Published on : Thursday, September 6, 2018
From Oct 29th, the appointment will take effect, said the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) in a media release on Wednesday (Sep 5).
Mr Tan, who is at present the deputy secretary (policy) at MINDEF, fills a position left by Mr Lionel Yeo who put down his papers as STB chief in May after 22 years of public service.
In MINDEF, Mr Tan has been taking care of the defence policy, strategic communications, national education and Total Defence.
He played an intrinsic role in fortifying defence relation of Singapore with international partners, and was at the same time involved in growing MINDEF’s public and social media engagement efforts.
Before joining MINDEF, Mr Tan held different senior leadership positions at the Public Service Division’s PS21 Office, the Civil Service College’s Institute of Governance and Policy and at the Foreign Economic Policy Division in MTI.