Chairman, EDPR Sunseap APAC; Independent Director, IMDA, Jurong Port Holdings, and NTUC FairPrice; SMU Distinguished Fellow; and other directorships
Mr Robert Yap is presently the Chairman, Advisory Board and Independent Director, Management Board of EDPR Sunseap, Asia Pacific, a subsidiary of EDPR SA on the Euronext. He is currently the Independent Director of NTUC FairPrice Group, IMDA, Jurong Port, Skylab Holding, Alexandra Health Fund; a member of MAS, Corporate Governance Advisory Committee and Council for Board Diversity; senior advisor to Jubilee Partners. He presides as Advisory Board Co-Chairman of Singapore Management University (SMU) Institute of Service Excellence and Dean’s Fellow for SMU School of Computing and Information Systems.
Mr Yap was a member of IBM Global Advisory Board and President of DFS Venture before his retirement in 2014. His past board directorships of SGX-listed companies included logistics, supply chain and technology companies. He represented Singapore as council member for the ASEAN Business Advisory Council and served as Deputy Secretary for Singapore National Employers Federation. In 2020, he was conferred SMU Distinguished Fellow and the inaugural Dean’s Fellow of Information Systems for his contribution as eminent leader of industry.