Fifteen on the board, two in the office.
The Swedish Chamber of Commerce in Singapore, SwedCham, is a non-profit, non-governmental membership-based organisation representing Swedish businesses in Singapore. Established almost 40 years ago, SwedCham now connects over 500 active members from close to 90 companies across numerous industries.
What the chamber says it is
Their own words, off their about page, quoted rather than paraphrased.
SwedCham is dedicated to fostering a vibrant, connected business community between Sweden and Singapore. All members can benefit from the network’s extensive knowledge base and opportunity-rich platforms for connecting with like minded professionals in both countries.
We are a dynamic and innovative platform for knowledge-sharing, business development, and networking. Together with our big fleet of Swedish MNCs and start-ups, we promote innovation, technology, sustainability, entrepreneurship, and diversity in everything we do.
We value our host nation and have created a strong connection to important Singaporean stakeholders through various local outreach initiatives.
Sweden and Singapore, in their account of it
Two small nations with a long trading history, as their about page puts it.
With a longstanding history of trade between them, Sweden and Singapore have built strong economic foundations rooted in trade, innovation and exchange. These two small yet mighty nations have impressive track records. Sweden has one of the highest number of multinational corporations per capita and Singapore boasts one of the world’s most open and competitive economies.
As the two nations continue to create meaningful partnerships based on research, innovation, development, and sustainability efforts, the future potential for this dynamic duo is only growing.
The board
The board as the chamber publishes it, in its order, with the employer it prints against every name. No portrait is shown for any of them, because the chamber publishes none and a photograph found somewhere else is one the person did not put there for this.
Two further seats are held without election, and two more people are named as the election committee.
The office
The whole secretariat, as their own page lists it. Two people carry a diary of monthly market outlooks, quarterly socials, cross chamber evenings and an annual ball, under a board of fifteen and three member driven committees. That ratio is the most useful thing this page can tell a prospective member about how the chamber actually runs.
What the chamber has started, with the date against each
Their own index of what the chamber has started, in their order, with the date each entry is filed under on their site. It reaches back to 2018 and the oldest thing on it, the Midwinter Ball, is dated by their copy to 1985.
Since 1985, the Midwinter Ball has been SwedCham’s most anticipated annual gala, gathering over 200 distinguished guests for an unforgettable evening of celebration and connection.
Singapore’s first-ever career and sports fusion event featuring the Swedish game of floorball, held on 12 and 13 April 2025 at Our Tampines Hub. The Sweden Open serves as a next-generation career fair, providing a platform for young talent in Singapore to connect with Swedish companies.
Through this unique collaborative initiative, sponsored by 13 SwedCham companies, SwedCham has linked arms with a garden community in Bukit Batok as well as with South West CDC and the People’s Association in Bukit Batok.
#candid: 100 Perspectives on Gender Equality in Singapore, an unprecedented collection of voices speaking out on the important role of women in society and business. A SwedCham initiative to celebrate the Year of the Woman in Singapore in 2021.
In October 2021, SwedCham Singapore launched a pioneering cross-industry female mentorship program aimed at up-and-coming female leaders in middle management positions among our member companies. Run for 2021-22 and 2022-23.
An exceptional collaboration launched during the pandemic, with the message: in times of crisis, businesses, big and small, need to work together to emerge stronger. The initiative rallied Swedish multinationals and local SMEs in Singapore to work together, exchanging experiences, knowledge and opportunities.
The Women4Women Sounding Board groups created an opportunity for peers to meet and discuss their unique professional challenges, as well as develop strategies to reaching their individual goals. Taking place over eight sessions per year, online and face-to-face.
The awards aim to recognize initiatives from people and organisations that have made a remarkable footprint in Singapore.
This challenge-based initiative encouraged members to make a zero plastic waste resolution in 2018 and involved halting the use of single-use plastic bottles or cups in their workplaces.
The Green Innovation Centre
One initiative that has a measured report behind it, which is rare enough on this cohort to be worth its own section.
The Swedish Chamber of Commerce has long championed the strong commitment to sustainability exhibited by its member companies. To lead the way, SwedCham embarked on a project four years ago where we linked arm with a garden community in Bukit Batok (Cosy Garden), a local authority (South West CDC) as well as Bukit Batok’s Grassroot Organisations to launch a unique collaborative initiative, sponsored by 13 Swedish MNCs: The Green Innovation Centre.
Tulya Pte Ltd has supported the Green Innovation Center with the impact measurement to estimate and communicate the project’s contribution to Singapore and its Green Plan 2030. Five main impact categories were defined at the beginning of the project: garden visit engagement, impact from sustainable features, impact from activities, recycling drives and enabling collaborations.
What they publish
Their own shelf, with their own titles and years. The directory sits behind a member login on their site and the surveys open in full, so nothing is reproduced here beyond the titles and the years they file them under.
Sweden in Singapore Business Directory 2025A monthly newsletter, unbroken from June 2020 to September 2026, every issue titled by its month. Their archive serves sixty five of them before a Load More control, so no total is claimed here, and the issues themselves sit on their own site. The archive · The shelf
Team Sweden, and the chambers across the region
The network this chamber says it built, grouped as its own page groups it. Their about page states the claim that goes with it: a knowledge sharing network of the Swedish Chambers in the APAC region.
A network of over five hundred people, from close to ninety companies.
As part of Team Sweden, SwedCham joins forces with the Swedish Embassy as well as Business Sweden, to promote success beyond borders.