Ambassador Chan Heng Chee

Ambassador Chan Heng Chee is a Singaporean academic and diplomat. She is currently serving as Ambassador-at-Large at the Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs.  She is an Honorary Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, and the Chair of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies–Yusof Ishak Institute.  She is the Global Co-Chair of Asia Society.  Chan is Deputy Chairman of the Social Science Research Council, a member of the Science of Cities Committee, and National Research Foundation.  She is also a member of the Presidential Council for Minority Rights.  Previously, Ambassador Chan was Singapore’s Ambassador to the United States and Singapore’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations.