Tony Pua Kiam Wee, a Malaysian politician and investor, was born on August 1, 1972. He is a member of the Democratic Action Party (DAP),a component party of the Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition, and has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Damansara from May 2018 to November 2022, for Petaling Jaya Utara from March 2008 to May 2018, and Political Secretary to the Minister of Finance from May 2018 to February 2020.
Prior to his political career, Pua was the Malaysian CEO of Cyber Village Sdn Bhd, a SESDAQ-listed company, which he disposed of in 2007 to join the DAP in 2008. He graduated from Keble College, Oxford with a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics under a scholarship from the MTC Foundation in 1994.
Pua received Asean and Shaw Foundation scholarships to pursue his O- and A-Levels in Raffles Institution and Raffles Junior College, in Singapore. He then won the parliamentary constituency of Petaling Jaya Utara on a DAP ticket in the 2008 Malaysian general election, defeating 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. He retained his parliamentary seat in the 2018 general election with a majority of 106,903, the largest majority in Malaysian history.
