Associate Professor Paulin Tay Straughan is an academic and Nominated Member of Parliament (NMP) in Singapore.[1]
She is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore (NUS),[2] where she is also the Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.[3]
She was appointed a Nominated Member of Parliament in July 2009.[4]
She was educated at the Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus and Catholic Junior College, before going on to complete a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology and statistics at the National University of Singapore. She then went on to the University of Virginia in the United States, where she earned a Master of Arts and a PhD in sociology. She has been teaching at NUS since 1991.[5]