Sunday Emails from a Chairman: Volume 5 (20th anniversary edition)

In this book, Mr Liew Mun Leong, chairman of the Changi Airport Group and of urban and infrastructure consultancy Surbana Jurong Group, shares his thoughts on a wide range of topics, ranging from core values and leadership to the aviation industry.



Mr Liew spent 22 years in the public service developing Singapore’s Changi Airport, military airports and establishments. He also spent 26 years leading 10 public-listed companies investing and developing real estates in Asia, Middle East, the UK and Europe.



This places him in an excellent position to discuss and dissect issues such as lessons learnt from his civil service days, innovation in public and private organisations, project management in Singapore, China’s Belt and Road initiative, and his observations on working in China.



His writings are based on the emails that he regularly crafts on Sundays and that he sends to his staff — and which the public will now get the chance to read. Mr Liew also shares more personal thoughts, for example, on being inspired by art, on keeping himself fit, and on local hawker food.



The book is divided into six main parts:

1) Core values, leadership and pragmatism

2) Changi Airport and the aviation industry

3) International perspectives

4) Engineering and Project Management

5) Personal reflections

6) Interviews with CNBC and Channel NewsAsia



The book is in full colour and contains many photographs such as of Mr Liew attending the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing in 2017 and the Jurong Rock Caverns, constructed below Jurong Island.