Steven Sim Chee Keong (; born 13 May 1982) is a

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who has served as the Deputy Minister of Finance II in the

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(PH) administration under Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim since December 2022 as well as the

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(MP) for

Bukit Mertajam Bukit Mertajam ( Jawi:بوكيت مرتاجم) is the administrative centre of the city of Seberang Perai in Penang, Malaysia. It also serves as the seat of the Central Seberang Perai District. , Bukit Mertajam (core) contains a total of 13, ...

since May 2013. He served as the Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports in the

(PH) administration under former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and former Minister

Syed Saddiq Syed Saddiq bin Syed Abdul Rahman (born 6 December 1992) is a Malaysian politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Muar since May 2018. He served as the Minister of Youth and Sports in the Pakatan Harapan (PH) administra ...

from July 2018 to the collapse of the PH administration in February 2020. He is a member of the

Democratic Action Party The Democratic Action Party (abbreviation: DAP; ms, Parti Tindakan Demokratik; ; ta, ஜனநாயக செயல் கட்சி) is a centre-left social democratic political party in Malaysia. As one of four component parties of the ...

(DAP), a component party of the PH opposition coalition. He has served as the National Organising Secretary of DAP since March 2022. In January 2011, he was appointed as a member of the

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(MPSP), one of the largest local governments of

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. He writes regularly for Penang Monthly (formerly Penang Economic Monthly) as well as contributing opinion pieces to prominent Malaysian online news portals such as

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and the Malaysian Insider. He is also the author of "The Audacity to Think: An Invitation to Rethink Politics". In 2012, he was named as a

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of the Geneva-based

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. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Penang Institute, a public policy think-tank based in Penang. He speaks fluently in English, Malay, Hokkien, and Mandarin.

Education and pre-political career

Sim's early education started at SK Stowell and Bukit Mertajam High School. He graduated from

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in Computer Science in 2004. He later pursued a Masters in Sustainable Development at the Jeffrey Sachs Centre on Sustainable Development in Sunway University and graduated in 2020. He served in a multinational corporation for three years before joining the Penang state government in 2008. He also sits on the governing board of the Penang Institute, a leading public policy think tank based in Penang, Malaysia. Sim was formerly the executive secretary of the Network of Social Democracy in Asia, a regional dialogue of political parties, scholars and NGOs of the social democratic persuasion.

Bibliography

Sim is also the author of four books. The Audacity to Think: An Invitation to Rethink Politics (2012); Being Malaysia (2018); an anthology of Malay poems, Dalam Salju Ada Bunga (2018); and a contemporary socio-political critique of the Malay classic Hikayat Hang Tuah, Hang Tuah: Adiwira Bangsa (2021).

Election results

References

External links

StevenSim.com

The Audacity to Think
Living people 1982 births People from Penang Malaysian politicians of Chinese descent Democratic Action Party (Malaysia) politicians Members of the Dewan Rakyat 21st-century Malaysian politicians University of Malaya alumni {{Malaysia-politician-stub