Hazel Poa

Hazel Poa
潘群勤
Non-Constituency Member of the
14th Parliament of Singapore
Assumed office
16 July 2020
Serving with Leong Mun Wai
Preceded byDennis Tan (WP)
Daniel Goh (WP)
Leon Perera (WP)
4th Secretary-General of the Progress Singapore Party
Assumed office
20 February 2024
ChairmanTan Cheng Bock
Preceded byLeong Mun Wai
2nd Vice Chairperson of the Progress Singapore Party
In office
4 April 2023 – 20 February 2024
Preceded byWang Swee Chuang
3rd Secretary-General of the National Solidarity Party
In office
26 June 2011 – 25 October 2013
Preceded byGoh Meng Seng
Succeeded byJeannette Chong-Aruldoss
Personal details
Born (1970-08-27) 27 August 1970 (age 54)
Singapore
Political partyProgress Singapore Party (2019–present)
Other political
affiliations
Reform Party (2009–2011)
National Solidarity Party (2011–2015)
SpouseTony Tan Lay Thiam
Children2
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
Profession
  • Politician
  • businesswoman

Hazel Poa Koon Koon (Chinese: 潘群勤; pinyin: Pān Qúnqín; born 27 August 1970)[1][non-primary source needed] is a Singaporean politician and businesswoman. A member of the opposition Progress Singapore Party (PSP), she has been a Non-Constituency Member of the 14th Parliament of Singapore since 2020. She has served as the Secretary-General of PSP since 2024.

She was the Vice-Chairman of the Progress Singapore Party from 2023 to 2024, and was elected as Secretary-General on 20 February 2024.[2]

A Public Service Commission scholar, Poa graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1992 with a first-class honours degree in mathematics. After graduation, she worked as a civil servant before joining the financial industry and starting her own business.

Poa was a member of the Reform Party before joining the National Solidarity Party (NSP) in 2011. She was Secretary-General of the NSP from June 2011 to September 2013, and acting Secretary-General from June 2015 to August 2015.

  1. ^ "Hazel Poa". Facebook. Archived from the original on 20 September 2020. Retrieved 17 March 2015.
  2. ^ "Leong Mun Wai steps down as PSP chief to take responsibility for recent POFMA order". CNA. Retrieved 23 February 2024.