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Corporate Governance
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Chew Gek Khim, 52
Independent Non-Executive Director1
Bachelor of Laws (Honours), National University of Singapore
Date of first appointment as a director: 31 October 2006
Length of service as a director (as at 31 December 2013): 7 years 2 months
Board committee served on
– Audit Committee (Chairperson)
Present directorships in other listed companies
– ARA Asset Management Limited
– ARA Trust Management (Suntec) Limited
(manager of Suntec Real Estate Investment Trust)
– Singapore Exchange Limited
– The Straits Trading Company Limited (Executive Chairman)
Present principal commitments
(other than directorships in listed companies)
– National Environment Agency Board (Chairman)
– S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
(Member, Board of Governors)
– Securities Industry Council (Member)
– Singapore Symphony Orchestra Council (Member)
– Tecity Group (Executive Chairman)
– The Straits Trading Company Limited (Executive Chairman)
– The Tan Chin Tuan Foundation, Singapore
(Deputy Chairman)
– The Tan Sri Tan Foundation, Malaysia (Chairman)
Background and working experience
– Advocate and Solicitor, Supreme Court of Singapore (1985)
Award
– Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite (2010)
1 Ms Chew Gek Khim resigned as an Independent Non-Executive Director and ceased to be the Chairperson of the Audit Committee with effect from
5 February 2014.