Tony Tan

**Tony Tan Keng Yam** (, born 7 February 1940, in Singapore) is the seventh President of Singapore from 2011 through 2017. Until 1 July 2011, he was executive director and Deputy Chairman of the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) and Chairman of Singapore Press Holdings Limited (SPH). He previously was Chairman of Singapore's National Research Foundation and Deputy Chairman of the Research, Innovation and Enterprise Council. In the late 1980s, he was Lee Kuan Yew's first choice to succeed him as Prime Minister of Singapore, but he declined. He later returned to Cabinet and as Singapore's Deputy Prime Minister from 1995 to 2005, and Minister for Defence from 1995 to 2003.

In August 2011, Tan won the Singapore presidential election by a narrow 0.34% margin, and was sworn in as the seventh President of Singapore on 1 September 2011.

## Related pages

- Lee Kuan Yew
- Lee Hsien Loong

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **honorific-prefix**: His Excellency Dr.
- **name**: Tony Tan Keng Yam
- **native name**: 陈庆炎
- **image**: Tony Tan 20110623.jpg
- **caption**: Tan at a press conference announcing his intention to contest the 2011 Singaporean presidential election in June 2011.
- **office**: 7th President of Singapore
- **primeminister**: Lee Hsien Loong
- **term start**: 1 September 2011
- **term end**: 31 August 2017
- **predecessor**: S.R. Nathan, Sellapan Ramanathan
- **successor**: Halimah Yacob
- **office2**: Co-ordinating Minister for National Security, Minister for Security and Defence
- **primeminister2**: Lee Hsien Loong
- **term start2**: 1 August 2003
- **term end2**: 1 September 2005
- **predecessor2**: Position established
- **successor2**: S. Jayakumar, Shunmugam Jayakumar <small>(National Security)</small>
- **office3**: Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore
- **primeminister3**: Goh Chok Tong
Lee Hsien Loong
- **term start3**: 1 August 1995
- **term end3**: 1 September 2005
- **predecessor3**: Ong Teng Cheong
- **successor3**: Wong Kan Seng
- **office4**: Ministry of Defence (Singapore), Minister for Defence
- **primeminister4**: Goh Chok Tong
- **term start4**: 1 August 1995
- **term end4**: 1 August 2003
- **predecessor4**: Lee Boon Yang
- **successor4**: Teo Chee Hean
- **office5**: Ministry of Education (Singapore), Minister for Education
- **primeminister5**: Lee Kuan Yew
Goh Chok Tong
- **term start5**: 1 January 1985
- **term end5**: 29 December 1991
- **predecessor5**: Goh Keng Swee
- **successor5**: Lee Yock Suan
- **office6**: Minister for Finance (Singapore), Minister for Finance
- **primeminister6**: Lee Kuan Yew
- **term start6**: 24 October 1983
- **term end6**: 1 January 1985
- **predecessor6**: Lee Kuan Yew
- **successor6**: Richard Hu
- **constituency mp7**: Sembawang Group Representation Constituency, Sembawang GRC
- **parliament7**: Singapore
- **term start7**: 4 September 1988
- **term end7**: 6 May 2006
- **predecessor7**: Constituency established
- **successor7**: Khaw Boon Wan
- **constituency mp8**: Sembawang Single Member Constituency, Sembawang SMC
- **parliament8**: Singapore
- **term start8**: 11 February 1979,
- **term end8**: 3 September 1988
- **predecessor8**: Teong Eng Siong
- **successor8**: Constituency abolished
- **birth place**: Singapore
- **party**: Independent (politician), Independent <small>(2011–present)</small>
- **otherparty**: People's Action Party <small>(Before 2011)</small>
- **spouse**: Mary Chee Bee Kiang (m. 1964)
- **children**: 3 sons
1 daughter
- **alma mater**: National University of Singapore
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of Adelaide
- **profession**: Mathematician, banker
- **website**: [http://TonyTan.sg Official website]


## Infobox (chinese)

- **title**: Tony Tan Keng Yam
- **c**: 陈庆炎
- **showflag**: c
- **p**: Chén Qìngyán
- **poj**: Tân Khèng-iām