Tan Wu Meng

Tan Wu Meng (simplified Chinese: 陈有明; traditional Chinese: 陳有明; pinyin: Chén Yǒumíng; born 1975) is a Singaporean politician and medical doctor.

The Honourable

Tan Wu Meng

MP
陈有明
Senior Parliamentary Secretary,
Ministry for Foreign Affairs
In office
1 May 2018 – 26 July 2020
PresidentHalimah Yacob
Prime MinisterLee Hsien Loong
MinisterVivian Balakrishnan
Senior Parliamentary Secretary,
Ministry for Trade and Industry
In office
1 May 2018 – 26 July 2020
PresidentHalimah Yacob
Prime MinisterLee Hsien Loong
MinisterChan Chun Sing
Member of the Singapore Parliament
for Jurong GRC
(Clementi)
Assumed office
11 September 2015
Preceded byPosition established
ConstituencyJurong GRC
Personal details
Born1975 (age 45–46)
Singapore
NationalitySingaporean
Political partyPeople's Action Party (PAP)
Children2
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge
National University of Singapore
OccupationPolitician
ProfessionOncologist
In this Chinese name, the family name is Tan (陈).

A member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), he has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Jurong GRC for Clementi since 11 September 2015. He served as Senior Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and the Ministry for Trade and Industry from 1 May 2018 until 26 July 2020, when he left government political office following the changes to Cabinet and other appointments.

Career

Tan began his medical career as a specialist in medical oncology at the National Cancer Centre at the Singapore General Hospital. 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 Specialist Outpatient Clinic Task Force. He was a member of the Executive Committee of the Singapore Society of Oncology from 2012 to 2014.[1]

Political career

From 2006 to 2009, Tan served with the North West Community Development Council 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.[2][3] 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.

At the 2015 general election, Tan was a member of the PAP's team in the Group Representation Constituency of Jurong. Tan was elected to Parliament when the five-member PAP team in the constituency (which was led by Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam) defeated the team from the Singaporeans First party by 95,080 votes (79.3%) to 24,848 (20.7%).

Tan served as a backbencher 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.[4]

He was then appointed Chairperson of Health Government Parliamentary Committee (GPC) in the 14th Parliament of Singapore.

Education

Tan was educated at Raffles Institution and Hwa Chong Junior College before going on to Cambridge University in the United Kingdom, where he studied medicine at Trinity College. He was the recipient of an A*STAR International Fellowship and a Cambridge University MBBChir-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 degree in Internal Medicine from the National University of Singapore and a Fellowship of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore, in Medical Oncology.

While at university, Tan was the President of the Cambridge Union Society in 2001. He represented Cambridge University as a debater, reaching the Grand Final of the World Universities Debating Championships in Stellenbosch in 2003 where he was ranked the Best Individual Speaker of the tournament.[5]

Personal life

Tan is married to an infectious diseases doctor and has two daughters.[6][7]

References
  1. Dr Tan Wu Meng. parkwaycancercentre.com, retrieved 25 August 2015.
  2. New faces on Young PAP committee. The Straits Times, 4 January 2011.
  3. Debates shaped his speaking style. The New Paper, 19 March 2012.
  4. "GE2020: PAP to face Red Dot United in Jurong GRC". 30 June 2020. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
  5. S'porean is top debater in global contest. The Straits Times, 9 January 2010.
  6. Lawyer Rahayu Mahzam, oncologist Tan Wu Meng join PAP's Jurong GRC team for coming GE. Today, 20 August 2015.
  7. Political service an extension of doctor's job. The Straits Times, 21 August 2015.
Parliament of Singapore
Preceded by
Arthur Jen Fong
as MP for West Coast GRC (Clementi)		 Member of Parliament for
Jurong GRC (Clementi)
2015 – present		 Incumbent
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