Mr. Yeo has been the Chairman of Kerry Logistics Network since August 2012 and became the Executive Director of the Company in November 2013. He is also Deputy Chairman and a Director of Kerry Group Limited.
From 1988 to May 2011, Mr. Yeo served for 23 years in the Singapore Government, and was Minister for Information and the Arts, Health, Trade and Industry, and Foreign Affairs.
Mr. Yeo studied Engineering at Cambridge University on a President’s Scholarship, graduating with a Double First in 1976, and became a Signals Officer in the Singapore Armed Forces. After graduating from the Singapore Command and Staff College in 1979, he was posted to the Republic of Singapore Air Force. He graduated with an MBA (Baker Scholar) from the Harvard Business School in 1985. He was appointed Chief-of-Staff of the Air Staff (1985-1986) and Director of Joint Operations and Planning in the Defence Ministry (1986-1988), attaining the rank of Brigadier-General.
Mr. Yeo became Chancellor of Nalanda University in July 2015 and also chairs its International Advisory Panel. He is a member of the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum, the Berggruen Institute on Governance, the Asia-Pacific Advisory Board of Harvard Business School, the International Advisory Board of IESE Business School, the International Advisory Board of National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Japan, the Economic Development Commission, Hong Kong and the inaugural Board of Governors of the Singapore Manufacturing Federation. He is an Independent Non-executive Director of AIA Group Limited, a public company listed in the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and a Non-executive, Non-Independent Director of Wilmar International Limited, a public company listed in the Singapore Stock Exchange.
Mr. Yeo is Patron of LASALLE College of the Arts and the Eurasian Association, and Advisor to the Sun Yat-Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall. He is a Visiting Scholar at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.