Peter Ho Hak Ean is the Permanent
Secretary (Foreign Affairs) of Singapore. He also holds the posts of Head,
Civil Service, and Secretary (National Security and Intelligence Coordination)
in the Prime Minister’s Office.
He began his career as a naval
officer. After holding various command and staff appointments in the Singapore
Armed Forces, he transferred to the Administrative Service and was appointed
Deputy Secretary (Policy) in the Ministry of Defence, Singapore (MINDEF) in
1989.
In 1990, he was posted to the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Deputy Secretary. In November 1995, he was
appointed Permanent Secretary (Defence Development) in MINDEF, and in July
2000, he was appointed Permanent Secretary (Defence). He assumed the
appointment of Permanent Secretary (Foreign Affairs) on 15 July 2004. Peter Ho has also held a variety of other
concurrent appointments. He was Chairman of the Board of DSO National
Laboratories from March 1997 to June 1998, Chairman of the Maritime and Port Authority
of Singapore from February 1996 to January 2003, and Chairman of the Board of
the Defence Science and Technology Agency from March 2000 to March 2002, and
again from July 2002 to December 2003. He was also Deputy Chairman of the Board
of the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore from December 1999 to
November 2003.
He is currently a member of the
boards of the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, the Institute of
South Asian Studies, the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, the Institute of
Policy Studies, Chairman of Value Innovation Tank Limited, and Chairman of
Singapore Cooperation Enterprise. Peter Ho holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours)
in the Engineering Tripos and a Master of Arts from the University of Cambridge
in the United Kingdom.
