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Ho Ching

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Ho Ching

Ho Ching (Chinese: 何晶; pinyin: Hé Jīng; Wade–Giles: Ho2 Ching1; Cantonese Yale: Hòh Jīng; born 27 March 1954) is a Singaporean businesswoman. Ho had been serving as the chairperson of Temasek Trust since 2022. She is the wife of the 3rd Prime Minister of Singapore, Lee Hsien Loong. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ho Ching has received more than 946,435 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Ho Ching is the 14,177th most popular politician (up from 14,242nd in 2019), the 13th most popular biography from Singapore (up from 14th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Singaporean Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ho Ching ranks 14,177 out of 19,576. Before her are Paul Rudolf von Bilguer, Sima Samar, Luis Eduardo

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Ho Ching

Singaporean businesswoman

In this Chinese name, the family name is Ho.

Ho Ching (Chinese: 何晶; pinyin: Hé Jīng; Wade–Giles: Ho2 Ching1; Cantonese Yale: Hòh Jīng; born 27 March 1954) is a Singaporean businesswoman.

Ho had been serving as the chairperson of Temasek Trust since 2022. She is the wife of the 3rd Prime Minister of Singapore, Lee Hsien Loong.[1] Ho joined Temasek Holdings as a director in January 2002. She became its executive director in May 2002 and was appointed as the chief executive officer by Goh Chok Tong in January 2004.[2]

Early life and education

Ho was born on 27 March 1954 in Singapore. She attended Crescent Girls' School and National Junior College—where she became one of the top students for the A Level examinations in her cohort and was named Student of the Year,[3] before graduating from the University of Singapore (now the National University of Singapore) in 1976 with a Bachelor of Engineering with first class honours degree in electrical engineering.[3]

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Ho Ching

Ho Ching is executive director & chief executive officer of Temasek Holdings. One of the top students in her cohort, she did her “A” levels at National Junior College where she was named Student of the Year.  She went to the then Singapore University as a President’s Scholar, and graduated in 1976 with a Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical, 1st Class Honours).  In 1982, she graduated from Stanford University with a Master of Science (Electrical Engineering).

Ho Ching started her career as an engineer with the Ministry of Defence in 1976.  In 1983, she became Director, Defence Materiel Organisation, the defence procurement agency of the Ministry, and held the concurrent position of Deputy Director of Defence Science Organisation (DSO).

She joined the Singapore Technologies group in 1987 as Deputy Director of Engineering and took on various senior responsibilities, before becoming its President and CEO in 1997.  She is credited with repositioning and growing the group in the five years that she led it.  For instance, she was the architect for the formation and listing

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