Lee Chean Chung

Lee Chean Chung [1](simplified Chinese: 李健聪; traditional Chinese: 李健聰; pinyin: Lǐ Jiàn Cōng) is a Malaysia politician who is serving as the State Assemblyman of Semambu since 2013 and the Treasurer General of People's Justice Party (Parti Keadilan Rakyat) since 2019. Prior to his electoral success, he served as Research Officer of the Opposition Leader's Office (2008-2011). He was appointed as the Board of Director of Kuantan Port Authority in 2019.

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Lee Chean Chung

MLA
李健聪
Assembly Member
for Semambu, Pahang
In office
05 May 2013 – current
Preceded byPang Tsu Ming (MCA - BN)
Majority3,200
Personal details
BornApril 1981 (age 39)
Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia
Political partyParti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR)
Other political
affiliations		Pakatan Harapan (PH)
Pakatan Rakyat (PR)
Children3
OccupationPahang State Legislative Assembly Member
WebsiteChean Chung's Blog

Chean Chung was born and raised in Kuantan, State of Pahang, Malaysia and attended Multimedia University (MMU), Malaysia University of Science and Technology (MUST)[2] and Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2019.[3]

Before active in politics, Chean Chung had worked in US & Hong Kong-based companies before getting himself involved in political movements. He joined the Political Studies for Change Unit (KPRU) as a Research Officer after the 12th General Election (GE12). His unit provided strategic research support and organized bills' consultative meetings for nearly 30 Members of Parliaments of the party.

Chean Chung was active in environmental movement, and was appointed as the Media Chief for Stop Lynas Coalition (SLC) and the Publicity Chief for Himpunan Hijau 2.0 in 2011 during the movements against Lynas, the largest rare earth processing plant then in the world that was built next to Kuantan.

In the 13th General Election held on May 5, 2013, Chean Chung was elected as the State Assemblyman of Semambu Constituency in Pahang, defeating a two-term incumbent from the ruling coalition with 3,200 majority.[4] On May 9, 2018, again he retained the seat with a bigger majority of 5,511 votes.[5] Active in the party, Chean Chung currently serves as the Vice Chairman of Pahang State Liaison Committee and also the Chairman of Indera Mahkota Division.[6]

Chean Chung has extensive research experiences in various fields. His master thesis, titled “GPS Taxi Dispatch System Based on A* Shortest Path Algorithm”, was widely cited by researches of various institution, including Didi Research Institute, Didi AI Lab, British University in Dubai, University of Edinburgh, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Wuhan University, Telecom ParisTech, and University of Tokyo.[7][8][9] In 2019, he co-publish a paper on "Institutions for Sustainability: Informal Settlers" in the GSP Conference 2019:[10] Urban Possibilities: Reimagining Philippines. The international conference was attended by, among others, Atty. Cherry Melodias, Director of the Depart of Interior and Local Government, Makati City of the Philippines. He co-authored books such as "Jiwa Merdeka" and "Green Political Reform" (绿色政改), and is a regular contributor to The Edge, Malaysiakini and Oriental Daily.

Active in international engagement and training, Chean Chung was awarded the Most Outstanding Alumnus of Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Young Politicians (KASYP) program in 2019. He is also the fellow of International Adenauer Network, Professional Fellow of Youth for South East Asia Leadership Initiatives (YSEALI) and American Council of Young Political Leaders (ACYPL), and a graduate of the Political Advisor Course, Graduate School of Government (The University of Sydney). He was invited to speak in many occasions, such as the Generation Democracy’s Youth Leadership Academy (2017), Copenhagen Democracy Summit (2020) as well as invitation by Danish Institute for Parties and Democracy (DIPD) (2020).

Political career

Positions in People's Justice Party (PKR)
  • Treasurer General of KEADILAN (current)
  • Vice Chairman of KEADILAN Pahang Liaison Council (2019-current)
  • Information Chief, Youth Wing KEADILAN (2015-2018)
  • Chairman of KEADILAN Indera Mahkota division (2011-current)
  • Chairman of Pakatan Harapan Indera Mahkota (2018-current)

Malaysian General Election Results
State Constituency: N13 Semambu,Pahang
Year Votes Pct Opponents Votes Pct Total voters Ballot cast Spoilt vote Majority Turnout
2013 Lee Chean Chung(PKR) 14753 54.26% Pang Tsu Ming(BN) 11553 42.49% 32534 27191 327 3200 27624
Mohd Shukri Mohd Ramli 885 3.25%
2018 Lee Chean Chung(PKR) 14991 47.15% Mohd Yusof Hashin(PAS) 9480 29.82% 38487 31794 307 5511 32215
Quek Tai Seong(BN) 7323 23.03%

References
  1. "Lee Chean Chung Biodata". Archived from the original on 2014-02-20. Retrieved 2014-02-21.
  2. "Why university? The delusion and substance of university life by Lee Chean Chung". Archived from the original on 2014-02-27.
  3. https://lkyspp.nus.edu.sg/graduate-programmes/master-in-public-administration-mpa/governance-study-project/gsp-conference-2019
  4. "Undi Info, Malaysian Election Data powered by Malaysiakini".
  5. Jusoh, Erma Yusnida. "CHEAN CHUNG MENANG BERGAYA". 1 - PRU @ Sinar. Retrieved 2020-09-15.
  6. "Candidate of People's Justice Party (PKR)on 2013 General Election". Archived from the original on 2014-02-24.
  7. Zhang, Lingyu; Hu, Tao; Min, Yue; Wu, Guobin; Zhang, Junying; Feng, Pengcheng; Gong, Pinghua; Ye, Jieping (2017-08-13). "A Taxi Order Dispatch Model based On Combinatorial Optimization". Proceedings of the 23rd ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. KDD '17. Halifax, NS, Canada: Association for Computing Machinery: 2151–2159. doi:10.1145/3097983.3098138. ISBN 978-1-4503-4887-4.
  8. Zhou, Ming; Jin, Jiarui; Zhang, Weinan; Qin, Zhiwei; Jiao, Yan; Wang, Chenxi; Wu, Guobin; Yu, Yong; Ye, Jieping (2019-11-03). "Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Order-dispatching via Order-Vehicle Distribution Matching". Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. CIKM '19. Beijing, China: Association for Computing Machinery: 2645–2653. arXiv:1910.02591. doi:10.1145/3357384.3357799. ISBN 978-1-4503-6976-3.
  9. Liu, Yifang; Skinner, Will; Xiang, Chongyuan (2019-05-13). "Globally-Optimized Realtime Supply-Demand Matching in On-Demand Ridesharing". The World Wide Web Conference. WWW '19. San Francisco, CA, USA: Association for Computing Machinery: 3034–3040. doi:10.1145/3308558.3313579. ISBN 978-1-4503-6674-8.
  10. lkyspp.nus.edu.sg https://lkyspp.nus.edu.sg/graduate-programmes/master-in-public-administration-mpa/governance-study-project/gsp-conference-2019. Retrieved 2020-09-15. Missing or empty |title= (help)
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