Paulin Tay Straughan

Paulin Tay Straughan (born 8 April 1963) is a sociologist from Singapore who served as a Nominated Member of Parliament (NMP) from 2009 to 2012.

She is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore (NUS), where she is also the Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.

She was educated at the Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus and Catholic Junior College, before going on to complete a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology and statistics at the National University of Singapore. She then went on to the University of Virginia in the United States, where she earned a Master of Arts and a PhD in sociology. She has been teaching at NUS since 1991.