Ang Yong Guan (; born 24 January 1955) is a Singaporean politician, psychiatrist and former

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. He is the

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Head of Training and Development since 2020.

Early life

Ang graduated from the

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in 1979 and had his postgraduate training in psychiatry at the

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between 1984 and 1986.

Political career

Ang joined the

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as a candidate and contested in a four-member Holland–Bukit Timah GRC at the 2011 general election and was defeated by

People's Action Party The People's Action Party ( abbreviation: PAP) is a major conservative centre-right political party in Singapore and is one of the three contemporary political parties represented in Parliament, alongside the opposition Workers' Party (WP) a ...

where his team obtained 39.92% of valid votes. Ang left the

after he was defeated by the

in the 2011 general election. In 2014, he joined SingFirst and contested in a five-member

Tanjong Pagar GRC The Tanjong Pagar Group Representation Constituency is a five-member Group Representation Constituency (GRC) in Central and Western Singapore. The five divisions consists: Buona Vista, Queenstown, Moulmein-Cairnhill, Tanjong Pagar-Tiong Bahru ...

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and was defeated again by

with only 22.29% of valid votes.

Tan Jee Say Tan Jee Say (; born 12 February 1954) is a Singaporean politician and former civil servant who stood for the 2011 presidential election. He also founded the defunct political party, Singaporeans First. Education Tan graduated from University C ...

, the party secretary-general dissolved SingFirst on 25 June 2020. At the

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, Ang joined as a candidate of the

and stood in the newly created single-member constituency of Marymount SMC but was defeated by

Gan Siow Huang Gan Siow Huang ( zh, s=颜晓芳, p=Yán Xiǎofāng; born 1974) is a Singaporean politician and former brigadier-general who has been serving as Minister of State for Education and Minister of State for Manpower concurrently since 2020. A memb ...

with 44.96% of valid votes.

Military career

Ang had served in the

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(SAF) for 23 years, and was Chief Psychiatrist of the Psychological Medicine Branch before he retiring from the SAF in 2003 and attained the rank

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Personal life

Ang is married to an educator and together they have four children. He runs a private clinic at the Paragon Shopping Mall.

Awards

In 1995, Ang was awarded the Public Service Medal (PBM) for his grassroots contributions as a community leader at Kembangan Constituency, helping then-Member of Parliament

George Yeo George Yeo Yong-Boon ( zh, s=杨荣文, p=Yáng Róngwén; born 13 September 1954) is a Singaporean former politician and brigadier-general who served as Minister for Foreign Affairs between 2004 and 2011. Yeo served in the Singapore Army and ...

for more than 15 years. He was also awarded the Public Administration Medal in 1996 for his military services.

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