Ho Ching
| Ho Ching | |
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| 何晶 | |
Ho Ching speaking to reporters at the Temasek Review annual report press conference in 2009 in Singapore.
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| Spouse of the Prime Minister of Singapore | |
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Assumed office 12 August 2004 |
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| Prime Minister | Lee Hsien Loong |
| Preceded by | Tan Choo Leng |
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March 27, 1953 Singapore |
| Spouse(s) | Lee Hsien Loong (married 1985) |
| Children | Li Xiuqi Li Yipeng Li Hongyi Li Haoyi |
| Alma mater | Stanford University |
Ho Ching (Chinese: ; pinyin: Hé Jīng; Wade–Giles: Ho2 Ching1; Cantonese Yale: Hō Chìng) (born March 27, 1953) is the Chief Executive Officer of Temasek Holdings (since 2002). She is married to the current Prime Minister of Singapore, Lee Hsien Loong. Ho joined Temasek Holdings in May 2002 as Executive Director and was appointed Chief Executive Officer on 1 January 2004. Ho first joined Temasek as Director in January 2002 and then became its Executive Director in May 2002. As of 2016, she is listed as the 30th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes.
Ho is the eldest of four children of retired businessman Ho Eng Hong and Chan Chiew Ping. She met her husband, Lee Hsien Loong,the current Prime Minister of Singapore and eldest son of former Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, while starting out in her career at the Ministry of Defence. They married on 17 December 1985 and have one daughter and three sons; a daughter and eldest son are from his first marriage.
Having completed her secondary education at Crescent Girls' School, Ho proceeded to become one of the top students for the ‘A’ level examinations in her cohort at National Junior College, where she was named Student of the Year. She then went to the then-Singapore University (now the National University of Singapore) and graduated in 1976 with a Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical, First Class Honours). In 1982, Ho graduated with a Master of Science (Electrical Engineering) degree from Stanford University.
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