MR CHAN HENG WING Acting Chairman, Independent Non-Executive Director and Lead Independent Director Mr Chan was appointed as Non-Executive Director and Lead Independent Director on 21 June 2016 and is currently serving as Acting Chairman. He is also a member of the Nominating and Remuneration Committee. Mr Chan currently serves as the Non-Resident Ambassador of Singapore to the Republic of Austria. Mr Chan is an Independent Non-Executive Director of Fraser and Neave Limited in Singapore and One Bangkok Holdings in Thailand. In November 2022, Mr Chan was appointed Strategic Advisor of the Optima Integration Group from Shenzhen, China. Mr Chan was appointed to the Executive Board of the Singapore China Cultural Centre in 2020. Mr Chan was previously the Ambassador to Thailand and Consul-General to Hong Kong and Shanghai. He also held the position of Singapore Non-Resident High Commissioner to the People’s Republic of Bangladesh. He later joined Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited as Chief Representative in China and Managing Director for International Relations in Temasek International (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. Mr Chan was awarded the Public Administration Medal (Silver) in 1980 by the Singapore Government. He holds a Master of Science from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) and a Master of Arts from the University of Singapore. MR CHIA YEW BOON Independent Non-Executive Director Mr Chia was appointed as Independent Non-Executive Director on 21 June 2016. He is also the Chairman of the Audit and Risk Committee, and a member of Nominating and Remuneration Committee. Mr Chia has more than 30 years of experience working in various fields such as investments, business consultancy and corporate finance. He is the founding Managing Director of Catalyst Advisors Private Ltd. and Catalyst Advisors International Private Limited, which are both private equity investment and venture capital business consultancy firms. In September 2011, Mr Chia was appointed as an Independent Non-Executive Director of Technovator International Limited, a leading company in energy management systems, solutions and services; it is part of the Tsinghua Tongfang group of companies. He is also a Board Director of Hydrecyc, a waste-to-energy technology engineering company, and an Advisor to Rosemoor Capital, a firm investing in blockchain infrastructure companies. From July 2005 to June 2007, Mr Chia was the Director of Business Development at SGX-listed Boustead Singapore Limited, and concurrently the Chief Executive Officer of a Boustead subsidiary, ASX-listed EasyCall International Ltd. Prior to that, from January 1999 to June 2005, Mr Chia served as Senior Vice President of GIC Special Investments Pte Ltd. (“GIC SI”), the venture capital and private equity arm of GIC, the sovereign wealth fund of Singapore. Mr Chia holds a Diplôme d’Ingénieur (equivalent to a Master’s Degree in Engineering) from L’École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Strasbourg, France. EC WORLD REIT 32 BOARD OF DIRECTORS
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