Chaly Mah Chee Kheong

Mr Chaly Mah had served in Deloitte for over 38 years. Prior to his retirement on 31 May 2016, he was CEO of Deloitte Asia Pacific and Chairman of Deloitte Singapore, and Vice Chairman of Deloitte Global Board of Directors.

He has extensive experience serving both multinat​ional and local companies across a wide spectrum of industries, specialising in financial services, telecommunications and technology, real estate, private equity and manufacturing.

Mr Mah is currently Chairman of Surbana Jurong Group and Netlink NBN Management Pte Ltd. He is also a board member of Capitaland Investment Limited, Flipkart Pte Ltd, Monetary Authority of Singapore and the National University of Singapore and SG Eco Fund Board of Trustee.

Ong Chong Tee

Mr Ong Chong Tee is the Chairman of Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA) from July 2022, having joined the Board as its Deputy Chairman in April 2021. He is a member of the GIC Risk Committee. Previously, Mr Ong was with the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) for 35 years and held senior positions including in the areas of reserve management, central banking monetary operations, market development and financial supervision. As MAS’ Deputy Managing Director of Financial Supervision from 2014 to 2021, Mr Ong oversaw the regulations and supervision of the banking, insurance, capital markets, payment services, technology risks, money laundering risks, as well as MAS’ enforcement function. He is also a board member of other public and private entities including United Overseas Bank and National University of Singapore.

Mr Ong holds an Honours Degree in Chemical Engineering from the National University of Singapore. He was awarded the Public Administration Medal (Gold) in August 2007 and Public Administration Medal (Gold) (Bar) in August 2021 by the President of Singapore.

Bahren Shaari

Mr Bahren Shaari is the Chief Executive Officer of Bank of Singapore, the private banking subsidiary of OCBC Bank. He has more than 30 years of banking experience.

Bahren was appointed to the National University of Singapore’s Board of Trustees on 1 June 2021. He also serves as a director on the board of SPH Media Holdings. Bahren is a member of the Council of Presidential Advisers and served as an alternate member from April 2017 to January 2020.

Bahren was conferred the Public Service Star Medal in 2018. He was awarded the Public Service Medal in 2008.

Tan Chong Meng

Mr Tan Chong Meng is the former Group Chief Executive Officer of PSA International (PSA), a leading global port group and trusted partner to cargo stakeholders around the world. Outside the PSA Group, Mr Tan serves as the Chairman of JTC Corporation and is Deputy Chairman of the board of the National University Health System. In January 2022, he assumed the role of Governor Chair for The World Economic Forum’s Supply Chain & Transport Industry Community. He was previously a Board Member of IE Singapore and F&N Pte Ltd.

Before joining PSA, Mr Tan was the Executive Vice President, Global Commercial, Shell Downstream, of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. With more than 20 years of experience in Shell, Mr Tan worked in USA, Europe, China and Singapore, holding various senior leadership positions that spanned management, sales, marketing, trading, refinery operations, customer service and merger & acquisitions.

Prior to Shell, Mr Tan also worked in various positions with Singapore’s Ministry of National Development for five years.

Philip Chong (Co-Opted)

Philip Chong recently retired from a leading Big 4 professional services firm after a career spanning 38 years. Philip had been in leadership roles in Big 4 audit firms since 1997. He had been a partner in Big 4 firm since 2004. Before that, he led IT audit and risk services in Arthur Andersen and another Big 4 firm.

Before his retirement, he served as the professional services firm’s Global Leader for Digital, AI Control and Algorithm practice which provides advisory services to clients for the adoption of digital & AI technologies in their business models and processes. The practice also propose and implement digital & AI solutions to help clients automate business controls in their operations.

Before assuming his global leadership role, Philip was the Chief Strategy Officer for the firm’s Asia Pacific Risk Advisory practice. He was part of the Asia Pacific leadership that devise and executed the strategy that saw the practice achieving growth of more than 20% annually.