Vikram Nair
Vikram Nair (Tamil: விக்ரம் நாயர்; born 1978) is a Singaporean politician and lawyer. A member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), he is a Member of the 14th Parliament and has been representing the Admiralty ward of Sembawang Group Representation Cons*uency (GRC) since 2011. He is also the chairman of the Sembawang Town Council.
Contents
- 1 Career
- 1.1 Political career
- 2 Education
- 3 Personal life
- 4 References
- 5 External links
Career
From 2002 to 2004, Nair worked as a management consultant 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 Norton Rose, and since 2014 he has been with Rajah & Tann.
From 2010 to 2011, Nair was the Vice-Chairman of Singapore's Malayalam 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 to Parliament as an MP for the Group Representation Cons*uency (GRC) of Sembawang at the 2011 general election. He was a member of the PAP team in the cons*uency led by the Minister for Health, Khaw Boon Wan, which defeated the team from the Singapore Democratic Party by 84,252 votes (63.9%) to 47,605 (36.1%). Since the election, Nair has represented the Admiralty ward within the cons*uency.
Nair was re-elected as an MP at the 2015 general election, when the PAP's 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 14th Parliament of Singapore.
Education
Nair had his early education at Bedok Primary School, Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) and Raffles Junior College. He then went on to Cambridge University on a Jardine Foundation Scholarship, where he read law at Trinity College. He was awarded the college's Lizette Bentwich Prize for Law in 2002. He served as Director of Debating at the Cambridge Union Society from 2001 to 2002, and was ranked the No. 3 individual speaker at the 2002 World Universities Debating Championship in Toronto, Canada. In 2005, Nair completed a Graduate Diploma in Singapore Law at the National University of Singapore.
Personal life
Nair married banking executive Faye Ong in April 2015. They have a daughter.
References
External links
- Vikram Nair on Parliament of Singapore
All of the leaders of the respective GRCs are in underline. NMPs do not belong to any party.Other Current/Former MPs Nav Boxes1413121110The party affiliation of each member is indicated right after the cons*uency he or she represents. PAP: People's Action Party; WP: The Workers' Party
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