Chua Sock Koong

Chua completed her education at Raffles Girls School and Raffles Institution. Chua holds a Bachelor of Accountancy (First Class Honours) from the University of Singapore.

Appointed Group Chief Executive Officer in April 2007, Chua directed Singtel's global strategy and oversees its consumer, enterprise and digital businesses. Before helming Singtel as Group CEO, Chua served in various key capacities within the company, most notably CEO International and Group CFO, after first joining as Treasurer in 1989. She was instrumental in the corporatisation of Singtel in 1992 and its subsequent successful listing on the Singapore Stock Exchange a year later. She also restructured the company for competition in the lead up to the full liberalisation of the Singapore telecoms market in 2000.

Chua led Singtel's transformation from a traditional telecommunications company into a communications technology company.

In February 2014, Chua asked for regulators to grant telecommunications companies the right to charge technology companies such as WhatsApp and Skype, for use of telecommunication networks, which she said was necessary because of the fall in telecommunication companies' revenues from phone calls and text messaging as a result of competition from these new carriers.

Faced with the realities of a small domestic market, Chua was part of the core leadership team which developed Singtel's internationalisation strategy which accounts for the Group's acquisition of Optus in Australia and a host of other regional telecom investments.

As CEO International, she stepped up Singtel's diversification across some of Asia's fastest growing economies, leading and overseeing investments in India's Bharti Airtel, Indonesia's Telkomsel, Thailand's AIS and Philippines' Globe.