Malminderjit Singh
Vice President
(Corporate Relations)
Email: malminderjit@ysas.org
Email: malminderjit@hotmail.com
Mr Malminderjit Singh works with the Foreign Desk of the Business Times where his primary responsibility is to decide on the content of the newspaper’s foreign pages. Prior to this, he was an Assistant Director (Trade Division) at the Ministry of Trade and Industry, where he worked on Singapore’s economic and trade relations within ASEAN and with its dialogue partners. He has also worked at the Institute of South Asian Studies where, as a Research Associate, he developed expertise in India’s foreign and economic policies.
Malminderjit dedicates a significant portion of his time to public service. He serves on the Fourth PAP Policy Forum Council as its Assistant Secretary, as a petition writer at the Kebun Baru branch and he is also the Legislative Assistant to a prominent Member of Parliament. Further, he is actively involved in the wider Indian community and serves on the Singapore Indian Development Association Youth Executive Committee and the Singapore Indian Education Trust’s Youth Committee (Connexus), where he has led a project team on the development of the eMentoring programme. In addition, he is a Mentor to the Citibank-YMCA Youth for Causes programme and plays a leading role in several other projects within the Sikh community.
Malminderjit has written and spoken on an array of topics and was recently invited to contribute a chapter on comparative youth activism in a book published by the Association of Muslim Professionals. He was also the Lead Writer for the Action Community for Entrepreneurship’s (ACE) recommendations on Entrepreneurship to the recent Economic Strategies Committee.
Malminderjit graduated from the University of Buckingham in the United Kingdom with an Honours degree in Economics, where he was an active member of the student government, earned a Department Best Performance award and a scholarship, while also spending a summer term at Oxford University pursuing his interest in colonial history. In 2008, he completed a Master of Science degree in International Political Economy from the Rajaratnam School of International Studies at the Nanyang Technological University.
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