Tony Tan

His Excellency Dr.

Tony Tan Keng Yam
His Excellency Dr.; Tony Tan Keng Yam
陈庆炎
	Tan at a press conference announcing his intention to contest the 2011 Singaporean presidential election in June 2011.
7th President of Singapore
	In office; 1 September 2011 – 31 August 2017
Prime Minister	Lee Hsien Loong
Preceded by	Sellapan Ramanathan
Succeeded by	Halimah Yacob
Minister for Security and Defence
	In office; 1 August 2003 – 1 September 2005
Prime Minister	Lee Hsien Loong
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Shunmugam Jayakumar (National Security)
Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore
	In office; 1 August 1995 – 1 September 2005
Prime Minister	Goh Chok Tong; Lee Hsien Loong
Preceded by	Ong Teng Cheong
Succeeded by	Wong Kan Seng
Minister for Defence
	In office; 1 August 1995 – 1 August 2003
Prime Minister	Goh Chok Tong
Preceded by	Lee Boon Yang
Succeeded by	Teo Chee Hean
Minister for Education
	In office; 1 January 1985 – 29 December 1991
Prime Minister	Lee Kuan Yew; Goh Chok Tong
Preceded by	Goh Keng Swee
Succeeded by	Lee Yock Suan
Minister for Finance
	In office; 24 October 1983 – 1 January 1985
Prime Minister	Lee Kuan Yew
Preceded by	Lee Kuan Yew
Succeeded by	Richard Hu
Member of the Singapore Parliament; for Sembawang GRC
	In office; 4 September 1988 – 6 May 2006
Preceded by	Constituency established
Succeeded by	Khaw Boon Wan
Member of the Singapore Parliament; for Sembawang SMC
	In office; 11 February 1979, – 3 September 1988
Preceded by	Teong Eng Siong
Succeeded by	Constituency abolished
Personal details
Born	7 February 1940 (age 85); Singapore
Political party	Independent (2011–present)
Other political; affiliations	People's Action Party (Before 2011)
Spouse(s)	Mary Chee Bee Kiang (m. 1964)
Children	3 sons; 1 daughter
Alma mater	National University of Singapore; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; University of Adelaide
Profession	Mathematician, banker
Website	Official website

Tony Tan Keng Yam (simplified Chinese: 陈庆炎; traditional Chinese: 陳慶炎; pinyin: Chén Qìngyán; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tân Khèng-iām, born 7 February 1940, in Singapore) is the seventh President of Singapore from 2011 through 2017. Until 1 July 2011, he was executive director and Deputy Chairman of the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) and Chairman of Singapore Press Holdings Limited (SPH). He previously was Chairman of Singapore's National Research Foundation and Deputy Chairman of the Research, Innovation and Enterprise Council.^[1] In the late 1980s, he was Lee Kuan Yew's first choice to succeed him as Prime Minister of Singapore, but he declined.^[2] He later returned to Cabinet and as Singapore's Deputy Prime Minister from 1995 to 2005, and Minister for Defence from 1995 to 2003.

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Tan.

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In August 2011, Tan won the Singapore presidential election by a narrow 0.34% margin, and was sworn in as the seventh President of Singapore on 1 September 2011.^[3]

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