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Founder and CEO, Equitech

Fellow, Harkness Fellowship in Healthcare Policy and Practice (Visiting Scientist at University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and UC San Francisco)

Chi Ling is Founder and CEO for Equitech, a software enterprise that builds Speedback (speedback.com) and other AI-first digital health infrastructure in Southeast Asia. Prior to this, she served as Consultant (Innovation and Research) to the World Health Organisation, and had a decade of experience in the Singapore public service, where she held senior appointments in the Ministry of Health, Government Technology Agency, Smart Nation Digital Government Group, and Prime Minister’s Office.

Her work to modernise healthcare technology in the health ministry enabled Singapore’s pandemic response through the national COVID-19 vaccination rollout that administered more than 15 million vaccinations, activation of 22,000 healthcare workers, and more systematic management of test and vaccination records. Regionally, Chi Ling has served as healthcare technology advisor for public and private health institutions across Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Vietnam, Brunei, Cambodia, Malaysia, and the Pacific Islands.

Outside of her professional roles, Chi Ling is Senior Fellow with the Equity Initiative, under the Atlantic Fellowship for Health Equity in Southeast Asia, and serves as Board Member for Better.sg and the Digital Committee for the National Volunteer & Philanthropy Centre. For her work in the public and people sectors, she was recognized as recipient of the 100 Women in Technology award by the Singapore Computer Society and selected to represent Singapore in the centennial cohort of the Harkness Fellowship for Healthcare Policy and Practice.

Chi Ling graduated from Stanford University with a Masters of Science in Symbolic Systems (Human Computer Interaction) and Bachelor of Arts in Political Science (Honors).