Lui Tuck Yew

Lui Tuck Yew’s career began in the navy, where he rose to chief of navy in 1999. He subsequently led the Maritime and Port Authority and the Housing and Development Board before entering Parliament in 2006. He studied at Cambridge and earned a master’s degree in international relations at Tufts. ¹

As a cabinet minister, Lui held the information, communications, and arts portfolio and then served as transport minister from 2011 to 2015, with additional foreign affairs and defense responsibilities in parts of that period. He entered embassy leadership in Japan in 2017, moved to China in 2019, and became Singapore’s ambassador to the United States in June 2023. ^{1, 2}