Brian Patrick Tan Email & Phone Number

Brian Patrick Tan is currently with NHB as Senior Assistant Director, contributing to the Curatorial and Engagement work at the Founders' Memorial. He was previously with ACE as Deputy Director (Advisory & Startup Growth), responsible for matching startups with corporates for co-innovation, the networking of international startup ecosystem enablers and growing startups through market access programmes. Prior to this, he was Senior Assistant Director at the Centre for Liveable Cities (CLC), a practice-based knowledge centre for urban solutions under the Ministry of National Development, Singapore. He has had a total of more than 15 years of experience in the urban development, sustainable and smart cities, and built heritage fields, beginning his career as a planner with the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA), Singapore’s national planning authority, in 2006. At the URA, he oversaw master planning for the East region of Singapore, and was involved in public improvement projects such as enhancements to Singapore’s identity nodes of Balestier, Siglap and the Southern Waterfront area. He then brought Singapore’s development expertise overseas in 2009 by joining Surbana International and subsequently Keppel Infrastructure, running offices that oversaw master planning and infrastructure projects in the Middle East. Brian obtained a Masters in Real Estate from the National University of Singapore in 2012. Outside of work, Brian is currently a URA Singapore City Gallery volunteer docent and is also a STB licensed tourist guide. In 2015, he was privileged to be appointed as a Professional Fellow by the US State Department as part of it's Young South East Asian Leadership Initiative . He served as an infantry officer, obtaining the rank of Captain before retiring into the Military Reserve in 2016. In his student life, Brian was fortunate enough to have the mandate of the student body in CJC, serving as President of the Student Council in 1997-98.