SINGAPORE – The Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) will see a brand new chairman to its board of trustees after Mr Ng Yat Chung steps down on March 15.
Mr Bill Chang, Singtel’s chief government for group enterprise and nation chief officer for Singapore, will take over from March 16.
As chairman of the board, he’ll work intently with the administration and stakeholders of the college to chart instructions and information initiatives.
Mr Chang, who joined Singtel in 2005, was appointed as a member of the SIT Board of Trustees in September 2020.
He additionally served on the board of the Workforce Development Agency for six years till 2011.
Mr Chang is at the moment a board member of the Urban Redevelopment Authority and a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors’ International Advisory Technology Governance and Innovations Panel.
He stated: “SIT’s mission to groom young talent to be work-ready professionals and lifelong learners, who contribute to and impact both industry and our society, resonates strongly with me.”
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“I look forward to working closely with our SIT leadership and board to make SIT Singapore’s premier university of applied learning, supporting industry innovation and industry transformation,” he added.
Mr Ng, who served for greater than 12 years, oversaw SIT’s inception as a publicly funded institute in 2009, in addition to it being gazetted as Singapore’s fifth autonomous college in 2014.
He stated: “I am grateful for the indispensable support of our partners, the government and our donors throughout this journey.”
Minister for Education Chan Chun Sing expressed appreciation for Mr Ng’s assist in establishing SIT as the primary autonomous college of utilized training.
He stated: “This has introduced higher range to the training system for our college students.
“Mr Ng also advocated for SIT to have its own consolidated campus within the Punggol Digital District to help SIT develop a strong identity, and facilitate collaboration and the exchange of ideas between faculty, staff, students and industries in the district.”
