Appointment Date: 1 July 2024
Andrew da Roza is a qualified addictions psycho-therapist working with Promises Healthcare Pte. Ltd., a leading private mental health services provider in Singapore. He has a Masters degree in counselling from Monash University in Australia, and a Masters degree in the neuroscience and pharmacology of addictions from Kings College, University of London; and is also qualified as a substance and alcohol abuse therapist, and as a certified sex addiction therapist.
Andrew is also an English and Hong Kong lawyer, with a BA in law from Kent University and a Masters in law from King’s College. London. He also has an EMBA, jointly from Kellogg, Northwestern University and HKUST.
He worked in private practice for seven years with U.K. law firms Linklaters and Lovells, before he moved in-house with FedEx’s Asia Pacific Division for fourteen years, as the Vice President, Legal and Regulatory Affairs. He was the General Counsel of International SOS for three years before retiring from law to change careers and service the community in Singapore.
He is chairman of Recovery SG, a charity of ex-offending peer support leaders; a member of the Board of the Singapore Anti-Narcotics Association; a member of the Executive Committee of the Community Chest; member of the Services Committee of NCSS; and NCSS Services Advisor on mental health.
In August 2022, Andrew was awarded The Public Service Medal (Pingat Bakti Masyarakat). The award is conferred on persons who have "rendered commendable public service in Singapore or for their achievement in the field of arts and letters, sports, the sciences, business, the professions and the labour movement."