Mrs Josephine Teo is Chief Executive Officer and
Board Member of Business China (BC), a not-for-profit organization launched in 2007 by its Patron Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew and Chinese
Premier Wen Jia Bao. The mission of Business China is to nurture an inclusive
bilingual and bi-cultural group of Singaporeans through extensive use of the
Chinese language as the medium of communication, so as to sustain our
multi-cultural heritage, and to develop a cultural and economic bridge linking
the world and China.
Concurrently, she is the Assistant Secretary-General of
the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) where she oversees the second largest
affiliated union the Singapore Industrial Services Employees’ Union
(SISEU), Young NTUC and the Staff-Centric function. She also chairs the
Industrial Workers Education and Training Fund.
Prior to joining
NTUC, Josephine served in the
public and private sectors. She started
her career in the Economic Development Board (EDB) in
1992 and was seconded to China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park
Development Private Limited in 1996. Since her return
in 1998, Josephine has focused on Human Resources, first
in EDB and later in Agency for Science, Technology
& Research (A*STAR) . She was also Adjunct Faculty at the
Centre for Creative Leadership (CCL) in Asia from 2002 to 2006.
Josephine is a Member of Parliament for Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC and
Chairman of the Government Parliamentary Committee for Education. She is
Vice-Chairman of the REACH Supervisory panel and member of the Boards or
Governing Councils of Singapore Workforce Development Agency, Singapore
University of Technology and Design, Nanyang Polytechnic and Human Capital
Leadership Institute.
Josephine
is an alumni of Dunman High School and Raffles Junior College. She graduated
from the National University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Social Sciences
(Honours) in 1991, winning several awards for academic achievements including
the Rachel Meyer Book Prize for being the Best Woman
Student in 1990. She holds a Master of Science in
Economics from the London School of Economics.
She is married with three children.
