Ms Chong Siak Ching, Chair person of Network India
Ms Chong is the President & CEO of Ascendas Pte Ltd since January 2001. Ascendas is Asia’s leading provider of business space with presence in 10 countries across Asia. Ascendas also sponsored and manages Singapore’s first industrial and business space Reit, listed in the Singapore Stock Exchange as Ascendasreit (A-REIT).
In January 2004, Ms Chong was appointed as one of Singapore's three representatives to the APEC Business Advisory Council. She is also a Board Director on the Singapore Tourism Board and the Singapore-India Partnership Foundation. In March 2007, Ms Chong was appointed Chairman of IE Singapore’s Network India Steering Committee. She is also a Management Board member of the Institute of Real Estate Studies at the National University of Singapore.
Prior to joining Ascendas, Ms Chong was the Deputy CEO of JTC, Singapore's largest industrial developer, where she was in charge of the business planning, development, customer service and corporate services groups. She was also the Managing Director of JTC's wholly owned subsidiary, Arcasia Land Pte Ltd from 1996 to 1998, and its General Manager from July 1991 until 1996.
Ms Chong studied Estate Management at the National University of Singapore where, in 1981, she graduated with honours and was awarded a Gold Medal by the Singapore Institute of Surveyors and Valuers. In 1991, Ms Chong obtained a Masters in Business Administration from the same university. Ms Chong was registered as a licensed valuer in 1983 and has also completed the Advanced Management Programme at Harvard Business School in 1998. Ms Chong was conferred the National University of Singapore's Distinguished Alumni Award by the Faculty of Architecture and Building Management in 1999.
View Members of the Steering Committee for Network India here.
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