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Ambassador-At-Large Ong Keng Yong

Secretary-General of ASEAN (Jan 2003 - Jan 2008)

Mr ONG Keng Yong is Ambassador-At-Large in the Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). He was Secretary-General of ASEAN (Association of Southeast
Asian Nations) from January 2003 to January 2008. He started his diplomatic career in the MFA from June 1979 and was posted to the Singapore Embassies in Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, the United States of America and India. He was Singapore's Ambassador to India and Nepal from 1996 to 1998. From September 1998 to December 2002, he was Press Secretary to the then Prime Minister of Singapore, Mr Goh Chok Tong. At the same time, Mr Ong was Deputy Secretary in the Singapore Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts. From 1999 to 2002, he was concurrently the Chief Executive Director of the
People's Association.

He also served in a non-executive capacity on the Boards of The Esplanade, the
Singapore Management University, Singapore Post Co Ltd, and the Housing and
Development Board. He stepped down from all these appointments before assuming his post as Secretary-General of ASEAN in January 2003, based in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Mr Ong was educated at the Anglo-Chinese School and St Andrew's School in
Singapore. He graduated from the then University of Singapore with a LLB (Hons) and the Georgetown University (Washington DC, USA) with a MA in Arab Studies. He was Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre on Contemporary Central Asia and the Caucasus in the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.

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Guest-of-Honour
Ong Keng Yong
Ambassador-At-Large
Secretary-General of ASEAN (Jan 2003 - Jan 2008)

Key-note speaker
Dr Jim Walker
Founder & Managing Director, Asianomics