Mr Daniel was appointed Editor-in-Chief of the English & Malay Newspapers Division of SPH in January 2007.  Prior to this, he was Managing Editor of the division from September 2002, and Editor of The Business Times from May 1992. He joined the media in October 1986 from the Singapore Government’s Administrative Service where his last position was Director in the Ministry of Trade and Industry.

Mr Daniel is a director of SPH Magazines, SPH UnionWorks and Tamil Murasu Ltd, and also chairs two SPH subsidiaries - Straits Times Press and Shareinvestor.com Holdings.  He serves on the boards of the Casino Regulatory Authority, the Singapore University of Technology and Design and National University Health System.

Mr Daniel graduated from UniversityCollege, Oxford in 1976 with a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Engineering Sciences and Economics. He also has a Masters in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.