Alan Chan

Alan Chan Heng Loon (born 22 February 1953) is a former Singaporean civil servant. He was the former chief executive of the Singapore Press Holdings.

Early life Chan was born to a bilingual family fluent in English and Chinese. He studied in Haig Boys School, Raffles Institution and National Junior College. He was awarded the President's Scholarship and French Government Scholarship, and graduated with a Dip Ingenieur from Ecole Nationale de L'Aviation Civile in 1978. He subsequently went to INSEAD and obtained an MBA in 1983.

Career After studying in France, Chan worked as a civil servant under various Singaporean government ministries. Chan served as the Ministry of Defence’s Director of Manpower. In 1994 Chan successfully applied to be the Principal Private Secretary of then Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew. Thereafter, Chan was appointed as Deputy Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Strict on making his subordinates speak Chinese properly, he imposed a ten-cent fine on whoever who used English terms in their Chinese conversations. Chan retired from SPH on 1 September 2017.

He was appointed Chairman of the Land Transport Authority on 1 April 2016.

Listed as one of "100 Inspiring Rafflesians" in 2008,

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