Irene Tham

Technology Editor, The Straits Times

Irene Tham is Technology Editor at The Straits Times and has more than two decades of experience covering a wide range of technology issues from cyber security and data privacy to smart cities, artificial intelligence and blockchain. She began her career in 1999 reporting on technology developments in Asia at CNET and joined The Straits Times in 2007 as a technology reporter. Irene won the Singapore Press Holdings English/Malay/Tamil Media group Story of the Year award for her work “Public servants’ computers to have no net access” published in The Straits Times on 8 June 2016.