He Jing

He Jing

Ho Ching (1953 -), a Cantonese Chinese in Singapore, is the chief executive officer of Temasek Holdings (took office in 2002) and the wife of Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.

Character experience

He Jing graduated from crescent girls' school. She completed her pre university education at the national junior college and won the student of the year award and presidential scholarship. She graduated from the National University of Singapore in 1976 with a master's degree in Engineering (first class honors in Electrical Engineering). She also holds a master's degree in Science (Electronics) from Stanford University. In 1995, he was awarded the outstanding engineering alumni award. She is also an honorary academician of the institution of Engineers (Singapore).

He Jing is the eldest daughter of four children in the family of retired businessmen he Ronghong and Chen Qiuping. On December 17, 1985, He Jing married Lee Hsien Loong. Her husband later became the third prime minister of Singapore in December 2004.

He Jing was initially an engineer at the Ministry of defense. In 1987, she joined stem engineering as deputy director of Engineering Department. Later, she became president and CEO of the company, and retired in 2001. She then joined Temasek Holdings in May 2002.

honor

In 2006, Fortune magazine pointed out that He Jing made a "magnificent judgment" when buying the shares of chennayue group. Since then, "chennayue's share price has fallen 43% since the signing of the agreement. Now, under the new regime, Temasek will explore the potential embarrassment of seizing assets, dealing with cancellation and huge fines of Dashen finance.". He Jing

In 2007, He Jing ranked third in the list of authoritative businesswomen (outside the United States) published by the same magazine.

In the same year, she was selected as one of the "100 authoritative men and women" to transform the world published by time magazine.

Similarly, in 2007, He Jing ranked third in the world's top 100 authoritative women's list published by the business magazine Forbes, second only to Wu Yi, vice premier of the State Council of the people's Republic of China, while Angela Merkel, German Chancellor, topped the list. He ranked 36th in the previous year, eighth in 2008 and fifth in 2009.

On February 6, 2009, Temasek Holdings announced that He Jing would step down as chief executive officer, to be taken over by Charles Goodyear on October 1, 2009. Gu Zhibo (51 years old, American) joined the board of directors of Temasek Holdings in February of the same year. On March 1 of the same year, he took office as chief executive designate. He said she had "no regrets" during her tenure as chief executive. Sdhanabalan, Temasek's chairman, also mentioned that her resignation had nothing to do with her performance.

On July 21, 2009, Temasek's board of directors and Gu Zhibo announced that they had reached a consensus that Gu Zhibo would not take over the post of chief executive because of differences in strategy.

In 2011, he was one of the 50 leading figures published by the magazine "Bloomberg markets".

In 2013, He Jing ranked ninth in the list of 100 public investors compiled by the Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute.

In September 2015, Fortune magazine ranked 25 of the most influential business women in Asia Pacific.