STEERING BOARD

Mr PHUA Han Tian is currently an advisor for Industrial Internet-of-Things Innovation programme (I³), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR). He was the founding programme director for this initiative. Han Tian served as a member of the steering committee for Future of Manufacturing (FoM) in 2016 as was asked to assist in starting IIoT programme in 2017.

He has four decades of industry experience at companies including Hewlett-Packard, Singapore Airlines & Eastman Kodak.  He was Corporate VP & Global GM at HP for business inkjet printers, covering R&D, marketing, manufacturing, quality, service & support functions with worldwide P&L responsibility. He started as an R&D engineer at Hewlett-Packard & was the first local R&D Director for HP Singapore, playing a key role in building its inkjet printer R&D team. He served on Institute of Technical Education (ITE) Board of Governors for nine years & chaired its Finance & Investment Committee. He also chairs ITE’s Electronics & Infocomm Technology Academic Advisory Committee since 2010.

He obtained his BS in Computer & Communications from University of Essex in 1980, part-time MS in Electrical Engineering from NUS in 1986, and attended the Executive Program at University of Michigan Business School in 2001.

National University of Singapore (NUS) and Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star)

Professor Reginald TAN is Professor at the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at NUS, and concurrently Executive Director at the Science and Engineering Research Council at A*Star. He was also previously Programme Manager for Crystallisation and Particle Science and Director of Research at the Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences, A*Star, from 2012 to 2019. He holds degrees of BSc(Eng) from the Imperial College, London, M.Eng. from NUS, and PhD from the University of Cambridge, all in chemical engineering.

His research is focused on multiphase transport phenomena, crystallisation and formulation sciences, and environmental life cycle assessment. In the field of crystallisation, he has headed a leading research group on the science of crystallisation of active ingredients, focusing on molecular understanding of nucleation and crystal growth, the influence of impurities and additives, and crystallisation process development including Quality by Design, with applications directed at pharmaceuticals and specialty chemicals manufacturing. He has published 256 journal papers, with 7,832 total citations and h-index of 46 (as of September 2019, by Scopus).

Prof Tan has been a keen educator and advocate of science-based and evidence-based solutions to environmental issues. He has applied the technique of environmental life cycle assessment to case studies in mineral extraction, energy options, carbon dioxide capture and sequestration, material selection, and waste management, resulting in several seminal publications in the field.

With his expertise on environmental management, Prof Tan has been an active standards volunteer and partner with SPRING and ESG over the past 25 years. He has served in many leadership roles both internationally (ISO TC207 SC5 on life cycle assessment, ISO Coordinating Committee on Climate Change) and nationally (Chair of Environmental and Resources Standards Committee). In 2019, he was awarded the Enterprise SG–Singapore Standards Council Distinguished Partner Award for his contributions to standards development in the field of environmental management.

Ms Glory Wee is the Vice President and Head of the Advanced Manufacturing and Resource Development Divisions of the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB). She is responsible for designing and executing national strategies to drive the transformation and growth of Singapore’s manufacturing ecosystem; as well as for planning, shaping and developing industrial resource policies in the areas of land, infrastructure, utilities and greenhouse gas emissions, to bolster the sustainable development of industries in Singapore.

Prior to her current appointments, Glory was Director of the Aerospace, Marine & Offshore, and Urban Solutions Cluster at JTC Corporation; and was formerly Director for Financial Incentives at the Business Environment Division of EDB. She has also held various positions in EDB’s Transport Engineering Cluster (Aerospace, Offshore & Marine), Human Resources Division (Talent Performance & Rewards), as well as in the Singapore Ministry of Finance’s Economic Programmes Directorate (Economic Strategy).

Glory graduated with a MSc in Economics and a BSc in Economics (First Class) from the London School of Economics and Political Science.