New Permanent Secretary Appointment and Adjustments In Permanent Secretary Appointments

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 extra 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.