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El HonorableJosephine Teo Li MinMP
杨莉明
Josephine Teo September 2016 (29908295102).jpg
Miembro de Parlamento de Singapurpara Jalan Besar GRC (Kreta Ayer-Kim Seng)
Asumió el cargo el
10 de julio de 2020
Precedido porLily Neo ( PAP )
Distrito electoralJalan Besar GRC
Mayoria30.370 (30,72%)
Miembro de Parlamento de Singapurpara Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC (Marymount)
En el cargo
8 de mayo de 2011 - 23 de junio de 2020
Precedido porZainudin Nordin ( PAP )
SucesorGan Siow Huang ( PAP )
Distrito electoralBishan-Toa Payoh GRC
Mayoria55.465 (47,18%) (2015)
Ministro de Comunicaciones e Información
Asume el cargo el
15 de mayo de 2021
Primer ministroLee Hsien Loong
Precedido porS. Iswaran
Distrito electoralJalan Besar GRC
Ministro de Mano de Obra
En el cargo
1 de mayo de 2018-14 de mayo de 2021
Primer ministroLee Hsien Loong
Precedido porLim Swee Say
SucesorTan See Leng
Distrito electoralJalan Besar GRC
Segundo Ministro de Interior
Asumió el cargo el
11 de septiembre de 2017
Primer ministroLee Hsien Loong
MinistroK. Shanmugam
Precedido porDesmond Lee
Distrito electoralJalan Besar GRC
Ministro en la Oficina del Primer Ministro
En el cargo
1 de mayo de 2017 - 30 de abril de 2018
Sirviendo con Chan Chun Sing
Primer ministroLee Hsien Loong
Distrito electoralBishan-Toa Payoh GRC
Segundo Ministro de Mano de Obra
En el cargo
1 de mayo de 2017 - 30 de abril de 2018
Primer ministroLee Hsien Loong
MinistroLim Swee Say
SucesorTan See Leng
Distrito electoralBishan-Toa Payoh GRC
Segundo Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores
En el cargo
1 de mayo de 2017 - 10 de septiembre de 2017
Primer ministroLee Hsien Loong
MinistroVivian Balakrishnan
Precedido porOficina establecida
SucesorMaliki Osman
Distrito electoralBishan-Toa Payoh GRC
Primer Ministro de Estado, Oficina del Primer Ministro
En el cargo
1 de octubre de 2015 - 30 de abril de 2017
Sirviendo con Heng Chee How
Primer ministroLee Hsien Loong
Distrito electoralBishan-Toa Payoh GRC
Ministro de Estado, Ministerio de Transporte
En funciones desde el
1 de septiembre de 2013 hasta el 30 de abril de 2017
Primer ministroLee Hsien Loong
MinistroKhaw Boon Wan
Lui Tuck Yew
Distrito electoralBishan-Toa Payoh GRC
Ministro Superior de Estado, Ministerio de Finanzas
En funciones del
1 de septiembre de 2013 al 30 de septiembre de 2015
Primer ministroLee Hsien Loong
MinistroTharman Shanmugaratnam
SucesorIndranee Rajah
Distrito electoralBishan-Toa Payoh GRC
Miembro del Parlamento de Singapur por Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC (Toa Payoh East)
En el cargo
27 de abril de 2006 - 8 de mayo de 2011
Primer ministroLee Hsien Loong
Precedido porDavinder Singh ( PAP )
SucesorZainudin Nordin ( PAP )
Distrito electoralBishan-Toa Payoh GRC
Ministro de Estado, Ministerio de Finanzas
En el cargo
18 de mayo de 2011 - 1 de septiembre de 2013
Primer ministroLee Hsien Loong
MinistroHeng Swee Keat
Precedido porLim Hwee Hua
Distrito electoralBishan-Toa Payoh GRC
Ministro de Estado, Ministerio de Transporte
En el cargo
18 de mayo de 2011 - 1 de septiembre de 2013
Primer ministroLee Hsien Loong
MinistroLui Tuck Yew
Khaw Boon Wan
Precedido porLim Hwee Hua
Distrito electoralBishan-Toa Payoh GRC
Detalles personales
Nació
Josephine Yong Li Min

(1968-07-08) 8 July 1968 (age 52)
Singapore
CitizenshipSingapore
NationalitySingaporean
Political partyPeople's Action Party
Spouse(s)Teo Eng Cheong
Children3
ResidenceSingapore
Alma materNational University of Singapore
London School of Economics
OccupationPolitician
CommitteesGPCs
  • Education
  • Defence & Foreign Affairs
In this Chinese name, the family name is Teo.

