Eddie Teo

张赞成Chairman of the Council of Presidential AdvisersAssumed office
2 January 2019PresidentHalimah Yacob
Tharman ShanmugaratnamPreceded byJ. Y. PillayChairman of the Public Service CommissionIn office
2008 – 31 July 2018DeputyLee Tzu YangPreceded byAndrew Chew Guan KhuanSucceeded byLee Tzu YangSingapore's High Commissioner to AustraliaIn office
2006–2008PresidentS. R. NathanPrime MinisterLee Hsien LoongPermanent Secretary in the Prime Minister's OfficeIn office
1998–2005Prime MinisterGoh Chok Tong
Lee Hsien LoongPermanent Secretary for DefenceIn office
1994–2000MinisterTony TanDirector of the Internal Security DepartmentIn office
1982–1986Prime MinisterLee Kuan Yew
Goh Chok TongPreceded byLim Chye HengSucceeded byTjong Yik MinDirector of the Security and Intelligence DivisionIn office
1979–1994Prime MinisterLee Kuan Yew
Goh Chok TongPreceded byS. R. NathanSucceeded byChoi Shing Kwok Personal detailsBorn (1947-05-27) 27 May 1947 (age 76)
Colony of Singapore, British MalayaAlma materUniversity of Oxford (BA)
London School of Economics (MS)

Eddie Teo Chan Seng
Simplified Chinese	张赞成
Traditional Chinese	張贊成
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Zhāng Zànchéng

Eddie Teo Chan Seng PPA(E) PJG DUBC DUNU (Chinese: 张赞成; pinyin: Zhāng Zànchéng) is a Singaporean civil servant who has been serving as Chairman of the Council of Presidential Advisers since 2019.

Education

A President's Scholar, Teo graduated from the University of Oxford in 1970 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy, politics and economics (PPE).

He subsequently went to complete a Master of Science degree in international relations at the London School of Economics in 1974.

Career

Teo joined the Security and Intelligence Division (SID) in 1970, before becoming Director in 1979, a post he served until 1994. From 1982 to 1986, he held the position of Director of the Internal Security Department concurrently.

He was Permanent Secretary for Defence from 1994 to 2000 and Permanent Secretary in the Prime Minister’s Office from 1998 to 2005. He was Singapore's High Commissioner to Australia from 2006 to 2008.

He served as Chairman of the Public Service Commission from 2008 to 2018, Chairman of the Presidential Council for Religious Harmony from 2017 to 2019 and Senior Advisor of Temasek International Advisors Pte Ltd from 2019 to 2020.

Teo was appointed as Chairman of the Council of Presidential Advisors on 2 January 2019.^[1]

Awards

Teo retired in 2005, after 35 years of public service. For his contributions to the Singapore Public Service, Teo was awarded the Public Administration Medal (Gold) in 1983, the Meritorious Service Medal in 1997, the Distinguished Service Order in 2006 and the Order of Nila Utama in 2017.^[2]

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