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Yee Ping Yi
Chief Executive Officer Central Provident Fund Board, Singapore
Mr Yee Ping Yi is appointed the Chief Executive Officer of the Singapore Central Provident Fund Board with effect from 1 January 2011. The mission of the Central Provident Fund Board is to enable Singaporeans to have a secure retirement. Over a period of 50 years, it has evolved from a simple old age savings plan into a comprehensive social security system providing for not only retirement needs, but also housing and healthcare needs of Singaporeans. Mr Yee was previously Deputy Chief Executive of the Singapore Civil Service College and Director of its Centre for Governance and Leadership, where he developed research into public policy and public sector governance. Concurrently Senior Director of the Strategic Policy Office at the Public Service Division, Prime Minister's Office, he was involved in whole-of-government and inter-agency initiatives for public sector strategic planning. Prior to that, Mr Yee headed the Healthcare Finance and Corporate Services Division and the Planning and Development Division at the Ministry of Health, overseeing healthcare financing reviews including Medisave, MediShield and Medifund to provide healthcare financing for Singaporeans. Mr Yee also served in the then Personnel Policy Depsartment at the Public Service Division, the Economic Development Board and the Ministry of Trade and Industry. Mr Yee graduated in 1994 from Cambridge University, UK, with BA(First Class Hons) in electrical engineering. He received an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 2001.