Amrin Amin

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]

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][8][9][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.

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