Josephine Teo Li Min MP (née Yong; born 8 July 1968) is a Singaporean politician. A member of the country's governing People's Action Party (PAP), she was appointed as the Minister for Manpower and the Second Minister for Home Affairs by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. She is slated to succeed S Iswaran as Minister of Communication and Information and Minister-in-charge of the Cyber Security Agency,plus taking over Vivian Balakrishnan as Minister-In-Charge of Smart Nation Initiative on 15 May 2021.

She has been a Member of Parliament (MP) representing the Bishan–Toa Payoh Group Representation Constituency for Bishan North (which is now carved into the new Marymount SMC) from 2006 to 2020 before moving over to Jalan Besar Group Representation Constituency for Kreta Ayer-Kim Seng on 10 July 2020.

Career[edit]

Teo worked at Singapore's Economic Development Board (EDB) from 1992 to 2002. She began her career there in enterprise development, and was later posted to Suzhou, China, as part of EDB's pioneering team there. While on secondment to the China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park Pte Ltd, she was responsible for Marketing Resources. Upon her return to Singapore, Teo became the EDB's Head of Human Resources.[1]

From 2002 to 2006, Teo served as the Head of Human Resources at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR).[1]

In November 2005, Teo also took on the role of Director of Human Resources at the Administration and Research Unit (ARU) of the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC).

After her election to Parliament in 2006, Teo took on additional roles within the NTUC and the labour movement. She served as the Executive Secretary of the Singapore Industrial Services Employees' Union (2006–11). At the ARU, she served as the Alignment Director (Youth Development) and Alignment Director (Organisation Development) (2007–11), and as the Centric Director (Staff) (2008–11).[2] She also served as the NTUC's Assistant Secretary-General from 2007 to 2011.[3]

From 2009 to 2011, Teo also served as the Chief Executive Officer of Business China,[4][5] an organisation established to nurture an inclusive bilingual and bi-cultural group of Singaporeans through the use of Chinese language and to develop a cultural and economic bridge between China and the world.[4]

Political career[edit]

Teo meeting with The head of government of the City of Buenos Aires, Mauricio Macri in 2012

Teo entered Parliament at the 2006 general election as an MP for the Bishan–Toa Payoh Group Representation Constituency (GRC).

During her first term in Parliament, she served as the Chair of the Government Parliamentary Committee (GPC) for Education, and as a member of the GPC for Defence & Foreign Affairs.[6]

Following the 2011 general election, Teo was appointed a Minister of State at the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Transport on 18 May 2011, succeeding Ms Lim Hwee Hua in her finance and transport portfolios. Teo was promoted to Senior Minister Of State at the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Transport on 1 September 2013.

In 2012, Teo appeared in a Channel 8 drama called Pillow Talk where she shared about love and romance between couples.

She served as the Senior Minister Of State at the Ministry of Finance until 30 September 2015.[7][8]

She was promoted to full minister and be appointed as Minister in the Prime Minister's Office (PMO), and Second Minister in the Ministry of Manpower and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1 May 2017.[9] She also oversees the National Population and Talent Division.

Teo later succeeded Mr Lim Swee Say as Manpower Minister on 1 May 2018, being the second female minister to helm a ministry after Grace Fu. She has been a Member of Parliament (MP) representing the Bishan–Toa Payoh Group Representation Constituency and once an advisor of the Bishan-Toa Payoh grassroots organisations from 2006 to 2020 before moving over to Jalan Besar Group Representation Constituency and is now an adviser to Kreta Ayer- Kim Seng Grassroots Organisations.[10]

Controversies[edit]

In a media interview in October 2016, Teo responded to questions of whether Singaporeans are getting their HDB flats early enough in order to start a family, stating that one "does not need much space to have sex". Teo further added that "In France, in the UK, in the Nordic countries, man meets woman, tonight they can make a baby already."[11] This drew much flak from the public, with many Singaporeans criticizing her for being insensitive and not being able to understand practical considerations such as the high costs of living. Others also accused Teo of trying to promote Western values, ways of life and promiscuity in Singapore.

In May 2017, Teo commenting on the issue of high cost of milk powder in Singapore on her Facebook page, wrote that "milk is milk, however fancy the marketing". She further claimed that she would buy whichever brand of milk powder approved for sale by AVA that was cheapest for her own kids.[12] She was criticised for not knowing that even the cheapest milk powder in Singapore is still much more expensive than other countries in the region.[13] In addition, different babies may require additional supplements, or have certain allergies and preferences to milk powder.

