Mohamed Amrin bin Mohamed Amin is a Singaporean solicitor, lawyer and 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 Woodlands ward of

Sembawang GRC The Sembawang Group Representation Constituency is a five-member Group Representation Constituency (GRC) located in the northern area of Singapore. The GRC consists: Sembawang Central, Sembawang West, Woodlands, Admiralty and Canberra divisions. ...

between 2015 and 2020. He served as Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Home Affairs and Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Health concurrently between 2018 and 2020, Parliamentary Secretary for Home Affairs between 2015 and 2018, and Parliamentary Secretary for Health between 2017 and 2018. During the 2020 general election, he contested in the newly-formed

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 ...

as part of a four-member PAP team, led by

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Ng Chee Meng Ng Chee Meng ( zh, s=黄志明, p=Huáng Zhìmíng; born 8 August 1968) is a Singaporean politician, union leader and former lieutenant-general who has been serving as Secretary-General of the National Trades Union Congress since 2018. A membe ...

, but failed to get elected after losing to the opposition Workers' Party team led by

He Ting Ru 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 Member of Parliament (MP) representing the Buangkok division of Sengkang G ...

Education

Amrin attended Griffiths Primary School (now Angsana Primary School),

Dunman Secondary School Dunman Secondary School (DMN) is a co-educational government autonomous secondary school in Tampines, Singapore. It was founded in 1963. School history Dunman Integrated Secondary School (1960s) Dunman Secondary School was founded in 1963 ...

and

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before graduating from the

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with a

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degree. He subsequently went on to complete a

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degree at

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Career

Amrin was a solicitor at Watson, Farley & Williams Asia Practice LLP, and was also a member of National Council on Problem Gambling as well as the governing board of

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. He was a partner at the corporate practice of Joseph Tan Jude Benny LLP between July and October 2015. After his electoral defeat in

during the 2020 general election, Amrin moved to the

technology Technology is the application of knowledge to reach practical goals in a specifiable and reproducible way. The word ''technology'' may also mean the product of such an endeavor. The use of technology is widely prevalent in medicine, science, ...

sector, and took up roles at two local firms in September 2020. He was appointed Strategy Director at robotics and automation firm Platform for Bots and Automation (PBA), and concurrently assumed a non-executive adviser position at ADERA Global, a company involved in data-security, artificial intelligence (AI), and automation.

Political career

Amrin became a PAP activist in Sembawang GRC soon after the 2011 general election. He made his political debut in the 2015 general election as part of a four-member PAP team contesting in

and won. He was subsequently appointed as Parliamentary Secretary for Home Affairs. During a Cabinet-reshuffle in 2015, he was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary for Health. During the 2020 general election, Amrin contested in the newly-created

as part of a four-member PAP team and lost. He became the third PAP MP to lose re-election after a single term in Parliament, joining

Ng Pock Too Ng Pock Too () is a former Singaporean politician. A member of the country's governing People's Action Party (PAP), he served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Nee Soon Central from 1988 to 1991. Career Ng began his career ...

and Seet Ai Mee. This was the second instance of the PAP losing a GRC to the Opposition, since their loss in 2011 to the Worker's Party in

Aljunied GRC The Aljunied Group Representation Constituency is a five-member group representation constituency (GRC) in the north-eastern and eastern region of Singapore. The GRC consists of five divisions: Eunos, Bedok Reservoir-Punggol, Kaki Bukit, Sera ...

. Amrin continues to serve in Sengkang GRC as an unelected representative of the PAP.

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