Appointment of Members for the Public Transport Council

1.     The Minister for Transport, Mr Chee Hong Tat, has appointed 17 members to the Public Transport Council (PTC) for a period of three years from 1 May 2025 to 30 April 2028. The Council will continue to be chaired by Ms Janet Ang and will comprise members from academic institutions, businesses, grassroots organisations, labour unions, and professional services.

2.     Of the 17 members, eight are newly appointed. They are:

Mdm Amatul Jameel Suhani Binte Sujari

Chairperson of People’s Association Malay Activity Executive Committees Council and the Malay Activity Executive Committee at Mountbatten Community Club

Mr Anwar Abdullah

Chief Executive Officer, Polytron.AI

Ms Bharathi Kumaran

Deputy Director, Point-to-Point, Land Transport Authority

Mr Cheng Yong Tai

Chief Editor, Chinese News, MediaCorp Pte Ltd

Ms Beatrice Chong

Deputy Director-General of Education (Professional Development), Ministry of Education

Mr D S Sakthivel

Deputy Director, Community Partnership (North East), Land Transport Authority

Mr Daniel Loh

NTUC Central Committee Member and President, Air Transport Executive Staff Union

Dr Timothy Wong

Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, National University of Singapore

3.     The following members will step down from PTC with effect from 1 May 2025:

Mr Abdullah Shafiie Bin Mohamed Sidik

Honorary Chairman, Siglap South Community Centre

Ms Lee Huay Leng

Editor-in-Chief, Chinese Media Group, SPH Media

Ms Nadia Ahmad Samdin

Counsel & Senior Project Leader, Tri-Sector Associates

Associate Professor Patricia Tan

Associate Professor, Division of Accounting, Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University

Mr Thuvinder Singh s/o Bachan Singh

General Secretary, Union of Telecoms Employees of Singapore

Mr Yeo Teck Guan

Senior Group Director (Public Transport), Land Transport Authority

4.     The Ministry of Transport would like to thank the outgoing members for their contributions to PTC and welcome on board the new members.

5.     The composition of the 18-member PTC with effect from 1 May 2025 (including Mr Leow Yew Chin whose term of appointment is concurrent with his appointment as Chief Executive, PTC) is as follows:

Chairperson

Ms Janet Ang, 洪月霞
Chairman, Singapore Polytechnic, NUS Institute of Systems Science and SISTIC.com Pte Ltd

Members

Mdm Amatul Jameel Suhani Binte Sujari*
Chairperson of People’s Association Malay Activity Executive Committees Council and the Malay Activity Executive Committee at Mountbatten Community Club

Mr Anwar Abdullah*
Chief Executive Officer, Polytron.AI 

Ms Bharathi Kumaran*
Deputy Director, Point-to-Point, Land Transport Authority

Mr Cham Dao Song, 詹道松
Senior Director, Strategic Planning Division, Ministry of National Development 

Mr Cheng Yong Tai*, 郑荣泰
Chief Editor, Chinese News, MediaCorp Pte Ltd 

Ms Beatrice Chong*, 张彩虹
Deputy Director-General of Education (Professional Development), Ministry of Education

Dr Vincent Chua, 蔡钟发
Retired Associate Professor, Singapore University of Social Sciences

Mr D S Sakthivel*
Deputy Director, Community Partnership (North East), Land Transport Authority

Ms Ku Geok Boon, 邱玉雯
Chief Executive Officer, Early Childhood Development Agency (from 1 May 2025)

Mr Leow Yew Chin, 廖友勤
Chief Executive, Public Transport Council

Mr Lim Bok Ngam, 林木岩
Independent Director, Hock Lian Seng Holdings Ltd and Member, Development Project Advisory Panel, Ministry of Finance 

Mr Lim Boon Wee, 林文威
Senior Vice President (Administration), Singapore Management University 

Mr Daniel Loh*, 卢裕城
NTUC Central Committee Member and President, Air Transport Executive Staff Union 

Mr Mak Mun Whai, 麦文伟
General Secretary, National Transport Workers’ Union

Mr Naseer Bin Ghani
Chairman, West Coast Community Club Indian Activity Executive Committee

Mr Tan Soo Nan, 陳序南
Non-Executive and Non-Independent Director of Raffles Medical Group and Raffles Health Insurance Pte Ltd

Dr Timothy Wong*, 王崇基
Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, National University of Singapore

* Newly-appointed members