Tony Tan

Tony Tan DUT GCB
陈庆炎
Tan in 2016
7th President of Singapore
In office 1 September 2011 – 31 August 2017
Prime Minister	Lee Hsien Loong
Preceded by	S. R. Nathan
Succeeded by	Halimah Yacob
Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore
In office 1 August 1995 – 1 September 2005 Serving with Lee Hsien Loong (1990–2004) and S. Jayakumar (2004–2009)
Prime Minister	Goh Chok Tong Lee Hsien Loong
Preceded by	Goh Chok Tong Ong Teng Cheong
Succeeded by	Wong Kan Seng Teo Chee Hean
Coordinating Minister for Security and Defence
In office 1 August 2003 – 1 September 2005
Prime Minister	Goh Chok Tong Lee Hsien Loong
Preceded by	Ong Teng Cheong
Succeeded by	S. Jayakumar
Minister for Defence
In office 1 August 1995 – 1 August 2003
Prime Minister	Goh Chok Tong
Second Minister	Teo Chee Hean
Preceded by	Lee Boon Yang
Succeeded by	Teo Chee Hean
Chairman of the People's Action Party
In office 1 September 1993 – 3 December 2004
Preceded by	Ong Teng Cheong
Succeeded by	Lim Boon Heng
Minister for Finance
In office 24 October 1983 – 1 January 1985
Prime Minister	Lee Kuan Yew
Preceded by	Hon Sui Sen
Succeeded by	Richard Hu
Minister for Trade and Industry
In office 1 June 1981 – 17 February 1986
Prime Minister	Lee Kuan Yew
Preceded by	Goh Chok Tong
Succeeded by	Lee Hsien Loong
Minister for Education
In office 2 January 1985 – 1 January 1992
Prime Minister	Lee Kuan Yew Goh Chok Tong
Preceded by	Goh Keng Swee
Succeeded by	Lee Yock Suan
In office 1 June 1980 – 31 May 1981
Prime Minister	Lee Kuan Yew
Preceded by	Goh Keng Swee
Succeeded by	Goh Keng Swee
Member of the Singapore Parliament for Sembawang GRC (Sembawang)
In office 3 September 1988 – 20 April 2006
Preceded by	Constituency established
Succeeded by	Khaw Boon Wan (PAP)
Member of the Singapore Parliament for Sembawang SMC
In office 10 February 1979 – 17 August 1988
Preceded by	Teong Eng Siong (PAP)
Succeeded by	Constituency abolished
Personal details
Born	Tony Tan Keng Yam (1940-02-07) 7 February 1940 (age 84) Singapore, Straits Settlements, British Malaya
Political party	Independent
Other political affiliations	People's Action Party (1979–2006)
Spouse	Mary Chee ​ (m. 1964)​
Children	4
Relatives	Tan Chin Tuan (uncle)
Alma mater	University of Singapore (BS) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MS) University of Adelaide (PhD)
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Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	陈庆炎
Traditional Chinese	陳慶炎
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Chén Qìngyán

Tony Tan Keng Yam DUT GCB (Chinese: 陈庆炎; pinyin: Chén Qìngyán; born 7 February 1940) is a Singaporean banker and politician who served as the seventh president of Singapore from 2011 to 2017.

Prior to entering politics, Tan was a general manager at OCBC Bank. He made his political debut in the 1979 by-elections as a PAP candidate contesting in Sembawang SMC and won. He also served as Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore between 1995 and 2005.

Tan resigned from the Cabinet in 2005 and was appointed Deputy Chairman and Executive Director of GIC, the country's sovereign wealth fund, Chairman of the National Research Foundation and Chairman of SPH. He resigned from all of his positions in 2010 before contesting in the 2011 presidential election as an independent candidate.

Tan won the 2011 presidential election in a four-cornered fight and served as the president of Singapore until 2017. He did not seek for a re-election in the 2017 presidential election, which was reserved for Malay candidates after a constitutional amendment.^[1][2]

His presidential term ended and he officially retired on 1 September 2017. He was succeeded by Halimah Yacob on 14 September 2017.