Dr Seek Ngee Huat is Chairman of the Institute of Real Estate and Urban Studies at the National University of Singapore (NUS), where he is also Provost’s Chair Professor (Practice) of Real Estate. He was previously President of GIC Real Estate Pte Ltd, a board director of GIC Private Limited and Chairman of Global Logistic Properties Ltd. He was a senior partner at Jones Lang Wootton (now known as Jones Lang LaSalle) before joining GIC.

He is the current Chairman of GLP IM Holdings Limited and a board director of Brookfield Asset Management Inc. and the Centre for Liveable Cities. He is also a senior advisor to Frasers Property Ltd and the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board.

Dr Seek is a Global Trustee of Urban Land Institute (ULI), a board director of ULI Foundation and a former Chairman of ULI Asia Pacific. He had served on the real estate and business advisory boards of various universities, including Peking, Cambridge, Harvard, Columbia and  Fundacao Dom Cabral (Brazil). His other industry appointments included being a board director of the Pension Real Estate Association (US) and a member of the Land Sub-committee of the 2009 Singapore Government Economic Strategy Committee.

Dr. Seek was conferred the Singapore Public Administration Gold Medal in 2007, the NUS Outstanding Service Award in 2015 and the NUS Distinguished Alumni Service Award in 2011. He holds a BSc (Estate Management), University of Singapore; MSc (Business Administration), University of British Columbia; and a PhD (Urban Research), Australian National University.