Tan Beng Tee, the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore’s assistant chief executive of development, has been at the forefront of building Singapore into the bustling international maritime centre that it is today.

Nicknamed "Singapore's First Lady of Shipping", she has been described by some as being the most powerful woman in the nation’s shipping sector. She is the industry’s go-to person in the Lion City, the one who has its ear and is able to make things happen, and for almost two decades has travelled the globe promoting Singapore as the place to do shipping.