Yong Wei Christopher Chan

Vice President, E&C Segment Regional APAC
Schneider Electric
Singapore

Chris is an experience global industrial business leader with experience across multiple geographies (Asia Pacific) and industries. Starting out as an engineer in the process industries and over the subsequent 24 years accumulated a wide breadth of experience across multiple industries, including oil & gas, marine, life sciences, power generation, water/wastewater and consumer goods. He have moved from instrumentation, valves to control system (ICSS – DCS, ESD/FGS) and finally with Schneider which include electrical (MV/LV/Transformer/E-House), digitalisation, sustainability (ESG, Hydrogen, Solar, Wind) and cybersecurity (OT). Before joining Schneider, he was with Singapore Power (Power Quality division), Honeywell, Emerson, and Rockwell. With his 20+ years experience in O&G, he have great knowledge in upstream, midstream and downstream. He was instrumental in winning some key projects in these companies. He have led and grew his team in knowledge together. Chris graduated with a Bachelor Degree in Electrical and Electronic from University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST). He continued to get his Master of Science Degree in Advance Control Engineering in the same University.