Amy Khor Lean Suan

Amy Khor

Alexandra Hill Primary School, Raffles Girls' School and Raffles Institution; Bachelor of Science in Estate Management, National University of Singapore 1981; Master of Business Administration at San Jose State University 1988; Completed a Doctor of Philosophy in Land Management, University of Reading in 1997

2001 - 2004 Khor was elected to Parliament as a Member of Parliament (MP) for the Hong Kah Group Representation Constituency (Hong Kah GRC) at the 2001 general election. On 12 August 2004, she was appointed Mayor of the South West District (replacing Yu-Foo Yee Shoon); 2006 - 2010 Khor was re-elected as an MP for Hong Kah GRC. Following the election she was appointed a Senior Parliamentary Secretary at the Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources and the chairman of the Feedback Unit alongside her role as Mayor of the South West District. Also made a Deputy Government Whip in 2007. In 2010, Khor was promoted to Minister of State at the Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources; 2011 - 2014 Elected as the MP for the Hong Kah North Single Member Constituency. She defeated the Singapore People's Party's candidate Sin Kek Tong. Khor was made a Minister of State at the Ministry of Health and subsequently also served concurrently as the Minister of State at the Ministry of Manpower from 1 August 2012. From 1 September 2013, she was promoted to Senior Minister of State. She relinquished her appointment as Mayor of South West CDC on 27 May 2014, at the end of her Mayor's term. As of 2016, She continues to serve as the Senior Minister of State in the Ministries of Health and of Manpower, and as the Deputy Government Whip; 2016 - Appeared in the last episode of television drama You Can Be An Angel 2 giving out batches in appreciation for the nurses for the hard work. In 2017, she appeared in the fifth episode of television drama dialect series Eat Already? 2) as herself participating in rhythmic exercises and in the second episode of Eat Already? 3) promoting a healthy living habit; 2018 - Khor appeared in a special appearance in a television drama, You Can Be An Angel 3 where she appeared as a guest while Gan Kim Yong is the guest-of-honour giving out the Nurses Merit Award; 2011 - 2021 She has been the Senior Minister of State in the Ministry for Health from 1 September 2013 to 26 July 2020, Ministry for the Environment and Water Resources from 1 October 2015 to 26 July 2020 and Ministry for Manpower from 1 September 2013 to 30 September 2015. She was the Minister of State in the Ministry for Manpower from 1 August 2012 to 31 August 2013, Ministry for Health from 7 May 2011 to 31 August 2013 and Ministry for the Environment and Water Resources from November 2010 to May 2011; The Senior Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry for the Environment and Water Resources from 21 May 2006 to 31 October 2010; Also Mayor of the South West District from August 2004 to May 2014. She has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hong Kah North SMC since May 2011 and was the MP for Hong Kah GRC for Hong Kah North from November 2001 to April 2011

English, Mandarin

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