He chairs Mandai Nature, a non-profit dedicated to biodiversity protection and wildlife conservation across Southeast Asia, and is Chairman of Parkway Trust Management Limited, manager of the Singapore-listed Parkway-Life REIT. He also serves as a board director of the WHO Foundation.
Prior to Temasek, Mr. Hu was Group CEO of Hong Kong-listed South China Morning Post Ltd., where he led its digital transformation and subsequent sale to the Alibaba Group. In the 1990s, he led Singapore's systems transfer for the Suzhou Industrial Park, the first Goverment-to-Government project between Singapore and China.
Having lived and worked across Singapore, Beijing, Shanghai, Suzhou, Taipei, and Hong Kong, he brings a cross-regional perspective to questions of strategic competition, geopolitics, and capital allocation. His career spans information technology, media, investment, and public service.
Mr. Hu writes on strategic competition, capital flows, and Asia's economic transition. His commentary appears in Nikkei Asia, Project Syndicate, South China Morning Post, Milken Review, Lianhe Zaobao, and the Hinrich Foundation, and reaches policymakers, boards, and capital allocators globally.
He serves on international advisory councils for the London-based think tank Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF) and Bank of Singapore's Chief Investment Office.
他担任曼代自然基金会（Mandai Nature）主席；该非营利机构致力于东南亚地区的生物多样性保护和野生动物保育。他亦担任 Parkway Trust Management Limited 董事长；该公司是新加坡上市的百汇生命产业信托（Parkway-Life REIT）的管理人。他同时担任世界卫生组织基金会（WHO Foundation）董事会成员。
加入淡马锡之前，胡以晨先生曾任香港上市公司南华早报集团有限公司首席执行官，主导其数字化转型及后续出售予阿里巴巴集团的工作。20世纪90年代，他曾领导新加坡向苏州工业园区进行制度体系转移；该项目是新加坡与中国之间首个政府间合作项目。
胡以晨先生曾在新加坡、北京、上海、苏州、台北和香港生活及工作，因此能够以跨区域视角审视战略竞争、地缘政治和资本配置等议题。他的职业生涯横跨信息技术、媒体、投资及公共服务领域。
胡以晨先生撰写有关战略竞争、资本流动和亚洲经济转型的文章。他的评论文章发表于《日经亚洲》、Project Syndicate、《南华早报》、《米尔肯评论》、《联合早报》及欣里奇基金会等平台，触达全球各地的政策制定者、董事会成员和资本配置者。
他担任伦敦智库官方货币与金融机构论坛（OMFIF）及新加坡银行首席投资办公室国际顾问委员会成员。