NCSS Members Conference 2009

Profile of Speakers & Panellists

RADM (Ret) Kwek Siew Jin

	RADM (Ret) Kwek Siew Jin is currently the President of the National Council of Social Service (NCSS), a post he has held since August 2006. RADM Kwek was appointed to the NCSS Board in 2004, where he served as Vice-President of the Board and Vice-Chairman of the Services Committee. He has been an active volunteer in the social service sector since his retirement as Chief of the Republic of Singapore Navy in June 1996. Among various other portfolios, he has served as Chairman of the Students Care Service (a voluntary welfare organisation) from 1999 to 2006, and Chairman of the National Volunteer and Philanthropy Centre from 2005 to 2007. He was also the President of the Singapore Dragon Boat Association, a post he held from 1998 till 2009. Currently, RADM Kwek also serves as a board member of the Community Foundation of Singapore and the Charity Council. For his contributions as Chairman of the Students Care Service from 1999 to 2006, RADM Kwek was awarded the Public Service Medal (PBM) for social service under the National Day Awards of 2006.
Ms Ang Bee Lian
	Ms Ang Bee Lian is the Chief Executive Officer of the National Council of Social Service (NCSS) since joining it in June 2007. Ms Ang is a trained social worker and has a MSc in Social Policy & Planning from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has 30 years of valuable experience in the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports, developing policies and implementing programmes in the social service sector. She has held senior management appointments in MCYS for over 15 years. As Director of Rehabilitation, Protection and Residential Services, and Director of Social Sector Planning Unit at MCYS prior to joining NCSS, she led a team in bringing statutory social work services to a higher level of professionalism and with wider community involvement and participation. Ms Ang was awarded the Outstanding Social Worker Award in 2000 and the Public Administration Medal (Silver) in 2002. In 2003, she was among 12 winners of the Leader Mentor’s awards given out as part of the Global Leadership and Mentoring Congress in Singapore.

Mr Matthias Yao Chih

Mr Matthias Yao is currently the Mayor of South East District. He is also a Deputy Speaker of Parliament and the Member of Parliament for MacPherson. Mr Yao attended St Joseph's Institution and National Junior College. He was awarded an Overseas Merit Scholarship and studied at the University of Birmingham, UK. He graduated in 1978 with a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) degree, majoring in management economics. Upon his return, Mr Yao completed full-time National Service, and joined the Civil Service as an Administrative Officer. Between 1980 and 1988, he worked in postings at four different Ministries. Mr Yao was elected Member of Parliament in 1991. Between 1991 and 2004, he held posts of Parliamentary Secretary (Ministry of Defence), Senior Parliamentary Secretary (Ministry of Defence and Ministry of National Development), Minister of State (Ministry of Defence), and Senior Minister of State (Prime Minister’s Office).

Dr Mohamad Maliki Bin Osman

Dr Mohamad Maliki Osman graduated with his Bachelor and Masters degrees from the National University of Singapore. He obtained his doctorate in Social Work from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1998 and became an Assistant Professor at the NUS Department of Social Work and Psychology that year. Dr Maliki is currently the Parliamentary Secretary for the Ministry of National Development. He served as Parliamentary Secretary for the Ministry of Community Development Youth and Sports from August 2004 to June 2006 and the Ministry of Health from August 2004 to October 2005. At the community level, Dr Maliki is Advisor to the Centre for Promoting Alternative to Violence and ADAM (Active Devoted Able family Men) Association. He chairs the Family Development Network of the Malay/ Muslim Community Leaders’ Forum.

Mr Gerard Ee

Mr Gerard Ee has been active in the field of social service throughout his professional life
as an accountant. He helped convert a programme providing respite care into the
Assisi Home and Hospice in 1987 and was its Chairman until 2002. In 1989, Mr Ee
established Bizlink Centre, an employment programme for people with disabilities, and was its Chairman until 1992. He has also chaired a wide range of social service organisations and programmes which include juvenile rehabilitative centres, grassroots organisations, schools, and
various programmes for the elderly and youth. He was also an active member of the Task Force which established the Code on Religious Harmony. He was formerly the President of the National Council of Social Service. He is currently the Chairman of the Medifund Advisory Council and a member of the National Medical Ethics Committee. As a Justice of the Peace, he visits the prisons and conducts criminal procedure mediation sessions. He was officially appointed as the Chairman of the National Kidney Foundation on July 17, 2005 and is also the Chairman of the Council for Third Age.

Mr Stanley Tan

Mr Stanley Tan is the Chairman of the National Volunteer and Philanthropy Centre and Chairman of The Community Foundation of Singapore. He is also the Vice President of Beyond Social Services, an organisation dedicated to helping children and youths-at-risk to get out of poverty and delinquency. Separately, he is Vice-President of MILK (Mainly I Love Kids) Fund and a member of the Charity Council. He is also actively involved in community work in many regional countries. He is currently a board member of the Alola Foundation, East Timor. On the corporate front, Stanley founded Magazines Incorporated in 1978, which became the largest media representation house in South East Asia and among the largest lifestyle magazines publisher in Singapore.

Mr Peter Ong

Mr Peter Ong is Managing Partner for Gallup in Singapore, Hong Kong, and South-East
Asia. Other than Singapore and Hong Kong, Peter runs Gallup’s businesses in Malaysia,
Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, and the Philippines. He works with clients to boost
their productivity and bottom line by maximising the engagement of their businesses’ employees
and customers. Peter helps CEOs and their leadership teams align/re-align organisational structures, management teams, and workforces to meet business demands, as well as growth
and succession-planning needs. He has worked with local, regional, and global institutions in various industries, especially in the financial services and government sectors. He is very
familiar and comfortable with designing and leading organisational transformation programmes. He has also led many Behavioral Economics type projects with both public and private sector organisations.