Julie Tan Eng Poh

Julie Tan Eng Poh (1930 – June 17, 1995) was a women's rights activist in Singapore who served as the founding president of the Singapore Council of Women's Organisations.

Biography Julie Tan was born in 1930 and was trained as a lawyer. She is known for her role as a leading women's rights activist in Singapore.

Tan began her activism by volunteering with the Young Women's Christian Association in Singapore. She then was elected to serve as president of the organization from 1972 to 1976 and subsequently from 1978 to 1982, the longest-serving leader in its history. The organization aimed to represent the breadth of women's groups in the country and jointly support women's economic independence. She also spearheaded the foundation of the D.E.W. Credit Cooperative, Singapore's first and only credit union specifically aimed at empowering women, in 1981. In 2014, she was inducted into the Singapore Women's Hall of Fame "because of her tireless work to see to it that women in Singapore receive the same opportunities as the men."