Dilhan Pillay Sandrasegara was appointed to the roles of CEO and executive director at Temasek Holdings in October  2021. He has been the executive director and chief executive officer of Temasek International since April 2019.

The lawyer has been with the state sovereign wealth fund for a decade, working in a range of roles including a two-year appointment in New York as head of the Americas, and as head of the investment, portfolio management, and enterprise development groups.

Sandrasegara was managing partner at WongPartnership LLP before he joined the state investment firm; his areas of expertise encompass corporate law, corporate governance, and mergers and acquisitions. In his current role, he is responsible for the investment firm’s stewardship role of Temasek, particularly in respect of its constitutional responsibilities to safeguard its own past reserves. Sandrasegara is concurrently chief executive of Temasek International, overseeing its investment and portfolio activity.

Temasek had its beginnings as a small holding firm with a portfolio of 35 government-linked companies. Today, the entity is a global investor, active in sectors such as real estate, agribusiness and technology.