Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Whatsapp Professor Tai Lee Siang Deputy President, Chief Innovation and Enterprise Officer, Head of Pillar, Architecture and Sustainable Design Director, DesignZ Programme Director, Design and Artificial Intelligence, Cheng Tsang Man Chair Professor Professor Tai Lee Siang assumed the role of Deputy President/Chief Innovation & Enterprise Officer (CIEO) of SUTD on 1 August 2024. He is concurrently the Head of the Architecture and Sustainable Design (ASD) Pillar – a role he has held since 2021. He also oversees the Design and Artificial Intelligence degree programme that is now seeing a profound impact in the fields of design. In 2022, he was appointed as Centre Director of DesignZ – the next generation design centre of SUTD. Prof Tai graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture (Honours) from NUS in 1987 and has been practising as an architect and urban designer since 1990. As a partner at DP Architects Pte Ltd, his projects won local and international awards, and he was featured in the Urban Redevelopment Authority’s ‘20 under 45’ young architects’ exhibition in 2004. He served as President of the Singapore Institute of Architects from 2007 to 2009 and became the first Chairman of the Design Alliance of Singapore in 2009. In 2013, he was elected President of the Design Business Chamber Singapore and launched the Singapore Good Design Mark in 2014. From 2010 to 2016, he was Group Managing Director of Ong&Ong Group, a multidisciplinary design firm. In 2011, Prof Tai was elected President of the Singapore Green Building Council and established Singapore’s first green building product certification scheme. He joined the World Green Building Council as a Board Director in 2013 and was elected Chairman in 2016, initiating the global “Advancing Net Zero” campaign. After his tenure at the World Green Building Council, he joined the Building and Construction Authority (BCA) as Executive Director of BuildSG, leading a nearly 100-strong team and spearheading industry transformation.