Tan Wu Meng

Tan Wu Meng MP
陈有明
Member of the Singapore Parliament for Jurong GRC (Clementi)
Incumbent
Assumed office 11 September 2015
Personal details
Born	1975 Singapore
Nationality	Singaporean
Political party	People's Action Party
Alma mater	University of Cambridge, National University of Singapore
Occupation	Politician
Profession	Oncologist

Tan Wu Meng (simplified Chinese: 陈有明; traditional Chinese: 陳有明; pinyin: Chén Yǒu Míng; born 1975) is a politician and medical doctor from Singapore. A member of the country's governing People's Action Party (PAP), he has been a Member of Parliament (MP) representing Jurong Group Representation Constituency since the 2015 general election.

Career

Tan began his medical career as a specialist in medical oncology at the National Cancer Centre at the Singapore General Hospital. He served as the Director of Outpatient Care for the Division of Medical Oncology. He was also a Pro-Tem Committee Member for the Sengkang Hospital Project and a member of the SingHealth Specialist Outpatient Clinic Task Force. He was a member of the Executive Committee of the Singapore Society of Oncology from 2012 to 2014.^[1] He moved into private practice in 2015.

Political career

From 2006 to 2009, Tan served with the North West Community Development Council as a Councillor and Vice-Chair of the Youth Works Sub-Committee. He was a member of the Senja-Cashew Youth Executive Committee 2007 to 2011 and also sat on the Senja-Cashew Citizens' Consultative Committee from 2010 to 2013.

In 2008, at the age of 33, Tan was elected the Organising Secretary of the PAP's youth wing, the Young PAP.^[2][3] Earlier that year, he had represented Singapore at the Helmut Schmidt Young Leadership Forum^[4] organised by the InterAction Council of Former Heads of State and Government. He was the first person to hold the role of elected Young PAP Organising Secretary after it was created and served in the role until 2010.

At the 2015 general election, Tan was a member of the PAP's team in the Group Representation Constituency of Jurong. Tan was elected to Parliament when the five-member PAP team in the constituency (which was led by Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam) defeated the team from the Singaporeans First party by 95,080 votes (79.3%) to 24,848 (20.7%).

Education

Tan was educated at Raffles Institution and Hwa Chong Junior College before going on to Cambridge University in the United Kingdom, where he studied medicine at Trinity College. He was the recipient of an A*STAR International Fellowship and a Cambridge University MBBChir-PhD programme scholarship, allowing him to train as a doctor and complete a research Doctorate at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology. Tan also holds a Master of Medicine degree in Internal Medicine from the National University of Singapore and a Fellowship of the Academy of Medicine Singapore in Medical Oncology.

While at university, Tan was the President of the Cambridge Union Society in 2001. He represented Cambridge University as a debater, reaching the Grand Final of the World Universities Debating Championships in Stellenbosch in 2003 where he was ranked the Best Individual Speaker of the tournament.^[5]

Personal life

Tan is married to an infectious diseases doctor and has a daughter.^[6][7]

References

1. Dr Tan Wu Meng. parkwaycancercentre.com, retrieved 25 August 2015.
2. New faces on Young PAP committee. The Straits Times, 4 January 2011.
3. Debates shaped his speaking style. The New Paper, 19 March 2012.
4. Helmut Schmidt Young Leadership Forum (2008). InterAction Council website, retrieved 15 December 2015
5. S'porean is top debater in global contest. The Straits Times, 9 January 2010.
6. Lawyer Rahayu Mahzam, oncologist Tan Wu Meng join PAP's Jurong GRC team for coming GE. Today, 20 August 2015.
7. Political service an extension of doctor's job. The Straits Times, 21 August 2015.

External links

• Dr Tan Wu Meng at Parliament of Singapore website