Hsien-Hsien Lei, PhD ’98

Hsien-Hsien Lei, PhD ’98, is CEO of The American Chamber of Commerce in Singapore: the largest and the most active international business association in Singapore and Southeast Asia representing over 650 companies. Lei is also adjunct associate professor at the National University of Singapore Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, a member of the Bloomberg School’s Advisory Board, vice president of the Precision Public Health Asia Society, board member and fundraising committee chair of TalenTtrust, member of the United Women Singapore STEM Advisory Panel, and board committee member of SATA CommHealth. 

Prior to AmCham, Lei was vice president of Medical and Scientific Affairs for Medtronic Asia Pacific, where she was responsible for the Medtronic Innovation Centers in Japan and Korea, training and education, and the company’s health systems transformation strategy in the region. Lei has extensive experience in scientific affairs, corporate and healthcare communications, advertising, public relations and government affairs. 

Lei has lived and worked in the US, Taiwan, Japan, Vietnam, UK, and is now based in Singapore. She holds a BA (with honors) in Human Biology from Stanford University and a PhD in Epidemiology from the Bloomberg School, where she was the recipient of an NIH Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology Training Grant. Her doctoral thesis explored the genetic epidemiology of end-stage renal disease and type 2 diabetes. She completed her post-doctoral fellowship at National Taiwan University Hospital in the Department of Internal Medicine.