Baey Yam Keng

Mr Baey Yam Keng entered the Singapore Parliament in 2006 and was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary for the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth in 2015.

Mr Baey was appointed as Senior Parliamentary Secretary for the Ministry of Transport (2018 – 2025), the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth (2018 – 2020), and the Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment (2022 – 2025). In May 2025, he was appointed Minister of State for the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth.

Mr Baey was also appointed as the Deputy Chairman of the Active Mobility Advisory Panel (AMAP) in 2020 and took over as the new AMAP chairman in 2022.

Mr Baey is an elected Member of Parliament for Tampines GRC, Mayor of Northeast District and an Advisory Board Member of the National Youth Achievement Award Council.

He started his career in 1995 in the public sector, where he served in the Economic Development Board, Ministry of Trade & Industry, Ministry of Information, Communications & the Arts and National Arts Council.

Mr Baey switched to the corporate sector in 2006 as Vice-President, Corporate Marketing & Corporate Social Responsibility at real estate company CapitaLand Limited and was concurrently General Manager of the CapitaLand Hope Foundation. He joined international communications consultancy Hill+Knowlton Strategies in 2009 and was its Singapore Managing Director from 2011 to 2012. He was conferred a Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Lien Fellowship in 2013 and was an adjunct lecturer at NTU from 2013 to 2015.

He has over 20 years of theatrical production experience as the founding President of The ETCeteras where he produced more than 10 original plays. In 2017, he published a Chinese book 《一言既出》, a compilation of articles he wrote for newspaper columns.

Mr Baey graduated from Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine, London with a BSc in Biotechnology (first class honours) and he obtained a MSc in Biochemical Engineering (distinction) from University College London.

He is married with three children.
May 2025
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