Career
Tan was elected to Parliament in the 2008 election for the opposition Keadilan party, unseating Zainal Abidin Osman, a government Minister. Before entering politics, Tee Beng was a stockbroker. He obtained a Bachelor of Laws from Middlesex University.
Membership
From 2008 to 2013 he was the Member of the Parliament of Malaysia for the Nibong Tebal constituency in Penang, Malaysia. On 1 March 2010, Tan announced he was leaving Keadilan to sit as an Independent member of Parliament. Tan"s father, Datuk Tan Gim Hwa, was a founding member of the Gerakan party (part of the Barisan Nasional coalition government), and Tee Beng himself is a former official in Gerakan"s youth wing.