APRIL 9 FWA LUNCH TALK: AMERICA AND ASIA IN THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION
(Official Sponsor: Harper's BAZAAR)
Guest Speaker: Professor Chan Heng Chee
Venue: UBS AG Auditorium
One Raffles Quay
#49-00 North Tower
Singapore 048583
Lunch: 12noon to 1pm
(As no food is allowed in the auditorium, we appreciate your punctuality for lunch)
Talk will begin promptly at 1pm followed by Q & A. Event is scheduled to end at 2pm
Please confirm attendance by April 7 to lorraine@garner.com.sg or Jacqueline.Chua@ubs.com along with completed attached form. Please click HERE to download.
Terms: Payment is available at the door. Make cheque out to “Financial Women’s Association (
Singapore
)”.
(Note: Membership form available on website www.fwasg.org. If $100.00 annual membership is paid together with above event, S$35.00 will be charged instead of $65.00).
Bio of Her Excellency CHAN HENG CHEE, Ambassador of Singapore to the United States
Chan Heng Chee took up her appointment as Singapore’s Ambassador to the United States in 1996. Prior to her appointment, she was the Executive Director of the Singapore International Foundation (which created a Singapore version of the Peace Corps) and Director of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. She was the founding Director of the Institute of Policy Studies. She has served as Singapore’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations and was concurrently High Commissioner to Canada and Ambassador to Mexico. Ambassador Chan has received a number of awards including Honorary Degrees of Doctor of Letters from the University of Newcastle, Australia; and the University of Buckingham (United Kingdom). She was named International Woman of the Year by the Organization of Chinese American Women in 1998 and she won Singapore's inaugural "Woman of the Year, Award”. She received the National Book Award in the non-fiction section for "A Sensation of Independence: A Political Biography of David Marshall" in 1986 and the National Book Award for "The Dynamics of One Party Dominance: The PAP at the Grassroots" in 1978.
Ambassador Chan has served as a member on the International Advisory Board of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Council of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and the International Council of the Asia Society.
Ambassador Chan received from the Government of Singapore The Public Administration Medal (Gold) in 1999 and the Meritorious Service Medal in 2005.
Ambassador Chan was educated at the University of Singapore and Cornell University.
