11 Facts About Kenneth Jeyaretnam

Kenneth Andrew Jeyaretnam was born on 1959 and is a Singaporean politician and hedge fund manager who has been appointed as the Secretary-General of the opposition Reform Party since 2009.

Kenneth Jeyaretnam is the elder son of J B Jeyaretnam, a prominent opposition politician in Singapore who founded the Reform Party in 2008.

Kenneth Jeyaretnam worked at Wardley, Continental Bank, Banque Indosuez and Nomura International before becoming a hedge fund manager.

Kenneth Jeyaretnam took up a more active role in politics after his father's death in 2008 and started leading the Reform Party.

Kenneth Jeyaretnam's father was a prominent opposition politician in Singapore and the first elected opposition Member of Parliament since Singapore gained independence in 1965.

Kenneth Jeyaretnam was educated at St Andrew's School and the United World College of South East Asia in Singapore before he attended Charterhouse School in England from 1975 to 1977.

Kenneth Jeyaretnam worked at Continental Bank, Banque Indosuez and Nomura International before he became a hedge fund manager focusing on event-driven investing.

Kenneth Jeyaretnam first stood for elections in the 2011 general election when he led a five-member Reform Party team to contest in West Coast GRC against a five-member team from the governing People's Action Party led by Trade and Industry Minister Lim Hng Kiang.

Kenneth Jeyaretnam contested in the by-election, which turned out to be a four-cornered fight pitting him against three other candidates: Koh Poh Koon of the PAP; Lee Li Lian of the Workers' Party; and Desmond Lim of the Singapore Democratic Alliance.

Kenneth Jeyaretnam made a police report and the police arrested a 23-year-old man working as a clerk in Singapore Press Holdings's classified ads department.

Kenneth Jeyaretnam led a four-member Reform Party team to contest in West Coast GRC again during the 2015 general election against a four-member PAP team led by Trade and Industry Minister Lim Hng Kiang.