Elaine Yew

Elaine Yew is a Senior Partner in Egon Zehnder and the Asia Lead of the firm’s Global Board Advisory Practice. She serves private and public companies on succession planning for Boards, CEOs and other C-level positions, and advises on CEO development, top team effectiveness, organizational culture and board effectiveness. Elaine is also the Global Head for our Family Business and Family Office Practice, and was the founding leader of the Global Leadership Advisory Practice previously. She served on the Global Executive Committee of the firm for eight years, and as the Managing Partner of the Singapore office for six.

Elaine has a broad-ranging portfolio of non-executive roles: She is an independent Non-Executive Director on the Board of SPH Media Holdings; and is also on the Board of MOH Holdings, the holding company of Singapore’s public healthcare clusters, where she chairs the Human Resource Committee. She chairs the independent Nominating Committees of BW Offshore, BW Energy, BW LPG, Hafnia and Cadeler AS, listed on the Norwegian Stock Exchange. She sits on the board of The Majurity Trust, a philanthropic foundation, and on the board of Wild Rice Ltd, a not-for-profit theatre company, and on the board of Capella Hotels Group. She is also a board member of the Singapore International Mediation Centre and is a Justice of the Peace. She had previously served for nine years on the Board of Trustees of the National University of Singapore.

Elaine is a trained Coach and Fellow of the Institute of Coaching, McLean, affiliated to the Harvard Medical School. She is also a certified Mediator and uses some of the principles in helping people work better together.