Yip Hon Weng

Yip Hon Weng
叶汉荣
Member of Parliament
for Yio Chu Kang SMC
Assumed office
10 July 2020
Preceded byConstituency established
Majority5,256 (21.66%)
Personal details
Born1977
Singapore
Political partyPeople's Action Party
Alma materLoughborough University
University of Exeter
Harvard University
National University of Singapore
Nanyang Technological University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Occupation
  • Politician
  • civil servant
  • teacher

Yip Hon Weng (Chinese: 叶汉荣; pinyin: Yè Hànróng; born 23 July 1977) is a Singaporean politician, former civil servant and teacher. A member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) representing Yio Chu Kang SMC since 2020.

Education

Yip graduated from Loughborough University with a bachelor's degree with first class honours in physical education, sports science and mathematics under an overseas scholarship conferred by the Public Service Commission (PSC).

He completed his training as a teacher and obtained a PGCE from the University of Exeter.

He subsequently went on to complete master's degrees in; administration, planning & social policy and international education with double concentrations at Harvard University; knowledge engineering at the National University of Singapore; and financial engineering at the Nanyang Technological University with a project stint at Carnegie Mellon University.

Yip is also a Sloan Fellow and has completed a Master of Business Administration degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the Administrative Service Postgraduate Scholarship conferred by the Singapore Government.

Career

Early career

Yip started his career as a physical education and mathematics teacher at Kent Ridge Secondary School.

He subsequently served in several leadership, management and policy related roles in the Ministry of Education (MOE), Minister of Manpower (MOM), Ministry of Defence (MINDEF), Ministry of Health (MOH) and the Ministry of National Development (MND).

He was also part of the founding team that established the Municipal Services Office announced during the 2014 National Day Rally Speech, when the OneService app was created. He was Group Chief of the Silver Generation Office in the Agency of Integrated Care and concurrently Advisor (Care Integration) under the Ministry of Health prior to entering politics.

Politics

Yip was fielded in the 2020 general election as a solo PAP candidate contesting in Yio Chu Kang SMC against the Progress Singapore Party.

On 11 July 2020, Yip was declared an elected Member of Parliament (MP) representing Yio Chu Kang SMC in the 14th Parliament after garnering 61% of the vote.

Personal life

Yip is married and has five children.


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