Halimah Yacob
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Halimah Yacob is the eighth and current President of Singapore, having taken office in 2017. She is notable as Singapore's first female president, making her an important symbolic figure in the country's political history.
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- 1954-08-23
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- Associations of fats and carbohydrate intake with cardiovascular disease and mortality in 18 countries from five continents (PURE): a prospective cohort study
· 2017 · cited 939x
- Mapping synergies and trade-offs between energy and the Sustainable Development Goals
· 2017 · cited 842x
- Fruit, vegetable, and legume intake, and cardiovascular disease and deaths in 18 countries (PURE): a prospective cohort study
· 2017 · cited 524x
- Demand-side solutions to climate change mitigation consistent with high levels of well-being
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Halimah binte Yacob (born 23 August 1954) is a Singaporean politician and lawyer who was the eighth president of Singapore from 2017 to 2023, making her the first woman to serve in this role after being elected uncontested in the 2017 presidential election.
As a member of the People's Action Party (PAP), Halimah served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Bukit Batok East division of the Jurong Group Representation Constituency (GRC) from 2001 to 2015 and then for the Marsiling division of the Marsiling–Yew Tee GRC from 2015 to 2017. She became Singapore's first female speaker of parliament, a position she held from 2013 to 2017.
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