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Clarence Yeo Gek Leong

Director at Hong Leong Finance

Mr Yeo is currently a Senior Advisor (Special Duties) in the Ministry of Home Affairs. In the last ten years, he held senior public sector leadership appointments as the Commissioner, Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (“ICA”) (September 2010 to September 2018), and the Chief Executive of Home Team Academy (“HTA”) (September 2018 to July 2021). Besides domain experience relating to his tenures with ICA and HTA, he also has experience in leading and driving governance, organisational excellence, enterprise risk management, information technology & digitalisation and organisational transformation.

Mr Yeo received several individual awards, including the National Day Public Administration Medal (Gold)(Bar) in 2021, the Public Administration Medal (Gold) in 2013 and the Public Administration Medal (Silver) in 2006. He was also awarded the Medal of Commendation by the Singapore National Trade Union Congress in May 2017 in recognition of his significant contributions towards good labour-management relations.

Mr Yeo holds a Master in Public Policy from the National University of Singapore (now offered under Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy), and a BSc (Hons) 2nd Class Upper in Economics from the University of London. He is also an alumnus of INSEAD, having attended a Senior Executive Development Programme at Fontainebleau.


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