Indian-origin Singapore ex-minister elected President

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Indian-origin ex-minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam have been elected as the ninth president of Singapore with 70.4 per cent of the votes, and became the third Indian-origin person to head the prosperous city-state

Who is Tharman Shanmugaratnam:

Tharman Shanmugaratnam is a distinguished economist.
Tharman is the son of Emeritus Professor K. Shanmugaratnam, a medical scientist known as the “father of pathology in Singapore”.
Tharman Shanmugaratnam is a distinguished economist and was the Chairman of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, the de facto central bank, between 2011 and 2023, and the Deputy Chairman of the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) between 2019 and 2023.
He has served as chair of the Board of Trustees of the Group of Thirty, World Economic Forum and a member of the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Board on Effective Multilateralism.

Some Details about Singapore:

Singapore is an island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia.
It is located about one degree of latitude north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, bordering the Strait of Malacca to the west, the Singapore Strait to the south, the South China Sea to the east, and the Straits of Johor to the north.
Singapore has four official languages i.e English, Malay, Mandarin, and Tamil.
It has a highly developed market economy, based historically on extended entrepôt trade.
Along with Hong Kong, South Korea, and Taiwan, Singapore is one of the Four Asian Tigers.