Professor Hsieh Tsun-yan
Vice-Chairman
SIM Governing Council (from 17 May 2017)
Chairman and Lead Counsellor
LinHart Group
Professor Hsieh Tsun-yan is the Chairman and Lead Counsellor of LinHart Group, a leadership services firm specialising in advising boards and counselling CEOs globally on succession and top leadership effectiveness. He is an Independent Director of Manulife Financial and Singapore Airlines and served on the Boards of Bharti Airtel and Sony. He is also a Provost Chair Professor (Practice) at the NUS Business School and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. He also serves as a special advisor to companies such as Cue Ball (media and technologies) and AppDirect (cloud services).
In a career spanning 30 years with McKinsey, he took on leadership positions including Chairman of Professional Development Committee, Managing Director, Canada and ASEAN practices, Chairman of Asia Client Committee, Global Leader of the Organisation and Leadership practice, and the Directors Committee.
His community service includes board roles current and past with the Duke-NUS Medical School, the Singapore International Foundation, the National University of Singapore Business School, the Institute of Policy Studies, the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Covenant House Canada and the University Health Network Foundation in Toronto.
Professor Hsieh is a Harvard MBA who won double gold medals reading mechanical engineering at the University of Alberta as a President and Colombo Plan Scholar.