Cedric Chew

Cedric is an experienced tri-sector leader with cross-domain success in set-up, operations, organizational development, change management/transformation, accelerated sustainable growth, and strategic hyper-collaborative partnership building. As a daring and imaginative first-mover aggregator, catalyst, and multiplier, he co-/leads multi-disciplinary teams within and across enterprises and ecosystems.

Cedric has spent nearly four decades helping the poor and growing individuals and organizations, notably through collaborative and transformative techniques. He has led in public, corporate, and non-profit sectors, including TOUCH Community Services, MINDS, The Salvation Army, and now SHRI.

Cedric led a government-supported national private-people partnership to help tens of thousands of migrant guest workers, homeless and vulnerable children, youth, women, and families during Singapore's Bicentennial (2019) and Covid-19 epidemic. As chairman of the Migrant Workers Ministry Alliance (MWMA) and citizen initiator-founder of the award-winning Project Providence (President's award 2020; NVPC), he mobilized the tri-sector for humanitarian disaster relief in India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, China, Vietnam, Myanmar, and Malaysia.

Cedric is humbled by the good hearts and relentless efforts of many stakeholders, partners, and volunteers in his decades-long journey of socio-economic contribution. He's married, has a daughter, and loves community, heritage, animals, and nature.