(Session Moderator)
Mr. Robin THEVATHASAN has been consulting on local and international projects since January 2018 when he retired from 33 years of service with the ST Engineering Group. He chairs a COVID-19 Taskforce for AAIS to help manage issues affecting the aerospace industry. He worked for several years as stress engineer in Europe (British Aerospace & Fokker Space) and with ST Engineering he undertook various engineering functions, Strategic Planning, International Business Development, secondment to DSTA (a Ministry of Defence Statutory Board). Prior to retirement he was involved in Change Management of a Group-wide Shared Services project.

His qualifications : Honours degree in Mechanical Engineering from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia (1974), Master of Science in Aircraft Design from the Cranfield Institute of Technology, UK (1979). He also has a Graduate Diploma in Financial Management, Singapore Institute of Management (1998) and attended the Programme for Executive Development, International Institute for Management Development (IMD), Lausanne, Switzerland.

Mr. LING Yuan Chun is the Vice President and Head of Mobility at the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB). He is directly responsible for EDB’s strategies in developing the Mobility sector that is experiencing disruption in the way people and goods are moved. In addition, Yuan Chun is the Vice President of Customer Experience & Marketing, where he oversees the design and development of new digital systems as part of the organization’s digital journey. Yuan Chun was previously the Director of Semiconductors Division from 2018 to 2020 and Head of Electronics Division from 2014-2017. Yuan Chun spent 3 years (2010 to 2014) in San Francisco, California overseeing EDB’s investment promotion efforts.

Yuan Chun is a Singapore GlaxoSmithKline-EDB scholar. He graduated with a Bachelors of Engineering Degree (Mechanical Engineering) from Cornell University (New York, USA) and a Masters in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University (California, USA).

Mr. TAN Kah Han is the Senior Director (Unmanned Systems Group) of the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS). In his capacity, his responsibilities include developing safety policy, the development of civil aviation and future aviation technology, safety oversight for the safe operations of unmanned aircraft systems. Mr Tan joined the CAAS in 2009 and was appointed as Director (Airworthiness / Flight Operations) in October 2010 and Senior Director (Safety Regulation) in Jan 2017. He assumed Director (Airworthiness Certification & Unmanned Aircraft Systems) in the restructured Safety Regulation Group in 2019. Prior to joining CAAS, Mr. Tan spent 26 years and held many senior appointments in the Republic of Singapore Air Force.

Mr. Tan is Singapore member in the ICAO Committee Aviation Environment Protection and the ICAO Flight Ops Panel.

Mr. Tan is a pilot and is rated in Airbus A‐320 and Boeing B737.

Mr. CHU Hon Lung is currently the Head of Singapore and Business Development Southeast Asia for Volocopter, based in Singapore. In his role, Hon is responsible for launching Volocopter’s first commercial air taxi service in Singapore. Before Volocopter, Hon was the Head of APAC Business Operations at AirMap, an Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) company headquartered in Santa Monica, California. Hon has also worked at Rakuten, Twilio and Google in business and technical capacities across US and Asia. Hon has a B.S.E in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Duke University and MBA from Harvard Business School.

Prof. James WANG has held several executive leadership positions and 30 years of experience in aerospace, defense and high-tech industries; including as Senior VP of Marketing & VP of R&D at Leonardo Helicopters; led Strategic Sales and worked on Comanche & Black Hawk designs at Sikorsky Aircraft. An internationally renowned expert in helicopter and eVTOL aircraft designing. WIRED Magazine named Dr. Wang “the Steve Jobs of Rotorcraft” for inventing the AgustaWestland Project Zero: world 1st all-electric VTOL aircraft. In 2018, he founded Vtolwerke LLC for eVTOL consulting. Dr. Wang is a professor, and Director of eVTOL Research & Innovation Centre at NTU.

He received bachelors in Aeronautical, and Electrical Engineering from MIT, PhD from Maryland, and Master from MIT Sloan Business School. He holds 8 patents and major international awards: Royal Aeronautical Society Gold Award, Grover Bell Award, UTC George Mead Award, NASA Award, and Italian National Innovation Grand Prize.