{{Infobox Officeholder | name = Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid
al-Tikriti
صدام حسين عبد المجيد التكريتي
| image = Iraq, Saddam Hussein (222).jpg | imagesize = 200px |
smallimage = | caption = | order = 5th | office = President of Iraq
| term_start = July 16, 1979 | term_end = April 9, 2003 |
primeminister = Himself (twice)
Sa'dun
Hammadi
Mohammed Amza
Zubeidi
Ahmad
Husayn Khudayir as-Samarrai | predecessor = Ahmed Hassan
al-Bakr | successor = Deposed; Coalition
Provisional Authority | order2 = 57th & 61st Prime
Minister of Iraq
11th & 15th Prime Minister of the Republic of Iraq |
term_start2 = July 16, 1979 | term_end2 = March 23, 1991
May 29, 1994 – April 9, 2003 | president2 = Himself | predecessor2
= Ahmed Hassan
al-Bakr
Ahmad
Husayn Khudayir as-Samarrai | successor2 = Sa'dun
Hammadi
Deposed; Ayad Allawi |
birth_date = April 28, 1937 | birth_place = Al-Awja,
Iraq | death_date =
December 30, 2006 (aged 69) | death_place = Kadhimiya, Baghdad, Iraq |
nationality = | party = Baath Party | spouse
= Sajida Talfah |
relations =
Ho Ching (Chinese:
何晶; pinyin:
Hé Jīng) is the Chief Executive Officer of Temasek
Holdings (over US$100 billion in assets and owned by Singapore's Ministry
of Finance) and the wife of the Prime Minister of Singapore,
Lee Hsien Loong
(son of former Prime Minister Lee
Kuan Yew).
Ms Ho graduated from the University
of Singapore in 1976 with a Bachelor of Engineering
(Electrical, First Class Honours) after completing her
pre-university education at National
Junior College where she emerged as a Student of the Year and
was a President's
Scholar. She graduated from Crescent
Girls' School. She also holds a Master of Science (Electrical)
from Stanford
University, USA.[1]
In 1995, Ms Ho was conferred the Distinguished Engineering Alumnus
Award. She is also an Honorary Fellow of the Institution of
Engineers, Singapore.
She is the eldest child of four children of retired businessman
Ho Eng Hong and Chan Chiew Ping. In 17
December 1985, she married Lee Hsien
Loong,[1]
who later became Singapore's third Prime Minister in
August 2004.
Ms Ho is Executive Director & Chief Executive Officer of
Temasek Holdings.
She began her career as an engineer with the Ministry of
Defence.[1]
In 1987, she joined the Singapore Technologies group as Deputy
Director of Engineering, and became its President and Chief
Executive Officer before retiring in 2001. She later joined Temasek
Holdings in May 2002.
In 2006, Forbes magazine
remarked that Ho had made "a spectacular misjudgment" in the
purchase of Shin Corp shares.
Since then, "Shin shares have fallen 43% since the deal was signed,
and Temasek will now endure a potentially embarrassing probe by the
new regime into Thaksin's finances that threatens asset seizures,
deal cancellation, and large fines." [2]
In 2007, the same magazine
ranked her third in the list of most powerful women in business
(outside the United
States).[3]
Her previous rankings were 11th in 2005, 5th
in 2004, and 10th
in 2003.[citation
needed]
In 2007, she was picked as one
of the "100 most influential men and women" who shaped the world by
TIME
Magazine.[4]
Similarly in 2007, business magazine
Forbes ranked her third
in its annual list of the world's most powerful women,
leap-frogging a rank ahead of US
Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice and falling short behind German
Chancellor Angela Merkel and
China's Vice-Premier
Wu Yi. Ho Ching was ranked
36th in the same list the previous year. In 2008 she
was ranked 8th.
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