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Chew Choon Seng

Chew Choon Seng
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Chew Choon Seng (Chinese: 周俊成; pinyin: Zhōu Jùn Chéng) is the former Chief Executive Officer of Singapore Airlines (SIA), the former Chairman of the Singapore Exchange and Singapore Tourism Board.

After completing his first degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Singapore (now the National University of Singapore, Chew graduated with a Master of Science in operations research and management studies from Imperial College London.

Chew joined SIA in 1972 and held senior assignments for Administration, covering finance, treasury, corporate planning, human resources, legal and corporate affairs in Tokyo, Rome, Sydney, Los Angeles and London. After heading the Planning and Marketing divisions at the airline's corporate headquarters, he was appointed CEO in June 2003.

He also served as the Chairman of the Singapore Aircraft Leasing Enterprise and was the directors of various SIA subsidiaries including Singapore Airport Terminal Services Limited, SIA Engineering Company, and Virgin Atlantic Airways, in which SIA holds a 49 per cent equity stake. He was the Chairman of SilkAir, a fully owned subsidiary of SIA when SilkAir Flight 185 crashed on 19 December 1997 en route from Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta International Airport to Singapore Changi Airport.


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