Ng Chee Meng (Schools) Ong Ye Kung (Higher Education and Skills)
Member of the Singapore Parliament for East Coast GRC (Bedok)
Incumbent
Assumed office 10 July 2020
Preceded by
Lim Swee Say
Member of the Singapore Parliament for Tampines GRC (Tampines Central)
In office 7 May 2011 – 23 June 2020
Preceded by
Sin Boon Ann
Succeeded by
Koh Poh Koon
Personal details
Born
Heng Swee Keat
(1961-04-15) 15 April 1961 (age 63)[1] State of Singapore
Political party
People's Action Party
Spouse
Chang Hwee Nee
(m. 1988)
Children
2
Alma mater
Christ's College, Cambridge (MA) Harvard University (MPA)
Signature
Police career
Department
Singapore Police Force
Service years
1983–1997
Rank
Assistant Commissioner
In this Chinese name, the family name is Heng.
Heng Swee KeatPPA PJG (Chinese: 王瑞杰; pinyin: Wáng Ruìjié; born 15 April 1961)[1] is a Singaporean politician and former police officer who has been serving as the Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore since 2019 and Coordinating Minister for Economic Policies since 2020. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) representing the Bedok division of East Coast GRC since 2020.
Heng had previously served as Minister for Education between 2011 and 2015 and Minister for Finance between 2015 and 2021.[2]
Prior to entering politics, Heng worked in the Singapore Police Force (SPF), Ministry of Education (MOE), Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI), and Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). He was also the principal private secretary to Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew between 1997 and 2001.
He made his political debut in the 2011 general election as part of a five-member PAP team contesting in Tampines GRC and won with 57.22% of the vote. He then elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) representing the Tampines Central ward of Tampines GRC and managed to retain his parliamentary seat in the 2015 general election with 72.06% of the vote before switching to contest in East Coast GRC in the 2020 general election.
Heng was poised to succeed Lee Hsien Loong as the fourth prime minister of Singapore following his appointment as Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore in May 2019 and First Assistant Secretary-General of the People's Action Party in November 2018. However, Heng subsequently withdrew himself from the nomination in April 2021.[3]
^Parliamentary Elections Act (Chapter 218): Candidates declared to have been elected Members of Parliament at the 2011 general election (G.N. No. 1229/2011)
^Ang, Hwee Min (8 April 2021). "DPM Heng Swee Keat steps aside as leader of PAP 4G team, PM Lee accepts decision". Channel News Asia. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
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Minister Lim Swee Say". Archived from the original on 6 May 2018. Retrieved 5 May 2018. hermesauto (30 June 2020). "Singapore GE2020: HengSweeKeat to helm...
PM: HengSweeKeat". Today. Singapore. Archived from the original on 5 July 2020. Retrieved 6 July 2020. "GE2020: Police Report Made Against HengSwee Keat...
particular. On 23 April 2019, Lee reshuffled his cabinet and promoted HengSweeKeat to deputy prime minister, effective 1 May 2019. As part of the party's...
Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore on 13 June 2022, serving alongside HengSweeKeat. On 26 November 2022, Wong was appointed to the newly created position...
the Republic of Singapore. The incumbent deputy prime ministers are HengSweeKeat and Lawrence Wong, who took office on 1 May 2019 and 13 June 2022 respectively...
issues, and to see things from different perspectives." On 8 April 2021, HengSweeKeat had announced that he was stepping aside as the 4G Leader citing "age"...
new Cabinet sworn in". Archived from the original on 5 October 2015. "HengSweeKeat to be promoted to DPM in Cabinet reshuffle". Archived from the original...
party's Central Executive Committee (CEC) before he was succeeded by HengSweeKeat in November 2018. Teo was educated at St. Joseph's Institution before...
political office holders, the same number as the previous Cabinet. HengSweeKeat was assigned an additional role as Coordinating Minister for Economic...
Town Council. The current MPs are from the People's Action Party (PAP) HengSweeKeat, Jessica Tan, Cheryl Chan, Tan Kiat How and Maliki Osman. East Coast...
Ong was widely seen as one of the three leading candidates (alongside HengSweeKeat and Chan Chun Sing) to succeed Lee Hsien Loong as Prime Minister of...
(alongside HengSweeKeat). In the lead-up to the 2020 general election, Chan was widely seen as one of the three leading candidates (alongside Heng and Ong...
dropped when the role was redesignated in 2019. The incumbent minister is HengSweeKeat. The Coordinating Minister for Economic Policies is appointed as part...
general election, the governing People's Action Party (PAP) appointed HengSweeKeat as First Assistant Secretary-General, and next in line to succeed Lee...
area, east Siglap, and Bayshore; its MPs are Deputy Prime Minister HengSweeKeat (an ex-Tampines GRC anchor minister), Jessica Tan Soon Neo, Cheryl Chan...
While many of its members were retained from the previous government, HengSweeKeat and Chan Chun Sing, who had both just been elected, were given ministerial...
close margin of 6.78% to the People's Action Party (PAP) team led by HengSweeKeat. Seah was born in Singapore on 17 October 1986 in a Peranakan family...
coverage of major events airing on Channel 5 proper. Minister for Finance HengSweeKeat succeeds both Teo Chee Hean and Tharman Shanmugaratnam as the Deputy...
GE2020: HengSweeKeat to helm East Coast GRC in election". The Straits Times. Retrieved 17 July 2020. "GE2020: PAP's team led by HengSweeKeat beats WP...
Retrieved 12 July 2020. hermesauto (30 June 2020). "Singapore GE2020: HengSweeKeat to helm East Coast GRC in election". The Straits Times. Archived from...
debating a GST hike today." Law Minister K Shanmugam and Finance Minister HengSweeKeat rejected Lim's suspicion and demanded that Lim withdraw her statements...
seriously, DPM HengSweeKeat says as he rebuts Tan Cheng Bock". The Straits Times. Retrieved 11 August 2019. "Tan Cheng Bock rebuts DPM Heng, cries as he...
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong during his 2012 National Day Message. HengSweeKeat, then Minister for Education of Singapore, was appointed to lead the...
from 1997 to 2011, where he was replaced by then Minister of Education HengSweeKeat. Sin is currently the deputy managing director of the Corporate & Finance...
13th Parliament and following its introduction by Minister for Finance HengSweeKeat. The Act provided for a drawing on the Past Reserves of a sum not exceeding...
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