What we know about Singapore's fourth Prime Minister Lawrence Wong

Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong at the multi-ministry COVID-19 task force's last press conference in 2023.SINGAPORE: “I am ready for my next assignment,” a beaming Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong had declared at a People’s Action Party convention last November.for what would be the “biggest responsibility” of his career – to take over the baton from Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong as Singapore’s next leader.

By then, he had risen steadily through the ranks with positions in various ministries, including the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth where he was appointed acting minister in 2012 and made full minister two years later. Co-chairs Lawrence Wong , Gan Kim Yong and Ong Ye Kung at a COVID-19 multi-ministry task force press conference on Jun 18, 2021.

Two years later, he stepped down from the post to enter politics as the youngest of five candidates tipped to form the core of the PAP’s 4G leadership. His late father was born in China’s Hainan Island, went to Malaysia as a young boy before moving to Singapore to work in a sales job.

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