Ng Chee Peng is a Singaporean civil servant and former two-star

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who served as Chief of Navy between 2011 and 2014.

Education

Ng was awarded the President's Scholarship and Singapore Armed Forces Overseas Scholarship in 1989. He graduated from the

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with a

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with first class honours degree in

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(PPE). He was awarded the Singapore Armed Forces Postgraduate Scholarship (General Development) in 2002, before going on to complete a

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degree at

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Career

Military career

Ng enlisted in the

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(SAF) in December 1988 and served in the

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. He spent his early days with the Missile Gun Boats, first as a junior officer and later as the Executive Officer on board the RSS ''Sea Tiger''. He was also the Anti-Submarine Warfare Officer on board the RSS ''Valiant''. He assumed his first command on board the Missile Corvette RSS ''Victory''. He also held various staff appointments in the headquarters of the

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(MINDEF), including: Head, Operations Planning Branch, Naval Operations Department; Head, Long Term Planning Secretariat, Office of the Chief of Defence Force. After returning from his studies in Harvard University in 2002, Ng was appointed as the Commanding Officer of the Missile Corvette Squadron in July 2003, and concurrently served as the Commander of the First Flotilla from January 2004. He held the following appointments later: Director (Policy), MINDEF (2005–2007); Fleet Commander (2007–2009); Chief of Staff, Naval Staff (2009–2010); Chief of Staff, Joint Staff (2010–2011). Ng succeeded Chew Men Leong as the Chief of Navy on 29 March 2011 and was promoted to the rank of two-star

on 1 July. Ng stepped down from his position as the Chief of Navy on 1 August 2014 and was succeeded by

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Public career

Ng was appointed as the chief executive officer of the

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on 15 March 2015. Prior to that, he served as Deputy Secretary (Special Projects) at the Ministry of Manpower. Ng stepped down as the chief executive officer of the CPF Board on 1 April 2019. Ng remained a senior advisor at the MOM and CPF Board, as well as on the board committee for transformation at

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, as of March 2021. He was appointed as a non-executive and independent director of Great Eastern Holdings.

Personal life

Ng has two elder brothers. Ng Chee Khern, a former major-general who served as Chief of Air Force between 2006 and 2009. Ng Chee Meng, a former politician and

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who served as Chief of Air Force between 2009 and 2013, Chief of Defence Force between 2013 and 2015, and Member of Parliament (MP) for

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between 2015 and 2020. Ng is married to Valerie Low.

Awards

* Public Administration Medal (Silver) (Military), in 2007. *

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, in 2012. * Navy Meritorius Service Star (1 Class), in 2013https://tni.mil.id/photo-35-4-panglima-tni-sematkan-bintang-jalasena-utama-kepada-kasal-amerika-dan-singapura.html

References

, - , - {{DEFAULTSORT:Ng, Chee Peng Living people Singaporean people of Chinese descent Chiefs of the Republic of Singapore Navy Alumni of the University of Oxford Harvard Kennedy School alumni President's Scholars 1970 births