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Alex Yam is a Singaporean politician and former Member of Parliament (MP) for the Marsiling-Yew Tee Group Representation Constituency (GRC). He was born on 20 June 1981 in Mount Alvernia Hospital, Singapore.
Alex Yam graduated from the National University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and a Master of Arts in International Relations. He was a former journalist with The Straits Times and a former political correspondent with Channel NewsAsia.
Alex Yam was first elected as an MP in 2011 and was re-elected in 2015. He is currently the Chairman of the Government Parliamentary Committee for Home Affairs and Law. He is also a member of the Government Parliamentary Committee for Education and the Government Parliamentary Committee for Transport.
Alex Yam is married to his wife, Joanne, and they have two children.
Alex Yam has an estimated net worth of $2 million. He earns his wealth from his political career and other business ventures. He is also a director of several companies.
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Who Is Alex Yam's Wife?
His wife is Jocelyn Alexandra Wong
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Alex Yam Net Worth
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He was appointed as Assistant Organising Secretary of the People's Action Party on 23 November 2018 following the Central Executive Committee elections.
Yam is a member of the Animal Welfare Legislative Review Committee and Chairman of the Multi-Stakeholder Consultative Committee for the Codes of Animal Welfare. Together with Yeo Guat Kwang he moved a Private Member's Bill to amend the Animal & Birds Act to strengthen animal welfare legislation in 2014.
In the 13th Parliament, he was elected chairman of the newly created National Development GPC and concurrently serves in the Culture, Community & Youth GPC.
Yam is a member of the Estimates Committee since the 2nd session of the 13th Parliament which examines the Government's budget.
Yam was appointed by the PAP Central Executive Committee as Deputy Executive Director of the PAP in 2012. He became Executive Director upon the retirement of Party veteran Mr Lau Ping Sum Pearce in early 2013. He relinquished his full-time role in the National Trades Union Congress and became Advisor to the United Workers of Petroleum Industries and the Reuters Local Employees Union.
He was the Deputy Chairman of the Defence & Foreign Affairs Government Parliamentary Committee (GPC) and sat on the Culture, Community & Youth GPC and the Social & Family Development GPC in the 12th Parliament.
He was previously Secretary of the Young PAP General Branch and executive committee member of the Young PAP EXCO. Yam was first sworn in as a Member of Parliament for the Chua Chu Kang Group Representation Constituency on May 7, 2011, following the Singapore general election in 2011. In the Singapore general election in 2015, his division of Yew Tee was redrawn into the new Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC. He was re-elected as Member of Parliament for the same division on September 11, 2015, with Lawrence Wong, Halimah Yacob and Ong Teng Koon.
He has served on the National Committee for Youth Guidance & Rehabilitation (NYGR) since 2011. He has been a member of the National Youth Council. He co-chairs the Sports & Arts (SPAR) sub-committee with Tin Pei Ling and was involved in the launch of the YEAH! Centre as part of the Youth Employment System (YES). Since 2018, he has been a full member of the National Committee on Prevention, Rehabilitation and Recidivism (NCPR), which replaced the NYGR.
A PCF graduate himself, Yam was appointed as a member of the Council of Management of the PAP Community Foundation in 2011 and is also a member of its Executive Committee.
He subsequently served in Yew Tee Citizen's Consultative Committee and the Yew Tee Community Club Management Committee from 2010 to 2011 before standing for elections to succeed former Minister of Transport Yeo Cheow Tong.
Since 2009, he has served as a board member of the Chinese Development Assistance Council as a nominee of the Patron of CDAC. From October 2015, he chaired the Outreach Committee of the CDAC, having taken over from Grace Fu who relinquished her role on becoming Minister for Culture, Community & Youth. He was later the Chairman of the newly formed Fulfilling Ageing Committee from November 2015, handing leadership of the Outreach Committee to Ong Ye Kung.
From 2006 to 2010, Yam served as Secretary to then Minister for the Environment Lim Swee Say in the Buona Vista Citizen's Consultative Committee and was also Chairman of the Youth Wing, having succeeded Liang Eng Hwa in both roles when Liang entered politics.
In 2000, Yam was awarded the National Volunteers Award by the Life Insurance Association of Singapore (LIA) for his work as Honorary Secretary of HEARTS International. From 2005 to 2006, he worked at the National University of Singapore. Yam joined the National Trades Union Congress in 2006 and was Head, Strategies & Planning and Head, Youth Lab while also serving with the Singapore Industrial & Services Employees' Union as a Consultant.
Alex Yam Ziming (simplified Chinese: 任梓铭 ; traditional Chinese: 任梓銘 ; pinyin: Rèn Zǐmíng ; Tamil: அலெக்ஸ் யாம் ஸிமிங் ; born June 20, 1981) is a Singaporean politician. A member of the Singapore-based political party People's Action Party (PAP) since 2001, he currently serves as a Member of Parliament (MP) for the Marsiling-Yew Tee Group Representation Constituency (GRC).
Yam was born on June 20, 1981, at Mount Alvernia Hospital in Singapore. The only son of Yam Kah Heng and Lucy Yeo, he attended Maris Stella High School, graduating in 1993, followed by Dunman High School, where he graduated in 1997. He went on to study at Victoria Junior College, before obtaining in 2005 a Master's in Politics and International Relations from the University of Kent., specializing in North Asian politics and communitarianism.
