Dr Chia was appointed to the Board on 1 October 2020. He is a member of the Audit Committee and Board Risk Management Committee.
Dr Chia joined GIC in 1994 and held various positions in economics and strategy, foreign exchange and quantitative investments before being appointed as its Chief Risk Officer (CRO) in 2011, a position he held until his retirement in March 2020. As the CRO in GIC, Dr Chia was responsible for the risk management oversight for the GIC group. Prior to joining GIC, he was a lecturer at the Department of Economics and Statistics at the National University of Singapore.
Currently, he is a director of Eastspring Investments Group and a member of the Boards of Trustees of the Singapore Institute of Technology and the Ministry of Home Affairs Uniformed Services Invest Plan.
A Colombo Plan Scholar, Dr Chia holds a Bachelor of Economics (Hons) from The University of Adelaide and a PhD in Economics from the Australian National University. He is also a graduate of the Advanced Management Programme of Harvard Business School.
He was awarded the Public Service Medal in 2017.
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