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Michael Tay

Singaporean diplomat

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ6834805 ↗
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Michael Tay Cheow Ann (born 1959) is a Singaporean diplomat who served as the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Singapore to the Russian Federation.

Education

Tay graduated from the National University of Singapore with a Master of Philosophy degree.

Career

Upon graduation, he taught at the National University of Singapore for two years before joining the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). He was in charge of the Middle East, Latin America and Africa region.

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This entry incorporates text from “Michael Tay” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.