Stephen Poh

Executive Director & Chief Economist
Singapore Institute of Purchasing and Materials Management

Stephen Poh is the Executive Director of the Singapore Institute of Purchasing and Materials Management (SIPMM) – the nation’s professional body for the logistics, procurement, and supply chain sector. The Institute is the official publisher of the Singapore Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI), which is widely regarded as the key barometer of the Singapore manufacturing economy.

Stephen is concurrently the Director-General of the Logistics Institute of Singapore, which publishes the monthly Logistics Growth Index for Singapore and the Asia-Pacific region. Stephen joined the Institute in 2016 with a mandate to lead an integrated digital transformation of the long-established Institution, which includes providing lifelong learning opportunities to learners across the globe.

Stephen holds a Bachelor’s degree with Honours from Oxford Brookes University, and a Master’s degree from University of London under a Chartered Institute of Logistics and Procurement postgraduate scholarship. Stephen holds professional memberships in several institutions including, inter alia, the Chartered Institute of Directors and Singapore Institute of Directors.