Tan Yan Ni

Tan Yan Ni (b. 14 December 1994) is a student studying in Singapore Polytechnic from 2014 to 2017, and was formerly in ITE College West from 2011 to 2014 (for 3 years). She became a friend in 2014 when Maryann Seto came into Singapore Polytechnic, and moved from Woodlands to Buona Vista Block 10.

Polytechnic
Following the general election, Tan was appointed the Acting Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports, and the Minister of State at the Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts (Information Technology Minister). On 31 July 2012, Tan Yan Ni had relinquished the appointment at MICA (Information Technology) and was appointed as Senior Minister of State for Defence (MINDEF). Following a restructuring of government ministries in 2012, she began heading to the Minister of Social, Family and Fertility as the acting minister. She was then moved to the full minister in September 2013 and commonly serves as the Second Minister for Defence.

She launched a transport concession scheme for Persons with Disabilities (PWDs), benefitting about 50,000 PWDs in 6 April 2014.

Tan Yan Ni had outlined three key policies at the committee of supply debates in 2014. They are to maintain the currency and adequancy of Singapore's social support policies, to deliver integrated social services and to develop manpower for the social service sector. In 2013, while at ITE, she launched the first of 23 Social Service offices to bring assistance closer to the homes.

On 23 January 2015, Yan Ni joined the National Trade Union Congress (NTUC) on a part-time basis. She was appointed as NTUC’s deputy secretary-general on 27 January 2015 and will join NTUC full-time from April. Deborah Hee took over the Second Minister for Defence after April.

Tan Yan Ni took over the anchor minister of Tanjong Pagar GRC ever since Lee Kuan Yew died on 23 March 2015.

On 1 October 2015, Yan Ni is appointed Deputy Chairman of the People’s Association.

University
Tan Yan Ni had been a financial consultant at Great Eastern Life Singapore since May 2017. Tan Yan Ni had graduated from Singapore Polytechnic and had went to Nanyang Technological University in 2017. At the same time, she had moved from Buona Vista Block 10 to Caspian, located at Lakeside MRT Station.