Mr Choi Shing Kwok is the Deputy Chairman and an Independent Non-Executive Director of ComfortDelGro Corporation Limited. He is a member of the Audit and Risk Committee, the Nominating and Remuneration Committee and the Sustainability Committee.

Mr Choi is the Director and Chief Executive Officer of the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, which does research on political, economic and socio-cultural developments in Southeast Asia. He is also the Chairman and Board member of SP Services Limited, an energy services company, and a Board member of the St Andrew’s Mission Hospital, a medical charity. In addition, he also serves as a member on both the National Records Advisory Committee in the Ministry of Communications and Information, and the Management Board of the Singapore Nuclear Research & Safety Initiative in the National University of Singapore.

Before his retirement from the Civil Service in October 2017, Mr Choi was the Permanent Secretary of the then Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources (MEWR) for five years. He also served seven years as the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Transport and nine years in a senior position in the Ministry of Defence earlier in his career. During his military service, Mr Choi held a variety of command and staff appointments in the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF). Promoted to Brigadier-General in 1996, he took early retirement from the SAF in 2000 to join the Administrative Service.

During Mr Choi’s public sector career, he was awarded the Public Administration Medal (Silver) in 1993 and the Meritorious Service Medal in 2000.

Mr Choi holds a Bachelor and a Master’s degrees in Engineering Tripos from Cambridge University in the United Kingdom. He also received a Master of Public Administration degree from the Harvard University, USA, as an Edward Mason Fellow.