MEMBER of Parliament and National Trades Union Congress assistant secretary-general Josephine Teo will be the new CEO of Business China from July 1.
The networking group was officially launched in Nov 2007 by its patron, Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew, and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, to enhance bilateral interactions between businesses and young people from both countries.
The Business China secretariat is currently headed by Tanjong Pagar GRC MP Sam Tan. However, due to his new appointments from July 1 as Parliamentary Secretary for Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts as well as Ministry of Trade and Industry, he will relinquish his CEO position at Business China.
Mr Tan will join the Business China board of directors from July 1. His successor, Mrs Teo, is already on the board.
She is MP for Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC and chairman of the Government Parliamentary Committee for Education. “Business China has a mission unlike any organisation in Singapore. To cultivate a new generation of bilingual and bicultural Singaporeans who can do business with China effectively, we have to tap the ideas and resources of many business, cultural and community groups, and create new synergy between them,” she said in a release issued by Business China’s board of directors.
As assistant secretary-general of NTUC, Mrs Teo oversees its staff-centric functions and Young NTUC. She also represents NTUC on the Nanyang Polytechnic Board of Governors and the Singapore Workforce Development Agency Board of Directors.
Courtesy of The Business Times, 1 June, 2009