Prof Inderjit Singh Dhaliwal is a serial entrepreneur and former politician in Singapore’s parliament representing the Ang Mo Kio GRC from 1996 to 2015.
Born in Punjab, India, he came to Singapore when he was 10 months old, Singh attended Kaki Bukit Primary School in Singapore and then progressed to Broadrick Secondary School and Temasek Junior College. He began his university education with a Bachelor of Engineering from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Electrical and Electronics. He graduated with honours from the institution . He also helped start the NTI Alumni Association

After earning his bachelors, he continued his education at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland, earning an MBA in 1991. He received an honorary doctorate from Amity University in 2018.

He began his career with Texas Instruments, beginning as an engineer in 1985 and spent 13 years ascending the corporate ladder before becoming Director of Operations of the Singapore plant from 1996 to 1998. After his stint with Texas Instruments, Singh began a career of entrepreneurship, in which he started six businesses[, after leaving the corporate arena. He founded the United Test and Assembly Center (UTAC), a semiconductor firm, in 1998 which became a Unicorn valued at US$2b in 2001. He raised a record of US$138m, all at one go, at the seeds stage in 1998. Inderjit left UTAC in 2001.

Around the same time he started UTAC, he started, Tri-Star, which he started with his brothers as trading and services firm, in which much of his and his family’s savings were used to fund the company. Today Tri Star is present in 38 countries in Africa as a distributor of Consumer Electronic products. Inderjit subsequently also set-up semiconductor engineering firm Infiniti Solutions in 2001. Infiniti at its peak had operations in the Silicon Valley, USA, in Austin Texas, a factory in Philippines and with the HQ in Singapore. More recently, he founded Solstar International, a Singapore-based consumer electronics products company, of which he is currently the CEO. Solstar is a Singapore based Consumer Electronics brand selling in 25 countries in Africa and other developing countries around Asia. In 2009, Inderjit, helped start Urah Transdermal,a Singapore based Life-Science Research and product Company that has Developed and patented technologies for the delivery of active molecules through the skin barriers to biological targets.

He is a Co-President of the World Entrepreneurship Forum, a global organisation on entrepreneurship development. He has also been actively driving the transformation of the entrepreneurship landscape and helping to shape policies to better support start-ups, small and medium businesses in Singapore

Inderjit is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and also is the Chairman of the board of NTUitive, the Innovation company of NTU. Inderjit was appointed as a Adjunct Professor by the Nanyang Technological University, College of Engineering in 2019.

He is the author of the popular book, “The Art and Science of Entrepreneurship”, which captures his entrepreneurial experiences.

He became an active grassroots leader in 1984. He became a member of parliament for the Kebun Baru ward in the Ang Mo Kio GRC, in the Prime Minister’s team, since the 1996 General Elections, and stepped down in 2015. As a member of parliament Inderjit held various positions. He was a Deputy Government Whip for a number of years and also the Chairman of the Government Parliamentary Committee of the Ministries of Finance and Trade and Industry.