MP Indranee Rajah

Director, Drew & Napier LLC, CV

MP, CV

PAP Women's Wing

INDRANEE RAJAH, 40 MP for Tanjong Pagar GRC

AFTER an internship at the London law firm Freshfields during her third year of law school, she joined its Singapore branch in 1986, upon graduating from the National University of Singapore.

Fifteen months later, she moved on to join leading Singapore law firm Drew & Napier, where she is now one of its directors.

In 2001, she became Tanjong Pagar GRC's first woman MP. It was an uncontested seat.

And how does a single woman MP like herself find a match among Singaporean men?

In an interview with The Straits Times that year, she said: 'I don't think of life in terms of PSLE, O levels, A levels, get a degree, find a husband, have children.

'If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I can't plan my life the way it is going to turn out.'

After all, marriage is not like 'buying a handbag or a pair of shoes'.

She said: 'I'm not incomplete without a husband. He would be a bonus. Not being married doesn't make me less of a person. I am a person in my own right.

'I'm really quite happy as I am.'