Ambassador Chan Heng Chee is a Singaporean academic and diplomat currently serving as Ambassador-at-Large with the Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She is Chair of the Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities at the Singapore University of Technology and Design and Chair of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies–Yusof Ishak Institute. Previously, Ambassador Chan Heng Chee was Singapore’s Ambassador to the United States and Singapore’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations. Currently she is Deputy Chairman of the Social Science Research Council, a member of the Science of Cities Committee, National Research Foundation, and a member of the Advisory Council on the Ethical Use of Artificial Intelligence and Data, Ministry of Communications and Information. She is also a member of the Presidential Council for Minority Rights.