Vivian Balakrishnan

: January 4, 2024
: Politician

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Full Name	Vivian Balakrishnan
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Jan 25, 1961(1961-01-25)
Age	63
Country	Singapore
Horoscope	Capricorn

Vivian Balakrishnan Biography

Name	Vivian Balakrishnan
Birthday	Jan 25
Birth Year	1961
Birth Country	Singapore
Birth Sign	Capricorn
Parents	GD Balakrishnan, Helen Ong Yong Sang
Spouse	Joy Balakrishnan
Children(s)	Natalie Balakrishnan

Vivian Balakrishnan is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on January 25, 1961 in Singapore. Politician who was named the Minister of Foreign Affairs in Singapore in the year 2016. He is part of an organization called the People’s Action Party, the largest center- right political party in Singapore.

He was a member of the government of Singaporean Prim Minister Lee Hsien Loong.

Vivian Balakrishnan FRCS MP (born 25 January 1961) is a Singaporean politician serving as Minister for Foreign Affairs since 2015. A member of the governing People’s Action Party, he is also the Minister-in-charge of the Smart Nation Programme Office initiative. He has previously held appointments as Minister for Environment and Water Resources and Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports, as well as the Second Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts, and Trade and Industry. In 2002, Balakrishnan was appointed a Minister of State at the Ministry of National Development, and the chairman of the Remaking Singapore Committee. He was also the chairman of the Young PAP from 2004 to 2008. He is a Member of Parliament (MP) representing the Holland-Bukit Timah Group Representation Constituency for Cashew.

In the 1990s, he hosted the series Health Matters on Singapore television.

He was married to a woman named Joy. The couple has one daughter, and three sons.

Vivian Balakrishnan Net Worth

Net Worth	$5 Million
Source Of Income	Politician
House	Living in own house.

Vivian Balakrishnan is one of the richest Politician from Singapore. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Vivian Balakrishnan 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was a medical student on The National University of Singapore. He was a medic for Singapore’s Singapore Armed Forces from 1999 until 2002.

He was the host of the Singaporean TV series Health Matters.

Balakrishnan was born in 1961 to a Indian Tamil father and a Chinese mother with ancestry from Fuqing, Fujian. He had his primary and secondary education at Anglo-Chinese School, before going on to National Junior College. After graduating from junior college in 1980, he was awarded a President’s Scholarship to study medicine at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He served two terms as the president of the NUS Student Union, and later served as chairman of the union council. He chose a postgraduate specialisation in ophthalmology and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1991.

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Who is Vivian Balakrishnan Dating?

According to our records, Vivian Balakrishnan married to Joy Balakrishnan. As of December 1, 2023, Vivian Balakrishnan’s is not dating anyone.

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His team was elected uncontested during his first and second candidacy for the Parliament at Holland-Bukit Panjang GRC and Holland-Bukit Timah GRC respectively. In the 2015 general election, Balakrishnan’s team, including Liang Eng Hwa, Christopher de Souza and Sim Ann, defeated the opposing team from the Singapore Democratic Party with 66.62% of the votes. He joined the cabinet on 12 August 2004 when Lee Hsien Loong was sworn in as Singapore’s 3rd Prime Minister.

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Vivian Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Singapore. Vivian Balakrishnan celebrates birthday on January 25 of every year.

The opposition candidates raised the issue of government spending for the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics, which Balakrishnan had overseen as the Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports, saying that the budget exceeded the initial estimates of SGD 104 million by over three times. Balakrishnan acknowledged that they had got the initial estimates wrong as it was the first time that an event of that scale was organized in Singapore. He asserted that the increased budget did not affect other programs of the ministry, and that seventy percent of the spending for the event went into paying local firms for their services. He declared that his team had spent less than the finalized budget amount and did not waste money.