NEA to have new CEO from Jan 1

Channel Newsasia, 24 October 2008

SINGAPORE: The National Environment Agency will have a new chief executive officer in 2009.

Mr Andrew Tan Kok Kiong will take over from incumbent Mr Lee Yuen Hee on January 1, 2009.

Mr Tan is currently the deputy secretary (special duties) in the Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources.

The 41-year-old is concurrently the director of Centre for Liveable Cities in the National Development Ministry.

He began his career with the Administrative Service in the Ministry of Information and the Arts, and held senior appointments in the defence and foreign affairs ministries.

Between 2002 and 2004, he was also the principal private secretary to Senior Minister and later Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew.

Mr Tan has a First Class Honours degree in History from King's College, University of London and holds a Masters in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.