Warren Fernandez

Warren Fernandez is the editor of The Straits Times. He has been a journalist with The Straits Times since 1990. He was previously the deputy editor and also the foreign editor of The Straits Times, before leaving the paper in late 2008 to take up the post of Regional Director for Global Communications Strategy in Shell’s Asia Pacific Hub in 2008. Fernandez rejoined The Straits Times on 6 February 2012, and assumed the editorship of the paper on 15 February 2012.
Warren Fernandez had his education at Saint Joseph's Institution, Singapore and Hwa Chong Junior College. He is a Politics, Philosophy and Economics graduate of Trinity College, University of Oxford with First Class honours and has a master's degree in Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He was the first recipient of the Singapore Press Holdings' Undergraduate Scholarship in 1987 and the first SPH Master's Scholarship holder in 1999.
He served as the paper's news editor, foreign editor and deputy editor, until 2008, when he left to join Shell as its Global Manager for its Future Energy project. He returned to the Straits Times as its editor in February 2012.
Fernandez has written on political and social issues related to Singapore and the wider world.
Fernandez is also the author of several books, including Lee Kuan Yew: The Man and His Ideas, Without Fear or Favour: 50 years of the Public Service Commission, Thinking Allowed: Politics, Fear and Change in Singapore, and most recently, Men for Others.
He was on several government committees including the Cost Review Committee, and the Remaking Singapore committee. He served on several boards, including the National Environment Agency, Compass, the National Heritage Board and the National Parks Board.
In 2015, The Straits Times marked its 170th anniversary, with Fernandez at its helm.
The ST was named the Best News Website by the World Association of Newspapers, and won a prize for Newspaper Redesign from the Society of News Design.
Fernandez continues to write the Thinking Aloud column in The Sunday Times.
Works
* Lead Your Life: Eight Respected Singaporeans Reflect on Leadership, Labour and Love (2012, St. Joseph's Institution by the Straits Times Press) ISBN 9789814342186
* Our Homes: 50 Years of Housing A Nation (2011, Housing and Development Board by the Straits Times Press) ISBN 9789814266741
* Men for Others: A Portrait of the Josephian Over the Years (2009, St. Joseph's Institution by the Straits Times Press) ISBN 9789814266192
* Thinking Allowed?: Politics, Fear and Change in Singapore (2004, SNP Editions) ISBN 9812480617
* Without Fear or Favour: 50 Years of Singapore's Public Service Commission (2001, Public Service Commission by Times Media) ISBN 9812323481
* Lee Kuan Yew: The Man and His Ideas (co-author; 1997, 1998, Singapore Press Holdings, Times Editions) ISBN 9812040498

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