Management

Leadership Team

Ms Kwek Poh Heok

Chief Executive Officer, Business China

Ms Kwek Poh Heok was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Business China on 1 July 2025.

She was previously overseeing global government relations at a NASDAQ-listed global technology company. She built relationships with government bodies, regulatory entities and business partners to advance commercial operations and innovation launches, working closely with a multinational workforce.

Prior to this, she spent 18 years in the Singapore Public Service. As a former Administrative Officer, she served in different roles and ministries. She headed the National Population and Talent Division in the Prime Minister’s Office Strategy Group and served as Deputy Principal Private Secretary to then-Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat.

Poh Heok also worked in the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Home Affairs, Ministry of Manpower and then-Ministry of Communications and Information. During her time at the Ministry of Education, she was concurrently appointed as the first Programme Director of the Lee Kuan Yew Fund for Bilingualism. She also completed a short stint at the Permanent Mission of Singapore to the United Nations in New York.

Her professional experience includes working with stakeholders in China across government, corporate and public-private contexts. She undertook two stints in China. Her career began with an Asian Business Fellowship awarded by the Ministry of Trade and Industry. She worked for Standard Chartered Bank’s Consumer Banking in Shanghai during the bank’s early entry into the China market. She held roles in strategic planning and the CEO’s office at Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City investment and Development., Ltd, the master developer of the flagship Government-to-Government project between Singapore and China.

During her public service career, she worked closely with government agencies to advance Singapore-China relations. She contributed to engagements led by senior political office holders and high-level platforms such as the Joint Council for Bilateral Cooperation, Singapore-China Forum on Leadership and Singapore’s cooperation councils with Jiangsu and Shanghai.

Poh Heok is passionate about social equity and sustainable development and is active in the non-profit space. She is currently a Board Director of SG Her Empowerment, a non-profit organisation that empowers girls and women and a School Advisory Committee member of Yishun Town Secondary School. She volunteers with HCSA Community Services SPIN that supports single parents. In addition, she is a Board Adviser to Clean Kinetics, a Singapore company specialising in renewable energy solutions that operates in Southeast Asia and the Middle East.

Poh Heok graduated with a Bachelor of Science (First Class Honours) in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She holds a Master of Arts in International Policy Studies from Stanford University and a Master of Counselling from Monash University.

Mr Ho Chee Hin

Chief Executive Officer, Business China

Mr Ho Chee Hin has more than 25 years of experience in the public sector, and was appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of Business China on 1 January 2023.

Before joining Business China, Chee Hin was the Senior Director, Southeast Asia & Oceania Division, and ASEAN Division, in the Singapore Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI). He was Director (China), Northeast Asia Division in MTI, and concurrently the Global Markets Executive Director (China) in Enterprise Singapore from 2019 to 2021. During his tenure as Director (China) in MTI, he was responsible for the overall economic policies and engagements between Singapore and China. He drove the economic engagement with the China central government ministries such as the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) and the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), and directed the collaboration between Singapore and China on major projects such as the Belt & Road Initiative, Greater Bay Area Development, and Yangtze River Delta Integration. Chee Hin headed the Subsequent Negotiations for the China-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (CSFTA) as the Chief Negotiator, and led the China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP), and China-Singapore Guangzhou Knowledge City (GKC) projects as the Director-in-charge. He also oversaw the policies and engagements with the Provincial Business Councils between Singapore and Guangdong, Jiangsu, Liaoning, Shandong, Shanghai, Sichuan, Tianjin, and Zhejiang.

During his career in then-International Enterprise Singapore (IE Singapore), Chee Hin was posted overseas three times, including two stints in Shanghai covering the China market for a total of seven years, and five years in London covering the Europe market. He also held various corporate, strategy and industry positions in then-IE Singapore (and before that, in then-Singapore Trade Development Board).

Chee Hin is an alumnus of both the National University of Singapore, where he graduated with a First Class Honours degree in Chemical Engineering in 1999, and the Tsinghua University in Beijing, where he graduated with a Tsinghua-MIT International Masters of Business Administration (MBA) in 2004. Chee Hin was also awarded the Lien Ying Chow Legacy Fellowship by the Nanyang Technological University in 2021, and completed its 2023 China Induction Programme at Renmin University in Beijing. Chee Hin is also a Board Member of the NUS East Asian Institute and a member of the National Integration Council.