Chin Hwee Tan

Chairman, Singapore Trade Data Exchange Services; Chairman, Energy Supply Resilience Advisory Panel, Energy Market Authority (Singapore)

Mr. Tan Chin Hwee was appointed as the Chairman of the Energy Supply Resilience Advisory Panel in October 2023. The panel is established by The Energy Market Authority (EMA), which will help to identify strategies to improve the reliability of Singapore's fuel supply and energy system. He is also Chairman of Singapore Trade Date Exchange Services Pte Ltd (SGTraDex).

From 2016 to 2023, Mr. Tan held the position of the first Asia Pacific Chief Executive Officer of Trafigura Group, one of the largest global trading firms for energy and commodities. Prior to that, he established Apollo Global Management’s Singapore office to develop its Asia Business, ran Amaranth Advisors as the Managing Director and held senior executive positions in DBS Bank. Mr. Tan began his career at Keppel Corporation’s treasury division.

Mr. Tan also serves as a Member of the Climate Impact X Advisory Council, the Financial Centre Advisory Panel of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, and Nanyang Technological University’s (NTU) Board of Trustees. He is also a Council Member of the National Institute of Education and also sits on the board of Hwa Chong Institution. On 1 April 2024, he was appointed as board member to JTC Corporation’s Board (JTC).

Previously, he served in the Emerging Stronger Taskforce under the Future Economy Council, where he was involved in both the supply chain digitalisation and sustainability working groups. Chin Hwee graduated in 1995 from Nanyang Technological University and in 2003 obtained an MBA from Yale University. In 2011, he completed a postgraduate course at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst and Certified Public Accountant in Singapore and Australia. Chin Hwee has a wealth of expertise in FinTech and asset investment and is co-author of the 2014 bestselling book, Asian Financial Statement Analysis: Detecting Financial Irregularities. His most recent book, Values at the Core: How Human Values Contribute To The Rise Of Nations, co-authored with Thomas Grandjean, was published in December 2020.