Ambassador Chan Heng Chee

Ambassador-at-Large, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore

Ambassador Chan Heng Chee is Ambassador-at-Large with Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She holds the appointment of Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities in the Singapore University of Technology and Design.

She was appointed a Member of the Presidential Council for Minority Rights in 2012 and continues to serve in that position.

Ambassador Chan is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute (ISEAS), the premier multidisciplinary research institute on Southeast Asia in the region, and the Deputy Chairman of the Social Science Research Council in Singapore. She is a Member of the Science of Cities Committee (National Research Foundation), and a Member of the Advisory Council on the Ethical Use of Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) and Data, Ministry of Communications and Information. She is the Chairman of the Pro-Tem Committee to work out the establishment of a university of the arts in Singapore.

Ambassador Chan is Trustee of the National University of Singapore and a Member of the Yale-NUS Governing Board.

She is Global Co-Chair of the Asia Society.

Ambassador Chan is a member of the Governing Board of SIPRI, Sweden.

She is a member of the Council on Urban Initiatives, a collaboration by UN-Habitat, UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, and LSE Cities.

Previously, she was Singapore’s Ambassador to the United States and Singapore’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations with concurrent accreditation as High Commissioner to Canada and Ambassador to Mexico.

Ambassador Chan has received a number of awards including from the Government of Singapore The Public Administration Medal (Gold); The Meritorious Service Medal and The Distinguished Service Order; Honorary Degrees of Doctor of Letters from the University of Newcastle, Australia; the University of Buckingham (United Kingdom); and an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws from the University of Warwick (United Kingdom).

When Ambassador Chan left Washington at the end of her appointment, she received the Inaugural Asia Society Outstanding Diplomatic Achievement Award, the Inaugural Foreign Policy Outstanding Diplomatic Achievement Award 2012 and the United States Navy Distinguished Public Service Award.