Goh Choon Phong joined Singapore Airlines (SIA) in 1990, and has held senior management positions in Singapore and overseas with the Airline. He joined SIA’s Board on 1 October 2010 and was appointed Chief Executive Officer on 1 January 2011.

Mr Goh was previously Executive Vice President Marketing and the Regions and President of SIA Cargo. Prior roles with SIA included Senior Vice President Finance, Senior Vice President Information Technology, and Senior Vice President Commercial Technology. His overseas assignments were in China and Scandinavia.

Mr Goh is a Board Director of SIA Engineering Company, as well as Chairman of Budget Aviation Holdings, which owns and manages SIA’s low-cost subsidiary Scoot. He is a member of the National University of Singapore Board of Trustees, where he was Chairman of its Innovation and Enterprise Committee and has been appointed to its Nominating Committee and Executive Committee since 1 April 2023. Mr Goh is an Independent Director on the Board of Mastercard Incorporated.

He was a member of the International Air Transport Association’s Board of Governors between June 2011 and June 2023, and was its Chairman between June 2017 and June 2018. He retired from the Executive Committee of the Star Alliance Chief Executive Board on 4 June 2023. Mr Goh is an Executive Committee member of the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA), and was appointed as its Chairman on 1 January 2023.

In addition, Mr Goh is a member of the MIT Presidential CEO Advisory Board, made up of CEOs from leading companies in a variety of industries around the world. Mr Goh previously served on the Board of Directors for Mount Alvernia Hospital and Virgin Australia Holdings Limited.

Mr Goh was the 2015 recipient of the Centre for Aviation’s Asia-Pacific Airline CEO of the Year award. In 2016 he received the CEO Lifetime Achievement Award from the Airline Passenger Experience Association, as well as the Eisenhower Global Innovation Award from the Business Council for International Understanding. He was named Outstanding Chief Executive Officer of the Year in the Singapore Business Awards 2017, Person of the Year by Orient Aviation magazine in 2018, and Best Chief Executive Officer for companies with $1 billion or more in market capitalisation at the 2019 Singapore Corporate Awards.