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Halimah Yacob
President of Singapore from 2017 to 2023
In this Malay name, there is no surname or family name. The name Yacob is a patronymic, and the person should be referred to by their given name, Halimah.
Halimah yacob biography template
The word "bin" or "binti"/"binte" means 'son of' or 'daughter of', respectively.
Halimah binti Yacob (born 23 August 1954) is a Singaporean politician and lawyer who held the office of the eighth president of Singapore from 2017 to 2023, making history as the first woman to serve in this role.
A former member of Singapore's long-dominant People's Action Party (PAP), Halimah served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Bukit Batok East division of the JurongGroup Representation Constituency (GRC) from 2001 to 2015 and then for the Marsiling division of the Marsiling–Yew Tee GRC from 2015 to 2017.
She made history as Singapore's first female speaker of parliament, a position she held from 2013 to 2017.
Following a constitutional amendment in 2017, the president