Tan Chin Hwee

Non-Executive and Independent Director at Singapore Press Holdings

Chin Hwee was appointed a Director on 1 March 2014.

He is a Director of Trafigura Holdings Pte Ltd and Trafigura Pte Ltd. He is also a Director of Nayara Energy Ltd, India, where he chairs its Banking and Finance Board Committee and was previously its Audit Committee Chairman. He serves on the Board of Trustees of the Nanyang Technological University and the Advisory Board of Grab Inc. Chin Hwee is an Adjunct Professor in a number of universities, and is an advisory board member for the Shanghai Advance Institute of Finance. He also serves on the Finance Centre Advisory Panel of the Monetary Authority of Singapore. He sits on the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore's International Maritime Centre (IMC) 2030 Advisory as a Committee Member. He has also taken on the International Olympic Committee Financial Advisor role from March 2016 to December 2019.

Chin Hwee was the founding partner and Director of Apollo Management Singapore Pte Ltd., Managing Director of Amaranth Advisors, as well as President and Director of CFA Singapore. He was a Director of Keppel REIT Management Limited (as manager of Keppel REIT) and Lien Aid Limited (Singapore).

Chin Hwee was honoured as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader 2010 and is the winner of the Singapore 2013 Distinguished Financial Industry Certified Professional (FICP) Award. In 2015, he received the World Outstanding Young Chinese Entrepreneurs Award from business newspaper, Yazhou Zhoukan, and the World Federation of Chinese Entrepreneurs Organization. He was also voted by the Hedge Fund Journal as among the emerging top 40 absolute return investors globally and was also named as Best Asia Credit Hedge Fund Manager by Hong Kong-based publication, The Asset.

Chin Hwee was appointed to join the Emerging Stronger Taskforce (EST) set up under the Future Economy Council (FEC)/PMO, to review how Singapore can build new sources of dynamism and stay economically resilient in a post-Covid-19 world. He was nominated as a member of the Trade & Connectivity Standards Committee under the Singapore Standards Council (SSC)/MTI, which facilitates the development, promotion and review of standards in Singapore.

Chin Hwee holds a Bachelor of Accountancy (Second Class Upper Honours) from Nanyang Technological University, and a MBA from Yale University. He completed a postgraduate course at Harvard Kennedy School. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and is both an Australian and Singapore registered Certified Public Accountant (CPA).

Timeline

  • Non-Executive and Independent Director

    Current role