Vikram Nair ( ta, விக்ரம் நாயர்; born 1978) is a Singaporean politician and lawyer. A member of the governing

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(PAP), he has been the

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(MP) representing the

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division of

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since 2011.

Education

Nair was educated at Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) and

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before graduating from the

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at the

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under the Jardine Foundation Scholarship, where he read

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. He was awarded the college's Lizette Bentwich Prize for Law in 2002. He served as Director of Debating at the

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between 2001 and 2002, and was ranked the No. 3 individual speaker at the 2002

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. Nair also completed a graduate diploma in Singapore Law at the National University of Singapore in 2005.

Career

From 2002 to 2004, Nair worked as a

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at McKinsey & Company. He then joined the law firm Allen & Gledhill in 2005, where he worked in the Dispute Resolution Department. From 2008 to 2014, Nair worked at the law firm

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, and since 2014 he has been with

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. From 2010 to 2011, Nair was the vice-chairman of Singapore's

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Language Education Society. He is currently the chairman of the Tamil Language Learning and Promotion Committee, and has served on the committees of various other non-profit societies in Singapore.

Political career

Nair was elected into Parliament as an MP for

at the 2011 general election. He was part of the PAP team led by the

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, which defeated the team from the

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by 84,252 votes (63.9%) to 47,605 (36.1%). Since the election, Nair has represented the

ward of Sembawang GRC. Nair was re-elected as an MP at the 2015 general election, when the PAP team in Sembawang defeated the team from the National Solidarity Party by 96,639 votes (72.3%) to 37,067 (27.7%). Within Parliament, Nair has served as a member of the Government Parliamentary Committees for Trade & Industry and Finance, Law and Home Affairs, and Communications and Information. He was then appointed Chairperson of Defence and Foreign Affairs Government Parliamentary Committee (GPC) in the

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Personal life

Nair married banking executive Faye Ong in April 2015. They have a daughter.

References

External links

Vikram Nair
on Parliament of Singapore {{DEFAULTSORT:Nair, Vikram Members of the Parliament of Singapore People's Action Party politicians 21st-century Singaporean lawyers Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge National University of Singapore alumni Raffles Junior College alumni 1978 births Living people