Ahmad bin Mohamed Magad (born 22 December 1952) is a Singaporean former politician. A member of the governing

People's Action Party The People's Action Party (abbreviation: PAP) is a major conservative centre-right political party in Singapore and is one of the three contemporary political parties represented in Parliament, alongside the opposition Workers' Party (WP) and ...

(PAP), he was the

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(MP) representing the Pasir Ris–Loyang division of

Pasir Ris GRC Pasir Ris Group Representation Constituency was a four member Group Representation Constituency (GRC) that locates in the eastern part of Singapore at Pasir Ris. It had only existed once in 1997 general election. This GRC was created from the ward ...

between 1997 and 2001 and the Pasir Ris East division of

Pasir Ris–Punggol GRC Pasil ( fa, پسيل, also Romanized as Pasīl; also known as Pasīr) is a village in Sepiddasht Rural District, Papi District, Khorramabad County, Lorestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 469, in 92 families. References

between 2001 and 2011.

Early life and education

Ahmad was one of six children of

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Mohamed Omar Magad. Ahmad completed his primary education at Haig Boys' School and his secondary education at

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. He won a Public Service Commission scholarship and pursued an engineering degree at Fachhochschule Aalen in Germany, graduating in 1974. He completed an MBA from

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in 1990.

Career

Following his graduation from university, Ahmad worked as a Training Officer for the

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from 1974 to 1979. He subsequently became an engineering manager with FJW Industries. In 1989, Ahmad became the Managing Director of II-VI Singapore Pte Ltd, a subsidiary of a United States company that produces optoelectronic components. He continues to hold this position till today. Ahmad was one of the co-founders of the organisation

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, which was intended to be an independent non-partisan alternative to MENDAKI. He was also appointed as a

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Political career

Ahmad ran for election as a PAP candidate in the 1997 General Election in

. His PAP team comprised

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, Ong Kian Min, and

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. The team won 70.86% of the votes against the Workers' Party. In the 2001 General Election, the boundaries were redrawn and Ahmad joined the PAP team for

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. The constituency was uncontested and the PAP team was elected to parliament. In the 2006 General Election, Ahmad remained in the PAP team for

. The PAP team defeated the

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team by winning 68.70% of the votes. Ahmad stepped down from politics at the 2011 election.

References

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