SINGAPORE — The Ministry Of Culture, Community And Youth (MCCY) announced a round of personnel changes at three of its key agencies yesterday.

The National Heritage Board (NHB), the National Art Gallery (TNAG) and the People’s Association (PA) will all be helmed by new chief executives from next month.

Health Promotion Board chief executive Ang Hak Seng will take over as PA Chief Executive Director from Yam Ah Mee, who will be retiring from public service and joining the private sector.

Meanwhile, longtime NHB and TNAG Chief Executive Officer Michael Koh, credited with boosting heritage programmes and popularising Singapore’s museums, will be stepping down from both roles to join the ministry as its Special Advisor on Heritage.

Filling the two positions, respectively, will be MCCY Deputy Secretary (Culture) Rosa Huey Daniel and Chong Siak Ching, President and CEO of business firm Ascendas.

Under the leadership shake-up, the MCCY also announced that aside from spearheading TNAG’s organisational vision, including the much-awaited appointment of a museum director, prior to its opening in 2015, Chong will concurrently head the ministry’s cluster of visual arts institutions — TNAG, Singapore Art Museum and the Singapore Tyler Print Institute — which it intends “to bring together ... to achieve better operating synergies and co-ordinate programme efforts”.