SINGAPORE – Tan Chorh Chuan, a prominent leader in biomedical science, public health and research policy, will retire from the Administrative Service on Sept 1.
He will relinquish his roles as Permanent Secretary of National Research and Development (NRD), and Permanent Secretary of the Public Sector Science and Technology Policy and Plans Office (S&TPPO), which both come under the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO).
“I would like to thank Chorh Chuan for his outstanding and impactful contributions to the Public Service,” said Minister-in-charge of the Public Service Chan Chun Sing in a July 30 statement by the Public Service Division (PSD).
“He has served with distinction to strengthen our capabilities in the areas of healthcare, higher education, research and innovation.”
Tan, a renal physician by training, was appointed to his current roles in 2023, and provided strategic leadership in uplifting the Public Service’s science, technology and innovation capabilities, having shaped and steered the nation’s Research, Innovation and Enterprise (RIE) 2030 planning, according to the PSD.
He also contributed to efforts to align national research and innovation investments with long-term strategic priorities, while fostering closer collaboration across government, academia and industry to address complex policy and operational challenges, it said.
Tan has held various key appointments in the medical and academic fields, as well as in the public sector.
As then-director of medical services in the Ministry of Health (MOH) from 2000 to 2004, he played an instrumental role in leading the public health response to the 2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome epidemic.
He served as the deputy chairman at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) from 2004 to 2017, and president of the National University of Singapore from 2008 to 2017.
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