Mr Wan Kwong Weng is the Joint Company Secretary of the Manager as well as the other three Mapletree REIT managers, and concurrently Group Chief Corporate Officer of the Sponsor, where he is responsible for all legal, compliance and corporate secretarial matters, as well as corporate communications, human resource and administration matters across all business units and countries. In addition, Mr Wan is Secretary and Member of the Singapore Management University Real Estate Programme Advisory Board.
Prior to joining the Sponsor, Mr Wan was Group General Counsel – Asia at Infineon Technologies for seven years, where he was a key member of its Asia-Pacific management team. He started his career as a litigation lawyer with one of the oldest law firms of Singapore, Wee Swee Teow & Co., and was subsequently with the Corporate & Commercial/Private Equity practice group of Baker & McKenzie in Singapore and Sydney.
Mr Wan has an LL.B. (Honours) (Newcastle upon Tyne), where he was conferred the Wise Speke Prize, as well as an LL.M. (Merit) (London). He also attended the London Business School Senior Executive Programme. He is called to the Singapore Bar, where he was awarded the Justice FA Chua Memorial Prize, and is also the Rolls of Solicitors (England & Wales). Mr Wan was conferred the Public Service Medal (P.B.M.) in 2012 and Public Service Star (B.B.M.) in 2017 for his contributions to Central Singapore CDC.