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SINGAPORE: After more than nine years on the board of the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS), including overseeing Singapore’s aviation sector through the COVID-19 pandemic, Mr Edmund Cheng will step down as its chairman, with Mr Ng Chee Khern set to take over from Aug 1.<\/p>\n
Mr Ng was formerly Chief of Air Force from 2006 to 2009 and was the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Manpower from 2022 to 2025.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In a statement on Wednesday (Jul 15), the Ministry of Transport (MOT) said that Mr Ng\u2019s extensive leadership experience \u2013 he has also been the deputy chairman of CAAS since Jan 1 \u2013 will greatly benefit the authority in its work to “strengthen Singapore’s position as a global aviation hub”.<\/p>\n Mr Ng began his career as a pilot in the Republic of Singapore Air Force in 1984 and was awarded the Public Administration Medal (Gold) in 2016.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n He has also held key appointments in the Ministry of Health, as well as the Smart Nation and Digital Government Group in the Prime Minister’s Office.<\/span><\/p>\n He is now the director and chief executive officer of the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute and a member of its board of trustees,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Since July 2018, Mr Cheng has served as chairman of CAAS, having been its deputy chairman from December 2016.<\/p>\n He was chairman of ground-handling company SATS from 2003 to 2016, as well as chairman of the Singapore Tourism Board from 1993 to 2001.<\/span><\/p>\n Under Mr Cheng’s leadership, CAAS worked on several long-term projects aimed at strengthening Singapore as an aviation hub, including the development of the upcoming <\/span>Changi Airport Terminal 5<\/span>, the <\/span>Changi East Industrial Zone<\/span> and the Changi East Urban District. It also set up new organisations such as the Asia Pacific Sustainable Aviation Centre and the <\/span>Singapore Sustainable Aviation Fuel Company<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n During his tenure, CAAS steered Singapore’s aviation sector through the pandemic, rebuilding it to handle a record high of nearly 70 million passenger movements and more than two million tonnes of air cargo in 2025, MOT said.<\/p>\n In 2025, the authority announced a S$1 billion (US$780 million) commitment to support initiatives in connectivity, technology, infrastructure and <\/span>manpower<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n MOT also said that under Mr Cheng, CAAS has built new capabilities to make Singapore’s aviation hub a more sustainable and technology-enabled one, through the launch of the Air Transport Industry Transformation Map in 2023 and the launch of the <\/span>Singapore Sustainable Air Hub Blueprint<\/span> in 2024.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Thanking Mr Cheng for his “distinguished service”, MOT and CAAS said that they deeply appreciate his “invaluable contributions” to the authority and Singapore’s aviation sector.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n SINGAPORE: After more than nine years on the board of the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS), including overseeing Singapore’s aviation sector through the COVID-19…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--4a1WPnuc--\/c_crop,h_759,w_1350,x_0,y_1\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2026\/07\/15\/2_panel_composite_57.png?itok=fNQhpFPr","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[364,3408,12226,7485,3568,555,1285,7505],"class_list":["post-68862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-air","tag-aug","tag-caas","tag-chairman","tag-chee","tag-chief","tag-force","tag-khern","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/68863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}CONTRIBUTIONS TO CAAS<\/h2>\n
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