David Hoe

David Hoe Teck Chye (born 31 December 1987) is a Singaporean politician, charity director, and former educator. A member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), he has served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for the Jurong East–Bukit Batok Group Representation Constituency since 2025.

Hoe is a District Councillor with the Central Singapore Community Development Council and the co-chair of the Education Roundtable at Advisory Singapore, a youth-led non-profit organisation. He is recognised as a community leader for his efforts in youth empowerment and advocacy for equal access to opportunities. He is also a Philip Yeo Initiative (PYI) Fellow, a former educator at Eunoia Junior College, and a former council member of the National Youth Council.

Education Hoe attended Beatty Secondary School, where he was placed in the Normal (Technical) stream after scoring 110 on the Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE), having come from the EM3 stream in primary school.

After completing his GCE 'N' Levels, he received the Lee Kuan Yew Award for Outstanding Normal Course students in 2005. He later wrote to then-Minister for Education Tharman Shanmugaratnam and was granted permission to repeat Secondary 3 and 4 in the Express stream to qualify for entry into the teaching profession.

Hoe subsequently attended Catholic Junior College, and received a teaching scholarship from the Ministry of Education.

He earned a Bachelor of Social Sciences in Economics from the National University of Singapore (NUS), where he was part of the Tembusu College residential programme.

Career Hoe began his career teaching Economics at Eunoia Junior College, where he also served as Deputy Head for Student Leadership and Talent Management.

Ahead of the 2025 Singaporean general election, Hoe was announced as a candidate for the People's Action Party (PAP). He was elected to the Parliament of Singapore on 3 May 2025, representing the newly created Jurong East–Bukit Batok GRC. 2022: ASEAN Plus Youth Volunteer Award for contributions to community initiatives.

Personal life Hoe is married and has two children, a daughter and a son. During his early years, following his parents’ divorce and his mother’s loss of eyesight, he sold tissues in hawker centres and on the streets. His mother died from a stroke when he was 12, after which he lived with his father and older brother.