Zaqy Mohamad
Zaqy Mohamad | |
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| زقي محمد | |
| Minister of State for National Development | |
| Assumed office 1 May 2018 | |
| President | Halimah Yacob |
| Prime Minister | Lee Hsien Loong |
| Minister | Lawrence Wong |
| Preceded by | Koh Poh Koon |
| Constituency | Chua Chu Kang GRC (Keat Hong) |
| Minister of State for Manpower | |
| Assumed office 1 May 2018 | |
| President | Halimah Yacob |
| Prime Minister | Lee Hsien Loong |
| Minister | Josephine Teo |
| Preceded by | Teo Ser Luck Sam Tan |
| Constituency | Chua Chu Kang GRC (Keat Hong) |
| Deputy Party Whip of the People's Action Party | |
| Assumed office 6 June 2019 Serving with Sim Ann | |
| Secretary-General | Lee Hsien Loong |
| Party Whip | Janil Puthucheary |
| Preceded by | Sam Tan |
| Member of Parliament for Chua Chu Kang GRC (formerly Hong Kah GRC) (Keat Hong) | |
| Assumed office 6 May 2006 | |
| Preceded by | Ahmad Khalis Abdul Ghani (PAP) |
| Majority | 84,850 (76.91%) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 15 September 1974 Singapore |
| Nationality |  Singaporean |
| Political party | People's Action Party (2006 - Present) |
| Occupation | Politician |
Zaqy Mohamad (Jawi: زقي محمد; born 15 September 1974) is a Singaporean politician. A member of Singapore's People's Action Party (PAP), he serves as a Member of Parliament (MP) for the Chua Chu Kang Group Representation Constituency (GRC), and is doubling up as the grassroots adviser, under the government-linked People's Association, to Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC since 8 August 2017. He is the Deputy Party Whip of the People's Action Party, Minister of State for National Development & Minister of State for Manpower. [1]
Early life and education
Zaqy Mohamad was born in Singapore on 15 September 1974. He studied at Saint Michael's School where he took his primary education, and subsequently Raffles Institution for his secondary education and Raffles Junior College. He furthered his education by attending Nanyang Technological University where he was an active student leader, championing student welfare and financial assistance programmes for needy students as the President of the NTU Students' Union (NTUSU)[2] for two terms. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in Electronic and Electrical Engineering. He obtained a scholarship to study at the Paris-based ESIEE Management for a year. In 2003, he finished his master's degree course in Financial Engineering from Nanyang Technological University jointly with Carnegie Mellon University.[3]
Career
Information technology
From 1999 to 2002, he was a senior consultant at Arthur Andersen. Thereafter, from 2002 to 2005, he served as a business consultant at IBM Business Consulting Services. From 2005 to 2008, he was the director of Solutions Avanade, a joint venture of Accenture and Microsoft. In 2008, he joined Dimension Data, an NTT Group company, as a sales director.[3]
Zaqy joined Ernst & Young in 2014, and was formerly a Partner with the firm.
Politics
A member of the People's Action Party, Zaqy first entered politics in 2006 as a member of parliament for Hong Kah GRC, in a team led by Amy Khor. In the 2011 General Elections, Hong Kah GRC was reconstituted as Chua Chu Kang GRC, where he has been MP since.[3]
At the 2015 general election, Zaqy again stood as a PAP Candidate in Chua Chu Kang GRC. Zaqy was elected to Parliament again when the four-member PAP team won the constituency (which was led by then-Health Minister Gan Kim Yong) with an increased majority and defeated the team from the People's Power Party by 84,850 votes (76.9%) to 25,475 (23.1%). Zaqy had been co-opted into the PAP's Central Executive Committee (CEC) on 5 January 2015, but relinquished his position due to regulatory compliance reasons, as his employer Ernst & Young was the auditor of PAP.[4]
Zaqy was formerly a member of the GPC for Transport. Zaqy had also served in the GPCs of Manpower, Trade and Industry, Finance and Communications and Information in his previous terms of office.[3]
On 8 August 2017, after former Speaker of Parliament Halimah Yacob resigned from her position as MP for Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC to contest in the 2017 presidential elections, Zaqy was appointed as grassroots adviser, under the government-linked People's Association, for Halimah's Marsiling ward.[1] This is significant as Halimah was the sole minority candidate in Marsiling Yew-Tee GRC, and despite the original purpose of the GRC system, the government has opted to appoint Zaqy in lieu of calling a by-election to replace her.[1][5]
Personal life
A Muslim, Zaqy is married.[3]
See also
References
- ^ a b c Nur Asyiqin Mohamad Salleh (9 August 2017). "Zaqy to take over Marsiling grassroots adviser role". The Straits Times. Archived from the original on 10 August 2017. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
- ^ http://www.hey.ntu.edu.sg/issue13/features_leeteng_zaqy.html#.WuBz7YhuZPY
- ^ a b c d e "Member's CV" (PDF). Parliament. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 August 2017. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
- ^ "Baey Yam Keng co-opted into PAP Central Executive Committee". AsiaOne. Archived from the original on 6 September 2017. Retrieved 6 September 2017.
- ^ Nur Asyiqin Mohamad Salleh (7 February 2017). "No by-election if minority MP leaves GRC, says Chun Sing". The Straits Times. Archived from the original on 22 July 2017. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
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