As Chief Communications Officer at the National University of Singapore (NUS), Ovidia heads an award-winning team that works on NUS reputation management, including, strategic communications, branding and communications, digital communications, special events and protocol, issues management as well as crisis communications. She works with a diverse campus community of 50,000 spread across 17 schools and 30 university-level research institutes in Singapore, and in NUS locations overseas. She is the press secretary to the university president, and university spokesperson. In her earlier life, Ovidia was a newspaper reporter, broadcast journalist, and a media studies lecturer.

Ovidia graduated from NUS in political science and history, and holds an MA in International Communication from Macquarie University.