Executive Deputy Chairman, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University

Ambassador Keng Yong Ong is Executive Deputy Chairman of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies. Concurrently, he is Ambassador-at-Large at the Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs, non-resident High Commissioner to Pakistan and non-resident Ambassador to Iran. Previously, Amb. Ong was High Commissioner of Singapore to Malaysia (2011-14) and served as Secretary-General of ASEAN (2003-08). Amb. Ong started his diplomatic career in 1979 and was posted to the Singapore Embassies in Saudi Arabia, Malaysia and the US. He was Singapore’s High Commissioner to India and concurrently Ambassador to Nepal (1996-98). He was also the Press Secretary to the then Prime Minister of Singapore, Mr Goh Chok Tong (1998-2002). At the same time, Mr Ong held senior appointments in the Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts, and the People’s Association in Singapore. He served as Director of the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) in the Lee Kuan Yew School of Policy at the National University of Singapore (2008-2011). Amb. Ong received his LLB (Hons) degree from the then University of Singapore and MA in Arab Studies from the Georgetown University.