YAP Siew Yiin
Program Manager
Association of Pacific Rim Universities
APRU Secretariat
National University of Singapore
Siew Yiin joined the Secretariat team in January 2005. She drives and facilitates the organization of a number of research symposiums badged by APRU and hosted by member universities. The conference series on earthquakes and natural hazards mitigation and gerontology, for example, are under her charge. Siew Yiin has also been actively involved in the organization of the APRU Undergraduate Summer Program since its inception in 2006. Together with the rest of the APRU Secretariat team, she helps to organize key APRU meetings such as the Annual Presidents Meeting and Senior Staff Meeting which take place every year.
Siew Yiin graduated from Nanyang Technological University with a bachelor’s degree in business, specializing in human resource consulting. Prior to APRU, Siew Yiin was with the Industry Division at the Singapore Workforce Development Agency which required her to liaise extensively with both internal and external stakeholders on manpower issues at the national level.
