31 Jan 2019
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY
Mr Jonathan Tow is Director-General of South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa Directorate in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and from July to December 2017, concurrently covering Director-General of Europe Directorate. Prior to this appointment, he was Deputy High Commissioner at the High Commission of the Republic of Singapore to India in New Delhi from 2011 to 2014.
Mr Tow graduated from the National University of Singapore with a BA(Hons) in History in 1996. In 2005, he obtained an MA (with honours) in Security Studies from Georgetown University on a Fulbright Scholarship and attended the Beijing Language and Culture University in 2006.
Mr Tow joined the Singapore Civil Service in 1996 and has held various research and management appointments in the Ministry of Defence and Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 2007 to 2010, he served as First Secretary (Political) at the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Singapore to the United Nations in New York.
Mr Tow is married to Ms Chua Chew Szee and they have one son.
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January 2019