22 Facts About Hazel Poa

Hazel Poa Koon Koon is a Singaporean politician and businesswoman.

Hazel Poa served as Secretary-General of the PSP from 2024 to 2025.

Hazel Poa was the Vice-Chairman of the Progress Singapore Party from 2023 to 2024, and was elected as Secretary-General on 20 February 2024.

Hazel Poa was a member of the Reform Party before joining the National Solidarity Party in 2011.

Hazel Poa was Secretary-General of the NSP from June 2011 to September 2013, and acting Secretary-General from June 2015 to August 2015.

Hazel Poa was appointed as secretary-general of the Progress Singapore Party on 20 February 2024 following the resignation of Leong Mun Wai after the Singapore government issued a POFMA order which refuted the falsehoods made by Leong on his Facebook post.

Hazel Poa attended the University of Cambridge on a scholarship from Singapore's Public Service Commission, completing a degree in Mathematics with first class honours.

Hazel Poa was first posted to the Prime Minister's Office, where she worked in the Public Service Division, handling personnel policies within the civil service.

Hazel Poa later became Assistant Director for Indirect Taxation at the Ministry of Finance.

Hazel Poa later worked as an assistant fund manager before starting her own business.

In June 2011, Hazel Poa was elected as the Secretary-General of the NSP by the Central Executive Council following the resignation of Goh Meng Seng.

Hazel Poa was the first woman to be elected Secretary-General of the NSP.

Hazel Poa resigned as Secretary-General in September 2013 citing health problems.

In June 2015, nearly two years after she resigned, Hazel Poa was appointed the Acting Secretary-General of the NSP following the resignation of Tan Lam Siong.

On July 20,2020, Hazel Poa stepped down as vice-chairman of PSP to focus on her NCMP duties.

Hazel Poa succeeded Leong Mun Wai as PSP secretary-general on 20 February 2024.

In September 2020, Hazel Poa called on the Singapore government to allow Central Provident Fund members who lost their jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic to borrow from their own CPF accounts, and to explore the option of indexing CPF Life payments to inflation.

Hazel Poa's proposal called for parental leave to be shared equally between parents by default, but parents could adopt other arrangements by mutual agreement, subject to a minimum period of parental leave for each parent.

In February 2023, Hazel Poa called on the Government to allow singles aged above 28 to purchase 3-room flats.

Hazel Poa raised a number of parliamentary questions in 2023 relating to the prosecution of S Iswaran.

Hazel Poa has been active in calling for institutional reform while in Parliament.

In July 2023, Hazel Poa raised a private member's motion in Parliament calling for Group Representation Constituencies to be abolished.