Mr Wan Kwong Weng is the Joint Company Secretary of the Manager and the Sponsor, as well as the other two Mapletree REIT managers. He is concurrently the Group Chief Corporate Officer of the Sponsor, where he is responsible for all legal, compliance, corporate secretarial, human resource as well as corporate communications, corporate social responsibility and administration matters across all business units and countries.
Prior to joining the Sponsor as General Counsel in 2009, Mr Wan was Group General Counsel – Asia at Infineon Technologies. He started his career with one of the oldest law firms in Singapore, Wee Swee Teow & Co., and was subsequently with the Corporate & Commercial/Private Equity practice group of Baker & McKenzie in Singapore and Sydney.
Mr Wan has an LL.B. (Honours) (Newcastle upon Tyne), where he was conferred the Wise Speke Prize, as well as an LL.M. (Merit) (London). He also attended the London Business School Senior Executive Programme. Mr Wan is called to the Singapore Bar, where he was awarded the Justice FA Chua Memorial Prize, and is also on the Rolls of Solicitors (England & Wales). He was conferred the Public Service Medal (PBM) in 2012 and Public Service Star (BBM) in 2017.
Mr Wan is also appointed as a Member of the Valuation Review Board, the Corporate Law Advisory Panel (CLAP) and the Reform of Legal Education Standing Committee. In addition, he is Secretary of the SMU Advisory Board for the Real Estate Programme