- Tony Tan Keng Yam is the seventh President of Singapore, in office since 2011
| Born: | 07 February 1940 Comment | | How old is Tony Tan in 2024? / Age: | 84 years
| | Zodiac sign: | Aquarius |
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Tony Tan facts
- He served as a Member of the Singapore Parliament from 1979 to 2006 and held various ministerial portfolios, including defence, finance, Arts, trade and industry
- In the late 1980s, Lee Kuan Yew mentioned Tan as his first choice to s쳮d himself as Prime Minister of Singapore, but he declined
- He left the Cabinet from 1991 to 1995 to lead the Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation before returning as Deputy Prime Minister, a position he held until 2005
- After stepping down as a Member of Parliament in 2006, Tan was appointed Executive Director and Deputy Chairman of the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) and Chairman of Singapore Press Holdings Limited (SPH)
- He also served as Chairman of Singapore's National Research Foundation, and Deputy Chairman of the Research, Innovation and Enterprise Council
- In July 2011, he resigned from these positions to contest in the 2011 presidential election
- He received 35
- 20% of the votes, winning by a narrow 0
- 34% margin over the second-placed candidate
- Tan was sworn in as President on 1 September 2011
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