Amrin Amin
Amrin Amin (Jawi: امرين أمين) is a Singaporean lawyer and former politician. However, he was not elected after losing the 2020 general election in Sengkang GRC.
Amrin Amin | |
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امرين أمين | |
Senior Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry for Home Affairs | |
In office 1 May 2018 – 26 July 2020 | |
Prime Minister | Lee Hsien Loong |
Minister | K. Shanmugam |
Senior Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry for Health | |
In office 1 May 2018 – 26 July 2020 | |
Prime Minister | Lee Hsien Loong |
Minister | Gan Kim Yong |
Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry for Home Affairs | |
In office 1 October 2015 – 30 April 2018 | |
Prime Minister | Lee Hsien Loong |
Minister | K. Shanmugam |
Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry for Health | |
In office 1 May 2017 – 30 April 2018 | |
Prime Minister | Lee Hsien Loong |
Minister | Gan Kim Yong |
Member of the Singapore Parliament for Sembawang GRC (Woodlands) | |
In office 11 September 2015 – 23 June 2020 | |
Preceded by | Ellen Lee |
Succeeded by | Mariam Jaafar |
Personal details | |
Born | Singapore | 4 October 1978
Nationality | Singaporean |
Political party | People's Action Party |
Spouse(s) | Shariffah Nadia Aljunied |
Alma mater | National University of Singapore Columbia University |
Occupation | Solicitor |
Profession | Lawyer |
A member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), he was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sembawang GRC (Woodlands) from 11 September 2015 to 23 June 2020. He was also Senior Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry for Home Affairs and the Ministry for Health from 1 May 2018 to 26 July 2020. Prior to his promotions, he was Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry for Home Affairs from 1 October 2015 to 30 April 2018 and the Ministry for Health from 1 October 2017 to 30 April 2018. [1]
His PAP team led by the then-Minister in the Prime Minister's Office Ng Chee Meng failed to be elected in the newly-established Sengkang GRC, losing to the opposition Workers' Party (WP) team helmed by He Tingru in the 2020 Singaporean general election. He lost his Member of Parliament seat.[2][3]
Education
Amrin Amin was educated at Griffiths Primary School (now known as Angsana Pri) before moving onto Dunman Secondary School and Tampines Junior College before reading law at the National University of Singapore, LLB (Honours) and Columbia University in New York, LLM (Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar).[4]
Career
He was a solicitor at Watson, Farley & Williams Asia Practice LLP, and also is a member of National Council on Problem Gambling as well as the governing board of Nanyang Polytechnic.[5] He became a corporate lawyer and partner at Joseph Tan Jude Benny LLP in 2015[6][7][10]
Amrin became a prominent grassroots activist in Sembawang GRC soon after the General Elections of 2011,[11] and in 2015, Amrin was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Sembawang GRC, replacing outgoing PAP MP Ellen Lee.[12] He was appointed Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Home Affairs subsequently.[13] In the 2015 Cabinet reshuffling, he was appointed as the Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Health.[14]
During the 2020 general election, Amrin contested with a PAP team in the newly created Sengkang GRC made up by Sengkang West Single Member Constituency (SMC), Punggol East SMC and parts of the Pasir Ris–Punggol GRC. The PAP team was defeated by the Worker's Party team which had won the election with 60,136 votes (52.13%) to 55,214 votes (47.87%), resulting in an electoral defeat.[15] He became the third PAP MP to lose re-election after a single term in parliament, joining Ng Pock Too and Seet Ai Mee. Unlike the latter two however, he was not defeated in his original constituency but lost when he contested a different constituency. This is the second instance of the ruling PAP losing a GRC to the Opposition since their loss in 2011 to the Worker's Party in Aljunied GRC.[16]
After his electoral defeat in Sengkang GRC in 2020 Singapore general election,Amrin has moved to the tech sector and will be taking up roles at two local firms from 14 September 2020.
He has been appointed strategy director at robotics and automation firm Platform for Bots and Automation (PBA) and concurrently assume the role of non-executive adviser at ADERA Global, a company involved in data-security, artificial intelligence (AI) and automation.
References
- "Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announces Singapore's new Cabinet". Channel NewsAsia. 28 September 2015. Retrieved 28 September 2015.
- https://mothership.sg/2020/07/amrin-amin-sengkang-grc/
- https://mothership.sg/2020/07/amrin-sengkang-grc-response/
- Lilian NG (MOH) (13 August 2015). "AMRIN AMIN 安宁阿敏" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 January 2016. Retrieved 2015-08-30.
- Chua, Grace. "Lawyer a potential PAP candidate". Retrieved 3 December 2015.
- "Corp partner hire for Singapore law firm JTJB". Asian Legal Business. 22 July 2015. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
- "People's Action Party". pap.org.sg. Archived from the original on 2015-12-08. Retrieved 2015-08-30.
- "Lawyer a potential PAP candidate, AsiaOne Singapore News". news.asiaone.com. Retrieved 2015-08-30.
- "Bicara 2015 - EP2". Toggle. Suria. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
- "Meet PAP's Sembawang GRC 'boy band'". The New Paper. 14 August 2015. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
- "Launch of the Former Combined Operations Room (FCOR) Exhibition - Speech by Mr Amrin Amin, Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs". Ministry of Home Affairs. Government of Singapore. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
- Katherine_Chen (2017-04-27). "Changes to Cabinet and other appointments". Prime Minister‘s Office Singapore. Retrieved 2017-09-21.
- "GE2020 official results: WP wins Sengkang GRC with 52.13% of votes, clinching its second GRC". The Straits Times. July 11, 2020.
- "GE2020: PAP takes 61.24% of the valid vote, loses a second GRC to WP". Retrieved 15 July 2020.
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Parliament of Singapore | ||
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Preceded by Ellen Lee |
Member of Parliament for Sembawang GRC (Woodlands) 2015 – 2020 |
Succeeded by Mariam Jaafar |