The Advisory Council

 

Wattanapong “Watt” Santatiwat - Chief of Staff and Board Governance - Office of the President of World Vision International

Prior to joining World Vision in 1976 to coordinate relief and development work, including refugee programs and child-focused development in Thailand, Watt worked as a landscape architect for a U.S. firm. He was appointed Field Director of World Vision Foundation of Thailand in 1982, with responsibility for strategic direction, government relations, program quality and financial accountability. In 1989 he was promoted to Regional Director for East Asia. In 1991 Watt was appointed Regional Vice President for Asia Pacific Region, a position he has held until being selected as Senior Vice President at WVI in September 2002.


Andrew Goh - Chairman

Andrew is the founder and publisher of the Christian magazine, "Impact", and has written several books both for secular and Christian audiences. He is also a renowned corporate trainer, and is an elder at Riverlife Church.


Liew Heng San - Vice-Chairman

Heng San headed Singapore's Central Provident Fund as CEO before retiring in 2010. He worships at the Telok Ayer Chinese Methodist Church.


Diana Chandra-Oh - Member

Diana is a professional counselor and director of her own training company. She has had wide international exposure having lived in Europe, the US and Australia. She is an executive committee member of the Bethesda Ministry for Women (BMW) in her church at Bethesda Bedok Tampines.


Choo Cheh Hoon - Member

Cheh Hoon is the Director of the School of Humanities, Ngee Ann Polytechnic, which runs the Early Childhood Education and Chinese Studies diploma programmes. Passionate about community work, she is developing more programmes where young people can be trained to serve children and youths more effectively. Cheh Hoon also serves professionally as a member of the Media Development Authority Film Consultative Panel and the SAFRA Radio Executive Committee. She worships at Covenant Presbyterian Church and is involved in the cell group and intercessory ministries.


Foo Pek Hong - Member

Pek Hong worked in the financial sector for about 30 years with the last eight years as former Managing Director of HSBC Asset Management Singapore. Upon her retirement,she took up the responsibility of heading Singapore Children Society's fund raising department, raising funds for disadvantaged and needy children in Singapore. She is also a trained teacher teaching children before she joined the financial sector. Peck Hong presently holds the position of CEO of the Kidney Dialysis Foundation. Married, Pek Hong has two grown children, and serves at Zion BP Church and is a treasurer for their kindergarten.


Tan Chee Koon - Member

Chee Koon recently retired as CEO of the National Volunteer and Philanthropy Center.  In addition to the local committees she sits on, she is also an executive committee member member of the International Association of Volunteer Effort and a Board Member of the Asia-Pacific Philanthropy Consortium.  She is married with two grown children, and attends and serves in Hing Hwa Methodist Church.


David Wong - Member

David is currently the Chairman of the Local Church Executive Committee at Wesley Methodist Church, and a Director at the YMCA of Singapore. He is a Chartered Accountant by training, and is on the boards of several companies/organizations such as OCBC Bank, the National Environment Agency and the HDB.


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