Tan Kiat How

Tan Kiat How
陈杰豪
Senior Minister of State for Communications and Information
Assumed office
13 June 2022
Serving with Janil Puthucheary
Prime MinisterLee Hsien Loong
Lawrence Wong
MinisterJosephine Teo
Preceded bySim Ann
(2021)
Senior Minister of State for National Development
Assumed office
13 June 2022
Serving with Sim Ann
Prime MinisterLee Hsien Loong
Lawrence Wong
MinisterDesmond Lee
Minister of State for Communications and Information
In office
15 May 2021 – 12 June 2022
Prime MinisterLee Hsien Loong
MinisterJosephine Teo
Minister of State for National Development
In office
27 July 2020 – 12 June 2022
Prime MinisterLee Hsien Loong
MinisterDesmond Lee
Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office
In office
27 July 2020 – 14 May 2021
Prime MinisterLee Hsien Loong
MinisterIndranee Rajah
Maliki Osman
Tan See Leng
Member of Parliament
for East Coast GRC
(Kampong Chai Chee)
Assumed office
10 July 2020
Preceded byLee Yi Shyan
Majority7,769 (6.78%)
Personal details
Born1977 (age 46–47)[1]
Singapore
Political partyPeople's Action Party
Children2
Alma materUniversity of Illinois (BA, BEng)
Stanford University

Tan Kiat How (Chinese: 陈杰豪; pinyin: Chén Jiéháo; born 1977)[1] is a Singaporean politician and former civil servant who has been serving as Senior Minister of State for National Development and Senior Minister of State for Communications and Information concurrently since 2022.[2] A member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) representing the Kampong Chai Chee division of East Coast GRC since 2020.

Prior to his appointment as Senior Minister of State, he served as Minister of State for National Development, Minister of State for Communications and Information and Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office between 2020 and 2021.

A computer engineer by profession, Tan had worked at the Ministry of Communications and Information (MCI) and was the chief executive officer of the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA).

He made his political debut in the 2020 general election when he joined a five-member PAP team contesting in East Coast GRC, and they won with 53.39% of the vote. Tan was appointed Minister of State shortly after being elected, and appointed to the Prime Minister's Office from 2020 to 2021. In 2022, Tan was promoted Senior Minister of State after a Cabinet reshuffle.

  1. ^ a b "MP | Parliament of Singapore".
  2. ^ "Changes to Cabinet and Other Appointments (June 2022)". Prime Minister's Office Singapore. 6 June 2022.