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Mr Desmond Chong
            Mr  Desmond  Chong  Kok  Hwee,  Head  of  Risk
            Management,  MasterCard  Asia  Pacific  and  NYAA
            Gold Award holder (1998 Cohort) and NYAA Council
            Member,  was  elected  as  the  Singapore  Scout
            Association  Chief  Commissioner  on  1  December
            2021.

            Mr  Chong  has  vast  experience  managing  youth
            projects during his NYAA journey and represented the   Mr Desmond Chong Kok Hwee, NYAA Gold Award holder
            NYAA in many international conferences and events.   (1998 Cohort).
            One of the most significant projects he chaired was
            breaking the Guinness World Records on the World
            Longest Human Dominoes, which involved more than
            ten thousand young people in 2006.

            NYAA  is  confident  that  the  Singapore  Scout
            Association will benefit from his leadership and vast
            experience in youth work.





            Mr Albert Pek
            Many NYAA Gold Award holders hold senior positions
            in the public and corporate sectors. Mr Albert Pek, an
            NYAA Gold Award holder (2004 cohort), is the Deputy
            Principal Private Secretary to Deputy Prime Minister
            and Coordinating Minister for Economic Policies, Mr
            Heng Swee Keat.

                                                              Mr  Albert  Pek  Yi  Peng,  NYAA  Gold  Award  holder  (2004
                                                              Cohort).

            Mr Darren Tan
            Mr  Darren  Tan,  an  ex-offender  and  an  NYAA  Gold
            Award  holder  (2020  cohort),  continued  to  lead  in
            charities like Yellow Ribbon Fund Raising Project. In
            addition, as a legal advisor, he has served well in Jurong
            GRC,  Senior  Minister  Tharman  Shanmugaratnam’s
            ward. Mr Tan is now a successful lawyer, and  NYAA
            believes  he  will  continue  to  serve  the  community
            well.

                                                              Mr Darren Tan Tho Eng, NYAA Gold Award holder (2020
                                                              Cohort).
            Dr Ken Ong
            Dr  Ken  Ong,  an  NYAA  Council  Member  and  an
            NYAA  Gold  Award  holder  (1995  cohort),  has  been
            nominated by NYAA ED to attend a 3-day leadership
            course conducted by the Ecole Hoteliere de Lausanne
            of  Switzerland.  Dr  Ken  shared  that  the  professor
            flown in from Switzerland teaches techniques quite
            different from our local university. The course forces
            you to think out of the box to find solutions.
                                                              Dr  Ken  Ong  Kian  Pin,  NYAA  Gold  Award  holder  (1995
                                                              Cohort).


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