Albert Chua | |
Office: | Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Singapore) |
Term Start: | April 2022 |
Predecessor: | Chee Wee Kiong |
Office2: | Permanent Secretary, Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources |
Term Start2: | October 2017 |
Term End2: | March 2022 |
Predecessor2: | Choi Shing Kwok |
Successor2: | Stanley Loh |
Office3: | Singaporean Permanent Representative to the United Nations |
Term Start3: | August 2011 |
Term End3: | June 2013 |
Predecessor3: | Vanu Gopala Menon |
Successor3: | Karen Tan |
Birth Place: | Singapore |
Term End4: | June 2011 |
Term Start4: | March 2008 |
Office4: | Singaporean High Commissioner to Australia |
Albert Chua (born 1968) is a Singaporean civil servant and diplomat who served as Permanent Representative of Singapore to the United Nations from 2011 to 2013.[1]
He was educated at Raffles Institution, the University of East Anglia (BA, English Literature, 1990) and Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University (MPA, 2000). He served as Singaporean High Commissioner to Australia from March 2008 to June 2011, and as Principal Private Secretary to then Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong from 2004 to 2006.[2] He was appointed Permanent Secretary, (Foreign Affairs) in April 2022, having formerly been Permanent Secretary (Sustainability and the Environment).[3]
He received a Gold Public Administration Medal in 2017.[4]