Mr Shawn Huang Wei Zhong, 38
Mr Huang is a director at state investment firm Temasek Holdings.
Before that, he was a fighter pilot and commanding officer in the Republic of Singapore Air Force, where he served for 19 years. He was the parade commander for the 2018 National Day Parade.
PAP unveils final batch of 8 new candidates, including S’pore’s first female general and Temasek director
By NATASHA MEAH, NABILAH AWANG, DARYL CHOO
People's Action Party
Top row (from left): Mr Alex Yeo Sheng Chye, Ms Gan Siow Huang, Ms Rachel Ong Sin Yen, Mr Sharael Taha. Bottom row (from left): Ms Carrie Tan Huimin, Ms Chan Hui Yuh, Mr Shawn Huang Wei Zhong, Ms Mariam Jaafar.
Published26 JUNE
The People’s Action Party introduced its final slate of eight new candidates
The candidates’ ages range from 38 to 47
Four individuals have experience in the public sector while four are from the private sector
Succession is critical, PAP must ensure to bring in diverse people from different walks of life, said Mr Chan Chun Sing
PAP has to put ears on the ground and react appropriately to opposition changes, said Mr Masagos Zulkifli
SINGAPORE — The People’s Action Party (PAP) introduced its final slate of eight new candidates on Friday (June 25), bringing the total number of candidates introduced over the last three days to 27.
The eight include one who had been named by the party in 2015 as a candidate before she subsequently pulled out for family reasons.
The first four candidates were introduced by the party’s vice chairman Masagos Zulkifli, and the second group by its second assistant secretary-general Chan Chun Sing.
The first set of candidates are Singapore’s deputy chief executive of the labour movement’s Employment and Employability Institute (e2i) Gan Siow Huang, 46; chief executive of consultancy firm Rohei Corporation Rachel Ong Sin Yen, 47; vice-president (strategy and project management office) at Singapore Aero Engine Services Sharael Taha, 39; and director of law firm Niru & Co Alex Yeo Sheng Chye, 41.
In the second session, the party introduced managing director and partner at Boston Consulting Group Mariam Jaafar, 43; Temasek Holdings director Shawn Huang Wei Zhong, 38; Daughters of Tomorrow charity founder Carrie Tan Huimin, 38; and PAP’s Serangoon branch chairman Chan Hui Yuh, 44.
Read also: GE2020: PAP unveils 11 new candidates, including ex-IMDA chief, CAG vice president and DBS managing director
Ms Chan had previously been named by the party in 2015 as a new candidate to stand in Aljunied Group Representation Constituency (GRC), but she subsequently pulled out, citing her struggles to keep up with the pace of grassroots work with two young children in tow.
Mr Chan said succession in the PAP is critical.
“In the PAP, just as in Government, we will always have to plan for our succession, because the success of Singapore depends not just on the few people at a point in time. It depends on us being able to implement consistent and coherent policies, over the long term,” he said.
Read also: GE2020: PAP unveils 8 new candidates, including UOB banker and former People's Association chief
In response to a question about a more diverse slate of Workers' Party (WP) candidates, Mr Chan said PAP must also ensure that it continues to bring in “diverse people from different walks of life, to speak up and represent the interests and aspirations of all Singaporeans”.
On former WP chief Low Thia Khiang’s decision to retire as a Member of Parliament and not to contest the election, Mr Masagos said PAP will have to track the movement of opposition parties as it can “change over days” and over hours.
“In any GE (general election), plans of opposition parties will evolve,” said Mr Masagos. “We have to keep listening, putting our ears on the ground and react appropriately.”
Read also: GE2020: The People’s Action Party
On Wednesday, eight candidates were introduced while another 11 were unveiled on Thursday. In the 2015 election, when 89 seats were contested, the PAP unveiled 24 new candidates.
NEW PAP CANDIDATES
Ms Gan Siow Huang, 46
Ms Gan was appointed deputy chief executive of the labour movement’s Employment and Employability Institute (e2i) in April.
