agility Survey, the consolidation of University services and resources through platforms such as the NUService Hub and uNivUS app, strategic change management for policy and system reforms, strategic reviews of administration units, and the Co-creating the Future of Work initiative.

Roy has more than a decade of experience in space planning and management. Prior to his role at AO, Roy was Deputy Director at NUS’ University Campus Infrastructure unit (UCI), leading the formulation and implementation of various campus processes, guidelines and standards in campus planning. Notably, from 2005 to 2006, Roy managed the restoration and preservation of the historical NUS Bukit Timah campus. The innovative conservation methods employed in the project earned NUS the Urban Redevelopment Authority Architectural Heritage Award in 2012.

Roy holds a Master of Design from the University of New South Wales, and a Master of Business Administration from NUS Business School. He is also an alumnus of the Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program.