Willie Cheng

Willie Cheng

Willie Cheng is a former partner of Accenture, a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing firm. Prior to his retirement in 2003, he was the country managing director of Singapore and the managing partner of its Communications and High Tech practice in Asia.

He currently sits on the boards of Singapore Press Holdings, UOB Bank, NTUC Fairprice and Singapore Health Services. He is also actively involved with nonprofit organizations. Among these, he is chairman of CHARIS, and a director of Ashoka Singapore, the Lien Center for Social Innovation, Council for Third Age, Singapore Cooperation Enterprise and the Singapore Golf Association. He is a founding partner of Asia Philanthropic Ventures.

He has written extensively on the nonprofit sector. He is author of Doing Good Well: What does (and does not) make sense in the nonprofit world and co-editor of The World That Changes The World: How philanthropy, innovation and entrepreneurship are transforming the social ecosystem.

He lives in Singapore with his wife, Julie and two sons, Ian and Ivan.