Executive Director, Singapore Green Council Building

Yvonne Soh

A passionate advocate for corporate climate action, Yvonne Soh leads the team at the Singapore Green Building Council (SGBC), an industry organization established on a foundation of public – private engagement to drive the transformation of Singapore’s built environment.

Key programmes of the Council include the Singapore Green Building Product and Singapore Green Building Services certification schemes, which have been instrumental in enabling the industry to advance on green construction procurement. Yvonne is a Green Mark Accredited Professional and Professional Engineer (Civil).

In addition to the non-profit sector, she has wide-ranging experience with both the private and public sectors. She began her career as an engineer in the private sector with an international multi-disciplinary consultancy firm before joining the Building and Construction Authority (BCA), where she headed the Centre for Sustainable Buildings and managed portfolios in policy development, industry promotion and R&D.

As a member of the Singapore Accreditation Council as well as the Singapore Standards Council Committees on Building & Construction and Environment & Resources, Yvonne contributes actively to the development of standards and benchmarks to establish and distinguish good products, practices and organisations.