Town of Residence:
Burlington Township
Term Expires:
December 31, 2020
Balvir Singh is a
proud resident of Burlington Township where he and his wife, Sandeep, are
raising their three beautiful children GJ, Guni, and AJ. He is a full-time
public high school teacher and a part-time lecturer at the Rowan College at
Burlington County. He has been awarded numerous awards in his academic career
and has presented internationally on teaching and learning of mathematics,
including recently in Germany and Ecuador. He is currently pursuing a doctorate
in the Mathematics Education field at Rutgers University.
Balvir was first elected to the Burlington
Township School Board in 2014 and served as the chair of the district’s finance
committee, overseeing a $70 million budget, during his three-year term.
Balvir was elected to the Burlington County
Freeholder Board in a history-making 2017 election. He is the first
Asian-American to be elected to a countywide position in Burlington County and
the first Sikh-American to be elected to a countywide position in the State of
New Jersey. In his capacity as a Freeholder Deputy Director, he oversees Public
Safety, Resource Conservation and Elections.