| Post: | Singapore Ambassador to the United States |
| Inaugural: | Wong Lin Ken |
The Singapore ambassador to the United States is the official representative of the Republic of Singapore to the United States of America.
| Ambassador[1] | Diplomatic agreement | Diplomatic accreditation | Term end | Background | President of Singapore | Prime Minister of Singapore | President of the United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wong Lin Ken | December 1968 | He served concurrently as the Ambassador to the United States, to the United Nations, and to Brazil. He was a historian with first class Honours and an MA from the University of Malaya, and a PhD from London University. He was later appointed minister for home affairs.[2] | Yusof Ishak | Lee Kuan Yew | Lyndon B. Johnson | |||
| Born in 1904, died in 1989. From 1966 to 1968 he was First Ambassador to Cambodia. From 1969 to 1976 he was Ambassador to the US. Diplomacy was a second career for Professor Monteiro, who retired from the Chair of Clinical Medicine at the University of Singapore in May 1965.[3] | Benjamin Sheares | Richard Nixon | ||||||
| Punch Coomaraswamy | August 1984 | Born 16 October 1925 in Malaysia. He is married and has two sons and one daughter. He received an LL.B from Nottingham and was Barrister-at-law, Lincoln's Inn, London. He was awarded the public service star in 1976. From 1956 to 1966 he continued in law practice.[4] | Benjamin Sheares Devan Nair | Gerald Ford Jimmy Carter | ||||
| Tommy Koh | June 1990 | He served concurrently as the Ambassador to the United States and to the United Nations. | Devan Nair Wee Kim Wee | Ronald Reagan | ||||
| S. R. Nathan | June 1996 | Born in Singapore on 3 July 1924, and educated in the city.[5] | Wee Kim Wee Ong Teng Cheong | Bill Clinton | ||||
| Chan Heng Chee | July 2012 | Born 19 April 1942 in Singapore, educated at Katong Convent and the University of Singapore. She gained her master's degree at Cornell University.[6] | Ong Teng Cheong S. R. Nathan Tony Tan | Goh Chok Tong | Bill Clinton George W. Bush Barack Obama | |||
| Ashok Mirpuri[7] | Born 13 December 1959. He graduated with a Bachelor of Social Science (Honours, 2nd Class Upper) degree in Political Science from the National University of Singapore in 1984. He received his Master of Arts at the University of London's School of Oriental & African Studies in 1992 under a Raffles Scholarship. In May 1984, he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 1987 to 1991 he was posted to the Singapore Embassy in Jakarta as First Secretary (Political).[8] [9] | Tony Tan Halimah Yacob | Lee Hsien Loong | Barack Obama Donald Trump Joe Biden | ||||
| Lui Tuck Yew[10] | Incumbent | Born 16 August 1961. He graduated from the University of Cambridge. Served as 2-star admiral and then Chief of Navy in the Republic of Singapore Navy. Previously was Ambassador to Japan from 2017 to 2019 and then Ambassador to China from 2019 to 2023. | Halimah Yacob Tharman Shanmugaratnam | Lee Hsien Loong Lawrence Wong | Joe Biden |