Yvonne is the Chief Executive Officer of The Esplanade Company Ltd where she is responsible for the overall management and programming direction of Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay. Yvonne first joined Esplanade in 2014 as Assistant CEO of Esplanade and took on the CEO role in 2018.

Prior to joining Esplanade, Yvonne was Deputy Chief Executive Officer at Singapore’s National Arts Council and Director of Arts and Heritage Division at the then-Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts (now Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth). In her public sector roles, she was involved in developing the Renaissance City plans, as well as the setting up of the School of the Arts, Design Singapore Council, and the National Gallery. Yvonne had also worked at the Ministry of Manpower and taught literature at a Junior College.

Yvonne currently sits on the boards of University of the Arts Singapore (UAS) Ltd, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA), SISTIC.com Pte Ltd, and the Singapore International Film Festival. She is Deputy Chairperson of the Association of Asia Pacific Performing Arts Centres.

Yvonne read English as an undergraduate at the University of Cambridge, where she also completed her M.Phil in American literature. She has a MA in Art Business from the Sotheby’s Institute of Art and a Postgraduate Diploma in Education from NTU.