Speakers

Mr Tang is Group President & CEO of Sembcorp Industries. With close to 30 years at Sembcorp, he is credited with spearheading its growth into a focused energy, water and marine group with operations across five continents.

Mr Tang is a council member of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce & Industry and serves on several China-Singapore and Middle East-Singapore business councils. He is also a director and member of the governing board of the Cambridge Centre for Advanced Research in Energy Efficiency in Singapore, a research centre set up by the University of Cambridge in collaboration with Singapore universities and the National Research Foundation to study carbon assessment and abatement for the petrochemical industry. Mr Tang sits on the board of the Defence Science and Technology Agency of Singapore, chairs the college advisory board of Nanyang Technological University's College of Engineering and is also Council Chairman of Ngee Ann Polytechnic. In addition, he is Vice Chairman and a trustee of the Kwong Wai Shiu Hospital, a charitable hospital which provides care for needy patients.

Mr Tang holds a First Class Honours degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Singapore and completed the Advanced Management Programme at INSEAD.