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SINGAPORE \u2013 Former Acting Minister-in-charge of Muslim Affairs Faishal Ibrahim is discussing arrangements for a return to academia with the National University of Singapore.<\/p>\n
An NUS spokesperson said this on Aug 24 in response to queries from The Straits Times.<\/p>\n
Faishal, who was also Senior Minister of State for Home Affairs, resigned from political office and as an MP on July 20<\/span><\/a> over a \u201clapse of judgment\u201d in handling his interactions with a woman, who is a member of the public.<\/p>\n He was succeeded by Zaqy Mohamad.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Faishal was with the National University of Singapore as an associate professor in the university\u2019s real estate department before taking political office, and joined the front bench in 2012 as a parliamentary secretary for transport.<\/p>\n A career academic before joining politics, he was first elected as part of the PAP\u2019s Marine Parade GRC team in 2006 and was re-elected for three more terms in Nee Soon GRC.<\/p>\n He returned to Marine Parade for the 2025 General Election, where his team won uncontested.<\/p>\n Faishal was made acting minister after a Cabinet reshuffle in May 2025 following the general election that year, succeeding Masagos Zulkifli.<\/p>\n Before that, Faishal had been made minister of state in 2020.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n SINGAPORE \u2013 Former Acting Minister-in-charge of Muslim Affairs Faishal Ibrahim is discussing arrangements for a return to academia with the National University of Singapore. An…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/79121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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