Amrin Amin
Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Home Affairs
In office
1 May 2018 – 26 July 2020
Serving with Sun Xueling
Prime MinisterLee Hsien Loong
MinisterK. Shanmugam
Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Health
In office
1 May 2018 – 26 July 2020
Prime MinisterLee Hsien Loong
MinisterGan Kim Yong
Succeeded byRahayu Mahzam
Parliamentary Secretary for Health
In office
1 May 2017 – 30 April 2018
Prime MinisterLee Hsien Loong
MinisterGan Kim Yong
Parliamentary Secretary for Home Affairs
In office
1 October 2015 – 30 April 2018
Prime MinisterLee Hsien Loong
MinisterK. Shanmugam
Member of Parliament
for Sembawang GRC
(Woodlands)
In office
11 September 2015 – 23 June 2020
Preceded byEllen Lee (PAP)
Succeeded byMariam Jaafar (PAP)
Personal details
Born (1978-10-05) 5 October 1978 (age 45)
Singapore
Political partyPeople's Action Party
SpouseShariffah Nadia Aljunied
Alma materNational University of Singapore (LLB)
Columbia University (LLM)
Profession
  • Solicitor
  • lawyer

Mohamed Amrin bin Mohamed Amin is a Singaporean solicitor, lawyer and politician. A member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), he was the Member of Parliament (MP) representing the Woodlands ward of Sembawang GRC between 2015 and 2020.

He served as Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Home Affairs and Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Health concurrently between 2018 and 2020, Parliamentary Secretary for Home Affairs between 2015 and 2018, and Parliamentary Secretary for Health between 2017 and 2018.[1]

During the 2020 general election, he contested in the newly formed Sengkang GRC as part of a four-member PAP team, led by Minister in the Prime Minister's Office Ng Chee Meng, but failed to get elected after losing to the opposition Workers' Party team led by He Ting Ru.[2][3]

Education

Amrin attended Griffiths Primary School (now Angsana Primary School), Dunman Secondary School and Tampines Junior College before graduating from the National University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Laws degree.

He subsequently went on to complete a Master of Laws degree at Columbia University.[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]

After his electoral defeat in Sengkang GRC during 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.[10]

Political career

Amrin became a PAP activist in Sembawang GRC soon after the 2011 general election.[11] He made his political debut in the 2015 general election as part of a four-member PAP team contesting in Sembawang GRC and won.[12] He was subsequently appointed as Parliamentary Secretary for Home Affairs.[13] During a Cabinet-reshuffle in 2015, he was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary for Health.[14]

During the 2020 general election, Amrin contested in the newly created Sengkang GRC as part of a four-member PAP team and lost.[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. 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.[16]

After his election loss, Amrin continued to serve in Sengkang GRC as an unelected representative of the PAP between 2020 and 2022. In March 2022, Amrin passed his position as PAP branch chair of Sengkang Central on to Dr Elmie Nekmat, but is officially still on PAP's Sengkang GRC team.[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. Archived from the original on 2016-12-13. 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. ^ 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.
  11. ^ "Bicara 2015 - EP2". Toggle. Suria. Archived from the original on October 16, 2015. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
  12. ^ "Meet PAP's Sembawang GRC 'boy band'". The New Paper. 14 August 2015. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
  13. ^ Yong, Charissa (2015-10-05). "Four parliamentary secretaries sworn in at the Istana". The Straits Times. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
  14. ^ Katherine_Chen (2017-04-27). "Changes to Cabinet and other appointments". Prime Minister's Office Singapore. Retrieved 2017-09-21.
  15. ^ "GE2020 official results: WP wins Sengkang GRC with 52.13% of votes, clinching its second GRC". The Straits Times. July 11, 2020.
  16. ^ "GE2020: PAP takes 61.24% of the valid vote, loses a second GRC to WP". Retrieved 15 July 2020.
  17. ^ Elangovan, Navene (27 March 2022). "PAP unveils 3 new faces in Sengkang GRC, replacing Ng Chee Meng, Amrin Amin and Raymond Lye". TODAY. Archived from the original on 18 February 2023. Retrieved 18 February 2023.

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Parliament of Singapore Preceded byEllen Lee Member of Parliament for Sembawang GRC (Woodlands) 2015 – 2020 Succeeded byMariam Jaafar
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