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Minister for Transport and Coordinating Minister for Infrastructure Khaw Boon Wan has retired from politics.
In a letter sent out by the Prime Minister’s Office today (June 26), Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong wished Khaw a “happy, healthy and well-deserved retirement” and thanked him for a “lifetime of public service to Singapore.”
Before Khaw became a Minister, he was a civil servant who served as principal private secretary to then-Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong and permanent secretary at the Ministry of Trade and Industry.
2020 marks Khaw’s 20th year in politics (he entered politics in 2001) and he has been at the head of several important ministries during his time in Parliament.
Known as Mr Fix-it, the 67-year-old has helmed not one, not two but three ministries during their most difficult periods — Health, National Development, and Transport.
He was a Senior Minister of State for Health during the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak and subsequently took on the role of Minister for Health in 2004.
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