Ong Teng Koon
Ong Teng Koon is a Singaporean businessman and former politician. A member of the governing People's Action Party, he was the Member of Parliament for the Woodgrove division of Sembawang Group Representation Constituency between 2011 and 2015 and the same division in Marsiling–Yew Tee GRC between 2015 and 2020.
Education
Ong attended Ai Tong Primary School and received his secondary education from Raffles Institution before attending the now-defunct Raffles Junior College. In 2001, he graduated from the London School of Economics with a first-class honours degree in economics; he then studied for a master's degree in finance from Princeton University in 2003.Career
Ong is a businessman. He worked as a commodities trader at Goldman Sachs from 2003 to 2008 and at Deutsche Bank in 2009. As of March 2015, he had been a commodities trader at Morgan Stanley since 2009.Political career
Ong began volunteering for the PAP in 2009.In April 2011, during the leadup to the general election in the same year, Ong made his political debut as a PAP candidate for the five-member Sembawang GRC. He became the MP for the Woodgrove division of the GRC after the PAP team defeated the Singapore Democratic Party with 63.9% of the vote.
During the 2015 general election, the Woodgrove division was redistricted into the newly created Marsiling–Yew Tee GRC; Ong was subsequently reassigned to said constituency alongside three other members of the PAP. The PAP team defeated the SDP with 68.73% of the vote.
On 28 June 2020, ahead of the general election in the same year, Ong announced that he would retire from politics. The PAP replaced him with Hany Soh.