Chin Tong LIEW

Bio

Liew Chin Tong is the Deputy Minister of Investment, Trade and Industry of Malaysia. He is currently the Member of Parliament for Iskandar Puteri and the State Assemblyperson for Perling, Johor. He served as Deputy Defence Minister from July 2018 to February 2020. He supported Minister Mohammad Sabu's effort to present Malaysia's first ever Defence White Paper which was passed in Parliament on 2 December 2019. Chin Tong graduated with a degree in Political Science and an honours degree in Asian Studies from the Australian National University, and holds an International Masters in Regional Integration from the Asia-Europe Institute, University of Malaya. Chin Tong is the Chairman of Research for Social Advancement (REFSA) since 2012 and was the Executive Director of Penang Institute (previously Socio-Economic and Environmental Research Institute, SERI, from 2009-2012). He was also formerly a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore. He is passionate about policies relating to the economy, defence and security, institutional reform, political Islam, security and international relations, and urban studies.