She was in the Singapore Armed Forces for more than 25 years where she became the country’s first woman brigadier-general in 2015.
Ms Gan is one of the first four women to receive the SAF Merit Scholarship in 1993. She graduated in economics with first-class honours from the London School of Economics and Political Science and holds a master’s degree in business administration from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
She has been volunteering with the Girl Guides Singapore for more than seven years and has been seen in walkabouts in the Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC.
Ms Rachel Ong Sin Yen, 47
Ms Ong is the chief executive of consultancy firm Rohei Corporation and founder of Trybe, a charity that runs the Singapore Boys Hostel and the Community Rehabilitation Centre.
After graduating from CHIJ St Joseph’s Convent secondary school, she did her post-secondary education at Columbia College in Canada before studying at Southern Illinois University. She received her master’s degree in business administration in a joint programme by Insead business school and Tsinghua University.
She is a member of the PAP’s Telok Blangah branch and is tipped to contest in West Coast GRC.
Mr Sharael Taha, 39
Mr Sharael is vice-president (strategy and project management office) at Singapore Aero Engine Services as part of a secondment from British aerospace company Rolls Royce.
He graduated with a master’s degree in business administration with distinction from the University of Oxford and an honours degree in mechanical engineering from the National University of Singapore.
Mr Alex Yeo Sheng Chye, 41
Mr Yeo is a director at law firm Niru & Co. He was formerly a foreign service officer at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
He is an economics and political science graduate from the National University of Singapore and also holds a law degree from the University of Sydney. He received a master’s degree in public administration from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.
Starting out as a party volunteer in Potong Pasir, he took over Mr Murali Pillai in 2016 as the chairman of the PAP’s Paya Lebar branch within Aljunied GRC, after Mr Murali won in the Bukit Batok by-elections that year. Since then, he has led a pro-bono legal and healthcare initiative for Paya Lebar residents.
“We go the extra mile to listen and help with a personal touch because we want to build a community that not only lives, works and plays together, but cares for each other, together,” he said at the PAP65 Awards and Conference last year.
Ms Mariam Jaafar, 43
Ms Mariam is managing director and a partner at Boston Consulting Group. She has served on the Committee for the Future Economy chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat and is also on GovTech's board of directors.
She has a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University, and a master’s degree in business administration from Harvard Business School.
She was introduced in a Facebook post on March 31 by Sembawang GRC’s Amrin Amin, who helms the Woodlands ward.
Mr Shawn Huang Wei Zhong, 38
Mr Huang is a director at state investment firm Temasek Holdings.
Before that, he was a fighter pilot and commanding officer in the Republic of Singapore Air Force, where he served for 19 years. He was the parade commander for the 2018 National Day Parade.
He is the first non-American to become the top graduate in military performance at the United States Air Force Academy, where he graduated with a degree in aeronautical engineering.
Mr Huang is a community volunteer in the Taman Jurong ward where he has mentored children from low-income homes and helped ex-offenders restart their lives.
Ms Carrie Tan Huimin, 38
Ms Tan is the founder and executive director of Daughters of Tomorrow, a charity incorporated in August 2014, which helps underprivileged women in Singapore find jobs.
She was seen accompanying Home Affairs and Law Minister K Shanmugam on March 24 to tour the HomeTeamNS clubhouse in Khatib.
Ms Chan Hui Yuh, 44
Ms Chan is a marketing director at Jingslink Marketing and a long-time grassroots activist.
She is an adviser to the Aljunied grassroots organisations and the branch chairman for the PAP’s Serangoon branch in Aljunied GRC. She was initially slated to run as a PAP candidate in the 2015 generation election but pulled out to care for her two children.
Ms Chan began assisting then-Member of Parliament Abdullah Tarmugi in Siglap in 2000, and subsequently helped Dr Maliki Osman. She has held various roles in the youth wing of the PAP, including as assistant organising secretary of the Young PAP Executive Committee.
She is also the voiceover talent behind the recorded announcements heard in MRT stations and trains.
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Mr Huang is a director at state investment firm Temasek Holdings.
