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6 HAW PAR CORPORATION LIMITED
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
WEE CHO YAW
Non-Executive Chairman
Dr Wee Cho Yaw, aged 85, is a career banker with more than 50 years’
experience. He has been Chairman of the Company and of the Haw
Par Group (“Group”) since 1978. He was appointed to the Board on
31 October 1975 and was last re-appointed on 24 April 2013. He
is the Chairman of the Investment Committee and a member of the
Remuneration and Nominating Committees.
Dr Wee is Chairman Emeritus and Advisor of the United Overseas
Bank Limited and Far Eastern Bank Ltd. He is Chairman of the United
Overseas Insurance Limited, UOL Group Limited, Pan Pacific Hotels
Group Limited, United Industrial Corporation Limited, Singapore
Land Limited, and Marina Centre Holdings Private Limited. He is
also Chairman of Wee Foundation.
He was Chairman of United International Securities Limited from
1973 till December 2013.
He is Honorary President of the Singapore Federation of Chinese
Clan Associations, Singapore Hokkien Huay Kuan and Singapore
Chinese Chamber of Commerce & Industry. Dr Wee is also Pro-
Chancellor of Nanyang Technological University.
He received Chinese high school education and was conferred Honorary
Doctor of Letters by National University of Singapore in 2008.
Dr Wee was conferred the Businessman Of The Year award twice at the
Singapore Business Awards in 2001 and 1990. In 2006, he received the
inaugural Credit Suisse-Ernst & Young Lifetime Achievement Award for
his outstanding achievements in the Singapore business community.
In 2009, he was conferred the Lifetime Achievement Award by The
Asian Banker. In 2011 Dr Wee was conferred the highest National
Day award, the Distinguished Service Order for his contributions to
the community and to education.
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