Chee Hong Tat

Chee Hong Tat
徐芳达
Chee in 2023
Minister for Transport
Assumed office
18 January 2024
Acting: 12 July 2023 – 17 January 2024
Prime MinisterLee Hsien Loong
Lawrence Wong
Preceded byS. Iswaran
Second Minister for Finance
Assumed office
18 January 2024
Serving with Indranee Rajah
Prime MinisterLee Hsien Loong
Lawrence Wong
MinisterLawrence Wong
Preceded byLawrence Wong
(2021)
Junior Ministerial offices
Senior Minister of State for Finance
In office
13 June 2022 – 17 January 2024
MinisterLawrence Wong
Preceded bySim Ann
(2015–2016)
Indranee Rajah
(2015–2018)
Senior Minister of State for Transport
In office
27 July 2020 – 17 January 2024
Serving with Amy Khor (2020–2024)
MinisterOng Ye Kung
(2020–2021)
S. Iswaran
(2021–2024)
Preceded byLam Pin Min
Janil Puthucheary
Succeeded byMurali Pillai (As Minister of State)
Senior Minister of State for Foreign Affairs
In office
27 July 2020 – 14 May 2021
MinisterVivian Balakrishnan
Preceded byMaliki Osman
Succeeded bySim Ann
Senior Minister of State for Trade and Industry
In office
1 May 2018 – 26 July 2020
Serving with Koh Poh Koon (2017–2020)
MinisterChan Chun Sing
Senior Minister of State for Education
In office
1 May 2018 – 26 July 2020
MinisterOng Ye Kung
Preceded byJanil Puthucheary
Senior Minister of State for Communications and Information
In office
1 May 2017 – 30 April 2018
MinisterYaacob Ibrahim
Succeeded byJanil Puthucheary
Senior Minister of State for Health
In office
1 May 2017 – 30 April 2018
Serving with Amy Khor (2013–2020)
Lam Pin Min (2017–2020)
MinisterGan Kim Yong
Succeeded byEdwin Tong
Minister of State for Communications and Information
In office
1 October 2015 – 30 April 2017
Serving with Janil Puthucheary (2016–2017)
MinisterYaacob Ibrahim
Preceded bySim Ann
Minister of State for Health
In office
1 October 2015 – 30 April 2017
Serving with Lam Pin Min (2014–2017)
MinisterGan Kim Yong
Deputy Secretary-General of the
National Trades Union Congress
In office
15 May 2021 – 12 June 2022
Secretary-GeneralNg Chee Meng
Preceded byKoh Poh Koon
Succeeded byDesmond Tan
Member of Parliament
for Bishan–Toa Payoh GRC
(Toa Payoh West–Thomson)
Assumed office
10 July 2020
Preceded byHimself
Majority32,259 (34.52%)
Member of Parliament
for Bishan–Toa Payoh GRC
(Toa Payoh West–Balestier)
In office
11 September 2015 – 23 June 2020
Preceded byHri Kumar
Succeeded byHimself
Majority32,259 (34.52%)
Personal details
Born1973 (age 50–51)[1]
Singapore
Political partyPeople's Action Party
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley (BS, BA)
University of Adelaide (MBA)

Chee Hong Tat (Chinese: 徐芳达; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Chhî Hong-ta̍t; pinyin: Xú Fāngdá; born 1973)[1] is a Singaporean politician and former civil servant who has been serving as Minister for Transport and Second Minister for Finance since 2024. A member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) representing the Toa Payoh West–Thomson division of Bishan–Toa Payoh GRC since 2015.

Prior entering politics, Chee worked at the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), the Ministry of Finance (MOF), the Ministry of Transport (MOT), and the Ministry of Education (MOE), and was Principal Private Secretary to Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew from 2008 to 2011. He subsequently served as Chief Executive Officer of the Energy Market Authority (EMA) between 2011 and 2015.

Chee made his political debut in the 2015 general election as part of a five-member PAP team contesting in Bishan–Toa Payoh GRC which won 73.59% of the vote. Chee was elected as the Member of Parliament representing the Toa Payoh West–Balestier division of Bishan–Toa Payoh GRC. Since then, he has retained his parliamentary seat in the 2020 general election and had been appointed Minister of State and subsequently Senior Minister of State.

  1. ^ a b "MP | Parliament of Singapore".