Before that, he was a fighter pilot and commanding officer in the Republic of Singapore Air Force, where he served for 19 years. He was the parade commander for the 2018 National Day Parade.
PAP unveils final batch of 8 new candidates, including S’pore’s first female general and Temasek director
By NATASHA MEAH, NABILAH AWANG, DARYL CHOO
People's Action Party
Top row (from left): Mr Alex Yeo Sheng Chye, Ms Gan Siow Huang, Ms Rachel Ong Sin Yen, Mr Sharael Taha. Bottom row (from left): Ms Carrie Tan Huimin, Ms Chan Hui Yuh, Mr Shawn Huang Wei Zhong, Ms Mariam Jaafar.
Published26 JUNE
The People’s Action Party introduced its final slate of eight new candidates
The candidates’ ages range from 38 to 47
Four individuals have experience in the public sector while four are from the private sector
Succession is critical, PAP must ensure to bring in diverse people from different walks of life, said Mr Chan Chun Sing
PAP has to put ears on the ground and react appropriately to opposition changes, said Mr Masagos Zulkifli
SINGAPORE — The People’s Action Party (PAP) introduced its final slate of eight new candidates on Friday (June 25), bringing the total number of candidates introduced over the last three days to 27.
The eight include one who had been named by the party in 2015 as a candidate before she subsequently pulled out for family reasons.
The first four candidates were introduced by the party’s vice chairman Masagos Zulkifli, and the second group by its second assistant secretary-general Chan Chun Sing.
The first set of candidates are Singapore’s deputy chief executive of the labour movement’s Employment and Employability Institute (e2i) Gan Siow Huang, 46; chief executive of consultancy firm Rohei Corporation Rachel Ong Sin Yen, 47; vice-president (strategy and project management office) at Singapore Aero Engine Services Sharael Taha, 39; and director of law firm Niru & Co Alex Yeo Sheng Chye, 41.
In the second session, the party introduced managing director and partner at Boston Consulting Group Mariam Jaafar, 43; Temasek Holdings director Shawn Huang Wei Zhong, 38; Daughters of Tomorrow charity founder Carrie Tan Huimin, 38; and PAP’s Serangoon branch chairman Chan Hui Yuh, 44.
Read also: GE2020: PAP unveils 11 new candidates, including ex-IMDA chief, CAG vice president and DBS managing director
Ms Chan had previously been named by the party in 2015 as a new candidate to stand in Aljunied Group Representation Constituency (GRC), but she subsequently pulled out, citing her struggles to keep up with the pace of grassroots work with two young children in tow.
Mr Chan said succession in the PAP is critical.
“In the PAP, just as in Government, we will always have to plan for our succession, because the success of Singapore depends not just on the few people at a point in time. It depends on us being able to implement consistent and coherent policies, over the long term,” he said.
Read also: GE2020: PAP unveils 8 new candidates, including UOB banker and former People's Association chief
In response to a question about a more diverse slate of Workers' Party (WP) candidates, Mr Chan said PAP must also ensure that it continues to bring in “diverse people from different walks of life, to speak up and represent the interests and aspirations of all Singaporeans”.
On former WP chief Low Thia Khiang’s decision to retire as a Member of Parliament and not to contest the election, Mr Masagos said PAP will have to track the movement of opposition parties as it can “change over days” and over hours.
“In any GE (general election), plans of opposition parties will evolve,” said Mr Masagos. “We have to keep listening, putting our ears on the ground and react appropriately.”
Read also: GE2020: The People’s Action Party
On Wednesday, eight candidates were introduced while another 11 were unveiled on Thursday. In the 2015 election, when 89 seats were contested, the PAP unveiled 24 new candidates.
NEW PAP CANDIDATES
Ms Gan Siow Huang, 46
Ms Gan was appointed deputy chief executive of the labour movement’s Employment and Employability Institute (e2i) in April.
She was in the Singapore Armed Forces for more than 25 years where she became the country’s first woman brigadier-general in 2015.
