Chay Wai Chuen (Chinese: 谢惠泉; pinyin: Xiè Huìquán; born 5 March 1950) is a Singaporean diplomat and former politician.
[1] A former member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), he was the Member of Parliament (MP) representing the Queenstown ward of Brickworks GRC between 1988 and 1997 and later Tanjong Pagar GRC between 1997 and 2006.
Born on 5 March 1950, Chay attended St Joseph's Institution before graduating from the University of Singapore (now the National University of Singapore) with a Bachelor of Social Sciences with honours degree in economics and statistics in 1973 and a Master of Social Sciences degree in 1978.
He also completed a Master of Arts degree in development economics at the University of Sussex in 1975 under the Commonwealth Scholarship.
He graduated from the Singapore Command and Staff College in 1988 and attended the six-week Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.