Ambassador Chan Heng Chee
Ambassador Chan Heng Chee is Ambassador-at-Large with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore and SUTD Honorary Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities in the Singapore University of Technology and Design. She is also a member of the Presidential Council for Minority Rights.
Ambassador Chan is the Chair of ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, the premier research Institute on Southeast Asia in the region.
Ambassador Chan is Global Co-Chair of Asia Society. She is also a member of the Board of Trustees of Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).
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 numerous awards including The Public Administration Medal (Gold); The Meritorious Service Medal; The Distinguished Service Order and honorary degrees from Universities in the United Kingdom, Australia and Singapore.
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.
