Ong Teng Koon

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The Honourable
Ong Teng Koon
王鼎昆
Member of the Singapore Parliament
for Marsiling–Yew Tee GRC
In office
11 September 2015 –23 June 2020

Ong Teng Koon [a] (born 13 January 1977) [1] is a Singaporean businessman and former politician. A member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), he was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Woodgrove division of Sembawang Group Representation Constituency (GRC) between 2011 and 2015 and the same division in Marsiling–Yew Tee GRC between 2015 and 2020.

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Education

Ong attended Ai Tong Primary School and received his secondary education from Raffles Institution (RI) before attending the now-defunct Raffles Junior College (RJC). [1] In 2001, he graduated from the London School of Economics with a first-class honours degree in economics. He went on to pursue a master’s degree in finance from Princeton University in 2003. [1] [2]

Career

Ong is a businessman. He worked as a commodities trader at Goldman Sachs from 2003 to 2008 and at Deutsche Bank in 2009. [1] [2] As of March 2015, he had been a commodities trader at Morgan Stanley since 2009. [1]

Political career

Ong was inspired by his father, whom he had followed on walkabouts during the 2001 and 2006 general elections, to enter politics; he began volunteering for the PAP in 2009. [2]

In April 2011, during the leadup to the general election in the same year, Ong made his political debut as a PAP candidate for Sembawang GRC. [3] He became the MP for the Woodgrove division of the GRC after the PAP defeated the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) with 63.9% of the vote. [4] [5]

During the 2015 general election, the Woodgrove division was redistricted into the newly created Marsiling–Yew Tee GRC; Ong was subsequently reassigned to said constituency alongside three other members of the PAP. [5] The PAP team won 68.73% of the vote against the SDP. [6]

On 28 June 2020, ahead of the general election in the same year, Ong announced that he would retire from politics. The PAP replaced him with Hany Soh. [7]

Personal life

Ong is an only child; his father is Ong Ah Heng, former PAP MP for the defunct Nee Soon Central Single Member Constituency (SMC). [2] He is married. [1]

Notes

  1. ↑ Chinese :王鼎昆; pinyin :Wáng Dǐngkūn

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Ong Teng Koon | Parliament Of Singapore". Parliament of Singapore . Archived from the original on 20 March 2015. Retrieved 10 October 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Dad inspired him to join politics". AsiaOne . Archived from the original on 28 November 2018. Retrieved 10 October 2025.
  3. ↑ "PAP introduces seventh batch of new candidates". Yahoo! News (republication from SingaporeScene). 11 April 2011. Archived from the original on 19 June 2013. Retrieved 10 October 2025.
  4. ↑ "PAP wins Sembawang GRC". AsiaOne . Archived from the original on 25 June 2020. Retrieved 10 October 2025.
  5. 1 2 "GE2015: PAP unveils full line-up to contest Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC". Yahoo! News. Archived from the original on 10 October 2025. Retrieved 10 October 2025.
  6. ↑ "GE2025: PM Wong's PAP team retains Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC with 73.46% of the votes". The Straits Times . 4 May 2025. Archived from the original on 13 May 2025. Retrieved 10 October 2025. This marked an improvement from 2020, when his PAP team defeated the SDP with 63.18 per cent of the votes, and from 2015, when the PAP won by 68.73 per cent.
  7. ↑ "Singapore GE2020: Lawrence Wong continues to head PAP's Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC team, new face Hany Soh replaces Ong Teng Koon". The Straits Times. 28 June 2020. ISSN   0585-3923. Archived from the original on 24 February 2025. Retrieved 10 October 2025.
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