Our Board of Directors

Goh Choon Phong

Goh Choon Phong

Member, Compensation & HR Committee

Member, Executive Committee

Non-Executive and Non-independent Director

Mr Goh was appointed Director on 1 January 2011. He is a Director and the Chief Executive Officer of Singapore Airlines Ltd (SIA). He joined SIA in 1990 and has held senior management positions in Singapore and overseas. He joined SIA’s Board on 1 October 2010 and was appointed Chief Executive Officer on 1 January 2011.Mr Goh was previously Executive Vice President Marketing and the Regions and President of SIA Cargo. Prior roles with SIA included Senior Vice President Finance, Senior Vice President Information Technology, and Senior Vice President Commercial Technology. His overseas assignments were in China and Scandinavia.

Mr Goh is the Chairman of Budget Aviation Holdings Pte Ltd, which owns and manages SIA’s low-cost subsidiary Scoot Pte Ltd. He is a member of the National University of Singapore Board of Trustees, where he was Chairman of its Innovation and Enterprise Committee and has been appointed to its Nominating Committee and Executive Committee since 1 April 2023. Mr Goh is an Independent Director on the Board of Mastercard Incorporated.

Mr Goh is an Executive Committee member of the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA), and was appointed as its Chairman on 1 January 2023.

In addition, Mr Goh is a member of the MIT Presidential CEO Advisory Board, made up of CEOs from leading companies in a variety of industries around the world. Mr Goh was a member of the Board of Governors of the International Air Transport Association and was its Chairman between June 2017 and June 2018. He also previously served on the Board of Directors for Mount Alvernia Hospital and Virgin Australia Holdings Limited.

Mr Goh was the 2015 recipient of the Centre for Aviation’s Asia-Pacific Airline CEO of the Year award. In 2016 he received the CEO Lifetime Achievement Award from the Airline Passenger Experience Association, as well as the Eisenhower Global Innovation Award from the Business Council for International Understanding. He was named Outstanding Chief Executive Officer of the Year in the Singapore Business Awards 2017, Person of the Year by Orient Aviation magazine in 2018, and Best Chief Executive Officer for companies with $1 billion or more in market capitalisation at the 2019 Singapore Corporate Awards.