Goh Choon Phong
Goh Choon Phong, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Singapore Airlines (SIA) since 1st January 2011, joined the Company in 1990. He has held various senior management positions both in Singapore and overseas, and joined the SIA Board on 1st October 2010.
Before his appointment as CEO, Mr Goh served in several senior executive roles, including Executive Vice President Marketing and the Regions, as well as President of SIA Cargo, Senior Vice President Finance, Senior Vice President Information Technology, and Senior Vice President Commercial Technology. His career also includes overseas assignments in China and Scandinavia.
He currently sits on the Boards of SIA Engineering Company, Mastercard Incorporated, and Air India, and chairs Budget Aviation Holdings, which oversees SIA’s low-cost subsidiary, Scoot. He previously served on the Boards of Mount Alvernia Hospital and Virgin Australia.
Mr Goh is a member of the National University of Singapore’s Board of Trustees, where he chaired its Innovation and Enterprise Committee, and is part of its Nominating Committee and Executive Committee. He is also deputy chairman of Singapore Institute of Technical Education’s (ITE) Board of Governors. Mr Goh is part of the MIT Presidential CEO Advisory Board, which comprises CEOs from leading global companies across a variety of industries.
Within the aviation industry, he is active in the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines’ (AAPA) Executive Committee, serving as its Chairman in 2023. He was a member of the International Air Transport Association’s Board of Governors between June 2011 and June 2023, and was its Chairman from June 2017 to June 2018. He stepped down from the Executive Committee of the Star Alliance Chief Executive Board in June 2023.
Mr Goh received the Excellence in Leadership award at Air Transport World’s Airline Industry Achievement Awards (2024), the Airline Passenger Experience Association’s CEO Lifetime Achievement Award (2016), the Business Council for International Understanding’s Eisenhower Global Innovation Award (2016), and the CAPA Asia-Pacific Airline CEO of the Year award (2015).
At the 2019 Singapore Corporate Awards, he won the award for Best Chief Executive Officer for companies with $1 billion or more in market capitalisation. He was named Person of the Year by Orient Aviation magazine in 2018, and honoured as Outstanding Chief Executive Officer of the Year in the 2017 Singapore Business Awards.
Mr Goh holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, as well as three Bachelor of Science degrees in Computer Science and Engineering, Management Science, and Cognitive Science, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