On 26 October 2018, Teo commented that implementing minimum wage in Singapore may instead lead to higher unemployment and that Singapore's income inequality gap is "a problem of success" that is "difficult to overcome". She made these comments at the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS)'s 30th anniversary conference, where IPS's special adviser Professor Tommy Koh pointed out that Singapore's income profile today "looks more like a pear than an olive", with a large number of people "at the bottom", as opposed to the late Mr Lee Kuan Yew's vision of "a Singapore which resembles an olive - very few very rich, very few poor people, and a very large middle income".[14]

Education[edit]

Teo was educated at Dunman High School and Raffles Junior College,[2] before going on to the National University of Singapore where she was awarded a Bachelor of Arts in 1990 and a Bachelor of Social Science (Honours) in 1991. She was awarded several prizes, including the Rachel Meyer Book Prize, which is awarded to the best woman student in the Final Examinations of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.[1] She was then awarded a postgraduate scholarship under the EDB-Glaxo Scholarship Programme and completed a Master of Science (Economics) degree at the London School of Economics in 1992.[1]

Personal life[edit]

A Singaporean of Hakka descent, Teo's maiden surname is Yong. She is currently married to former CEO of Surbana Jurong, Teo Eng Cheong.[15] The couple have three children, two daughters and one son.

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d "Channelnewsasia.com - Singapore General Election". May 27, 2006. Archived from the original on 2006-05-27.
  2. ^ a b "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-02-10. Retrieved 2009-03-30.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ^ "Swee Say wins poll by landslide". www.asiaone.com. Archived from the original on 2017-10-30. Retrieved 2020-07-17.
  4. ^ a b http://938live.sg/portal/site/938Live/menuitem.43735da1634c4377d21b2910618000a0/?vgnextoid=f7dac866dea91210VgnVCM1000001f0aa8c0RCRD&mcParam=18d2638896593110VgnVCM100000e101000aRCRD[permanent dead link]
  5. ^ "MP Josephine Teo steps down as Business China CEO". Archived from the original on 22 May 2011. Retrieved 22 May 2011.
  6. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2010-11-11.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. ^ Ong, Justin. "Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announces Singapore's new Cabinet". CNA. Archived from the original on 2015-10-06. Retrieved 2015-10-05.
  8. ^ Singapore, CNA. "PM Lee and Singapore's new Cabinet sworn in". CNA. Archived from the original on 2015-10-05. Retrieved 2015-10-05.
  9. ^ "Cabinet changes: Josephine Teo, Desmond Lee promoted to full ministers". The Straits Times. April 27, 2017. Archived from the original on September 9, 2017. Retrieved July 17, 2020.
  10. ^ "Cabinet reshuffle: Chan Chun Sing to lead MTI; Heng Swee Keat stays at MOF, Ong Ye Kung to head MOE". CNA. Archived from the original on 2018-05-02. Retrieved 2018-05-02.
  11. ^ Singapore, ST. "You don't need much space to have sex: Josephine Teo on 'no flat, no child' belief". The Straits Times. Archived from the original on 2017-09-10. Retrieved 2017-09-09.
  12. ^ Singapore, CNA. "'Milk is milk, however fancy the marketing': Josephine Teo". CNA. Archived from the original on 2017-09-09. Retrieved 2017-09-09.
  13. ^ Singapore, TOC. "Josephine Teo's comment, "milk is milk, however fancy the marketing" irks parents". TOC. Archived from the original on 2017-09-09. Retrieved 2017-09-09.
  14. ^ Singapore, CNA. "'Implmenting minimum wage may lead to lower employment': Josephine Teo". Archived from the original on 2018-10-26. Retrieved 2018-10-26.
  15. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-05-25. Retrieved 2009-03-30.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

External links[edit]

  • Josephine Teo on Prime Minister's Office
  • Josephine Teo on Parliament of Singapore
Political offices
Preceded by
Chan Chun Sing		 Minister in the Prime Minister's Office
2017 – 2018
Served alongside: Chan Chun Sing, Desmond Lee		Succeeded by
Ng Chee Meng
Indranee Rajah
Preceded by
Lim Swee Say		 Minister for Manpower
2018 – 2021		Succeeded by
Tan See Leng
Preceded by
S. Iswaran		 Minister for Communications and Information
2021 – present		Incumbent
Parliament of Singapore
Preceded by
Davinder Singh		 Member of Parliament for
Bishan–Toa Payoh GRC (Toa Payoh East)
2006 – 2011		Succeeded by
Zainudin Nordin
Preceded by
Zainudin Nordin
as MP (Bishan–Toa Payoh North)		 Member of Parliament for
Bishan–Toa Payoh GRC (Bishan North)
2011 – 2020		Succeeded by
Gan Siow Huang
as MP (Marymount SMC)
Preceded by
Lily Neo		 Member of Parliament for
Jalan Besar GRC (Kreta Ayer - Kim Seng)
2020 – present		Incumbent