{"id":72821,"date":"2026-07-30T12:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T04:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=72821"},"modified":"2026-07-30T12:08:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T04:08:00","slug":"nparks-names-new-chairman-refreshes-board-appointments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=72821","title":{"rendered":"NParks names new chairman, refreshes board appointments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>His successor, Mr Chew, has over three decades of public service experience and has held leadership positions across multiple ministries, said NParks and MND.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Chew served as the Land Transport Authority\u2019s chief executive before becoming MND&#8217;s second permanent secretary. He was also permanent secretary in the Ministry of Social and Family Development and the Ministry of Home Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>He retired from the civil service in November 2022 and most recently served as Workforce Singapore chairman until Jun 30. <span>A new statutory board called the Skills and Workforce Development Agency was up on Jul 1 <\/span><span>merging Workforce Singapore and<\/span><span> SkillsFuture Singapore.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>OTHER BOARD APPOINTMENTS<\/h2>\n<p>NParks will also make several re-appointments and new additions to its board with effect from Saturday. Seven existing members will continue to sit on the board while three new members will be added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Three board members will step down after completing their terms on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>All the appointments will be for a two-year term, said MND and NParks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 11-member board will continue to guide NParks in fortifying Singapore\u2019s transformation into a City in Nature amidst climate change, while working closely with the community to foster environmental stewardship,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMND and NParks extend our deepest gratitude to Mr Loh and the outgoing board members for their invaluable service, guidance and contributions during their tenure and welcome Mr Chew and the new board members.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/national-parks-new-chairman-board-members-6287431\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His successor, Mr Chew, has over three decades of public service experience and has held leadership positions across multiple ministries, said NParks and MND. Mr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--2v6E744B--\/c_crop,h_551,w_980,x_0,y_19\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2026\/07\/30\/nparks-incoming-and-outgoing-chairmen-1.png?itok=8IK5408M","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[23483,1486,7485,1597,3414,886],"class_list":["post-72821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-appointments","tag-board","tag-chairman","tag-names","tag-nparks","tag-refreshes","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72821","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=72821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}