Yip Hon Weng

Yip Hon Weng is a Singaporean politician, former civil servant and teacher. A member of the governing People's Action Party, he has been the Member of Parliament for Yio Chu Kang Single Member Constituency since 2020.

Education

Yip graduated from Loughborough University with a bachelor's degree with first class honours in physical education, sports science and mathematics under an overseas scholarship conferred by the Public Service Commission.
He completed his training as a teacher and obtained a PGCE from the University of Exeter.
He subsequently went on to complete master's degrees in; administration, planning & social policy and international education with double concentrations at Harvard University; knowledge engineering at the National University of Singapore; and financial engineering at the Nanyang Technological University with a project stint at Carnegie Mellon University.
Yip is also a Sloan Fellow and has completed a Master of Business Administration degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the Administrative Service Postgraduate Scholarship conferred by the Singapore Government.

Yip started his career as a physical education and mathematics teacher at Kent Ridge Secondary School.
He subsequently served in several leadership, management and policy related roles in the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Manpower, Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Health and the Ministry of National Development.
He was also part of the founding team that established the Municipal Services Office announced during the 2014 National Day Rally Speech, when the OneService app was created. He was Group Chief of the Silver Generation Office in the Agency of Integrated Care and concurrently Advisor under the Ministry of Health prior to entering politics.

Yip was fielded in the 2020 general election as a solo PAP candidate contesting in Yio Chu Kang SMC against the Progress Singapore Party.
On 11 July 2020, Yip was declared an elected Member of Parliament representing Yio Chu Kang SMC in the 14th Parliament after garnering almost 61% of the vote against PSP's Kayla Low.
In the 2025 general election, Yip ran for reelection in Yio Chu Kang SMC against People's Alliance for Reform's candidate Michael Fang Amin.
On 4 May 2025, Yip was re-elected as a Member of Parliament representing Yio Chu Kang SMC in the 15th Parliament after garnering 78.73% of the vote against Fang's 21.27%.
Yip was elected as Vice-Chairman on Ang Mo Kio Town Council since 2020. Yip is part of the Government Parliamentary Committee under Defence and Foreign Affairs where he serves as chairman and Health where he serves as deputy chairman since 2025.

Yip is married and has five children.