Tin Pei Ling

Tin Pei Ling

陈佩玲
Current Role	• MP for MacPherson SMC •
Personal details
Party	PAP

Born on 23 December 1983, Tin Pei Ling is the current MP for the MacPherson SMC since 2015 and previously the MacPherson division of Marine Parade GRC between 2011 and 2015.

Her past roles while concurrently holding the MP position include the following:

• CEO of non-profit organisation Business China
• Jan 2023 - Director of public affairs and policy at Grab Singapore
• Feb 2023 - job scope changed after public outcry, became Director of corporate development
• 2 Oct 2023 - new role at DCS Card Centre, the rebranded Diners Club Singapore to focus on fintech and online payment

Early Life and Education

• Crescent Girls' School
• Hwa Chong Junior College
• graduating from the National University of Singapore (NUS) with a Bachelor of Social Sciences degree with honours in psychology
• 2013 to 2015, Tin did a Master of Business Administration with University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Career before entering politics

• Tin was a senior associate at Ernst & Young
• resigned from Ernst & Young after being elected as a MP
• May 2017 - she started working at Jing King Tech Group, an investment firm, as its group director for corporate strategy while serving as MP
• 21 May 2018 - joined Business China (a government related non-profit organisation that reportedly aimed to strengthen Singapore–China ties through the support of businesses) as CEO until Dec 2022

Controversies

Kate Spade bag

• When Tin was introduced as a 27-year-old People’s Action Party candidate before the 2011 General Election, pictures of her appeared online flaunting a Kate Spade handbag. Online accusations of ignorance, materialism and privilege proliferated.
• Her husband, Ng How Yue (黄好游), held the following positions:
  • 2024 - currently Permanent Secretary (Services) at MOH and concurrently as Permanent Secretary (Development), Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF).
  • was appointed Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Law in December 2014
  • was appointed concurrently as Second Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Health in 1 January 2017
  • before that, he was Second Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Trade & Industry in October 2011
  • he was also the Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister from September 2008 (Lee Hsien Loong, who was PM from 2004 - 2024)

Back-of-envelope estimation

• June 4 2020 - during debate on the Fortitude Budget, she said, “Based on my back-of-envelope estimation, the budgetary support per capita in Singapore is S$23,225.”
• This drew questions from many people who said they had received only a fraction of the estimated amount (around $600).
• The public discussion subsequently revived the Kate Spade public hoo-ha.

Director at Grab Singapore

• Jan 2023 - Accepted job as Director of public affairs and policy at Grab Singapore while holding her MP position
• As an MP with direct access to ministers and senior officials, on top of the power to influence legislation, working with one of the biggest private companies in the areas of public affairs and policy gave a sense of perceived conflict of interest
• 10 Feb 2023 - Grab announced Tin would be taking up a new role, which was director of corporate development whose duties included "realising synergies across our investments and acquisitions, as well as supporting strategy development".
• left Grab 7 months later for unnamed payments-focused fintech company.
• 2 Oct 2023 - She announced her new role at DCS Card Centre, previously known as Diners Club Singapore.

Shuttle Service Landmark Controversy

• Tin Pei Ling was also one of the MPs featured on the shuttle bus service in Marine Parade cluster. See Tan See Leng's page for detail.

• The MPS who formed part of the landmarks on this shuttle bus include from left to right:
  1. Lim Biow Chua, Mountbatten SMC
  2. Mohd Fahmi Bin Aliman, Marine Parade GRC
  3. Tan See Leng, Marine Parade GRC
  4. Edwin Tong, Marine Parade GRC
  5. Seah Kian Peng, Marine Parade GRC
  6. Tin Pei Ling, MacPherson SMC

References

14th Parliament

MP  : Ang Wei Neng   ●   Baey Yam Keng   ●   Cheryl Chan Wei Ling   ●   Chan Chun Sing   ●   Chee Hong Tat   ●   Cheng Li Hui   ●   Edward Chia Bing Hui   ●   Chong Kee Hiong   ●   Desmond Choo   ●   Chua Kheng Wee Louis   ●   Eric Chua   ●   Darryl David   ●   Christopher de Souza   ●   Foo Mee Har   ●   Grace Fu Hai Yien   ●   Gan Kim Yong   ●   Gan Siow Huang   ●   Gan Thiam Poh   ●   Gerald Giam   ●   Derrick Goh   ●   He Ting Ru   ●   Heng Chee How   ●   Heng Swee Keat   ●   Shawn Huang Wei Zhong   ●   Indranee Rajah   ●   S Iswaran   ●   Janil Puthucheary   ●   Amy Khor Lean Suan   ●   Koh Poh Koon   ●   Kwek Hian Chuan Henry   ●   Desmond Lee   ●   Lee Hsien Loong   ●   Liang Eng Hwa   ●   Lim Biow Chuan   ●   Jamus Jerome Lim   ●   Sylvia Lim   ●   Lim Wee Kiak   ●   Low Yen Ling   ●   Mariam Jaafar   ●   Masagos Zulkifli Bin Masagos Mohamad   ●   Mohamad Maliki Bin Osman   ●   Mohd Fahmi Bin Aliman   ●   Muhamad Faisal Bin Abdul Manap   ●   Muhammad Faishal Ibrahim   ●   Murali Pillai   ●   Nadia Ahmad Samdin   ●   Ng Eng Hen   ●   Ng Ling Ling   ●   Louis Ng Kok Kwang   ●   Rachel Ong   ●   Ong Ye Kung   ●   Joan Pereira   ●   Leon Perera   ●   Denise Phua Lay Peng   ●   Poh Li San   ●   Pritam Singh   ●   Raeesah Khan   ●   Rahayu Mahzam   ●   Saktiandi Supaat   ●   Seah Kian Peng   ●   K Shanmugam   ●   Sharael Taha   ●   Sim Ann   ●   Sitoh Yih Pin   ●   Hany Soh   ●   Sun Xueling   ●   Alvin Tan   ●   Carrie Tan   ●   Tan Chuan-Jin   ●   Dennis Tan Lip Fong   ●   Desmond Tan   ●   Jessica Tan Soon Neo   ●   Tan Kiat How   ●   Tan See Leng   ●   Tan Wu Meng   ●   Patrick Tay Teck Guan   ●   Teo Chee Hean   ●   Josephine Teo   ●   Tharman Shanmugaratnam   ●   Tin Pei Ling   ●   Edwin Tong Chun Fai   ●   Vikram Nair   ●   Vivian Balakrishnan   ●   Wan Rizal   ●   Don Wee   ●   Lawrence Wong   ●   Xie Yao Quan   ●   Alex Yam Ziming   ●   Yeo Wan Ling   ●   Yip Hon Weng   ●   Melvin Yong Yik Chye   ●   Zaqy Mohamad   ●   Zhulkarnain Abdul Rahim NCMP  : Leong Mun Wai   ●   Hazel Poa