Tharman Shanmugaratnam information

His Excellency
Tharman Shanmugaratnam
PPA(E) PBM
His Excellency Tharman Shanmugaratnam PPA(E) PBM
தர்மன் சண்முகரத்தினம்
	Official portrait, 2023
9th President of Singapore
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 14 September 2023
Prime Minister	Lee Hsien Loong; Lawrence Wong (designate);
Preceded by	Halimah Yacob
Prime Minister
Ministerial offices
Senior Minister of Singapore
	In office; 1 May 2019 – 7 July 2023 Serving with Teo Chee Hean (2019 – 2023)
Prime Minister	Lee Hsien Loong
Preceded by	Vacant
Succeeded by	Teo Chee Hean
Coordinating Minister for Social Policies
	In office; 1 October 2015 – 7 July 2023; Economic and Social Policies: 1 October 2015 – 30 April 2019
Prime Minister	Lee Hsien Loong
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Heng Swee Keat; (Coordinating Minister for Economic Policies); Office abolished; (Coordinating Minister for Social Policies)
Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore
	In office; 21 May 2011 – 1 May 2019 Serving with Teo Chee Hean (2009–2019)
Prime Minister	Lee Hsien Loong
Preceded by	Wong Kan Seng
Succeeded by	Heng Swee Keat
Minister for Finance
	In office; 1 December 2007 – 30 September 2015
Prime Minister	Lee Hsien Loong
Second Minister	Lim Hwee Hua
Preceded by	Lee Hsien Loong
Succeeded by	Heng Swee Keat
Minister for Manpower
	In office; 21 May 2011 – 31 July 2012
Prime Minister	Lee Hsien Loong
Preceded by	Gan Kim Yong
Succeeded by	Tan Chuan-Jin
Minister for Education
	In office; 1 August 2003 – 31 March 2008
Prime Minister	Goh Chok Tong; Lee Hsien Loong
Second Minister	Ng Eng Hen
Preceded by	Teo Chee Hean
Succeeded by	Ng Eng Hen
Preceded by
Parliamentary offices
Member of Parliament; for Jurong GRC; (Taman Jurong)
	In office; 3 November 2001 – 7 July 2023
Preceded by	Constituency established
Majority	60,501 (49.24%)
Personal details
Born	Tharman Shanmugaratnam; 25 February 1957 (age 67); Singapore
Political party	Independent
Other political; affiliations	People's Action Party; (2001–2023)
Spouse	Jane Yumiko Ittogi
Children	4
Parent	Kanagaratnam Shanmugaratnam (father);
Education	London School of Economics (BSc); Wolfson College, Cambridge (MPhil); Harvard University (MPA)
Occupation	Politician; economist;
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Tharman Shanmugaratnam^[a] (born 25 February 1957), also known mononymously as Tharman, is a Singaporean politician and economist who has been serving as the ninth president of Singapore since 2023.

Prior to his presidency, Tharman served as Senior Minister of Singapore between 2019 and 2023, Coordinating Minister for Social Policies between 2015 and 2023, and Chairman of the Monetary Authority of Singapore between 2011 and 2023.^[1]

Tharman is an economist in roles principally related to economic and social policies. He has also led various international councils and panels simultaneously. Tharman chairs the Board of Trustees of the Group of Thirty, a global council of economic and financial leaders from the public and private sectors and academia. He also co-chairs the Global Commission on the Economics of Water with Ngozi Owonjo-Iweala, Mariana Mazzucato and Johan Rockström. Its initial recommendations helped shape the outcomes of the UN Water Conference in March 2023. Tharman has also been co-chair of the G20 High Level Independent Panel on Global Financing for Pandemic Preparedness and Response since 2021. In 2017, Tharman was appointed to chair the G20 Eminent Persons Group on Global Financial Governance.

A former member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), he was the Member of Parliament (MP) representing the Taman Jurong division of Jurong GRC between 2001 and 2023. He also served as Deputy Prime Minister between 2011 and 2019, Minister for Finance between 2007 and 2015, Minister for Education between 2003 and 2008.

Tharman made his political debut in the 2001 general election, and has been re-elected to Parliament four times at subsequent general elections in 2006, 2011, 2015 and 2020. On 8 June 2023, Tharman announced his intention to run for the 2023 presidential election and his scheduled resignation on 7 July 2023 from all his positions in the government and as a member of the PAP, as the presidency is a non-partisan office.^[2] On 2 September 2023, Tharman was announced as the winner after receiving 70.41% of the vote in a landslide victory and was elected as the ninth president of Singapore. He is the first presidential candidate not of Chinese descent to win in a contested presidential election in Singapore.^[3]

^ ^a ^b "MP | Parliament Of Singapore". Archived from the original on 17 July 2020. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
^ Goh, Han Yan (8 June 2023). "SM Tharman to run for president, will resign from Govt and PAP on July 7". The Straits Times. Archived from the original on 15 August 2023. Retrieved 8 June 2023.
^ Wong, Tessa (1 September 2023). "Tharman Shanmugaratnam: Singapore picks a president who could've been much more". BBC News. Archived from the original on 2 September 2023. Retrieved 1 September 2023. Although Singapore has had non-Chinese presidents in the past, Mr Tharman is the first one voted in by the public.

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[Parliament_Profile-1] "MP | Parliament Of Singapore". Archived from the original on 17 July 2020. Retrieved 17 July 2020.

[TPR-3] Goh, Han Yan (8 June 2023). "SM Tharman to run for president, will resign from Govt and PAP on July 7". The Straits Times. Archived from the original on 15 August 2023. Retrieved 8 June 2023.

[4] Wong, Tessa (1 September 2023). "Tharman Shanmugaratnam: Singapore picks a president who could've been much more". BBC News. Archived from the original on 2 September 2023. Retrieved 1 September 2023. Although Singapore has had non-Chinese presidents in the past, Mr Tharman is the first one voted in by the public.

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