Sebastian Teo Kway Huang is a Singaporean politician and businessman.
12 Facts About Sebastian Teo
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Sebastian Teo was formerly the president of the National Solidarity Party.
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Sebastian Teo began his career as an executive officer in the Ministry of Defence.
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Sebastian Teo left MINDEF in 1975 and subsequently served as the executive director of Knight Royal Management International, the academy director for Strategy Academic Research, and as general manager of companies in China and Taiwan.
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Sebastian Teo worked extensively as a management consultant and was a part-time lecturer for the University of South Australia and the Asia Pacific International University, in addition to teaching stints with the NUS Business School and the Singapore Chinese Chamber Institute of Business.
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Sebastian Teo first stepped into the political arena in the 2001 general election, in which the NSP's candidates stood under the banner of the Singapore Democratic Alliance.
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Sebastian Teo was part of the five-member SDA team in the Tampines Group Representation Constituency together with Yip Yew Weng, Christopher Neo, Foo Kok Wah and Abdul Rahim bin Osman.
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At the 2011 general election, Sebastian Teo stood as a member of the NSP team in the Chua Chu Kang Group Representation Constituency together with Tony Tan Lay Thiam, Hazel Poa, Nor Lella Mardiiiah Mohamed and Jeisilan Sivalingam against the PAP team of Gan Kim Yong, Alvin Yeo, Zaqy Mohamad, Alex Yam and Low Yen Ling.
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In September 1979, Sebastian Teo was arrested by Singapore's Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau.
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The anti-corruption bureau believed that over a nine-month period from March to December 1975, when Sebastian Teo was working at the Ministry of Defence, he had taken money on 12 occasions from a vegetable supplier in exchange for information regarding the successful vegetable supply contractor and the price of vegetables contracted, with the total amount paid to Sebastian Teo being S$60,200.
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Sebastian Teo subsequently pleaded guilty to two charges of corruption in November 1979, with ten other charges taken into consideration.
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Sebastian Teo was fined S$15,000 and ordered to pay a penalty S$10,500 for the court proceedings.