Economist.com, 12 Feb 2009
“THIS is a win-win, home-run opportunity.” With that technocratic mouthful, Charles “Chip” Goodyear demonstrated his credentials for his new job as chief executive of Temasek, one of Singapore’s two sovereign-wealth funds. Mr Goodyear, the American former boss of BHP Billiton, a mining giant, will in October replace Ho Ching, who has been in place since 2004 and is the wife of the prime minister. A third of Temasek’s staff are expatriates but since its creation in 1974, it has never been led by a foreigner.
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