Title: Tharman Shanmugaratnam
Content:  Tharman is an Indian Singaporean of Ceylonese Tamil ancestry. One of three children, he is the son of Kanagaratnam Shanmugaratnam, a medical scientist known as the "father of pathology in Singapore", who founded the Singapore Cancer Registry and led a number of international organisations related to cancer research and pathology. Tharman is married to Jane Yumiko Ittogi, a lawyer of Japanese-Chinese heritage. She is actively engaged in social enterprise and the non-profit arts sector. The couple have one daughter and three sons. Tharman was an active sportsman in his youth, and has highlighted the way sports instils lessons for life. He spoke about sports as a form of education in Game for Life: 25 Journeys , published by the Singapore Sports Council in 2013, as "a huge deal for character. Children learn the value of teams. They learn the discipline of repeated practice, and how there is no other way to develop expertise. Plus, the ability to fall or lose in competition and pick oneself up... with humility."
Title: Tharman Shanmugaratnam
Content:  Tharman Shanmugaratnam (தர்மன் சண்முகரத்தினம்; born 1957) is a Singaporean politician who has been serving as Senior Minister since 2019 and Coordinating Minister for Social Policies since 2015. A member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), he is a Member of the 14th Parliament and has been representing the Taman Jurong ward of Jurong Group Representation Constituency (GRC) since 2001. He was previously Deputy Prime Minister (2011–2019), Minister for Education (2003–2008), Minister for Finance (2007–2015) and Minister for Manpower (2011–2012). He has also been the Chairman of the Monetary Authority of Singapore since 1 May 2011, and Deputy Chairman of 
Title: Tharman Shanmugaratnam
Content:  to his subsequent political career. Tharman has been the Chairman of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, Singapore's central bank and financial regulatory authority, since May 2011. He was appointed Deputy Chairman of GIC, Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, in May 2019 and has been chairing its Investment Strategy Committee. Tharman led the SkillsFuture programme launched in 2014 to assist Singaporean workers in re-skilling or upgrading their skills. He subsequently chaired the tripartite Council for Skills, Innovation and Productivity until May 2017. Tharman is also the Chairman of the Economic Development Board's International Advisory Council, and the International Academic Advisory Panel that advises the government on strategies for the university sector. He also chaired the Board of Trustees of the Singapore Indian Development Association. He also chairs the Ong Teng Cheong Labour Leadership Institute.
Title: Tharman Shanmugaratnam
Content:  After winning the election, Tharman continued to be Deputy Prime Minister and took up an additional appointment as Coordinating Minister for Economic and Social Policies in October 2015. In May 2017, the National Trades Union Congress awarded Tharman the Medal of Honour, pointing out, among other things, "his deep commitment to building an inclusive society". On 1 May 2019, following a Cabinet reshuffle, Tharman and Teo Chee Hean relinquished their portfolios as Deputy Prime Ministers and became Senior Ministers after Heng Swee Keat was designated the new Deputy Prime Minister. Tharman was also appointed Coordinating Minister for Social Policies to advise the Prime Minister on social policies.
Title: Tharman Shanmugaratnam
Content:  of Parliament representing the Taman Jurong ward of Jurong GRC. Since then, he has retained his parliamentary seat after the PAP team in Jurong GRC won the subsequent general elections. On the international stage, Tharman is the chairman or a co-chairman of the G20 High Level Independent Panel on financing the global commons for pandemic preparedness and response, Group of Thirty, Global Education Forum, Advisory Board for the United Nations Human Development Report, G20 Eminent Persons Group on Global Financial Governance and International Monetary and Financial Committee. He is also a member of the World Economic Forum's Board of Trustees.
Title: Kanagaratnam Shanmugaratnam
Content:  He was the father of Singapore Senior Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam.
Title: Tharman Shanmugaratnam
Content:  and chairman of GIC's Investment Strategies Committee. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore, he chairs the National Jobs Council to oversee the large-scale growth of jobs and training opportunities for workers affected by the pandemic. An economist by profession, Tharman worked at the Monetary Authority of Singapore and Ministry of Education before he made his political debut in the 2001 general election as part of a five-member People's Action Party (PAP) team contesting in Jurong Group Representation Constituency (GRC). The PAP team won with 79.75% of the vote against the Singapore Democratic Party and Tharman became a 
Title: Kanagaratnam Shanmugaratnam
Content:  Professor Tan Chorh Chuan, the chief health scientist and executive director at the Ministry of Health's Office for Healthcare Transformation described Shanmugaratnam as "the pathologist to send the difficult cases which no one else could diagnose to" and "a very humble man and had a brilliant mind but always kind and gentle."
Title: Tharman Shanmugaratnam
Content:  Tharman started his career as the Chief Economist at the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). He later joined the Singapore Administrative Service and worked in the Ministry of Education as Senior Deputy Secretary for Policy, before returning to the Monetary Authority of Singapore to serve as its Managing Director. While serving as Director of the MAS's Economics Department in 1993, Tharman was one of five persons charged under the Official Secrets Act in a case involving the publication of Singapore's 1992 second-quarter flash projections in the Business Times. The others were research director Raymond Foo, economist Manu Bhaskaran of Crosby Securities, journalist Kenneth James, and Business Times editor Patrick Daniel. The trial, which lasted over a year, was reported extensively in the Singapore press. Tharman contested and was eventually acquitted of the 
Title: Tharman Shanmugaratnam
Content:  put in charge of leading the PAP team contesting in Jurong GRC after Lim Boon Heng retired from politics. After the PAP team won with about 67% of the vote against the National Solidarity Party, Tharman was appointed Deputy Prime Minister in addition to his portfolio as Minister for Finance. He took up a third appointment as Minister for Manpower between 21 May 2011 and 31 July 2012, before stepping down as Minister for Finance in September 2015 after holding the portfolio for nine years. During the 2015 general election, the PAP team in Jurong GRC led by Tharman won with 79.3% of the vote against the SingFirst 

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