Joan Cheng Sim Pereira (born 1967) is a Singaporean politician and businesswoman. 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), she has been the

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(MP) representing the Henderson–Dawson division of

Tanjong Pagar GRC The Tanjong Pagar Group Representation Constituency is a five-member Group Representation Constituency (GRC) in Central and Western Singapore. The five divisions consists: Buona Vista, Queenstown, Moulmein-Cairnhill, Tanjong Pagar- Tiong Bahr ...

since 2015.

Education

Pereira was educated at the

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and

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before graduating from the National University of Singapore with a

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degree.

Career

Pereira is the assistant general manager at Temasek Cares, the philanthropic arm of state sovereign fund

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. She was previously the director of Family Life and Active Ageing at the

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Political career

In 2015, the

(PAP) announced that Pereira would contest in the Tanjong Pagar Group Representation Constituency during the 2015 general election. She now serves as member of parliament for

. She was then appointed Deputy Chairperson of Social and Family Development Government Parliamentary Committee (GPC) in the

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Joan Pereira
on Parliament of Singapore * {{DEFAULTSORT:Pereira, Joan Living people Members of the Parliament of Singapore People's Action Party politicians Singaporean people of Portuguese descent Singaporean people of Cantonese descent Singaporean women in politics 1967 births