# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-santiago
# Generated: 2026-08-15T09:28:14.991Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-santiago"
name: "Charles Santiago"
slug: "charles-santiago"
description: "Charles Anthony s/o R. Santiago is a Malaysian politician from the Democratic Action Party (DAP), a component party of the Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition who has served as Chairman of the National Water Services Commission (SPAN) for the second term since March 2023 and for the first term from November 2018 to his removal from the position in April 2020. He is also Chairman of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR). He served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Klang from March 2008 to November 2022, Chairman of the Human Rights and Constitutional Affairs Select Committee from December 2019 to November 2022."
tagline: "Malaysian politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Charles_Santiago.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1960-11-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.55
  momentum:             15
  historical:           5.480382666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Santiago"
    title: "Charles Santiago"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B2_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%BA%D9%88"
    title: "تشارلز سانتياغو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Santiago"
    title: "Charles Santiago"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9F%A5%E5%B0%94%E6%96%AF%E5%9C%A3%E5%9C%B0%E4%BA%9A%E5%93%A5"
    title: "查尔斯圣地亚哥"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Anthony_Santiago"
    title: "Charles Anthony Santiago"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%9A%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%B2%E0%AE%9A%E0%AF%81_%E0%AE%9A%E0%AE%A8%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%AF%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8B"
    title: "சார்லசு சந்தியாகோ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5082352"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump