Janet Ang Guat Har

Janet was appointed Director of SPH on 17 October 2014.

She spent 32 years with IBM and was IBM Vice President, Smarter Cities & Industry Solutions for Asia Pacific from 2015 to 2019 and prior to that, IBM Singapore Managing Director from 2011 to 2015. She is a veteran in the tech industry and has lived and worked in Japan and China for over a decade. Janet has a diverse background having managed IBM Services in Greater China, IBM Sales Operations across Asia Pacific and Lenovo Desktop Operations globally.

She serves as Chairman of the NUS Institute of Systems Science, the Caritas Singapore Agape Fund Board of Trustees, SISTIC.com and the Singapore Polytechnic Board of Governors. She is also the Deputy Chairman of the Singapore Business Federation Foundation as well as Member of the Board of The Esplanade Company Ltd and the Home Team Science & Technology Agency (HTX), chairing its Finance & Risk Committee.

Janet serves on the NUS Alumni Advisory Board and the Council for Board Diversity as well as the Singapore Business Federation chairing its Digitalisation Committee. She is a Fellow of the Singapore Computer Society, is a Member of the International Women's Forum (Singapore), and an alumnus of the IBM Industry Academy.

She was a board member of PUB having served from 2013 to 2019 during which she chaired PUB's Audit Committee. She has also previously served on the InfoComm Media and Development Authority (iMDA) and the then InfoComm Development Authority as well as the Medishield Life Review Committee.

In 2014, Janet was awarded the NUS Business School Eminent Alumni Award and in 2015, she received the NUS Distinguished Alumni Service Award. In March 2018 Janet was conferred the Singapore Computer Society IT Leaders Award 2018 – Hall of Fame.

Janet was awarded the Public Service Medal in 2019.

Janet graduated with a Business Administration (Honors) degree from the National University of Singapore.