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Teo Chee Hean

Politician

Teo Chee Hean is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Teo Chee Hean · Teo Çi Hean · تيو تشى هين · テオチーハン · 张志贤 · 1 more...				[sources]
Other name	Chông Chṳ-hièn · Tiuⁿ Chì-hiân · Trương Chí Hiền · テオチーハン · 张志贤 · 1 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	テオ・チーヒエン · テオ・チーヒン · テオ・チー・ヘン · 張志賢				[sources]
Birth date	1954-12-27				[sources]
Place of birth	Singapore				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Singapore				[sources]
Country	Singapore				[sources]
Citizenship	Singapore				[sources]
Classification	National government (current)				[sources]
First name	Teo				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q3518218				[sources]
Position	Co-ordinating Minister for National Security (2011-) · Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore (2009-2019) · Member of the Parliament of Singapore · Minister for Defence (2003-2011) · Minister for Education (1997-2003) · 7 more...				[sources]
Education	Imperial College London · John F. Kennedy School of Government · Saint Joseph's Institution · University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology				[sources]
Source link	www.cia.gov · www.tatlerasia.com				[sources]
Last change	2025-07-01	Last processed	2025-10-02	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Singaporean politician

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Member of Parliament	2011-10-10	2015-08-25
Member of Parliament

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Data sources

US CIA World Leaders11,019

An index of most national-level cabinet members in world governments that is publicly maintained by the CIA.

United States of America · CIA

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories375,919

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Wikidata · non-official source

Every Politician58,326

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons274,079

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Wikidata · non-official source

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions546,670

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata349,391

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External dataset · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: sg-gov-ebbac8ac4a3479a80ee34848214a43b5973c4c53 · us-cia-singapore-teo-chee-hean-coordinating-minister-for-national-security · us-cia-singapore-teo-chee-hean-senior-minister · sg-gov-12c6e9d43656de87a8b0b5c8fceef7c948e2cf6b · evpo-b6d7c646-d945-41c1-a16a-bcc7ed6883a6 · sg-gov-54e8f290ac8d819caf05c3325080d074da60517e

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