New Permanent Secretary Appointment and Changes In Permanent Secretary Appointments

New Permanent Secretary Appointment

Mr Tan Chye Hee (陈财喜) will probably be appointed as Permanent Secretary (Home Affairs
Development) and concurrently Permanent Secretary (Information and Development),
Ministry of Digital Development and Information with impact from 1 October
2025.

Changes in Permanent Secretary Appointments

2        Mr Aubeck Kam (甘泽铨) will relinquish
his appointment as Permanent Secretary (Home Affairs Development) with
impact from 1 October 2025. He will proceed to function Permanent Secretary
(Social and Family Development).

3        Mr Chng Kai Fong (庄凯峰) will
be re-designated as Permanent Secretary (Development), Ministry of Digital
Development and Information on 1 October 2025, along with his concurrent
appointment as Permanent Secretary (Development)(Smart Nation)(Cybersecurity),
Prime Minister’s Office on the identical date.  

Background

Mr Tan Chye Hee

4        Mr Tan Chye Hee, 52, joined
the Singapore Police Force (SPF) in 1992 after he was awarded an SPF Overseas
Scholarship. He was appointed to the Administrative Service in 2001. Mr
Tan has held varied appointments within the SPF, Ministry of Trade and Industry
and Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), earlier than his appointment as Deputy Commissioner
(Investigations and Intelligence), SPF in 2015. Mr Tan was appointed as
Director, Internal Security Department, MHA in 2020.

Mr Aubeck Kam

5        Mr Aubeck Kam, 54, has held
varied appointments within the Singapore Police Force and Ministry of Trade
and Industry, earlier than his appointment as Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Manpower
in 2006. He was appointed as Chief Executive Officer of the then-Media
Development Authority in 2010, and Permanent Secretary of the then-Ministry
of Communications and Information in 2012. He was appointed as Permanent
Secretary (Manpower) in 2016. He has been Permanent Secretary (Social and
Family Development) since April 2022 and concurrently Permanent Secretary
(Home Affairs Development) since November 2022.

Mr Chng Kai Fong

6        Mr Chng Kai Fong, 46, has
held varied appointments within the then-Ministry of Information, Communications
and the Arts, Ministry of Home Affairs, Civil Service College, Ministry
of Trade and Industry, and Communications Group, Prime Minister’s Office
(PMO). He has additionally served a two-year stint at Shell Eastern Petroleum Pte
Ltd. He was appointed as Principal Private Secretary to then-Prime Minister
Lee Hsien Loong in 2014 and subsequently as Managing Director, Economic
Development Board in 2017. In 2021, he was appointed as Second Permanent
Secretary (Smart Nation and Digital Government Group), PMO. In 2022, he
took on further concurrent appointments as Second Permanent Secretary
(Communications and Information) and Second Permanent Secretary (Cybersecurity),
PMO. In 2023, he was re-designated as Permanent Secretary (Development)
within the Ministry of Communications and Information (MCI) and Smart Nation
and Digital Government Group (SNDGG), PMO in addition to for Cybersecurity
in PMO. He subsequently relinquished his appointment as Permanent Secretary
(Development), SNDGG and was re-designated as Permanent Secretary (Information
and Development), MCI, and as Permanent Secretary (Information and Development),
Ministry of Digital Development and Information with the renaming of MCI
in July 2024.