Tan Wee Cheng

Professional Profile

An iconoclast with a diverse professional portfolio, Tan Wee Cheng balances a career in finance and academia with a life dedicated to global travels.

His background in auditing and investment banking provided the analytical foundation for his assessments of global geopolitics and economics, while his role in academia allows for the freedom to engage in extended wanderings.

Legacy of Travel

Since beginning his odyssey in the early 1990s, Wee Cheng has visited all 193 UN member states—culminating in his achievement as a **"UN Grandmaster"** in Basra, Iraq, in 2025.

His travels are documented not as mere checklists, but as deep dives into historical fault lines, ethnic peripheries, and the "Great Game" of shifting empires. He is a occasional speaker at travel events and a contributor to various travel archives.

Since 2005, together with like-minded friends, Wee Cheng has been helping to organise travel sharing sessions which by 2007 became Sgtravelcafe, the largest independent travellers social group in Singapore.