Shin is an associate at Vriens & Partners’ head office in Singapore, where she mainly supports healthcare, finance and technology clients in areas such as consumer protection, market access, tech regulation, and AI, on top of providing advisory on how clients should strategically approach government engagements.
Before joining Vriens & Partners, Shin was a policy officer on the Public Sector Leadership Programme at Singapore’s Ministry of Communications and Information, where she worked closely with the Ministry of Home Affairs, Monetary Authority of Singapore, and the Infocomm Media and Development Authority on scams and consumer protection policies. She also worked closely with the Personal Data Protection Commission on data protection and AI policies.
Prior to that, she was at the Ministry of Education, where she was the Jobs and Skills Secretariat with colleagues from the Ministry of Manpower and the Ministry of Trade and Industry. In this role, she oversaw the development of the whole-of-government strategy for jobs and skills for all 23 sectors, through the jobs & skills pillar of the Industry Transformation Maps. She also led the development of the LifeSkills Framework, the policy on Autonomous Universities’ Cohort Participation Rate, and Singapore’s strategy to export higher education and training services in response to COVID-19. She was also the Ministerial Committee Meeting (Higher Education) Secretariat.
Shin graduated with a BA (First Class) in History from King’s College London and a MPhil in World History from the University of Cambridge on a Singapore Public Service Commission scholarship. Her research focus was on the intersection of material culture and politics, Peranakan culture, and the Cold War in Southeast Asia.