Peter Ong Boon Kwee

SENIOR FELLOW

2017 - PRESENT

Peter Ong Boon Kwee was born in Singapore. He was awarded the Colombo Plan Scholarship to pursue his Bachelor of Economics at the University of Adelaide, Australia and graduated with first class honours. He graduated top of his Masters in Business Administration class from Stanford University, USA in 1993 as Henry Ford II and Arjay Miller Scholar.

Mr Ong retired from the Administrative Service on 1 September 2017. Prior to his retirement, Mr Ong was Head of Civil Service, a position he held since 2010. In 2016, he was also concurrently appointed as Permanent Secretary (Prime Minister’s Office) (Strategy) where he established and oversaw the PMO Strategy Group to support the Prime Minister and his Cabinet in establishing priorities and strengthening strategic alignment across Government.

Mr Ong also previously held the positions of Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Finance, the National Security Intelligence Co-ordination Secretariat, Ministry of Trade and Industry, Ministry of Transport and Ministry of Defence. Other previous postings include stints at Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited – a Government investment holding company, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology and Ministry of Home Affairs.

Mr Ong was also Chairman of several statutory boards in the course of his career, viz. Enterprise Singapore (where he was the inaugural Chairman), Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore, Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority, Maritime and Port Authority and Defence Science and Technology Authority.  He also sat on the boards of listed companies like SingTel, DBSBank and ST Engineering.

Mr Ong currently sits on the Board of the Monetary Authority of Singapore where he also chair as the Board’s Risk Committee. He was conferred the (Honorary) Knight of the Most Distinguished Order Of The Crown by The Yang di-Pertuan Agong Malaysia XIV on 2 June 2012 (the award carries the title “Tan Sri”). He was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal by the President of Singapore in 2010.