Khoong Hock Yun

Mr Khoong is the Assistant Chief Executive (Development) and Chief Data Officer having joined in 2000 around the time of its founding. Mr Khoong oversees the development of ICT industry in Singapore, which includes building companies, manpower, technologies, and critical national infocomm infrastructure e.g. the nationwide fibre-to-the-home project which has achieved 95% coverage in less than three years from inception. Mr Khoong also seeks to grow the impact of ICT on the broader economy by partnering industry to encourage growth ICT utilisation in various verticals like healthcare, logistics, etc. Included in his portfolio is the responsibility for IDA’s strategic and corporate planning, as well as the mandate to develop the smart cities programme at IDA.