Koh Boon Hwee holds a first class honours degree in mechanical engineering

Mechanical engineering

Mechanical engineering is a discipline of engineering that applies the principles of physics and materials science for analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of mechanical systems. It is the branch of engineering that involves the production and usage of heat and mechanical power for the...

 from the Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London

University of London

-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...

, and an MBA (Distinction) from the Harvard Business School

Harvard Business School

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. He is also an alumnus of St Andrew's School.

Boon Hwee was appointed Chairman of the Singapore Telecom Group

Singapore Telecommunications

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 in 1986 and then joined the Singapore Airlines

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 board in March 2001.

Among other board appointments, Boon Hwee served as Chairman of the SIA Engineering Company; a Director of Agilent Technologies

Agilent Technologies

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 Inc, [Four Soft Ltd] and Norelco UMS Holdings Limited; Executive Director of MediaRing Limited and Tech Group Asia Limited. He serves on the boards of several private companies, including Temasek Holdings

Temasek Holdings

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 (Private) Limited as a Director; AAC Acoustic Technologies Holdings Ltd and Infiniti Solutions Private Limited. He is also a Council Member of the Singapore Business Federation.

On 1 January 2006, Boon Hwee became chairman of DBS Bank

DBS Bank

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. He joined DBS as a director on 15 June 2005.

He will be stepping down from his current post on 30 April. His replacement is Peter Seah.