Singapore appoints five new IRAS board members, reappoints four

The new board composition will start on 1 September 2025.

Prime Minister and Finance Minister Lawrence Wong has appointed five new members to the Board of the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) with effect from 1 September 2025.

The new members are ST Engineering group president and CEO Vincent Chong, UOB head of group technology and operations Goh Chear Wah, Drew & Napier senior counsel and director for dispute resolution Hing Shan Shan, CapitaLand Investment Limited group CEO Lee Chee Koon, and Energy Market Authority CEO Puah Kok Keong.

They will replace Darren Tan Siew Peng, Seah Chin Siong, Sarjit Singh Gill, Wong Kim Yin and Ngiam Shih Chun, whose current terms end on 31 August 2025.

Reappointed to the IRAS board were UOB board director Chia Tai Tee, ISGN Ventures co-founder and director Fazli Mansor, DBS Bank managing director and head of group human resources Lee Yan Hong, and KPMG China’s former national head of governance, risk and compliance services, and sector head of life science Woo Li Fern.

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