Minister Shanmugam is the Minister for Home Affairs and the Minister for Law. K. Shanmugam was appointed on October 1, 2015. He has also served as the Minister for Foreign Affairs
K. Shanmugam went into private practice and became one of the Senior Partners and Head of Litigation & Dispute Resolution at Allen & Gledhill LLP, which was the largest law firm in Singapore. In 1998, he was appointed a Senior Counsel of the Supreme Court of Singapore at the age of 38, one of the youngest lawyers to be so appointed. He has also served in various committees and Boards, including the Advisory Board of the Faculty of Law; the Raffles Institution Board of Governors; the Media Development Authority, and Sembawang Corporation Industries Ltd (a company listed on the Singapore Exchange). He was also President of the Singapore Indian Development Association (SINDA) from March 2002 to March 2009.
K. Shanmugam was educated at Raffles Institution from 1972 to 1977. He then read law at the National University of Singapore (NUS), where he graduated at the top of his class with First Class Honours, in 1984. He was admitted to the Singapore Bar as an Advocate & Solicitor in 1985. In his earlier days as a lawyer, K. Shanmugam was described as one of the “twin titans” of litigation in Singapore.