Ms Chew Gek Khim serves as the Deputy Chairman of the Tan Chin Tuan Foundation in Singapore. Active in community and public service, she also sits on the Board of Trustees of the National University of Singapore, and Board of Governors of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. She was Chairman of the National Environment Agency Board of Singapore from 2008 to 2015.
A lawyer by training, she has also been Chairman of The Straits Trading Company Limited since 2008.
Ms Chew is also Executive Chairman of Tecity Group, which she joined in 1987. She is Chairman of Malaysia Smelting Corporation Berhad and ARA Trust Management (Suntec) Limited, and sits on the Boards of ARA Asset Management Holdings Pte. Ltd. and Singapore Exchange Limited.
Ms Chew graduated from the National University of Singapore in 1984 and was awarded the Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite in 2010, the Singapore Businessman of the Year 2014 in 2015 and the Meritorious Service Medal at the National Day Award in 2016, , and the Supernova Award at the Women Entrepreneur Awards in 2019. Ms Chew was also conferred the degree of Doctor of Letters (Honoris Causa) by the Nanyang Technological University in September 2021.