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' By Kenneth Lim ·
kenlim@sph.com.sg
@KennethLimBT
in philanthropy, mentorship and so cial enterprise, bettering the lives and prospects of those around them. I am proud to recognise their work in this
LUXURY lifestyle magazine The Peak has named 10 Singapore women game-changers to its annual Power List. The women were demed to have shattered the glass ceiling and scaled the corporate nings to be lead ers and influencers in their respective professions, said The Peak, a maga zine owned by Singapore Press Hold ings (SPH), which also owns The Busi ness Times.
Public Relations; Jennie Chua, Singa
Services;
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Rita
left), executive chairman of Straits Trading and·Tecity Group; and· former UN under-secretary general Noeleen HeyzerSoh, director of RDC Ar-
year's Power List,' said The Peak edi
tor Jennifer Chen.
The Peak's list comes amid height ened attention to gender diversity amm1g the boards of Singapore's list ed companies. The Diversity Action Committee said that the percentage of women among directors of Singa pore-listed companies increased by just 0.3 percentage points to 9.1 per centin the first half of 2O1S'. · ·
The Singapore Institute of Direc
The selection process began in
March, and also involved the Singa pore Institute of International Affairs and SPH English/Malay(Tamil Media group editor-in-chief Patrick Daniel.
The list comprised Chew Gek Khim, executive chairman of Straits Trading and Tecity Grqup; Chong Ee Rong, anaging director of Ogilvy
pore ambassador to Mexico; Rache.l Eng; joint managing partner of Wong Partnership; Noeleen Heyzer, former United Nations under-secretary gener al; Yasmin Khan, senior vice-presi dent of South-east Asia and South Asia for DHL Express; Ivy Ng, group chief executive of Singapore Health
chitects; Tan Su Shan, managing direc tor and group head of consumer bank ing and wealth management for DBS Bank; and Tan Yen Yen, regional vice-president and South Asia-Pacific managing director of SAS.
'In addition fo being top in their professions, the hon·ourees are forces
tors this year also added questions about gender diversity to its biennial survey of company boards, and it
_found that while most boards cited a lack of suitable candidates as a key ob stacle to improving board diversity, only a small minority used profes skmal services to search for new members. ·
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