PRESIDENT (2023 - 2025)
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Dr. Kevin YL TAN LLB (Hons); LLM, JSD (Yale), taught full-time at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore from 1986 to 2000. In 2000, he founded Equilibrium Consulting Pte Ltd, a boutique consultancy focused on history, heritage and publishing. He is active in many civic organizations including the Singapore Heritage Society and the Foundation for the Development of International Law in Asia (DILA). He has edited and written over 60 books and over 100 articles on the law, history and politics of Singapore. He is currently an Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore as well as Senior Fellow at the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University. Kevin specializes in constitutional law, the Singapore legal system, international human rights, and legal history and writes extensively on the history of Singapore. He served as ICOMOS Singapore’s inaugural President from 2014 to 2021 and was re-elected President in 2023.
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VICE PRESIDENT (2023 - 2025)
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Dr. YEO Kang Shua PhD, MArch, BA(AS), is an Associate Professor of Architectural History, Theory and Criticism at the Singapore University of Technology and Design. He held the inaugural Hokkien Foundation Career Professorship in Architectural Conservation (2014 to 2018) . He has worked on many projects involving conservation work, such as Wak Hai Cheng Bio (Yueh Hai Ching Temple), and St Andrew’s Cathedral.
Kang Shua has had the privilege of being part of the team on three separate projects that won the UNESCO Asia-Pacific Heritage Awards for Culture Heritage Conservation: Award of Excellence for Singapore Lam Ann Association’s Hong San See Temple Restoration Project in 2010 and the inaugural heritage award Jury Commendation for Innovation for Yuhu Elementary School Project in Lijiang, China in 2005. He has been appointed Jury of the UNESCO Asia-Pacific Heritage Awards for Culture Heritage Conservation since 2015 and was the Jury Chair for 2021 and 2023. |
TREASURER (2023 - 2025)
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TAN Wee Cheng is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Accounting at the National University of Singapore and a Chartered Accountant. He had previously worked as an auditor, investment banker, financial regulator as well as chief financial officer of a listed company. He was the Treasurer (2009-2013) and Advisor for Governance and Finance (2013-2020) for the Singapore Heritage Society, a non-governmental organization dedicated to the conservation and promotion of Singapore heritage. He is also the author of “The Greenland Seal Hunter” (2004), “Hot Spots and Dodgy Places “ (2009), and “Exotic Lands and Dodgy Places” (2010) published by Marshall Carvendish.
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DIRECTOR
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LIM Chen Sian read Archaeology and Finance at Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, and received his MA in Southeast Asian Studies from the National University of Singapore. Field and research experience includes working on Classical Maya settlements in Belize, Central America; Middle Kingdom Pharaonic Egypt; colonial archaeology sites in Boston Massachusetts; 10th-14th century settlements in Aceh, North Sumatra and Jambi, Indonesia; 15th-19th century port cities at Banten West Java, Indonesia and Melaka, Malaysia. More recently, fieldwork involves working in Cambodia investigating ancient industrial sites and early examples of urbanization in Southeast Asia. Since 2002, he is actively involved in the local archaeology scene and for the last decade has led all the major archaeological investigations in Singapore. His research interests are the archaeology of European colonial period in Southeast Asia and identifying potential archaeologies, including the pressing need for legislation to implement pre-development archaeological investigations and regulation pertaining to artifacts and antiquities.
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DIRECTOR
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HO Weng Hin is a founding partner of Studio Lapis <www.studiolapis.sg>, a Singapore-based award-winning architectural conservation specialist consultancy involved in local and overseas conservation and adaptive reuse projects. Weng Hin is a founding director of the Singapore National Committee of ICOMOS, and is currently Vice President on the ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on Twentieth Century Heritage (ISC20C). He is also founding Chair of DOCOMOMO Singapore Chapter. Weng Hin serves on government advisory committees on heritage policy and planning. He is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at NUS College of Design & Engineering, an Adjunct Senior Fellow with the SUTD Academy, and recently taught at the inaugural International Course on the Conservation of Modern Heritage organized by the Getty Conservation Institute. Weng Hin obtained his specialist postgraduate training in architectural conservation from the University of Genoa, Italy, with top honours. He is the co-author of several books including Our Modern Past: A Visual Survey of Singapore Architecture (1920s-70s), and former co-editor of the Singapore Architect, the professional journal of the Singapore Institute of Architects.
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DIRECTOR
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TAN Kar Lin is a founding partner of Studio Lapis, an architectural restoration and research consultancy. The Singapore-based practice works on conservation and adaptive reuse projects such as the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd (1847), Raffles Hotel (1887), former St. James Power Station (1926) and former Kallang Airport (1937). She obtained her architecture degree and MA in research from the Department of Architecture, National University of Singapore.
