Arthur Fong Jen ( zh, s=邝臻, p=Kuàng Zhēn; born 24 May 1964) is a Singaporean banker and former politician. A former member of the country's governing

People's Action Party The People's Action Party (abbreviation: PAP) is a major conservative centre-right political party in Singapore and is one of the three contemporary political parties represented in Parliament, alongside the opposition Workers' Party (WP) and ...

(PAP), Fong was a

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representing

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(GRC) from 2001 to 2015.

Career

Fong is a private banker, and remained in the profession throughout his three-term tenure in politics.

Political career

Fong represented West Coast GRC in the

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as a

from 2001 to 2015, and stepped down during the 2015 general elections. Fong's party, the PAP, enjoyed a

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for the constituency in the

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and

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general elections, but the constituency was contested in

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by the Reform Party led by

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. Jeyaretnam was defeated by a vote of 66.57% in favour of the PAP candidates, including Fong. Following the election, Fong was returned as the representative for

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, and continued his third term in Parliament. He stepped down as MP for Clementi before the

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in September of that year.

Personal life

Fong's father,

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, was a former MP of Stamford constituency from 1963 to 1976 and

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from 1976 to 1988. His father was also formerly the Minister of State for Culture.

Awards and recognition

In 2014, the

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awarded him an IBF fellowship, in recognition of his work in the

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. That year, Fong was also appointed honorary

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for his service in public office.

References

External links

Arthur Fong's profile on the Singapore Parliament website
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