Foo Mee Har
| 胡美霞 | |
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| Current Role | • MP for West Coast GRC • |
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| Party | PAP 
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Foo Mee Har (Chinese: 胡美霞; pinyin: Hú Měixiá; born 10 January 1966) is a Malaysian-born Singaporean politician and member of parliament from the ruling People's Action Party (PAP). She was the Member of Parliament for the West Coast GRC from 2011 onward.
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Education
Foo Mee Har attended the Ave Maria Convent School in Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia, from 1973 to 1982 and the Loreto Normanhurst in Sydney, Australia, from 1983 to 1985. She completed her Bachelor of Science degree from the University of New South Wales in 1989 with first-class honors in psychology.
Career
Foo started her career in management with Coopers and Lybrand Management Consultants (now Pricewaterhouse Coopers) and the PA consulting group. She later became the HR head of Jardine Matheson's shipping unit.
She then held various positions at Standard Chartered Bank for almost 20 years, working in several countries such as Thailand and Australia.
Foo is currently the Chief Executive Officer of the Wealth Management Institute in Singapore since July 2015.
Political career
Foo began her political career with the PAP in 2010 and contested the 2011 general election. She stated that her overseas experience as a banker "gave her the opportunity to look inside Singapore, its government, systems, and processes."
Personal life
Foo Mee Har is married and has two sons.
Controversies
- May 23, 2020, Foo Mee Har partnered the Teban Market Merchant Association to hand out face shields to hawkers in the area
- it was also during the circuit breaker period, when all walkabouts and Meet-the-People sessions were cancelled
- roundly criticized by many who believed the face shields were useless in preventing the spread of the Covid-19 virus, and for trying to gain political points before the 2020 general election, eventually held on 10 Jul 2020.[1]
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