Peter Ong

Peter Ong Boon Kwee is a Singaporean civil servant, and the chairman of Enterprise Singapore. He was the Head of the Civil Service from 2010 to 2017.

Ong received a Colombo Plan Scholarship for his tertiary education, earning a degree in economics with honours from Lincoln College, University of Adelaide in 1983. He received his MBA from Stanford University in 1993.

Ong currently is on the boards of directors of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, the National Research Foundation Singapore and AMRO, the ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic and Research Office. He is also chairman of the board for the Calvary Community Care charity. Since 2010 he has been on the board of Singapore Telecommunications Ltd.

As head of the Civil Service, Ong took a tough stand on corruption, saying that the authorities "will not hesitate to take action against a corrupt officer, no matter how senior he or she might be." During the severe smoke and haze conditions in the summer of 2013, Ong ensured that government employees were “haze-ready” and that government operations continued despite the atmospheric conditions.

Ong is a believer in well-designed programs to achieve government and societal goals, and recently has been stressing the importance of dealing appropriately with the diversity of peoples’ needs, and multifaceted solutions.

Honours In 2010, Ong received the Meritorious Service Medal (Pingat Jasa Gemilang) at the Singapore National Day Awards.

Foreign honour Honorary Commander of the Order of Loyalty to the Crown of Malaysia (P.S.M.) (2012)