Ms Gan is one of the first four women to receive the SAF Merit Scholarship in 1993. She graduated in economics with first-class honours from the London School of Economics and Political Science and holds a master’s degree in business administration from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
She has been volunteering with the Girl Guides Singapore for more than seven years and has been seen in walkabouts in the Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC.
Ms Rachel Ong Sin Yen, 47
Ms Ong is the chief executive of consultancy firm Rohei Corporation and founder of Trybe, a charity that runs the Singapore Boys Hostel and the Community Rehabilitation Centre.
After graduating from CHIJ St Joseph’s Convent secondary school, she did her post-secondary education at Columbia College in Canada before studying at Southern Illinois University. She received her master’s degree in business administration in a joint programme by Insead business school and Tsinghua University.
She is a member of the PAP’s Telok Blangah branch and is tipped to contest in West Coast GRC.
Mr Sharael Taha, 39
Mr Sharael is vice-president (strategy and project management office) at Singapore Aero Engine Services as part of a secondment from British aerospace company Rolls Royce.
He graduated with a master’s degree in business administration with distinction from the University of Oxford and an honours degree in mechanical engineering from the National University of Singapore.
Mr Alex Yeo Sheng Chye, 41
Mr Yeo is a director at law firm Niru & Co. He was formerly a foreign service officer at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
He is an economics and political science graduate from the National University of Singapore and also holds a law degree from the University of Sydney. He received a master’s degree in public administration from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.
Starting out as a party volunteer in Potong Pasir, he took over Mr Murali Pillai in 2016 as the chairman of the PAP’s Paya Lebar branch within Aljunied GRC, after Mr Murali won in the Bukit Batok by-elections that year. Since then, he has led a pro-bono legal and healthcare initiative for Paya Lebar residents.
“We go the extra mile to listen and help with a personal touch because we want to build a community that not only lives, works and plays together, but cares for each other, together,” he said at the PAP65 Awards and Conference last year.
Ms Mariam Jaafar, 43
Ms Mariam is managing director and a partner at Boston Consulting Group. She has served on the Committee for the Future Economy chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat and is also on GovTech's board of directors.
She has a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University, and a master’s degree in business administration from Harvard Business School.
She was introduced in a Facebook post on March 31 by Sembawang GRC’s Amrin Amin, who helms the Woodlands ward.
Mr Shawn Huang Wei Zhong, 38
Mr Huang is a director at state investment firm Temasek Holdings.
Before that, he was a fighter pilot and commanding officer in the Republic of Singapore Air Force, where he served for 19 years. He was the parade commander for the 2018 National Day Parade.
He is the first non-American to become the top graduate in military performance at the United States Air Force Academy, where he graduated with a degree in aeronautical engineering.
Mr Huang is a community volunteer in the Taman Jurong ward where he has mentored children from low-income homes and helped ex-offenders restart their lives.
Ms Carrie Tan Huimin, 38
Ms Tan is the founder and executive director of Daughters of Tomorrow, a charity incorporated in August 2014, which helps underprivileged women in Singapore find jobs.
She was seen accompanying Home Affairs and Law Minister K Shanmugam on March 24 to tour the HomeTeamNS clubhouse in Khatib.
Ms Chan Hui Yuh, 44
Ms Chan is a marketing director at Jingslink Marketing and a long-time grassroots activist.
She is an adviser to the Aljunied grassroots organisations and the branch chairman for the PAP’s Serangoon branch in Aljunied GRC. She was initially slated to run as a PAP candidate in the 2015 generation election but pulled out to care for her two children.
Ms Chan began assisting then-Member of Parliament Abdullah Tarmugi in Siglap in 2000, and subsequently helped Dr Maliki Osman. She has held various roles in the youth wing of the PAP, including as assistant organising secretary of the Young PAP Executive Committee.
She is also the voiceover talent behind the recorded announcements heard in MRT stations and trains.
Read more at https://www.todayonline.com/singapo...7lcRFx9lCVZpWIhqquRijrKCLy99pyXQQsZP0pnnOVSjo
