Yong Pung How

Yong Pung How DUT (First Class)
杨邦孝
At the ground-breaking ceremony for the new School of Law building of Singapore Management University on 20 January 2014
2nd Chief Justice of Singapore
In office 28 September 1990 – 10 April 2006
Appointed by	Wee Kim Wee
Preceded by	Wee Chong Jin
Succeeded by	Chan Sek Keong
Judge of the Supreme Court of Singapore
In office 1 July 1989 – 27 September 1990
Appointed by	Wee Kim Wee
Personal details
Born	(1926-04-11) 11 April 1926 (age 90) Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Federated Malay States
Spouse(s)	Yong Wei Woo
Alma mater	Downing College, Cambridge

Yong Pung How, DUT (First Class) (simplified Chinese: 杨邦孝; traditional Chinese: 楊邦孝; pinyin: Yáng Bāng Xiào; born 1926 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaya), is a former Chief Justice of Singapore, serving from 1990 to 2006. Prior to his judicial career, he was a lawyer, banker and senior government official. Since 2010, he has been the Chancellor of the Singapore Management University.

A Hakka, Yong received early education at the Victoria Institution in Kuala Lumpur. He then went on to Cambridge University, where he studied at Downing College. While in Cambridge, he developed close friendships with two fellow Singaporean students at the university – Lee Kuan Yew and his wife Kwa Geok Choo. Yong was made an Exhibitioner and an Associate Fellow in his college years. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Law Qualifying I: Class 1; Law Tripos I: Class 2, Division 2; Law Tripos II: Class 2, Division 1) in 1949, and with a Bachelor of Law (Class 2, Division 1) in 1950. In 1970 he furthered his education with the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School.

Yong was called to the English Bar at the Inner Temple in 1951. He returned to his hometown as an advocate and solicitor of Malaya in 1952, practising law as a partner at Shook Lin & Bok, a law firm founded by his father who worked there until his retirement from practice in 1970. During this period he also served in 1953 as the arbitrator appointed by the Governor of Singapore to resolve the dispute between the Government and the General Clerical Services and Telecommunications workers. He was also admitted into the Singapore Bar in 1964 and appointed the role as Chairman of the Public Services Arbitration Tribunal in Malaya from 1955 to 1960, and as a Chairman of the Industrial Court in Malaysia between 1961 and 1967. He also had commercial powers invested upon him as Chairman of the now-defunct Malaysia-Singapore Airlines between 1964 and 1969, and as Deputy Chairman, Malayan Banking Berhad (Maybank) between 1966 and 1971.