Eric Khoo Heng-Pheng | |
Birth Name: | Khoo Heng-Pheng |
Birth Date: | 17 April 1956 |
Birth Place: | Tengkera, Malacca, Malaysia |
Resting Place: | Malacca Christian Cemetery, Cheng, Malacca, Malaysia |
Office: | Member of the World Scout Committee |
Term Start: | 2008 |
Term End: | 2014 |
Office2: | Chairman of the Asia Pacific Regional Scout Committee |
Office3: | Assistant National Chief Commissioner of the Scouts Association of Malaysia |
Nationality: | Malaysian |
Occupation: | Consultant, company director |
Eric Khoo Heng-Pheng (; 17 April 195613 January 2014) was one of 12 elected volunteer members of the World Scout Committee, the main executive body of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, and Chairman of its Asia Pacific Regional Scout Committee, elected in 2001. He was elected at the 38th World Scout Conference in South Korea for a six-year term.
Khoo was from Tengkera, Malacca, Malaysia. He was a company director in Petaling Jaya, Selangor, and consultant for public relations and marketing. His business activities involved logistics, engineering, warehouse and property development. He was a member of the Royal Commonwealth Society and the Chartered Institute of Marketing.
Khoo joined Scouting in 1965 at the age of nine as a Cub Scout and earned his King's Scout award in 1973. He has served as a Rover Scout leader, Scout Leader at the Maz International School, Chairman of the 25th Asia Pacific Region Scout Jamboree in Thailand in 2006, and Assistant National Chief Commissioner of the Scouts Association of Malaysia, as well as various positions in the King Scout's Association of Malaysia.
Khoo attended the 1999 35th World Scout Conference in Durban, South Africa, as well as the 2002 36th World Scout Conference in Greece and the 37th World Scout Conference in Tunisia.
Khoo was awarded:
He died on 13 January 2014 from a heart attack.[1]