Andrew Tan

Board Director
SGX Listed Companies

Mr Andrew Tan was formerly Managing Director with Temasek International, a global investment firm headquartered in Singapore. He joined as an Operating Partner in the Enterprise Development Group, and later as Managing Director of the new Strategy Office as well as Managing Director Institutional Relations from 2019-2022. He was Chief Executive of the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) from 2014–2018.

Prior to joining Temasek, Mr Tan spent nearly three decades with the Singapore Administrative Service in senior positions across key agencies from the Ministry of Information and the Arts, Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Prime Minister’s Office as the Principal Private Secretary to Senior Minister/Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew, the Ministry of Environment and Water Resources and the Ministry of Transport. He later became the Chief Executive Officer of the National Environment Agency (NEA) from 2009-2013 and Founding Director of the Centre for Liveable Cities (CLC) from 2008-2010.. 

Mr Tan graduated with First Class Honours in History from King’s College, University of London, in 1989. He attended the Edward S Mason Programme at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government where he obtained his Masters in Public Administration in 2002. He also attended the Advanced Management Programme at INSEAD Business School at Fontainebleau. 

He is an independent non-executive director on several listed and private companies such as Keppel Data Centre REIT Management (SGX: AJBU), Kim Heng Ltd (SGX:5GS) and GoTyme Bank in the Philippines. He also sits on the Singapore Management University (SMU)’s Institute of Innovation & Entrepreneurship Enterprise Board.