Dr Robin Loh was born in Djambi, Indonesia and moved to Singapore in the early 1950's. He made several successive fortunes - in the management of Shell Oil surplus machinery site in Irian Jaya, in the salvaging of discarded US military equipment in the Pacific, and in the international oil exploration and trading business.
Since then, Dr Loh has been involved in just about every kind of business, on every continent. He has developed commercial and residential real estate, and developed and run hotels of every type and size. His companies are or have been involved in everything from mining and timber processing to manufacturing and power stations. Dr Loh has been in the banking and insurance businesses on a large scale, and remains a successful name at Lloyd's of London.
In the mid-1990's, Dr Loh managed to carve out enough time from his business commitments to complete both a Masters Degree and PhD at the University of California Berkeley. Preferring to complete a full postgraduate degree than to accept an honorary doctorate, Dr Loh attended class for several years at the San Francisco campus.
Dr Loh's philanthropic activities are not formally documented, but many newspaper reports give some indication of the scale and range of his private assistance projects all over the world.
Dr Loh remains a perpetual globetrotter and maintains an unenviable schedule of travel in order to supervise his many and varied business interests worldwide. He acts as Robina Land Corporation's Executive Chairman, and, as he has always done, makes his experience available to Robina's management team.
