Future PM of Singapore : Ong Ye Kung
Ong took time to compliment five Ministers present and past —
Khaw Boon Wan, Ng Eng Hen, Lim Swee Say, George Yeo and Mah Bow Tan
— and concluded that all were “my mentors”, because he learnt
something from “every one of them”:
“First ministry I was posted to was Ministry of Transport with
Mr Mah Bow Tan. That was my first exposure to what a minister does.
So I learnt about what the job of a minister is like through Mr Mah
Bow Tan.
The next minister I worked for was Mr George Yeo, at MTI. What I
learnt from him was the importance of having a sense of history. He
has a splendidly elastic, ever expanding, and expansive mind, and
an ability to understand and draw linkages from different things
happening in the world.
Thereafter, I went to Ministry of Manpower and worked with Dr Ng
Eng Hen. He was decisive and clear. I suspect this was because of
his training as a surgeon. That was when I also understood that
skills from seemingly unrelated fields could be portable.
Then I went to NTUC. And there, I worked for Mr Lim Swee Say. He
could make complicated policies understandable, and is a master
communicator.
Minister Khaw Boon Wan is now my GRC lead. There is a calming
zen about him, which in turn gives him a certain clarity and
incisiveness of thought to solve tough problems, in healthcare,
housing and transport.”
Significantly, we couldn’t help but notice that he left out
mentioning the time he spent with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong,
where he spent six years as Press Secretary (1997-2003) and two, as
mentioned earlier, as Principal Private Secretary (2003-2005).
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