Tony Pua, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Tony Pua

Malaysian businessman and politician

Date of Birth: 01-Aug-1972

Place of Birth: Batu Pahat, Johor, Malaysia

Profession: businessperson, politician

Nationality: Malaysia

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Tony Pua Kiam Wee (simplified Chinese: ???; traditional Chinese: ???; pinyin: Pan Jianwei; born 1 August 1972) is a Malaysian politician from the Democratic Action Party (DAP) currently serving as three-term Member of Parliament (MP) of Malaysia representing Damansara and Political Secretary to the Minister of Finance of Malaysia, Lim Guan Eng.
Pua is the former Malaysian CEO of Cyber Village Sdn Bhd, a SESDAQ (SGX second board)-listed company.
In early 2007, he disposed of all his interests in the company and tendered his resignation to join the DAP in 2008. Pua graduated from Keble College, Oxford with a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics under a scholarship from the MTC Foundation in 1994.
Before that, he received Asean and Shaw Foundation scholarships to pursue his O- and A-Levels in Raffles Institution and Raffles Junior College, in Singapore. In the 2008 Malaysian general election, Pua won the parliamentary constituency of Petaling Jaya Utara on a DAP ticket.
He ran against the incumbent, Chew Mei Fun, then Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development, and Deputy Women Chief of the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA).
In 2009, Pua was appointed the DAP member of the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) committee. Pua retained his parliamentary seat in 2018 general election with a majority of 106,903, the largest majority in Malaysian history.