Gerald Giam

Career Giam has worked in various roles in the information technology industry, including as a senior consultant at Avanade and a project manager at MSC Consulting. He was previously a deputy editor at The Online Citizen (TOC).

Giam is the chief technology officer of an information technology solutions company which he co-founded. He is a Registered Management Consultant certified by the Institute of Management Consultants (Singapore). On 13 May 2011, the Workers' Party confirmed that Giam would take up the NCMP seat.

With Giam taking up the NCMP position together with Yee Jenn Jong, the Workers' Party set a new record in Singapore's electoral history by becoming the first opposition party to have eight (six elected and two NCMP) seats in Parliament.

Giam served as a NCMP in the 12th Parliament from 10 October 2011 to 25 August 2015.

During the 2015 general election, Giam contested in East Coast GRC alongside, Daniel Goh, Leon Perera and Mohamed Fairoz Bin Shariff going against the People's Action Party (PAP) team. The Workers' Party team lost with 39.27% of the votes.

As the opposition team with third highest percentage of votes among losing candidates, Giam's team was offered one NCMP seat which the team decided to let Perera to take up the seat. After Lee Li Lian, another WP member who had unsuccessfully run for reelection in Punggol East Single Member Constituency (SMC), refused the NCMP seat offered to her, Lee's seat was offered to another member of Giam's team which was decided that Goh was to take up the last NCMP seat.

During the 2020 general election, Giam was in a five-member WP team and contested in Aljunied GRC with Pritam Singh, Sylvia Lim, Leon Perera and Muhamad Faisal Manap and won the GRC with 59.95% of the votes. Giam was elected as Member of Parliament representing Aljunied GRC in the 14th Parliament.

Giam was elected as Head, Policy Research of the Workers' Party Central Executive Committee since 2022.

During the 2025 general election, Giam was in a five-member WP team and contested in Aljunied GRC with Pritam Singh, Sylvia Lim, Kenneth Tiong and Fadli Fawzi and won the GRC with 59.71% of the votes. Giam was elected as Member of Parliament representing Aljunied GRC in the 15th Parliament.

Political positions

National Service Giam has repeatedly pressed for higher pay for full-time national servicemen (NSFs). In February 2023 he asked in Parliament whether NSF allowances could be raised to keep pace with inflation, to which Senior Minister of State for Defence Heng Chee How replied that NSFs' lodging and food were already provided for; from 1 July 2023, monthly NSF allowances rose by between S$125 and S$200, or 10.9 to 21.7 per cent. At the 2024 Ministry of Defence Committee of Supply debate, he proposed reframing NS pay from an "allowance" to a "salary" attracting Central Provident Fund contributions, set at a median of at least the local qualifying salary of S$1,600 a month, arguing that second-year NSFs performed fully operational roles. Heng rejected the reframing, saying national service "is a duty to the country, it's not a form of employment".

Artificial intelligence In February 2024, Giam delivered an adjournment motion titled "Global Leadership in AI", arguing that Singapore's National AI Strategy should be complemented by a more proactive AI industrial policy and proposing publicly funded "moonshot" projects, with healthcare AI built on population-scale clinical datasets as a candidate. In 2025, the Ministry of Health established the Singapore Medical Foundation AI Model (SIMFONI) programme to develop healthcare AI foundation models, which from June 2026 was trained on the National Supercomputing Centre Aspire 2B supercomputer.

Personal life Giam is of Peranakan Chinese ancestry and is a Christian. He is married to a chartered accountant with two children.