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Shanmugaratnam, Tharman

LC control no.no2007015215
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Personal name headingShanmugaratnam, Tharman
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Variant(s)Tharman Shanmugaratnam
尚达曼
Shang, Daman
See alsoChief executive of: Singapore. President (2023- : Shanmugaratnam)
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Birth date1957-02-25
Place of birthSingapore
Field of activitySingapore--Politics and government Economics
AffiliationPeople's Action Party (Singapore) London School of Economics and Political Science Wolfson College (University of Cambridge) John F. Kennedy School of Government
Monetary Authority of Singapore
Singapore. Ministry of Finance
Singapore. Ministry of Education
Profession or occupationPoliticians Economists
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Found inAsian monetary integration, 2006: cover (Tharman Shanmugaratnam)
Wikipedia, viewed on September 4, 2023: Tharman Shanmugaratnam (born 25 February 1957, is a Singaporean statesman and economist who is the president-elect of Singapore (assuming office [on] 14 September 2023); Chairman of the Monetary Authority of Singapore between 2011 and 2023. A former member of the People's Action Party (PAP), he was the Member of Parliament (MP) representing the Taman Jurong division of Jurong GRC between 2001 and 2023. He also served as Deputy Prime Minister between 2011 and 2019, Minister for Finance between 2007 and 2015, Minister for Education between 2003 and 2008; Born in Singapore, Tharman attended the Anglo-Chinese School before graduating from the London School of Economics (LSE) with a Bachelor of Science degree in economics; subsequently went on to Wolfson College at the University of Cambridge, where he completed a Master of Philosophy degree in economics. He then became a student at the Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University, where completed a Master in Public Administration (MPA) degree and was a recipient of the Lucius N. Littauer Fellows Award; In Singapore's Chinese-language media, Tharman is often referred to as (Chinese: 尚达曼; pinyin: Shàng Dámàn), an approximate transliteration of his name, Tharman Shanmugaratnam)
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