
Tharman Shanmugaratnam children-Singaporean economist and politician, Tharman Shanmugaratnam was born on February 25, 1957 in Singapore.
Before earning a Bachelor of Science in economics from the London School of Economics (LSE), Tharman attended the Anglo-Chinese School. Later, in 2011, LSE granted him an Honorary Fellowship.
After receiving a Lucius N. Littauer Fellow grant for his exceptional performance and promise, he went on to earn a Master of Philosophy in economics from the University of Cambridge and a Master in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School.
When Tharman was a student in the UK in the 1970s, he participated in student activism. His economic convictions changed during the course of his professional experience from his initial socialist beliefs.
Tharman Shanmugaratnam career
The Coordinating Minister for Social Policies since 2015, Chairman of the Monetary Authority of Singapore since 2011, and Senior Minister of Singapore since 2019 are all positions held by the Singaporean politician and economist Tharman.
Between 2011 and 2019, he served as deputy prime minister. Prior to that, he served as minister of education from 2003 to 2008, minister of finance from 2007 to 2015, and coordinator for economic and social policies from 2015 to 2019.
He has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) representing the Taman Jurong division of Jurong GRC since 2001. He is a member of the ruling People’s Action Party (PAP).
Additionally, he has been the GIC, the Singaporean government’s sovereign wealth fund, deputy chairman.
Tharman, an economist by training, has spent his whole career working for Singapore’s government, primarily in positions involving economic and social affairs. He has also served as the concurrent chair of numerous prestigious international councils and panels.
Currently, Tharman is the chairman of the Group of Thirty’s board of directors, an international group of business, government, and academic leaders.
Additionally, he serves as co-chair of the Global Commission on the Economics of Water, whose proposals will be presented at the first UN Water Conference since 1977 in 2023.
Additionally, he serves as a member of the UN’s High-Level Advisory Board on Effective Multilateralism, which will provide advice on effective multilateralism for the UN’s Summit of the Future in 2024.
In 2021, Tharman served as co-chair of the G20 High-Level Independent Panel on Global Financing for Pandemic Preparedness and Response with colleagues Lawrence Summers and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.
The G20 Eminent Persons Group on Global Financial Governance was previously under his leadership. Additionally, he served as the first Asian chair of the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC), the International Monetary Fund’s main policy forum, for four years.
Additionally, he is a trustee on the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Board of Trustees and serves as co-chair of the advisory board for the UNDP’s Human Development Report (HDR). The Global Education Forum is co-chaired by him as well.
Tharman made his political debut in the general election of 2001 and has since been re-elected to Parliament four times, in the general elections of 2006, 2011, 2015, and 2020.
Tharman declared his intention to run for president of Singapore in the 2023 election on June 8.
Since the presidency is a non-partisan role, he subsequently declared his intention to resign from all of his positions in the government and as a PAP member on July 7, 2023.
Does Tharman Shanmugaratnam have any children?
Tharman Shanmugaratnam and his wife have four children together. The names of their children has not been revealed to us yet.
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