Christopher de Souza

Christopher de Souza
de Souza in 2015
Deputy Speaker of the Parliament of Singapore
Assumed office
31 August 2020
Serving with Jessica Tan
Prime MinisterLee Hsien Loong
Lawrence Wong
SpeakerSeah Kian Peng
(2023–present)
Tan Chuan-Jin
(2017–2023)
Preceded byCharles Chong
Lim Biow Chuan
Member of Parliament
for Holland–Bukit Timah GRC
(Ulu Pandan)
Assumed office
6 May 2006
Preceded byVivian Balakrishnan
Majority34,991 (32.72%)
Personal details
Born (1976-01-21) 21 January 1976 (age 48)
Singapore
Political partyPeople's Action Party
Alma materKing's College London (LLB)
University of Oxford (BCL)
Occupation
  • Politician
  • lawyer

Christopher de Souza (born 21 January 1976) is a Singaporean politician and lawyer who has been serving as Deputy Speaker of the Parliament of Singapore since 2020. A member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) representing the Ulu Pandan division of Holland–Bukit Timah GRC since 2006.

A lawyer by profession, de Souza has been working at Lee & Lee since 2006[1][2] and had also worked at WongPartnership between 2011 and 2014.

Prior to entering politics in the 2006 general election, he had worked in the Singapore Legal Service.[3]

  1. ^ Christopher de Souza Parliament of Singapore Archived 20 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine, accessed on 22 October 2015.
  2. ^ Lee & Lee - Partners - Christopher de Souza Archived 30 May 2016 at the Wayback Machine, accessed on 22 October 2015.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Parliament CV was invoked but never defined (see the help page).