Dilhan Pillay Sandrasegara

Dilhan Pillay Sandrasegara is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and executive director of Temasek Holdings, a global investment company headquartered in Singapore. Dilhan joined Temasek in September 2010 and was appointed executive director and CEO of Temasek Holdings on October 1, 2021. He has been the CEO 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. He has also led the Temasek market teams in Singapore and the Americas.

Before he joined the state investment firm, Dilhan was the former managing partner of WongPartnership LLP. 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. 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.

Dilhan graduated from the National University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Laws and obtained a Master of Law from the University of Cambridge. He serves as the vice chair of FCLTGLOBAL and is a board member of the Peterson Institute for International Economics.