George Yong-Boon Yeo joined the Kerry Group in January 2012 as Vice-Chairman. From 1988 to 2011, he served in the Singapore Government in various portfolios as Minister for Information and the Arts; Health; Trade and Industry, and Foreign Affairs. Prior to that, he attained the rank of Brigadier-General in Singapore’s defence forces.
Mr Yeo chairs the International Advisory Panel of the Nalanda University Governing Board. He is a member of the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum, the Nicolas Berggruen Institute’s 21st Century Council, the Asia-Pacific Advisory Board of Harvard Business School and the International Advisory Board of Spain’s IESE Business School. He is also a Patron of LASALLE College of the Arts and Adviser to the Sun Yat-Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall.
Mr Yeo studied engineering at Cambridge University on a President’s Scholarship, graduating with a double first in 1976. He graduated with an MBA (Baker Scholar) from the Harvard Business School in 1985.
