Chan heng chee biography examples

Singaporean academic and diplomat

In this Chinese name, the family name is Chan.

Chan Heng CheeDUBCPJGPPA(E) (Chinese: 陈庆珠; born 19 April 1942) is a Singaporean academic and diplomat who has been serving as Ambassador-at-Large at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 2012, Chairwoman of the National Arts Council and Member of the Presidential Council for Minority Rights.

She had also served as Singapore Ambassador to the United States between 1996 and 2012.

Academic career

Chan graduated with a first-class honours degree in political science from the University of Singapore (now the National University of Singapore) in 1964, and went on to complete a Master of Arts degree at Cornell University in 1967.

She subsequently received a PhD from the University of Singapore in 1974. Her thesis was titled: The Dynamics of One-party Dominance: A Study of Five Singapore Constituencies.^[1]

Chan was previously the Executive Director of the Singapore