CapitaLand Investment’s Quah Ley Hoon joins SPH Media’s board

CAPITALAND Investment (CLI) group chief corporate officer Quah Ley Hoon will join SPH Media’s board with effect from Jun 1, the media group said on Wednesday (May 31).

Quah currently oversees corporate matters at the real estate investment manager, including group communications, organisational culture development, talent and people, legal, procurement and administration, as well as government relations.

Her experience spans both the private and public sectors. Before CLI, she was the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore’s (MPA) first woman chief executive, a role she held from January 2019 to September 2022 before joining CLI in December 2022.

She led MPA through the Covid-19 pandemic, organising vaccination drives for local maritime personnel and crew members onboard ships calling at Singapore. She also helped establish the Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation in August 2021, and managed the launch of the Maritime Singapore Decarbonisation Blueprint in March 2022.

Prior to MPA, Quah was chief editor of Mediacorp’s Channel NewsAsia from 2013 to 2018, in charge of international news production for a year, as well as English programmes and documentaries by the current affairs team.

In the public sector, Quah had stints at the Ministry of Trade and Industry, Ministry of the Environment, Prime Minister’s Office, Ministry of Community, Youth and Sports, and Ministry of Finance.