Degree (Hons) in Economics, University of Adelaide; Master's in Public Administration, Harvard. Ten years' experience in the Singapore Administrative Service with postings to the Ministries of Home Affairs, Education, and Trade and Industry; the National Trades Union Congress; Singapore Indian Development Association as Chief Executive Officer. Then with Singapore Technologies; 1998, Senior Vice-President/Managing Director, Temasek Holdings. Since 1997, Member of Parliament; 2004-06, Deputy Speaker of Parliament; 2006, Minister of State for Trade and Industry; 2008, Senior Minister of State for Trade and Industry and Senior Minister of State for Education; 2018, Minister for Communications and Information. Currently Minister for Transport and Minister-in-Charge of Trade Relations.