He Ting Ru ( zh, c=何廷儒, p=Hé Tíngrú; born 16 June 1983) is a Singaporean politician and lawyer. A member of the opposition Workers' Party (WP), she has been the

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(MP) representing the

Buangkok Buangkok is a neighbourhood located in north eastern Singapore. Whilst its boundaries are vague, the neighbourhood is roughly spread across the Trafalgar and Compassvale subzones of the Hougang and Sengkang Planning Areas respectively, as desig ...

division of

Sengkang GRC The Sengkang Group Representation Constituency is a four-member Group Representation Constituency (GRC) in the north-eastern region of Singapore. The GRC consists of four divisions: Anchorvale, Rivervale, Buangkok, and Compassvale; Compassvale w ...

since 2020. During the 2020 general election, she led the four-member WP team to another historic breakthrough when her team won the second Group Representation Constituency (GRC).

Early life

He attended

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and

Raffles Junior College The Raffles Junior College (RJC) was a junior college in Singapore offering pre-university education. The college was founded in 1982, following a separation from the pre-university section of Raffles Institution (RI). Raffles Junior College ...

before graduating from the

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with a

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degree in

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. After graduating from university, she completed the

Graduate Diploma in Law The Graduate Diploma in Law/Postgraduate Diploma in Law/Common Professional Examination (GDL/PGDL/CPE) is a postgraduate law course in England and Wales that is taken by non-law graduates (graduates who have a degree in a discipline that is not la ...

and

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, qualifying as a lawyer in the jurisdiction of England and Wales.

Political career

He began volunteering with the Workers' Party (WP) in the Paya Lebar division in 2011. She made her political debut in the 2015 general election as part of the five-member WP team contesting in

Marine Parade GRC The Marine Parade Group Representation Constituency is a five-member Group Representation Constituency (GRC) located in the central, eastern and north-eastern areas of Singapore. The constituency consists of a section of Bedok, Chai Chee, Geyla ...

where the team garnered 35.9% of the votes and lost to the PAP team there, including

Tan Chuan Jin Tan Chuan-Jin (; born 1969) is a Singaporean politician and former brigadier-general who has been serving as Speaker of the Parliament of Singapore since 2017. A member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), he has been the Member of Par ...

and Emeritus Senior Minister

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. She previously served as Secretary of the Workers' Party Youth Wing, and oversees the youth wing's outreach efforts in the areas of service, education and heritage. During the 2020 general election, He led a four-member WP team contesting in Sengkang GRC. On 11 July, she was elected as the

(MP) representing the Buangkok division of Sengkang GRC. She was elected to the party's Central Executive Committee (CEC) as Treasurer and was appointed as the chairman of Sengkang Town Council.

Legal career

Since 2013, He has been Head of Legal and Communications of a listed multinational company which oversees legal and communications matters in Asia, North America, Europe and Africa. She was trained at and worked as a solicitor at the law firm

Clifford Chance Clifford Chance LLP is an international law firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom, and a member of the "Magic Circle", a group of London-based multinational law firms. It ranks as one of top ten largest law firms in the world measured bo ...

, working in London and Frankfurt, before joining a European financial institution in Singapore as a derivatives lawyer.

Personal life

She married Terence Tan, a fellow WP member in 2016. The couple were part of the five-member WP team contesting Marine Parade GRC in 2015. They have three sons.

References

External links

He Ting Ru
on

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{{DEFAULTSORT:He, Ting Ru Workers' Party (Singapore) politicians Singaporean politicians of Chinese descent Raffles Junior College alumni Living people Alumni of the University of Cambridge CHIJ Saint Nicholas Girls' School alumni 21st-century Singaporean lawyers Singaporean women lawyers Singaporean women in politics Members of the Parliament of Singapore 1983 births