Michael Lien Jown Leam

Mr Lien was appointed to the Board on 27 July 2017 and was last re-elected as Director on 5 June 2020. He is a member of the Executive Committee and Nominating Committee.

He is the Executive Chairman of Wah Hin and Company and Chief Investment Officer of Sandstone Capital. Mr Lien was a managing director of Morgan Stanley and headed its corporate finance business up to 2002. He built up Morgan Stanley’s Singapore and Indonesia corporate finance franchises from 1994, focusing on cross-border mergers and acquisitions. Before he joined Morgan Stanley, Mr Lien was responsible for equity origination at Standard Chartered Merchant Bank Asia. He started his career at Singapore’s Ministry of Trade and Industry in the late 1980s.

In 2012, he founded Leap Philanthropy Limited, a charity that supports early philanthropy projects in Indochina. Mr Lien is also a member of the National University of Singapore’s Board of Trustees. He previously served on the board of Temasek Holdings and was a director of United Overseas Bank between 3 May 2005 and 29 April 2009.

Mr Lien was a Colombo Plan Scholar and holds a Bachelor of Economics (First Class Hons) with double majors in Finance and Econometrics from Monash University, Australia.