"A/Prof Matthew Tan is a Food Security & Sustainability Specialist. He is currently Singapore Representative (Private Sector) to APEC Policy Partnership on Food Security and is also the current APEC Chair for Sustainable Development in Agricultural and Fishery sectors (PPFS) where he co-ordinates discussions between senior officials, APEC governments and the private sector in the 21 economies on the use of technology and combined resources for food security. For the past number of years, he has also been actively involved in assisting governments with their Economic Transformation – Agri Tech 4.0 in the light of food security; working in tandem with the various ministries and multiple stakeholders in the country with a view to achieving their food securities agenda. In tandem with his current APEC appointment, A/Prof Tan is also serving as the Chief Executive Officer (Asia) of Assentoft Aqua Asia Pte Ltd. On the academic frontier, he serves an Adjunct Associate Professor (Engineering) with Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) - Singapore’s first University of Applied Learning and Adjunct Associate Professor (Aquaculture) with Centre for Sustainable Tropical Fisheries and Aquaculture (CSTFA) - College of Science and Engineering - James Cook University, Australia. "