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Singaporean businessman

In this Chinese name, the family name is Goh.

Goh Choon Phong (simplified Chinese: 吴俊鹏; traditional Chinese: 吳俊鵬; pinyin: Wú Jùn Péng) is a Singaporean businessman who is the chief executive officer (CEO) of Singapore Airlines and Singapore Airlines Cargo.

He was formally appointed to be the CEO on 1 January in an announcement dated 3 September ^[1] Prior to his appointment, he worked for the SIA group for more than 20 years for the airlines' operations in China and Scandinavia.^[2]

Early life and education

Goh was born in July in Singapore.^[3] He graduated from Hwa Chong Junior College, and is an alumnus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, majoring in computer science, management science and cognitive science.^[4] He also holds Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.^[5]

Career

Goh joined Singapore Airlines after finishing his Masters degree at Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a cadet administrative officer, fulfilling the sponsorship Singapore Airlines offered to him to pursue his studies at MIT.^[4]

Subsequently, Goh rose up the ranks, taking on appointments such as Senior Vice President of Commercial Technology, Senior Vice President of Information Technology, Executive Vice President of Marketing and Chairman of SilkAir, a former subsidiary of Singapore Airlines which has since merged with Singapore Airlines.

He was appointed as CEO of Singapore Airlines on 1 January , replacing outgoing CEO Chew Choon Seng who was retiring.^[6][7]

As CEO, Goh led the airline group in its expansion phase post Global Financial Crisis and the subsequent recovery from the COVID Pandemic, which brought the aviation industry to a halt in the early s.

Notably, the group recovered strongly post-pandemic, and achieved a record annual profit of S$ billion in fiscal year ^[8][9] Also under his leadership, he headed the consolidation of Singapore Airlines Group's business, merging its two wholly-owned budget carriers Tigerair and Scoot into a single entity Scoot, and the merger of SilkAir, a wholly-owned full service carrier subsidiary, into the main carrier Singapore Airlines.^{[10][11][12][13]} He also oversaw Singapore Airline's joint venture with Tata Group to form a new Indian full service carrier, Vistara, and the subsequent merger of Vistara with Air India, in which Singapore Airlines obtained a % stake in the newly rebranded airline.^[14][15]

Goh also looked after Singapore Airlines' response to the SQ incident, where severe turbulence over the Irrawaddy Basin hit the Singapore Airlines BER plane enroute from London Heathrow Airport to Singapore Changi Airport, resulting in a fatality and leaving many severely injured.^[16][17]

In recognition of his efforts, Goh was awarded with accolades such as the Centre for Aviation’s Asia-Pacific Airline CEO of the Year award, Eisenhower Global Innovation Award from the Business Council for International Understanding, Outstanding Chief Executive Officer in the Business Time's Singapore Business Awards, Singapore Corporate Award's Best Chief Executive Officer for companies with $1 billion or more in market capitalization, and Tatler's Asia Most Influential & ^{[18][19][20][21][22]} Most recently in , Goh was awarded the Excellence in Leadership Award at the Air Transport World (ATW) magazine’s annual Airline Industry Achievement Awards.^[23][24]

Goh is currently also a member of the National University of Singapore's Board of Trustees, and an independent director of Mastercard.^[25][26]

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