Thomas Thomas is a former

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in Singapore. He is currently the chief executive officer of the Association for Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Network. Prior to that, he was the executive director of the Singapore Compact for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) (now renamed as Global Compact Network Singapore), which serves as the national CSR society in Singapore, which is the country network and focal point of the

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Thomas served in the trade union movement as the General Secretary of the Singapore-Shell Employees’ Union, and was in the Central Committee of the

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(NTUC) from 1987 to 2007. He was a

from 1999 to 2000. He is a

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(SLF)-Ong Teng Cheong Labour Leadership Institute (OTCi) Fellow. For his services to the labour movement, Thomas was awarded the Public Service Medal in 2002 and Comrade of Labour – Star in 2008. As a Nominated MP, Thomas had represented Singapore at the Association of Asian Parliaments for Peace APPConference in Phnom Penh,

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in 2001."Singapore MPs Attend Human Rights Conference"
thinkcentre.org In Parliament, he had asked the Minister for Finance to give an evaluation of the performance of overseas investments made by the government and government-linked organisations, particularly its performance since the 1997 Asian currency crisis. Thomas was educated in

Victoria School Victoria School (VS) is a government autonomous boys' secondary school in Siglap, Singapore. Established in 1876, it is Singapore's second oldest state secondary school. It offers a six-year Integrated Programme, which allows students to skip t ...

, Singapore and

University of Nottingham , mottoeng = A city is built on wisdom , established = 1798 – teacher training college1881 – University College Nottingham1948 – university status , type = Public , chancellor ...

and holds a Master of Arts degree in Industrial Relations from

University of Warwick , mottoeng = Mind moves matter , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £7.0 million (2021) , budget = £698.2 million (2020� ...

and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, UK.

References

Sources

"Corporate social responsibility catches on"

Thomas Thomas
at Association for Sustainable & Responsible Investment in Asia, 2010 Carbon Disclosure Forum
NTUC U Portal – OTCi Fellowship

, Ong Teng Cheong Labour Leadership Institute (OTCi).

External links

Overseas investments of government and GLCs

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