
Singapore's doyenne of foreign diplomacy
CHAN HENG CHEE
Ambassador-at-Large
Chan Heng Chee is a woman of many firsts: the first woman to graduate with first-class honours degree in political science from the then University of Singapore in 1964, Singapore’s first full-fledged female ambassador and the first female permanent representative to the United Nations, and the first female head of NUS’ Political Science department. Fittingly, she was Her World’s first-ever Woman of the Year, in 1991.
Her illustrious career has seen her receive the inaugural Asia Society Outstanding Diplomatic Achievement Award, and the United States Navy Distinguished Public Service Award, and she currently serves as Ambassador-at-Large with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
An accomplished academic before she became a diplomat, she is an Honorary Professor at the Singapore University of Technology and Design.
Using her business acumen for good
JENNIE CHUA
Co-founder of Beeworks, Inc, chairman of Temasek Foundation, and philanthropist
Teacher-turned-award-winning hotelier Jennie Chua is the grande dame of Singapore’s hospitality industry.
She first paved the way for Singapore’s success as a conventions destination in her role as the head of the Singapore Convention Bureau, before becoming the first female general manager of Raffles Hotel.
Later, she helmed not one but two of Singapore’s most prominent hospitality groups: Raffles Holdings and the Ascott Group, and co-founded Beeworks, the company that brought Jollibee Foods to Singapore.
She accomplished all this while becoming the first woman to be elected to the board of the Singapore International Chamber of Commerce in its 172-year-history – and being named Her World’s Woman of the Year in 1999.
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