Tan Wu Meng ( zh, s=陈有明, p=Chén Yǒumíng; born 1975)
is a Singaporean politician and
oncologist
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who served as
Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs and
Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Trade and Industry concurrently between 2018 and 2020. A member of the governing
People's Action Party
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(PAP), he has been the
Member of Parliament
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(MP) representing the
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division of
Jurong GRC
The Jurong Group Representation Constituency is a five-member Group Representation Constituency located in the western area of Singapore. The GRC consists of a large section of Jurong, sections of Bukit Batok and areas near Upper Bukit Timah Roa ...
since 2015.
Education
Tan was educated at
Raffles Institution
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and
Hwa Chong Junior College
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History
Founding
Hwa Chong Juni ...
before he went to the
University of Cambridge
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, where he studied medicine at
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. He was the recipient of an
A*STAR
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The agency supports R&D that is aligned to areas of competitive advantage and national needs for Singapore. ...
International Fellowship and a Cambridge
MBBS
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PhD programme scholarship, allowing him to train as a doctor and complete a research doctorate at the
Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology. Tan also holds a
Master of Medicine
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in
internal medicine from the
National University of Singapore
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and a Fellowship of the
Academy of Medicine, Singapore
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Background
The Academy of Medicine, Singapore, was founded in 1957 and served both Singapore and Malaysia until the ...
, in
medical oncology
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.
While at university, Tan was the
President
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of the
Cambridge Union Society
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in 2001. He represented Cambridge as a debater, reaching the Grand Final of the
World Universities Debating Championships
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in
in 2003 where he was ranked the Best Individual Speaker of the tournament.
Career
Tan began his medical career as a specialist in
medical oncology
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at the
National Cancer Centre at the
Singapore General Hospital
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. He served as the Director of Outpatient Care for the Division of Medical Oncology. He was also a Pro-Tem Committee Member for the
Sengkang Hospital Project and a member of the
SingHealth
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Specialist Outpatient Clinic Task Force. He was a member of the Executive Committee of the Singapore Society of Oncology from 2012 to 2014.
Political career
From 2006 to 2009, Tan served with the
North West Community Development Council
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as a Councillor and Vice-Chair of the Youth Works Sub-Committee. He was a member of the Senja-Cashew Youth Executive Committee 2007 to 2011 and also sat on the Senja-Cashew Citizens' Consultative Committee from 2010 to 2013.
In 2008, at the age of 33, Tan was elected the Organising Secretary of the PAP's youth wing, the
Young PAP
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. He was the first person to hold the role of elected Young PAP Organising Secretary after it was created and served in the role until 2010.
During the
2015 general election, Tan was a member of the
People's Action Party
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(PAP) team contesting in
Jurong GRC
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. Tan was elected to Parliament when the five-member PAP team in Jurong GRC defeated the
SingFirst team by 95,080 votes (79.3%) to 24,848 (20.7%).
Tan served as a
backbencher
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in Parliament until May 2018 when he was appointed as a Senior Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Trade and Industry.
Tan is a member of the PAP team defending Jurong GRC in the
2020 general election. He was then appointed chairperson of the Health Government Parliamentary Committee (GPC) in the
14th Parliament.
Personal life
Tan is married to an infectious diseases doctor and has two daughters.
Political service an extension of doctor's job
''The Straits Times'', 21 August 2015.
References
External links
Tan Wu Meng
on Parliament of Singapore
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Members of the Parliament of Singapore
People's Action Party politicians
Singaporean oncologists
Presidents of the Cambridge Union
Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
Singaporean people of Teochew descent
1975 births
Living people