Amrin Amin

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Amrin Amin
امرين أمين
Senior Parliamentary Secretary,
Ministry for Home Affairs
In office
1 May 2018 – 26 July 2020
Serving with Sun Xueling
Prime MinisterLee Hsien Loong
MinisterK. Shanmugam
Senior Parliamentary Secretary,
Ministry for Health
In office
1 May 2018 – 26 July 2020
Prime MinisterLee Hsien Loong
MinisterGan Kim Yong
Succeeded byRahayu Mahzam
Parliamentary Secretary,
Ministry for Home Affairs
In office
1 October 2015 – 30 April 2018
Prime MinisterLee Hsien Loong
MinisterK. Shanmugam
Parliamentary Secretary,
Ministry for Health
In office
1 May 2017 – 30 April 2018
Prime MinisterLee Hsien Loong
MinisterGan Kim Yong
Member of the Singapore Parliament
for Sembawang GRC
(Woodlands)
In office
11 September 2015 – 23 June 2020
Preceded byEllen Lee
Succeeded byMariam Jaafar
Personal details
Born (1978-10-04) 4 October 1978 (age 42)
Singapore
Political partyPeople's Action Party
Spouse(s)Shariffah Nadia Aljunied
Alma materNational University of Singapore
Columbia University
OccupationSolicitor
ProfessionLawyer

Mohamed Amrin bin Mohamed Amin (Jawi: امرين أمين) is a Singaporean businessman, politician, and former 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]

In the 2020 Singaporean general election, he was in the newly formed PAP team, led by Minister in the Prime Minister's Office Ng Chee Meng, and failed to be elected in the newly-established Sengkang GRC, losing to the opposition Workers' Party (WP) team helmed by He Ting Ru.[2][3]

Education[]

Amrin Amin was educated at Griffiths Primary School (now known as Angsana Primary School), Dunman Secondary School, and Tampines Junior College. He then read law at the bachelor's level at National University of Singapore, and at the master's level at Columbia University in New York.[4]

Career[]

Amrin was a solicitor at Watson, Farley & Williams Asia Practice LLP, and was also a member of National Council on Problem Gambling as well as the governing board of Nanyang Polytechnic.[5] He was a partner at the corporate practice of Joseph Tan Jude Benny LLP between July and October 2015,[6][7][8][9].

Politics[]

Amrin became a grassroots activist in Sembawang GRC soon after the General Elections of 2011,[10] and in 2015, Amrin was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Sembawang GRC, replacing outgoing PAP MP Ellen Lee.[11] He was appointed Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Home Affairs subsequently.[12] In the 2015 Cabinet reshuffling, he was appointed as the Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Health.[13]

During the 2020 general election, Amrin contested with a PAP team in the newly created Sengkang GRC. The PAP team was defeated by the Workers' Party team which had won the election with 60,136 votes (52.13%) to 55,214 votes (47.87%), resulting in an electoral defeat.[14] He became the third PAP MP to lose re-election after a single term in parliament, joining Ng Pock Too and Seet Ai Mee. This was the second instance of the PAP losing a GRC to the Opposition, since their loss in 2011 to the Worker's Party in Aljunied GRC.[15]

Amrin continues to serve in Sengkang GRC as an unelected representative of the PAP.[16]

Outside politics[]

After his electoral defeat in Sengkang GRC in the 2020 general election, Amrin moved to the technology sector, and took up roles at two local firms in September 2020. He was appointed strategy director at robotics and automation firm Platform for Bots and Automation (PBA), and concurrently assumed a non-executive adviser position at ADERA Global, a company involved in data-security, artificial intelligence (AI), and automation.[17]

References[]

  1. ^ "Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announces Singapore's new Cabinet". Channel NewsAsia. 28 September 2015. Retrieved 28 September 2015.
  2. ^ "Amrin Amin on losing in Sengkang GRC: 'I've tried my best'". mothership.sg.
  3. ^ "Sengkang GRC PAP candidate Amrin: 'Don't write my obituary just yet'". mothership.sg.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ Chua, Grace. "Lawyer a potential PAP candidate". Retrieved 3 June 2021.
  6. ^ "Corp partner hire for Singapore law firm JTJB". Asian Legal Business. 22 July 2015. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
  7. ^ "People's Action Party". pap.org.sg. Archived from the original on 2015-12-08. Retrieved 2015-08-30.
  8. ^ "Lawyer a potential PAP candidate, AsiaOne Singapore News". news.asiaone.com. Retrieved 2015-08-30.
  9. ^ Yong, Charissa (2015-10-05). "Four parliamentary secretaries sworn in at the Istana". The Straits Times. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
  10. ^ "Bicara 2015 - EP2". Toggle. Suria. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
  11. ^ "Meet PAP's Sembawang GRC 'boy band'". The New Paper. 14 August 2015. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
  12. ^ Yong, Charissa (2015-10-05). "Four parliamentary secretaries sworn in at the Istana". The Straits Times. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
  13. ^ Katherine_Chen (2017-04-27). "Changes to Cabinet and other appointments". Prime Minister‘s Office Singapore. Retrieved 2017-09-21.
  14. ^ "GE2020 official results: WP wins Sengkang GRC with 52.13% of votes, clinching its second GRC". The Straits Times. July 11, 2020.
  15. ^ "GE2020: PAP takes 61.24% of the valid vote, loses a second GRC to WP". Retrieved 15 July 2020.
  16. ^ "Amrin Amin". People's Action Party. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
  17. ^ Baharudin, Hariz (6 September 2020). "Former MP Amrin Amin to join 2 Singapore tech firms after Sengkang election loss". The Straits Times. Retrieved 7 May 2021.

External links[]

Parliament of Singapore
Preceded by
Ellen Lee 		Member of Parliament for
Sembawang GRC (Woodlands)
2015 – 2020 		Succeeded by
Mariam Jaafar
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