Awarded Darjah Utama Temasek (2018).
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Tony Tan Keng Yam
Tony Tan Keng Yam is a Singaporean banker and politician who served as the seventh president of Singapore between 2011 and 2017 after winning the 2011 presidential election.
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business · President of Singapore from 2011 to 2017 · mathematician · politician · businessperson · also Tony Tan Keng Yam, Tony Tan, Yam
Born 7 February 1940 · Q38987
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2018· 1 entry
2017· 1 entry
Tan continued to serve in key national roles and remained engaged in public life
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2016· 1 entry
Published “Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger” in Physical Review Letters — cited 11,729 times.
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2015· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the Nankai University (2015).
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2012· 1 entry
During his presidency, the President's Challenge was expanded beyond fund-raising to include promotion of volunteerism and social entrepreneurship
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2011· 3 entries
Election won: 2011 presidential election.
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Campaign: 2011 presidential election.
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Career landmark: President of Singapore (2011–2017).
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2010· 2 entries
For his distinguished career and service to society and the Australian alumni network
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Before contesting the 2011 presidential election as an independent candidate
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2005· 2 entries
Tan was appointed deputy chairman and executive director of GIC, chairman of the National Research Foundation, and chairman of Singapore Press Holdings (SPH)
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For his work as a visionary architect of Singapore's university community
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2003· 1 entry
Career landmark: Co-ordinating Minister for National Security (2003–2005).
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1997· 1 entry
However, when the government proposed a third university, that it had to differentiate from NUS and the Nanyang Technological University
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1995· 2 entries
Career landmark: Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore (1995–2005).
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Career landmark: Minister for Defence (1995–2003).
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1992· 1 entry
And Lee Hsien Loong's in 1993, Tan was recalled to cabinet in August 1995 as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence
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1988· 3 entries
To disrupt his NS for pre-medical studies at Harvard University, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in biology and chemistry, before pursuing an MD–PhD at Stanford University under both the President's Scholarship and
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The initiative expanded school choice, promoted innovation, and aligned with meritocratic principles, while also reducing public spending by shifting more education costs to families
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Several years before his ministerial tenure
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1985· 1 entry
Career landmark: Minister for Education (1985–1991).
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1983· 1 entry
Career landmark: Minister for Finance (1983–1985).
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1981· 1 entry
Was also against the proposed timing of the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) project, which was mooted by Ong Teng Cheong
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1979· 1 entry
Was appointed Senior Minister of State for Education
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1969· 1 entry
Left academia to work in OCBC Bank as a sub-manager and rose to become a general manager
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1967· 1 entry
With the dissertation title, 'Mathematical Modelling for Commuter Traffic in Cities'
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1962· 1 entry
Graduated with a Bachelor of Science with first class honours in physics from the University of Singapore, now known as the National University of Singapore (NUS), under a scholarship awarded by the Singapore governme
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1959· 1 entry
When he was a first-year physics student at the University of Malaya, subsequently later NUS and then stationed at the Bukit Timah campus, Tan had met an arts undergraduate whom he fell in love with
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1940· 1 entry
Born 1940-02-07.
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