Presentation of Credentials, 31 May 2022

The following foreign Heads of Mission presented their credentials to President Halimah Yacob in separate ceremonies at the Istana today:
 
(a) The Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China
Her Excellency Sun Haiyan
 

(b) The High Commissioner of the Republic of Fiji
His Excellency Amenatave Vakasavuwaqa Yauvoli

 
(c) The Ambassador of the Republic of Ecuador
His Excellency Santiago Chávez Pareja

Their bio summaries are appended.

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MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
SINGAPORE
31 MAY 2022

SUN HAIYAN
AMBASSADOR TO SINGAPORE
PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

Ambassador Sun Haiyan was born in 1972 in Hebei Province, China. She joined the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPCID) in 1997, where she served in various capacities including as Director of the Research Office, Director-General of the China Centre for Contemporary World Studies, and Director-General of the Public Information and Communication Bureau and concurrently CPCID Spokesperson. During her career, she also worked in Zibo City, Shandong Province.

  Prior to her posting to Singapore, she was Director-General of the Bureau I of CPCID responsible for exchanges with South and Southeast Asian countries.

Ambassador Sun graduated with an LL.D. degree from Peking University. She is married with one daughter.

Photo credit: Ministry of Communications and Information, Singapore

Photo credit: Ministry of Communications and Information, Singapore

AMENATAVE VAKASAVUWAQA YAUVOLI 
HIGH COMMISSIONER TO SINGAPORE
REPUBLIC OF FIJI

  High Commissioner Amenatave Vakasavuwaqa Yauvoli is the Ambassador of the Republic of Fiji to the Republic of Indonesia, with concurrent accreditation to Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand. He is also the Permanent Representative of Fiji to the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific. High Commissioner Yauvoli has more than 30 years of experience as a civil servant and diplomat, including as the Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2013-2014), Interim Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Development Forum (2015), Ambassador for Climate Change & Oceans (2015-2016) and Director General/CEO of the Melanesian Spearhead Group (2016-2020).

High Commissioner Yauvoli holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Economic and Management from the University of the South Pacific in Fiji and a Master’s Degree in Commerce (Development Economics) from the University of Wollongong, Australia.

High Commissioner Yauvoli is married to Ruci Yauvoli and has five children and seven grandchildren. 

Photo credit: Ministry of Communications and Information, Singapore

Photo credit: Ministry of Communications and Information, Singapore

SANTIAGO JAVIER CHÁVEZ PAREJA
AMBASSADOR TO SINGAPORE
REPUBLIC OF ECUADOR

A career diplomat, Ambassador Santiago Chávez began his work at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility in 1981. In June 2018, he was appointed Vice-Minister of Human Mobility and in the same year he undertook the Presidency of the Global Forum on Migration and Development 2019.

Ambassador Chávez has held various Ecuador diplomatic appointments to the Republic of Korea, Belgium, the European Union, Luxembourg, Venezuela, the World Trade Organization (WTO), the United States of America, Venezuela and Brazil.

Ambassador Chávez has a Master’s degree in Security and Development with a mention in Public Management and Business Management from the Institute of Higher National Studies. He also has a degree in Legal Sciences from the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador (PUCE). He has participated in several specialization courses and internships in areas of International Relations in Italy, China, Japan, USA and Switzerland.

He was a Lecturer on Legal Settlement of WTO Trade Disputes and Latin American International Relations at the School of Law and the School of Human Sciences at PUCE, respectively.

Ambassador Chávez is married to María Augusta Hidalgo Chiriboga and has two children.

Photo credit: Ministry of Communications and Information, Singapore

Photo credit: Ministry of Communications and Information, Singapore