SINGAPORE Land Authority (SLA) deputy chief executive Vincent Hoong will become chief executive on May 1, the government said yesterday.
Mr Hoong, 51, takes over from Lam Joon Khoi, who has been SLA’s chief executive since May 1, 2005. Mr Lam, 50, will move to the Ministry of Environment and Water Resources as deputy secretary.
An SLA statement yesterday said the statutory board initiated several programmes under Mr Lam’s leadership, including the launch of a national geospatial data infrastructure initiative (SG-SPACE), the development of an integrated land registration system and optimising the use of state land and properties.
Mr Lam and his team converted a number of state properties and put them to a range of uses for the hospitality, tourism, education, social and commercial sectors.
He also strengthened SLA’s business processes and responsiveness to customers and introduced pro- enterprise measures to minimise business and compliance costs.
Mr Hoong’s new appointment will broaden the scope of his work at SLA. He joined the then newly formed statutory board in June 2001 as deputy chief executive and was concurrently registrar of titles and deeds, controller of residential property.
In August 2002, he was concurrently appointed commissioner of lands. He is also a member of the Preservation of Monuments Board.
Before his SLA appointment, Mr Hoong was briefly in private practice. He joined the Singapore Legal Service in April 1984 and was posted to the Subordinate Courts, Judiciary, initially as a magistrate and subsequently as a district judge.
In 1997, he joined the former Singapore Land Registry at the Ministry of Law, where he remained until his appointment at SLA.
Mr Hoong graduated from the National University of Singapore in 1982 with a law degree.