Tan Wu Meng ( zh, s=陈有明, p=Chén Yǒumíng; born 1975) is a Singaporean politician and

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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

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(PAP), he has been the

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(MP) representing the

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division of

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since 2015.

Education

Tan was educated at

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and

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before he went to the

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, where he studied medicine at

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. He was the recipient of an

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International Fellowship and a Cambridge

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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

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in internal medicine from the

National University of Singapore The National University of Singapore (NUS) is a national public research university in Singapore. Founded in 1905 as the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States Government Medical School, NUS is the oldest autonomous university in the c ...

and a Fellowship of the

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, in

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. While at university, Tan was the

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of the

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in 2001. He represented Cambridge as a debater, reaching the Grand Final of the

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in 2003 where he was ranked the Best Individual Speaker of the tournament.

Career

Tan began his medical career as a specialist in

at the National Cancer Centre at the

Singapore General Hospital Singapore General Hospital (SGH) is an academic health science centre and tertiary referral hospital in Singapore. It is located next to the Bukit Merah and Chinatown districts of the Central Region, close to the Outram Community Hospital (OCH ...

. 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

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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

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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

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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

(PAP) team contesting in

. 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

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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

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Tan, Wu Meng 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