Yap Kwong Weng is CEO of the Vietnam SuperPort™, a multimodal logistics hub led by YCH Group, a leading integrated end-to-end supply chain management and logistics partner operating across Asia Pacific. He was previously Head of Transformation in Sembcorp industries, a leading renewables player and an established industrial and urban solutions provider in Asia. He led the development of Sembcorp’s urban business, focusing on its industrial park strategy and sustainable development.
 
Prior to Sembcorp, Kwong Weng held business consulting roles in KPMG and Ernst & Young as an Executive Director, and set up the KPMG-A*STAR joint lab, a first in professional services. In industry, he held management positions in Southeast Asia, co-founded a tech/crypto travel start-up in Vietnam and led the development of a strategic seaport in Myanmar when it first opened up. Earlier in his career, Kwong Weng served as a commando officer for over a decade; graduated from the gruelling US Navy SEAL training course in San Diego and worked as a counter-terrorism analyst in the Singapore Armed Forces.
 
Kwong Weng was named as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and awarded the Rotary Peace Fellowship (Chulalongkorn University) in 2012. He currently serves as a council member of the Singapore Red Cross was a board member of the Singapore Nanjing Eco High-tech Island. He received his PhD from the University of Glasgow, including master’s degrees from the University of Cambridge, University of Manchester and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.