children constituency_mp birth_date term_end alma_mater term_start spouse image name native_name_lang predecessor parliament birth_place party office website successor religion primeminister native_name article_title
3 sons 1 daughter sembawang grc sembawang smc 7 february 1940 1 29 december 1991 1 january 1985 6 may 2006 3 september september 1988 2005 1 september 2005 1 august 2003 national of adelaide university of singapore massachusetts institute of technology university 1 1 august 1995 1 january 1985 24 october 1983 4 september september 1988 11 february 1979 2011 1 august 2003 1 august 1995 mary chee bee kiang -lrb- 1964 -- present -rrb- tony tan 20110623.jpg tony tan zh-hans sellapan yang goh keng swee lee kuan yew constituency established teong ramanathan eng siong position established ong teng cheong lee boon singapore singapore singapore people -lrb- 2011 -- present -rrb- 's action party -lrb- before 2011 -rrb- independent 7th deputy prime minister of singapore minister for defence minister for president education minister for finance of singapore minister for security and defence -lsb- http://www.tonytan.sg official website -rsb- shunmugam teo chee hean lee yock suan richard hu khaw boon jayakumar wan constituency abolished -lrb- national security -rrb- wong kan seng anglicanism lee lee hsien loong goh chok tong lee kuan yew goh hsien chok tong lee kuan yew loong lee hsien loong goh chok tong 陈庆炎 tony tan

tony tan

tony tan keng yam -lrb- ; born 7 february 1940 -rrb- is the seventh president of singapore , in office since 2011 .
he served as a member of the singapore parliament from 1979 to 2006 and held various ministerial portfolios , including defence , finance , arts , trade and industry .
in the late 1980s , lee kuan yew mentioned tan as his first choice to succeed himself as prime minister of singapore , but he declined .
he left the cabinet from 1991 to 1995 to lead the oversea-chinese banking corporation before returning as deputy prime minister , a position he held until 2005 .
after stepping down as a member of parliament in 2006 , tan was appointed executive director and deputy chairman of the government of singapore investment corporation -lrb- gic -rrb- and chairman of singapore press holdings limited -lrb- sph -rrb- .
he also served as chairman of singapore 's national research foundation , and deputy chairman of the research , innovation and enterprise council .
in july 2011 , he resigned from these positions to contest in the 2011 presidential election .
he received 35.20 % of the votes , winning by a narrow 0.34 % margin over the second-placed candidate .
tan was sworn in as president on 1 september 2011 .
