Background
Mah, Bow Tan was born on September 12, 1948 in Singapore.
Mah, Bow Tan was born on September 12, 1948 in Singapore.
B Industrial Engineering (honorary), U New South Wales, Australia, 1971. B Industrial Engineering, U New South Wales, 1973.
Administrator Officer, general managing Singapore Bus Services (Business School), 1974—1983. Chief Executive Officer Singapore Monitor, Singapore News and Publication Ltd (SNLP), 1983—1988. Group general managing Singapore News and Publication Ltd (SNLP), 1985—1988, Singapore Press Holdings Ltd, 1985—1988.
Member Parliament, Tampines Grp. Republican Constituency (GRC), since 1988. Minister of state Trade and Industry, Communications and Information, 1988—1991.
Minister Communications, 1991—1999, Environmental, 1993—1995, National Development, since 1999. Chairman Board of Trustees of NTUC Comfort, 1988—1993, National Productivity Board, National Productivity Council, Skills Redevelopment Fund Advisory Council, 1986—1991, Boa Governors of the Singapore Institute of Labour Studies, 1990—2002. Deputy Leader of the House, since 2002.
Chairman National Youth Achievement Award Advisory Board, since 1994. Committee member Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Task Force, since 2003. Member Bird Flu Committee, since 2004.
President Football Association of Singapore (Fetal alcohol syndrome), 1999—2004, Advisory, since 2004. Chairman Singapore Labour Foundation, since 2001. Patron Singapore Productivity Association, 2006.
Married Sheryn Kaye Von Senden. 4 children.