The current speaker is the People's Action Party MP for Marine Parade GRC, Seah Kian Peng.

Although Singapore is modelled after the Westminster system, unlike their counterpart in the United Kingdom—where the speaker must remain strictly non-partisan and renounce all affiliation with their former political parties when taking office and afterwards, the speaker of the Parliament of Singapore can choose to remain partisan.

The person's name is then proposed and seconded by the members of Parliament (MPs), before being elected as speaker.

[4] As the guardian of parliamentary privileges, MPs look to the speaker for guidance on procedures, and for rulings on any points of order.

[6] In terms of state protocol, the speaker sits at the same level as the chief justice of Singapore.

[4] The speaker is one of the few public sector roles which allow its officeholder to automatically qualify as a candidate in the Singapore presidential elections.