From the civil service to the heights of corporate leadership, this was Mr Gan Kim Yong's path to the deputy prime minister's office.
From the civil service to the heights of corporate leadership, this was Mr Gan Kim Yong 's path to the deputy prime minister's office.
Mr Gan will work alongside fellow Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat. He will be the Acting Prime Minister in Mr Wong's absence. As a youth, he accepted a public service scholarship to study engineering at Cambridge University, graduating with a masters' degree in 1985. At NatSteel, as it was then called, Mr Gan rose from a corporate planning manager to eventually become CEO and president of the steel and electronics company.In 2005, Mr Gan was introduced as Minister of State for Manpower and Education in Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's Cabinet.
"My portfolio was called Minister-in-Charge of Ageing, but many people called me the 'ageing minister', and I’ve had to repeatedly correct that," Mr Gan quipped at a fireside chat earlier this month. COVID-19 multi-ministry task force co-chairs Gan Kim Yong and Lawrence Wong speak to the media at the National Press Centre on Jan 19, 2021.
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