Sitoh Yih Pin

Sitoh Yih Pin

司徒宇斌
Current Role	• MP for Potong Pasir SMC •
Personal details
Party	PAP

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Born 2 December 1963, Sitoh Yih Pin is member of the People's Action Party (PAP). He was first fielded as candidate in the 2001 general election against Chiam See Tong, who had been representing Potong Pasir SMC since 1984. He lost the 2001 and 2006 election before finally winning against (Mrs.) Lina Chiam in 2011 when her husband Chiam See Tong went to contest in Bishan–Toa Payoh GRC.

• from 2011 to present - MP for Potong Pasir SMC

Early Life and Education

• 1987 - graduated from National University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Accountancy
• He is a registered chartered accountant in Singapore and Australia
• worked as an audit manager at KPMG
• 1993 - started his own accounting firm, Nexia TS Public Accounting

Career

• hold many positions in many firms he founded outside his MP role, e.g. co-founder and chairman of Nexia TS
• holds executive and non-executive directorships on the boards of several companies, including:
• TalkMed Group (Non Executive and Non-Independent Director)
• China Taiping Insurance Singapore Pte Ltd (Independent and Non-Executive Director)
• has held many directorships in the past, many of which are his own firms

Controversy

'Fashionable' not to own or drive a car

• 19 September 2018, as the chair of the Government Parliamentary Committee for Transport
• also part of the 15-member Land Transport Master Plan Advisory Panel
• he made the comment, "When you talk to the young, it appears to me that it is becoming very fashionable not to drive so much, maybe not even to own a car, and to take public transport more."
• invited unfavorable comparisons with another PAP MP Koh Poh Koon, who famously said "Everybody has a car, we have two," during his inaugural appearance as PAP candidate to contest the 2013 Punggol East SMC by-election and lost the 4-corner fight against WP's Lee Li Lian.

Personal life

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