Kar Lin is the series editor of the 8-volume Conservation Technical Handbook (2017-2021), a collaboration between ICOMOS Singapore and Urban Redevelopment Authority of Singapore. From 2005-2007, she was the co-editor of Singapore Architect, the journal of the Singapore Institute of Architects. She co-authored Green Ink on an Envelope (2013), the monograph of pioneer architect Sonny Chan Sau Yan, as well as Our Modern Past (2015), a Singapore Heritage Society project to document, promote appreciation, and advocate for the city-state’s Modern heritage. Kar Lin is also a founding director of Docomomo Singapore. |
DIRECTOR
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Dr. Johannes WIDODO is the director of Graduate Programs in Architectural Conservation and Tun Tan Cheng Lock Centre for Asian Architectural and Urban Heritage (in Melaka) of the National University of Singapore. He is the founder and executive director of iNTA (International Network of Tropical Architecture), the founder of mAAN (modern Asian Architecture Network), an Executive Committee member of the Asian Academy for Heritage Management, a jury member for the UNESCO Asia Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation, member of ICOMOS International Scientific Committee, a founding member and director of ICOMOS National Committee of Singapore and Indonesia, a founding member of DoCoMoMo Macau and Singapore, served as an advisory board member of the Preservation of Sites and Monuments of the National Heritage Board of Singapore (2013-2019). He is an Associate Member of the Singapore Institute of Architects (SIA), a board member of SEACHA (South-East Asian Cultural Heritage Alliance), and a member of TCHS (The Circle of Human Sustainability (Singapore). Expertise: architecture & urban history and morphology, architectural & cultural heritage conservation and management, training & education in architecture and cultural heritage
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EMERGING PROFESSIONAL REPRESENTATIVE (2023 - 2025)
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Dr. Ian TAN is an adjunct lecturer in the History and Theory of Architectural Conservation at the University of Hong Kong. His research interests lie in colonial and vernacular architecture and focuses on the 19th and 20th century development of iron building types in Asian port cities. Ian is keen to explore the parallel developments of architecture and conservation in Southeast Asia during the 19th and 20th century, and the intersection of related fields, such as craftmanship, archaeology, and museology. He holds professional membership in architectural and heritage organisations such as SIA, HKIA, ULI, IHBC, ICOMOS, ICOM, and DOCOMOMO. More recently, he completed training and qualified as a specialist welder.
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EMERGING PROFESSIONAL REPRESENTATIVE (2023 - 2025)
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Arpichart KITTIMETHAVEENAN is a registered architect and independent researcher based in Bangkok. He holds a Master's in Conservation of Monuments and Sites from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium (2021). From 2021-2023, he worked as a Conservation Consultant at Studio Lapis and became a member of ICOMOS Singapore. His focus is on conserving the cultural heritage of Catholic Churches in Thailand, with a specific interest in the connections between Chinese Catholic communities in Thailand, Singapore, and Southern China. Currently, he is a member of CIPA Heritage Documentation and Future for Religious Heritage Europe (FRH).
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PAST COMMITTEES
1st Committee: 2014/2015 - 2016
President: Kevin YL Tan
Vice-President: Lim Chen Sian
Honorary Treasurer: Tan Wee Cheng
2nd Committee: 2016/2017 - 2018
President: Kevin YL Tan
Vice-President: Lim Chen Sian
Honorary Treasurer: Tan Wee Cheng
3rd Committee: 2018/2019 - 2020
President: Yeo Kang Shua
Vice-President: Tan Wee Cheng
Honorary Treasurer: Lim Chen Sian
4th Committee: 2021/2022 - 2023
President: Yeo Kang Shua
Vice-President: Tan Wee Cheng
Honorary Treasurer: Lim Chen Sian
5th Committee: 2023/2024 - 2025
President: Kevin YL Tan
Vice-President: Yeo Kang Shua
Honorary Treasurer: Tan Wee Cheng
1st Committee: 2014/2015 - 2016
President: Kevin YL Tan
Vice-President: Lim Chen Sian
Honorary Treasurer: Tan Wee Cheng
2nd Committee: 2016/2017 - 2018
President: Kevin YL Tan
Vice-President: Lim Chen Sian
Honorary Treasurer: Tan Wee Cheng
3rd Committee: 2018/2019 - 2020
President: Yeo Kang Shua
Vice-President: Tan Wee Cheng
Honorary Treasurer: Lim Chen Sian
4th Committee: 2021/2022 - 2023
President: Yeo Kang Shua
Vice-President: Tan Wee Cheng
Honorary Treasurer: Lim Chen Sian
5th Committee: 2023/2024 - 2025
President: Kevin YL Tan
Vice-President: Yeo Kang Shua
Honorary Treasurer: Tan Wee Cheng