Member
Singapore University of Social Sciences Board of Trustees
Director
Pontiac Land Group
Board of Trustees
Provides strategic guidance, ensuring growth, good governance, and alignment with the university’s mission. Comprising distinguished leaders from various fields, the Board plays a crucial role in shaping the university’s direction and upholding the highest standards of governance.
Ms Melissa Kwee is a bridge-builder who enjoys catalysing partnerships with social entrepreneurs to birth their dreams. She is actively connecting leaders to build ecosystem strategies for the common good.
She believes life-long friendships are the purpose of life. Her passion for mentoring crystalised in Beautiful People, a values-based community of diverse big and little sisters journeying together through life.
Melissa currently serves on the board of her family-owned Pontiac Land Group and most recently as CEO of the National Volunteer and Philanthropy Centre which birthed the national vision: Singapore – City of Good, raising up the Company of Good community, giving.sg amongst other initiatives to strengthen the giving ecosystem.
Melissa completed a two-term Presidency of the UNIFEM where she tackled sex trafficking and equipped foreign domestic helpers with financial education and entrepreneurship skills. Through her career, she has led multi-stakeholder transformation to create new initiatives, build ecosystems and re-think strategies for the arts, youth, mature workers, criminal justice and education.
The anthropologist graduated from Harvard College magna cum laude where she received a Fulbright Scholarship to Nepal. She was a Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley and currently a Justice of the Peace.
She believes life-long friendships are the purpose of life. Her passion for mentoring crystalised in Beautiful People, a values-based community of diverse big and little sisters journeying together through life.
Melissa currently serves on the board of her family-owned Pontiac Land Group and most recently as CEO of the National Volunteer and Philanthropy Centre which birthed the national vision: Singapore – City of Good, raising up the Company of Good community, giving.sg amongst other initiatives to strengthen the giving ecosystem.
Melissa completed a two-term Presidency of the UNIFEM where she tackled sex trafficking and equipped foreign domestic helpers with financial education and entrepreneurship skills. Through her career, she has led multi-stakeholder transformation to create new initiatives, build ecosystems and re-think strategies for the arts, youth, mature workers, criminal justice and education.
The anthropologist graduated from Harvard College magna cum laude where she received a Fulbright Scholarship to Nepal. She was a Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley and currently a Justice of the Peace.