Professor Ivy Ng is the group CEO of SingHealth, overseeing the group’s four public hospitals, three community hospitals, five national speciality centres and eight polyclinics.

When Prof Ng was CEO of KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital (KKH), she steered its positioning from a hospital usually associated with obstetrics and gynaecology to one offering a range of women’s healthcare services such as aesthetic surgical procedures. The hospital also debuted a community-level programme aimed at helping parents of children with developmental needs, established a one-stop centre for patients with endometriosis, and launched a mobile app, Women&Child HealthPedia, that focuses on women’s and children’s health issues.

The trained paediatric geneticist is also a clinical professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and an adjunct professor at Duke-NUS Medical School. The chairman of the KKH Fund Committee and the Singapore National Eye Centre Fund Committee, she also sits on the boards of the SingHealth Fund Limited, Duke-NUS School of Medicine, Singapore Management University, Eastern Health Alliance, the National Medical Research Council (NMRC), the Biomedical Research Council, Integrated Health Information Systems, and the Human Health and Potential (HHP) Committee. Prof Ng is married to Singapore’s defence minister Ng Eng Hen and has four children. Over the years, Professor Ng has earned multiple awards and recognitions for her services and contributions, including the NUS University Outstanding Service Award 2020 and President’s Science & Technology Medal 2021.