Singapore Human Resources Institute

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The Singapore Human Resources Institute (SHRI) was founded in 1965 and is the not-for-profit professional HR body in Singapore. It represents over 3,000 human resource professionals.

SHRI releases a bi-monthly magazine Human Capital in Singapore, with a circulation of 10,000 copies. [1]

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