Simon Tay Author

Simon Tay is an award-winning writer, with works of fiction as well as about politics and international issues. His awards for fiction and poetry include the Singapore Literature Prize and the 2019 Southeast Asia Write Award.

He is a former Nominated Member of Parliament, chair of a major statutory board, and contin- ues to serve as an ambassador for Singapore.

He is concurrently chairman of the Singapore Institute of International Affairs, associate professor at the National Univer- sity of Singapore's Faculty of Law and senior consultant with a major Singaporean law firm.

He is the only son of Tay Seow Huah and the late Madam Cheong Keong Hin.