Ong Ye Kung

In 2017, Ong moved a Bill in Parliament to confer Singapore University of Social Sciences autonomous status.

In 2015, Ong contested as a PAP candidate in the Sembawang Group Representation Constituency at the 2015 general election. Sembawang GRC was considered a 'safer' ward for his election. His team won, and he became a Member of the Parliament.

In 2011, Ong contested as part of the 5-member PAP team led by Minister for Foreign Affairs George Yeo in the Aljunied Group Representation Constituency (GRC). His team was defeated by the Workers' Party team led by the party's Secretary-General Low Thia Khiang, marking the first occasion in Singapore's history in which the PAP lost an election in a GRC.

Following the general election, Ong continued to work at the NTUC. He became the NTUC's Deputy Secretary-General in June 2011 and was elected into the NTUC's Central Committee later that year. He then left NTUC to move to the private sector from 2013-2015.

Ong was the Chief Executive of the Singapore Workforce Development Agency from 2005 to 2008. Following that, Ong joined the NTUC as Assistant Secretary-General.

From 2002 to 2004, Ong was the Principal Private Secretary to Singapore's then Deputy Prime Minister, Lee Hsien Loong, who was then Finance Minister and later became PM.

From 1993 to 1999, Ong served in the Ministry of Communications., during the late Ong Teng Cheong's presidential term. Ong then served in the Ministry of Trade and Industry from 2000 to 2003 as Director of Trade and Deputy Chief Negotiator for the Singapore-US Free Trade Agreement, which was signed in May 2003.

Ong was educated at Maris Stella High School and Raffles Junior College, before going on to the London School of Economics where he completed a BSc (Econ) degree in 1991. In 1999, he completed a Master of Business Administration degree at the International Institute for Management Development in Switzerland.

Ong Ye Kung MP (born 15 November 1969) is a Singaporean politician serving as Minister of Education since 2018. A member of the governing People's Action Party, he was the Minister for Education (Higher Education and Skills) serving with Ng Chee Meng (Schools) since 2015 before it was merged back into a single ministerial portfolio. He has also been a Member Of Parliament (MP) for Sembawang GRC since 2015.

Ong's father, Ong Lian Teng, was a Barisan Sosialis politician who was a Member of Parliament for Bukit Panjang from 1963 to 1966, when he resigned to protest the "undemocratic acts" of the PAP government. In an interview with The Straits Times in 2011, Ong noted that his father (who died in 2009) had been fully supportive of his decision to become involved in politics as a member of the PAP despite his own past involvement in opposition politics in Singapore.