Rohaya Saharom

Rohaya spent more than 30 years of career working in the environmental field. She joined the then Ministry of the Environment of Singapore after graduation, and thereafter the Singapore’s National Environment Agency when it was formed in 2002. Within the public sector, Rohaya was involved in the development and implementation of various environmental policies and programmes in areas of industrial pollution control, air & water quality monitoring, chemicals and hazardous waste and construction noise control and management.  She was also very involved in developing and implementing national measures to fulfil Singapore’s obligations under various multilateral environmental agreements, working on legislations and implementing them while collaborating and partnering with counterparts in ASEAN and international organisations like UNEP, UNFCCC, GiZ, JICA.  She was also part of the Singapore delegation to the UNFCCC Conference of Parties meetings from 2016 to 2019.