Peter Ho is the Senior Advisor to the Centre for Strategic Futures, and a Senior Fellow at the Civil Service College.

He is also Chairman of the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Singapore, Chairman of the Social Science Research Council, Chairman of the Singapore Centre on Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, Chairman of the National Supercomputing Centre Steering Committee, and Chairman of the Governing Council of the Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the National University of Singapore, and a board member of the National Research Foundation, a member of the Board of Governors of the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, and of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.

When he retired from the Singapore Administrative Service in 2010, he was Head, Civil Service, concurrent with his other appointments of Permanent Secretary (Foreign Affairs), Permanent Secretary (National Security & Intelligence Coordination), and Permanent Secretary (Special Duties) in the Prime Minister’s Office. Before that, he was Permanent Secretary (Defence).