SINGAPORE: Leo Yip will be the new deputy chairman of Singapore’s Economic Development Board (EDB) from Sep 1, according to a statement by the Ministry of Trade and Industry on Wednesday.

Mr Yip will retain his current appointment as Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) while holding his new position.

The statement said that Mr Yip’s appointment will allow greater synergies and closer cooperation between EDB and MOM on issues such as meeting the manpower needs for Singapore’s economic development.

Mr Yip was Principal Private Secretary to then Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew in 2000, Deputy Secretary of MOM in 2002, as well as Chief Executive of the Singapore Workforce Development Agency from 2003.

- CNA/yb