Wong Hong Sze

Wong Hong Sze is Regional Director for Garner International Singapore. He has special interests in manufacturing, oil, chemicals and gas, health sciences, banking, fashion, food sciences, and the knowledge industries.

Hong Sze has over 30 years experience with leading multinational companies in general management with special expertise in HR. He worked for Shell for 17 years and has held portfolios ranging from recruitment, career management, remuneration and regional training and development. He has also worked for ICI Asia Pacific as organizational capability director spanning 15 countries for 13 years. He pioneered the staffing of startup companies in the PRC, India and Vietnam.

Hong Sze was also managing director of ICI Singapore and held bottom line accountability for Singapore, Vietnam and Myanmar.

More recently, Hong Sze took up a senior role in a regional management consultancy specializing in executive coaching, corporate culture change, leadership succession, corporate governance and organization effectiveness. His clients included government agencies, profit and non profit organizations in Singapore and the Asia region.

In the course of his career, Hong Sze worked and lived in Singapore and the UK, and spent blocks of time in the PRC, India, Vietnam and Malaysia.

Hong Sze studied at Cambridge University at undergraduate and the East West Centre, University of Hawaii at postgraduate level. He holds a BA and MA in organizational behaviour and has had professional executive coaching training. He lectures part time at MBA level on leadership succession. He has participated in many international HR and management forums and is a sought after speaker, most recently in an international conference in Shanghai attended by more than 200 companies.