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Amrin Amin | |
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| Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Home Affairs | |
| In office 1 May 2018 – 26 July 2020 Serving with Sun Xueling | |
| Prime Minister | Lee Hsien Loong |
| Minister | K. Shanmugam |
| Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Health | |
| In office 1 May 2018 – 26 July 2020 | |
| Prime Minister | Lee Hsien Loong |
| Minister | Gan Kim Yong |
| Succeeded by | Rahayu Mahzam |
| Parliamentary Secretary for Health | |
| In office 1 May 2017 – 30 April 2018 | |
| Prime Minister | Lee Hsien Loong |
| Minister | Gan Kim Yong |
| Parliamentary Secretary for Home Affairs | |
| In office 1 October 2015 – 30 April 2018 | |
| Prime Minister | Lee Hsien Loong |
| Minister | K. Shanmugam |
| Member of Parliament forSembawang GRC (Woodlands) | |
| In office 11 September 2015 – 23 June 2020 | |
| Preceded by | Ellen Lee (PAP) |
| Succeeded by | Mariam Jaafar (PAP) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1978-10-05)5 October 1978 (age 46) Singapore |
| Political party | People's Action Party |
| Spouse | Shariffah Nadia Aljunied |
| Alma mater | National University of Singapore (LLB) Columbia University (LLM) |
| Profession |
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Mohamed Amrin bin Mohamed Amin (born 5 October 1978) is a Singaporean solicitor, lawyer and politician. A member of the governingPeople's Action Party (PAP), he was theMember of Parliament (MP) representing the Woodlands ward ofSembawang GRC between 2015 and 2020.
Amrin served asParliamentary Secretary for Home Affairs between 2015 and 2018,[1] andParliamentary Secretary for Health between 2017 and 2018 andSenior Parliamentary Secretary for Home Affairs andSenior Parliamentary Secretary for Health concurrently between 2018 and 2020, .[2]
During the2020 general election, Amrin contested in the newly formedSengkang GRC as part of a four-member PAP team, led byMinister in the Prime Minister's OfficeNg Chee Meng, but failed to get elected after losing to the oppositionWorkers' Party team led byHe Ting Ru.[3][4]
Amrin attended Griffiths Primary School (now Angsana Primary School),Dunman Secondary School andTampines Junior College before graduating from theNational University of Singapore with aBachelor of Laws degree.
He subsequently went on to complete aMaster of Laws degree atColumbia University.[5]
Amrin was a solicitor at Watson, Farley & Williams Asia Practice LLP, and was also a member ofNational Council on Problem Gambling as well as the governing board ofNanyang Polytechnic.[6]
He was a partner at the corporate practice of Joseph Tan Jude Benny LLP between July and October 2015.[7][8][9][10]
After his electoral defeat inSengkang GRC during the2020 general election, Amrin moved to thetechnology 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.[11]
Amrin became a PAP activist in Sembawang GRC soon after the2011 general election.[12] He made his political debut in the2015 general election as part of a four-member PAP team contesting inSembawang GRC and won.[13] He was subsequently appointed as Parliamentary Secretary for Home Affairs.[14] During a Cabinet-reshuffle in 2015, he was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary for Health.[15]
During the 2020 general election, Amrin contested in the newly createdSengkang GRC as part of a four-member PAP team and lost.[16] He became the third PAP MP to lose re-election after a single term in Parliament, joiningNg Pock Too andSeet 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 inAljunied GRC.[17]
Amrin continued as PAP branch chair of Sengkang Central from 2020 to 2022. In March 2022, Amrin's branch chair was taken over byElmie Nekmat.[18]
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| Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Sembawang GRC (Woodlands) 2015 – 2020 | Succeeded by |
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