Ms. Abigail Ng is Chief Sustainability Officer, where she oversees sustainability strategies and steers developmental and regulatory initiatives across MAS. Her work focuses on developing a vibrant sustainable and transition finance ecosystem, while driving collaborations with regional and international counterparts.
Prior to this appointment, Ms. Ng served as Executive Director and Head of the Markets Policy & Consumer Department, where she led the formulation of policies in the capital markets to promote fair, orderly, and transparent markets; achieve equitable outcomes for investors; and shaping corporate governance standards. She also headed departments responsible for supervising market infrastructure including exchanges and central counterparties, and oversaw the regulation of securities offerings and takeover and merger transactions.
Ms. Ng represented MAS at various international fora, including the ASEAN Capital Markets Forum (ACMF) where MAS chairs the Working Group on promoting corporate sustainability disclosures. She was deeply involved in the work at the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) dedicated to improving sustainability-related disclosures by securities issuers, and on the Fintech Taskforce examining policy issues related to digital assets and tokensation.
Before joining the MAS, Ms. Ng was with the Singapore Legal Service in the State Courts and the Attorney-General’s Chambers, and is admitted as Advocate & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore.