Desmond Kuek

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Environmental, Social and Governance

Singapore well-positioned to lead Asia sustainability push: UBS's Kuek

According to UBS, 52% of Singaporean investors will have sustainable investments in their portfolios by 2023, up from 35% in 2018.

Corporate moves

Former SMRT CEO Desmond Kuek to join UBS as divisional vice chairman

SINGAPORE (Feb 4): UBS Group has appointed Desmond Kuek, SMRT Corporation’s former president and group CEO, as its divisional vice chairman for global wealth management.

Neo Kian Hong to take over as SMRT Group CEO from August

SINGAPORE (Apr 18): The torch of leadership at SMRT Corp has been handed from one SAF scholar-general to another.

Rail Pain

(Oct 30): Desmond Kuek, CEO of SMRT Corp, worked hard last year to persuade shareholders of the company to accept an offer from Temasek Holdings to take the company private via a scheme of arrangement. SMRT’s business, he said, needed a restructuring th
SMRT

In print this week

Has SMRT gone off the rails?

SINGAPORE (Oct 27): Desmond Kuek, CEO of SMRT Corp, worked hard last year to persuade shareholders of the company to accept an offer from Temasek Holdings to take the company private via a scheme of arrangement.
Desmond Kuek, president and CEO of transport operator SMRT Corp

SMRT CEO Kuek has five leadership tenets for a rapidly changing world

Desmond Kuek, president and CEO of transport operator SMRT Corp, spent over three decades in the military and public sector before joining the private sector in 2012. His past four years at SMRT have been tumultuous as he battled negative public sentiment
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