SUTD Annual Report 2023-2024

MR JONATHAN KUA Chief of Staff, Student Affairs Director, Admissions Jonathan Kua has close to 30 years of experience in both the public and private sectors. Before joining SUTD, he was the Senior Vice President and Head of Group Sustainability at ST Engineering, where he also held roles in Group Strategy and Technology Planning. Jonathan spent more than half of his career with the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB), engaging with a diverse range of industries across multiple geographies, including Electronics, Information & Communications Technology, Software, Engineering, Aerospace, Manufacturing Systems, Robotics, Chemicals, Materials, Consumer Products, Space, Education Services, Natural Resources, Environmental Technologies, Venture Capital, and Inter-Governmental & Non-Profit Organisations. He also spent six years leading EDB offices on both the east and west coasts of the USA. Subsequently, he served at A*STAR as Group Director, Industry Development, where he brokered research and commercialisation partnerships between industry and Singapore’s scientific and medical research communities. He also led funding initiatives to support industry-oriented research outcomes. Jonathan was awarded the EDB-Glaxo Scholarship and received two Innovation Awards from Singapore’s Ministry of Trade and Industry. He has previously served on the boards of Singapore’s National Volunteer & Philanthropy Centre and NUS’s Tropical Marine Science Institute. He holds a BSc and MSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. MS NEO CHIN Chief Investment Officer Neo Chin is the Chief Investment Officer at SUTD. She is a seasoned investment professional with more than three decades of experience in the global investment management and finance industry. Prior to joining SUTD, Neo Chin had worked at the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) for more than 20 years in various senior direct investing and portfolio management roles, where she also oversaw multinational teams across GIC’s Singapore, Tokyo, London, and New York offices. She is a seasoned asset allocator and manager with a wealth of international financial markets experience accumulated over multiple market cycles. Her extensive expertise spans across endowment investing, asset allocation, global fixed income, global treasury management, hedge funds and private markets funds. Neo Chin has sat on investment committees and is currently serving on the investment committee of Wealth Management Institute. She also acts as nonexecutive fund director of investment funds managed by Singapore-regulated asset management companies. Neo Chin graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration (Honours) from NUS. She has been a Chartered Financial Analyst charterholder since 1994 and is a Senior Accredited Director (SID). p. 25 ANNUAL REPORT 2023/24

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