Aun Koh

Assistant Chief Executive, Marketing and Development

National Gallery Singapore

Aun Koh is the assistant chief executive, marketing and development, at the National Gallery Singapore. Through a rather varied career, Koh has worked in the media, travel, hospitality, communications, non-profit and tech sectors.

Koh started his career in media, working at illustrious publications in NYC, Paris, and Hong Kong, before launching his own regional lifestyle magazine, East.

Committed to community service, Koh has helmed the visual arts and literary arts divisions for the National Arts Council in Singapore; led the marketing, communications, and corporate community investments teams at the National Volunteer and Philanthropy Centre; was the founding chair of the Pangdemonium Theatre Company; and currently sits on the board of the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts.

In 2006, Koh co-founded The Ate Group, a content strategy and communications agency specialising in F&B, hospitality, luxury and lifestyle. Koh has been editor-in-chief of Tatler Singapore, run the global content and Asia-Pacific communications teams at Tripadvisor, and has produced and hosted two food and travel television series for Mediacorp.

In 2015 he began working on the creation of a private members club, Straits Clan, which he launched in 2019 and sold the following year. Koh joined the National Gallery Singapore in 2024 to help lead the museum’s fundraising and marketing teams, and to give back to the arts sector that he has long support.