Those who worked with him called him “one of the best economic minds in Singapore”. Read more at straitstimes.com.
But there were few signs in his youth that he would one day enter politics.
But young Mr Tharman had no interest in studying medicine. Instead, he devoted his energies to sports – hockey, football, cricket, athletics, volleyball, sepak takraw and rugby – practising almost every day. Then Education Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam playing sepak takraw with constituents outside Pioneer Junior College in May 2005. PHOTO: LIANHE ZAOBAO FILE
They were all then in national service and part of the Young Writers’ Circle at the National Library. He later obtained a Master in Public Administration from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, where he was conferred the Lucius N. Littauer Fellow award for outstanding performance and leadership potential.During his university days in London, he became a student activist, attending meetings and debates.
Later on, when he was director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s economics department, he got into trouble with the law for bringing a report containing a flash estimate of the country’s economic growth into a meeting with private-sector economists.
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