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The President's Scholarship has its roots in the Queen's Scholarship, which was founded in 1885. The Queen's Scholarship was initiated by Cecil Clementi Smith, Governor of the Straits Settlements. It was awarded to the best performing student of the year by a special selection board. The Queen's Scholarship was abolished in 1959 and replaced by ...
Candidates Background Application result Tharman Shanmugaratnam: Tharman has served as Senior Minister, Coordinating Minister for Social Policies, chairman of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, deputy chairman of GIC, chairman of the International Advisory Council of the Economic Development Board, and from 2001 to 2023 a member of parliament for Jurong GRC's Taman Jurong division.
Tharman Shanmugaratnam [a] (born 25 February 1957), also known mononymously as Tharman, is a Singaporean politician and economist who has been serving as the ninth president of Singapore since 2023. Prior to his presidency, Tharman served as Senior Minister of Singapore between 2019 and 2023, Coordinating Minister for Social Policies between ...
Under the Constitution, the president must be a Singaporean citizen, non-partisan and elected by a popular vote. The incumbent president is Tharman Shanmugaratnam, who took office on 14 September 2023 after being duly elected in the 2023 presidential election with 70.41% of the vote.
James Levinsohn (president) Website. www .apsia .org. The Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs ( APSIA) is a non-profit educational organization of graduate schools of international affairs, with 42 members and 37 affiliates around the world (as of February 2022, two members were on suspension). [1] [2]
The Singapore Civil Service is the bureaucracy of civil servants that supports the Government of Singapore. Along with the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF), statutory boards, and other independent government bodies, the civil service makes up the overall public service of Singapore. [1] As of 2022, the civil service has about 87,000 employees.
Lawrence Wong. PAP. General elections are due to be held in Singapore no later than 23 November 2025 to determine the composition of the fifteenth Singaporean Parliament. The elections will be the nineteenth in Singapore since 1948 and the fourteenth since independence . For the first time since the 2006 general election, Lee Hsien Loong will ...
t. e. The Presidential Elections Committee ( PEC) is a six-member council set up by the Government of Singapore to ensure that each candidate running for the office of President of Singapore fulfils the stringent qualifications set out in Article 19 of the Constitution of Singapore .