THE Singapore Land Authority (SLA) will have a new chief executive from May 1.

Mr Vincent Hoong Seng Lei will be appointed as the CEO with effect from that day and take over from Mr Lam Joon Khoi, the SLA's CEO since 2005.

Mr Lam will be posted to the Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources as its deputy secretary.

Mr Hoong, 51, who graduated from the National University of Singapore in 1982, had formerly held appointments as a magistrate and a district judge.

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