George Yong-Boon Yeo, Doctor of Social Sciences honoris causa

Mr. George Yeo is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy of the National University of Singapore, and the Founding Patron of its Asia Competitiveness Institute.
Mr. Yeo was with Kerry Group in Hong Kong from 2012 to 2021. He was Chairman and Executive Director of Kerry Logistics Network from 2012 to 2019.
From September 1988 to May 2011, he served 23 years in the Singapore Government, and was Minister for Information and the Arts, Minister for Health, Minister for Trade & Industry and Minister for Foreign Affairs.
Mr. Yeo has a BA in Engineering (Double First) from Cambridge University and an MBA (Baker Scholar) from Harvard University.
He began his military career as a Signals Officer in the Singapore Army, crossed over to the Air Force, became Chief-of-Staff of the Air Staff, and Director of Joint Operations and Planning in the Defence Ministry attaining the rank of Brigadier-General.
Mr. Yeo was a Member of the Pontifical Commission for Reference on the Economic-Administrative Structure of the Holy See in 2013-2014 and the Vatican Council for the Economy from February 2014 to July 2020.
Mr. Yeo is a member of the Board of Trustees of Berggruen Institute on Governance, International Advisory Panel of Peking University, Senior Advisory Council of Beijing Forum, International Advisory Board of IESE Business School, International Advisory Council of China's Eco Forum Global Guiyang, International Advisory Board of Japan's National Graduate School for International Policy Studies (GRIPS), Global Advisory Board of MUFG, the External Advisory Board of the European University Institute’s School of Transnational Governance and the Board of Governors of the Singapore Manufacturing Federation, Panel of Expert of the Indonesia Business Council. Mr Yeo is also an Independent Non-Executive Director of AIA Group listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and Pinduoduo listed on NASDAQ, Huawei International Pte Ltd in Singapore, and Gurin Energy Group, Salim Group and Wilmar International Limited. Mr Yeo has recently been appointed as a Distinguished Nonresident Fellow of the Contemporary China and the World (CCCW) at the Hong Kong University (HKU) and is and Advisor and Patron of Singapore Chinese Physicians' Association (SCPA) and its subsidiaries, Singapore Chung Hwa Medical institution (SCHMI) and Singapore College of Traditional Chinese Medicine (SCTCM).
Mr. Yeo was the Conference Chairman of the Singapore Summit from 2012 to 2016.
楊榮文先生簡介
楊榮文先生現任新加坡國立大學李光耀公共政策學院訪問學者,並擔任該學院亞洲競爭力研究所的創始贊助人。
2012年至2021年,他任職於香港嘉里集團,並於2012年至2019年期間擔任嘉里物流聯網有限公司的主席兼執行董事。
1988年9月至2011年5月,他在新加坡政府任職23年,曾擔任新聞及藝術部部長、衛生部部長、貿易及工業部部長以及外交部部長。
楊先生擁有劍橋大學工程學學士學位(雙重一級榮譽),以及哈佛大學工商管理碩士學位(貝克學者獎)。
他的軍旅生涯始於新加坡陸軍信號軍官,後轉入空軍,曾擔任空軍參謀長、國防部三軍聯合行動與策劃處處長,獲准將軍銜。
2013年至2014年,他擔任聖座經濟行政結構組織宗座諮詢委員會成員;2014年2月至2020年7月,擔任梵蒂岡經濟委員會成員。
楊先生現任多個機構的成員或顧問,包括:伯格魯恩治理研究所董事會、北京大學國際諮詢委員會、北京論壇高級顧問委員會、西班牙IESE商學院國際諮詢委員會、中國生態文明貴陽國際論壇國際諮詢理事會、日本政策研究大學院大學(GRIPS)、三菱日聯金融集團全球顧問委員會、歐洲大學學院跨國治理學院外部諮詢委員會、新加坡製造商總會理事會、印尼商業理事會專家小組。此外,他還是香港交易所上市的友邦保險集團、納斯達克上市的拼多多,以及新加坡華為國際集團、格林能源(Gurin Energy)集團、三林(Salim)集團和豐益國際有限公司的獨立非執行董事。
近期,他被任命為香港大學當代中國與世界研究中心傑出非常駐研究員,並擔任新加坡中醫師公會及其附屬機構(新加坡中華醫院和新加坡中醫學院)的顧問及贊助人。
2012年至2016年,楊先生擔任新加坡峰會的會議主席。