Yeo Guat Kwang
Singaporean politician
Yeo Guat Kwang (born 27 January 1961) is a Singaporean former politician. A former member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), Yeo was the Member of Parliament (MP), as part of different PAP teams, representing Cheng San Group Representation Constituency (GRC) between 1997 and 2001, Aljunied GRC between 2001 and 2011, and Ang Mo Kio GRC between 2011 and 2015.
Education
Yeo attended The Chinese High School and Nanyang Junior College, before graduating from the National University of Singapore in 1986 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in social sciences.
He subsequently went on to complete a postgraduate diploma in education at the National Institute of Education at the Nanyang Technological University in 1987.
He also completed a joint programme at the NUS Business School and Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy with a Master in Public Administration and Management degree in 2013.
Career
Education
Yeo started his career in 1987 as a teacher at Nanyang Junior College, and in 1991, he became a Head of Department at Anderson Secondary School. From 1993 to 1996, he was a Specialist Inspector for Chinese at the Ministry of Education.
Labour movement
In 1997, Yeo joined the labour movement as an Executive Secretary for the Building Construction and Timber Industries Employees Union (BATU). In 2001, he became the Executive Secretary for the Singapore Industrial and Services Employees Union (SISEU), as well as the Amalgamated Union of Statutory Board Employees (AUSBE).
In January 2014, Yeo was appointed Assistant Secretary-General (ASG) in the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC), which has close ties with the PAP.
In December 2016, Yeo was promoted to Assistant Director-General in NTUC.
Yeo is also the chairman of the NTUC's Migrant Workers' Centre, which was set up in 2009.
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