Guest of Honour – Dr Janil Puthucheary
Dr Janil Puthucheary
Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Digital Development and Information
Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Health
Singapore
Biography
Dr Janil Puthucheary is Senior Minister of State at the Ministry of Digital Development and Information, where he focuses on Singapore’s Smart Nation strategy and government digitalisation initiatives. He is concurrently Senior Minister of State at the Ministry of Health.
He is Minister-in-Charge of the Government Technology Agency (GovTech), and a member of the Smart Nation Inter-Ministerial Committee. He chairs the Inter-Agency Task Force on Mental Health and Well-being and is a member of the Child and Maternal Health and Well-being Taskforce. He is also a member of the Ministerial Committee on Child Health and Development.
Dr Janil Puthucheary is a member of the National Integration Council and an Advisor to Cyber Youth Singapore. As part of the People’s Association (PA), he is a Board Member, Advisor to the PA Youth Movement, and Advisor to Narpani Peravai.
He previously held portfolios at the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Transport.
He chairs OnePeople.sg, which works to promote racial harmony in Singapore, and the Executive Committee of the People’s Action Party (PAP) Community Foundation, which provides early childhood education and eldercare services. His political roles include Chair of Young PAP (the youth wing of PAP), Chair of the PAP Mental Health Group, and Whip.