Yip Hon Weng

Yip Hon Weng (Chinese: 叶汉荣; pinyin: Yè Hànróng; born 1977)[1] is a Singaporean politician. A member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), he is a Member of the 14th Parliament and has been representing Yio Chu Kang Single Member Constituency (SMC) since 2020.[1]

In this Chinese name, the family name is Yip.
The Honourable
Yip Hon Weng
叶汉荣
Yip in 2021
Member of the Singapore Parliament
for Yio Chu Kang SMC
Assumed office
10 July 2020
Preceded byKoh Poh Koon
(Ang Mo Kio GRC)
ConstituencyYio Chu Kang SMC
Majority5,256 (21.66%)
Personal details
Born1977[1]
Singapore
Political partyPeople's Action Party
Alma materNanyang Technological University
National University of Singapore
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Harvard University
OccupationPolitician

Education

Yip graduated with a bachelor's degree (first class honours) in physical education, sports science and mathematics from Loughborough University under an overseas scholarship from the Public Service Commission.[2] He completed his training as a teacher and obtained a PGCE from Exeter University. Later, he completed master's degrees in administration, planning and social policy; and international education (double concentrations) at Harvard University, knowledge engineering at the National University of Singapore, and financial engineering at Nanyang Technological University with a project stint at Carnegie Mellon University. He is a Sloan Fellow and has completed a Master of Business Administration at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under an Administrative Service Postgraduate Scholarship from the Singapore government.[2]

Career

Early career

Yip started his career as a physical education and mathematics teacher in Kent Ridge Secondary School.[2] He subsequently served in several leadership, management and policy related roles in the Ministries of Education, Manpower, Defence, Health and National Development.[2] He was also part of the founding team that established the Municipal Services Office announced at the National Day Rally Speech in 2014, when the OneService app was created.[2] He was Group Chief of the Silver Generation Office in the Agency of Integrated Care and concurrently Advisor (Care Integration) under the Ministry of Health prior to entering politics.

Politics

Yip was fielded in the 2020 general election to contest in Yio Chu Kang SMC on the People's Action Party's (PAP) ticket against the Progress Singapore Party.[3] On 11 July 2020, Yip was declared an elected Member of Parliament representing Yio Chu Kang SMC in the 14th Parliament after garnering 61% of the valid votes.[4]

Personal life

Yip is married and has five children.[5]

References
  1. "PARL | MP". www.parliament.gov.sg.
  2. "PAP new face Yip Hon Weng on having 5 kids, no TV & why he is doing improv". mothership.sg. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
  3. Tan, Sue-Ann (30 June 2020). "Singapore GE2020: PAP new face Yip Hon Weng takes on PSP newbie in Yio Chu Kang SMC". The Straits Times. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
  4. Yang, Calvin (11 July 2020). "GE2020 official results: PAP new face Yip Hon Weng triumphs in Yio Chu Kang SMC". The Straits Times. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
  5. "Yip Hon Weng". People's Action Party. Retrieved 30 July 2020.
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