Prof. Heng Chee Chan

Ambassador Chan Heng Chee is Ambassador-at-Large with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore and SUTD Honorary Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities in the Singapore University of Technology and Design. She is a member of the Presidential Council for Minority Rights. Ambassador Chan is the Chair of ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, the premier research Institute on Southeast Asia in the region. Ambassador Chan serves as the Deputy Chairman of the Social Science Research Council. She is a member of the Yale-NUS Governing Board and a Trustee of the University of the Arts Singapore. Ambassador Chan is Global Co-Chair of Asia Society. She is also a member of the Board of Trustees of Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and a member of the Council of Urban Initiatives led by LSECities, UCLIPP and UN Habitat. Previously, she was Singapore’s Ambassador to the United States and Singapore’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations with concurrent accreditation as High Commissioner to Canada and Ambassador to Mexico. Ambassador Chan has received several awards including The Public Administration Medal (Gold); The Meritorious Service Medal; The Distinguished Service Order and honorary degrees from Universities in the United Kingdom and Australia. She was Chairman of the National Arts Council, 2013-2019.