Ms Indranee Rajah was educated at Raffles Institution in Singapore, and read law at the National University of Singapore. She was appointed Senior Counsel in 2003 and was the Deputy Head of Drew & Napier’s Dispute Resolution Department until October 2012, when she left to join the government.

Ms Rajah has been the Member of Parliament for the Tanjong Pagar Group Representation   Constituency   (GRC)   since   2001. She was a Deputy Speaker of Parliament from 2006 to 2011.

She was appointed Senior Minister of State for Law and Education on 1 Nov 2012. Under her law portfolio she chaired the Steering Committee on the strategic direction of Singapore’s third law school at UniSIM, and co-chaired the Committees on Family Justice and on the formation of the Singapore International Commercial Court with then-Judge of Appeal VK Rajah.  She is currently co-chairing the committee on Strengthening Singapore as a Restructuring Hub with Judicial Commissioner Mr. Kannan Ramesh.

In her education portfolio she led the Committee for Applied Studies in Polytechnics and ITE (ASPIRE). The ASPIRE report resulted in SkillsFuture, a national movement which sets a new direction in aligning education with economic demand, career guidance and lifelong learning.