Tan Wu Meng | |
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| 陈有明 | |
 Official portrait, 2021 | |
| Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs | |
| In office 1 May 2018 – 26 July 2020 | |
| Minister | Vivian Balakrishnan |
| Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Trade and Industry | |
| In office 1 May 2018 – 26 July 2020 | |
| Minister | Chan Chun Sing |
| Member of Parliament forJurong GRC | |
| In office 11 September 2015 – 15 April 2025 | |
| Preceded by | Arthur Fong |
| Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1975 (age 49–50) |
| Political party | People's Action Party |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge National University of Singapore |
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Tan Wu Meng (Chinese:陈有明;pinyin:Chén Yǒumíng; born 1975)[1] is a Singaporeanoncologist and retired politician who served asSenior Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs andSenior Parliamentary Secretary for Trade and Industry concurrently between 2018 and 2020. A member of the governingPeople's Action Party (PAP), he was theMember of Parliament (MP) as part of the team representingJurong Group Representation Constituency from 2015 to 2025.
Tan was educated atRaffles Institution andHwa Chong Junior College before he went to theUniversity of Cambridge, where he studied medicine atTrinity College.[citation needed] He was the recipient of anA*STAR International Fellowship and a CambridgeMB BS-PhD programme scholarship, allowing him to train as a doctor and complete a research doctorate at theMedical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology.[citation needed] Tan also holds aMaster of Medicine ininternal medicine from theNational University of Singapore and a Fellowship of theAcademy of Medicine, Singapore, inmedical oncology.[citation needed]
While at university, Tan was thePresident of theCambridge Union Society in 2001. He represented Cambridge as a debater, reaching the Grand Final of theWorld Universities Debating Championships inStellenbosch in 2003 where he was ranked the Best Individual Speaker of the tournament.[2]
Tan began his medical career as a specialist inmedical oncology at theNational Cancer Centre at theSingapore 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 theSengkang Hospital Project and a member of theSingHealth Specialist Outpatient Clinic Task Force. He was a member of the Executive Committee of the Singapore Society of Oncology from 2012 to 2014.[3]
From 2006 to 2009, Tan served with theNorth 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, theYoung PAP.[4][5] 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.
During the2015 general election, Tan was a member of thePeople's Action Party (PAP) team contesting inJurong GRC. Tan was elected to Parliament when the five-member PAP team in Jurong GRC defeated theSingFirst team by 95,080 votes (79.3%) to 24,848 (20.7%).
Tan served as abackbencher in Parliament until May 2018 when he was appointed as a Senior Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Trade and Industry.
Tan was re-elected as an MP for Jurong GRC at the2020 general election.[6] Following the election, it was announced that Tan would be standing down from the role of Parliamentary Secretary and would continue to serve in Parliament as abackbencher. He was then appointed Chair of the Government Parliamentary Committee (GPC) for Health in the14th Parliament.
During the2025 election, Tan stood down from politics and did not contest the election.[7]
Tan's wife is an infectious diseases doctor. The couple have two daughters, born in 2011 and 2017.[8][9]
| Parliament of Singapore | ||
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| Preceded byas MP forWest Coast GRC (Clementi) | Member of Parliament for Jurong GRC (Clementi) 2015 – 2025 | Succeeded byas MP forJurong East–Bukit Batok GRC (Clementi) |
