name | George Yeo Yong-Boon |
---|---|
Office1 | Minister for Foreign Affairs |
Term start1 | 12 August 2004 |
Term end1 | 21 May 2011 |
Primeminister1 | Lee Hsien Loong |
Predecessor1 | Shanmugam Jayakumar |
Successor1 | K. Shanmugam |
Office2 | Minister for Trade and Industry |
Term start2 | 3 June 1999 |
Term end2 | 12 August 2004 |
Primeminister2 | Goh Chok Tong |
Successor2 | Lim Hng Kiang |
Office3 | Minister for Health |
Term start3 | 2 January 1994 |
Term end3 | 25 January 1997 |
Primeminister3 | Goh Chok Tong |
Predecessor3 | Yeo Cheow Tong |
Successor3 | Yeo Cheow Tong |
Office4 | Minister for Information and the Arts |
Term start4 | 28 November 1990 |
Term end4 | 3 June 1999 |
Primeminister4 | Goh Chok Tong |
Predecessor4 | Yeo Ning Hong |
Successor4 | Lee Yock Suan |
constituency mp5 | Aljunied GRC |
term start5 | 3 September 1988 |
term end5 | 7 May 2011 |
majority5 | 16,225 (12.2%) |
predecessor5 | New seat creation |
successor5 | Low Thia Khiang |
birth date | September 13, 1954 |
nationality | Singaporean |
party | People's Action Party }} |
George Yeo Yong-Boon (; born 13 September 1954) is a former politician from Singapore. A member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), he served in the Cabinet from 1991 to 2011 as the Minister for Information and the Arts (1991–99), Minister for Health (1994–97), Minister for Trade and Industry (1999–2004) and Minister for Foreign Affairs (2004–11). However he lost his seat in Parliament at the 2011 general election when the PAP's team in the Aljunied Group Representation Constituency was defeated by the team from the Workers' Party, following which he announced that he was retiring from politics.
Prior to entering Parliament, Yeo was a Brigadier-General in the Republic of Singapore Air Force. He served as the Chief-of-Staff of the Air Staff from 1985 to 1986, and as the Director of Joint Operations and Planning at the Ministry of Defence from 1986 to 1988.
When Yeo returned to Singapore, he served as the Chief-of-Staff of the Air Staff from 1985 to 1986, and as the Director of Joint Operations and Planning at the Ministry of Defence from 1986 to 1988. He also led the team which conceptualised the SAFTI Military Institute.
In 1988, Yeo resigned from the SAF in order to stand for Parliament.
As Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts, he liberalised the use of dialects in the local movie industry, which paved the way for a generation of local movie directors and producers. He also oversaw the design and construction of the Esplanade Theatres on the Bay and the new National Library.
As Minister for Trade and Industry, Yeo led his team to successfully negotiate the Free Trade Agreement with the United States, Japan, Australia and other countries.
Yeo proposed the idea of having Integrated Resorts (IRs) in Singapore, which would include casinos, which was intensely debated for a year. This paved the way for the 2 IRs in Singapore, Resorts World Sentosa and Marina Bay Sands at the Marina Promenade. (He later shared with a group of university students during a dialogue that his late father had a problem with gambling and the decision to push for the gaming resorts was personally a very difficult one. He said that policy making often involved a choice between 'evils'.)
He represented the Eurasian community in the Cabinet at their request.
At the 2006 general election, Yeo led the PAP team in the constituency which defeated the team from the Workers' Party with 56.1% of the votes to 43.9%. This was the PAP's narrowest margin of victory in the elections that year.
At the 2011 general election, on 7 May 2011, Yeo led the PAP's team in Aljunied which was defeated by the team from the Workers' Party's (which was led by the party's Secretary-General, Low Thia Khiang). The Workers' Party team won 54.7% of the votes to the PAP team's 45.3%. Yeo thus lost his seat in Parliament and his ministerial appointment.
Yeo announced that he was retiring from active politics on 10 May 2011. However he remains a member of the PAP's Central Executive Committee.
He also sits on the international advisory panels of the Harvard Business School, IESE Business School and Nicolas Berggruen's 21st Century Council.
He also takes the following advisory roles in Singapore: # Advisor to the Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall # Advisor to the Teochew Poit Ip Huay Kuan # Patron of Lasalle College of the Arts
In 2004, their youngest son had a long struggle with childhood leukemia from the age of 3 and is well now after a bone marrow transplant at St Jude Children's Research Hospital. Recognising the difficulties faced by families in such situations, Jennifer founded Viva Foundation to help children with cancer, actively championing their cause.
Yeo is an avid jogger and participated in the Singapore Marathon 10 km run in the last 2 years. He has been learning Taiji for the last 2 years and calls himself "a bit of a Taoist by philosophy".
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