Page 48 - NYAA & GAHA Responding to COVID-19

Mr Sergius Watt
NYAA Gold Award holder (2006 Cohort)

Mr Sergius Watt, Superintendent of Police and Deputy Director, Operations Singapore Police Force and an
NYAA Gold Award holder (2006 Cohort), was promoted to Deputy Assistant Commissioner of Police and Deputy
Commander, Jurong Police Division in 2021.

Mr Watt represented Singapore at the Y20 of the G20 in St Petersburg, Russia, in 2013. He was one of the key
members who drafted the Y20 Youth Declaration and presented it to Russia’s President Vladimir Putin.

Books Published By NYAA Gold Award Holders

Governing Cities – Asia Urban Transformation &
Towards Strategic Pragmatism In Foreign Policy

Dr Charles Phua Chao Rong, Chairman, Solaris Consortium of Management Consultancies, is a Strategic Analyst
specialising in Strategy Planning, Development and Implementation. He is also an NYAA Gold Award holder
(2002 cohort).

Dr Phua’s areas of competencies are the United States, China, ASEAN and Singapore. A Fullbright US-ASEAN
Fellow at Brookings Institution (Washington DC), Senior Fellow East-West Institute (New York), a Resident Fellow
at Columbia and John Hopkins Universities, and a SAF Scholar who won many international and Singapore
Awards for his leadership and contributions. Towards Strategic Pragmatism in Foreign Policy is one of Dr Phua’s
latest publications.

Dr Charles Phua
NYAA Gold Award holder
(2002 Cohort)

47