Singapore Setting Council has introduced a brand new government director (ED) a number of months after naming its substitute for an outgoing ED.
The environmental non-profit unveiled Hazri Hassan as its new ED in September final yr, and the previous Ministry of Sustainability and Setting (MSE) government was slated to tackle the highest job on 1 November.
It was unclear on the time of publishing why Hassan’s stint as ED was quick. Eco-Enterprise has approached Hassan, SEC and MSE for remark.
Hassan, who was MSE’s divisional director (worldwide coverage) and Singapore’s everlasting representive to the United Nations Setting Programme, was named because the substitute for Jen Teo, who resigned after six years because the organisation’s ED in June. Teo joined SEC in 2017 after the sudden exit of former ED Edwin Seah.
In a put up on social community LinkedIn on Thursday, SEC introduced Cheang Kok Chung as its new ED, taking the variety of executives to have held the highest put up, together with interim ED Goh Wee Hong, to 4 in six months.
Cheang is presently the deputy director-general of atmosphere safety and group director of useful resource and sustainability on the Nationwide Setting Company, a statutory board beneath MSE. His appointment as SEC’s new chief will take impact from 1 February 2024.
Within the LinkedIn put up, SEC chairman Isabella Huang Loh mentioned Cheang’s observe report in environmental safety and sustainability made him the “perfect particular person to steer SEC into its subsequent part of progress and influence”.
SEC, which was shaped out of what was as soon as Singapore’s atmosphere ministry in 1995, gives recommendation to corporations on enhancing their sustainability efforts, publishes analysis on sustainability points in Singapore and runs a collection of certification schemes.
