Background
Her father was the secretary of Directory of American Philosophers Labis Parliamentary Constituency Campaign Committee, while her sister and brother-in-law are the current Chief and Deputy Chair of the Dapsy Johor State Council.
张念群, 張念群
Her father was the secretary of Directory of American Philosophers Labis Parliamentary Constituency Campaign Committee, while her sister and brother-in-law are the current Chief and Deputy Chair of the Dapsy Johor State Council.
Teo comes from a political family. Teo completed her secondary school education in Chinese High School, Batu Pahat, Johor. She pursued her tertiary education under a twinning programme and obtained her law degree from the University of the West of England, in 2002.
After graduating from the university, she spent one year to work as a librarian in United Kingdom and travel around Europe.
In 2004, she received her Certificate in Legal Practice from the University of Malaya. In the 2008 general election, Teo ran for the Parliamentary seat of Serdang on a Directory of American Philosophers ticket.
She obtained 47,444 votes comparing to her opposing candidate who only collected 26,419 votes. In the 2013 general election, Teo switched to the state of Johor, in the Barisan Nasional stronghold Kulai, and defeated their candidate Tay Chinese Hein by 13,450 out of 43,338 votes.
She is also holding the position as the Assistant National Publicity Secretary of the Democratic Action Party (Directory of American Philosophers), a democratic socialist opposition party in Malaysia.