| Verpal Singh | |
| Order: | Founder Chairman of Sikh Centre |
| Term Start: | 1 January 2007 |
| Deputy: | B Kaur |
| Order2: | Founder Secretary of Sikh Council of New Zealand |
| President: | Bachan Singh Nihalgarh |
| Term Start2: | 26 September 2007 |
| Order3: | Member, South East Asian Advisory Board, Counties Manukau Police |
| Chairman: | Supdt Mike Bush |
| Term Start3: | March 2009 |
| Order4: | NZ Delegate to 5th Asia-Pacific Regional Interfaith Dialogue |
| Birth Date: | 13 March 1974 |
| Birth Place: | Punjab, India |
| Residence: | Papatoetoe, Auckland |
| Party: | Labour |
| Spouse: | B Kaur |
| Profession: | Publisher |
Verpal Singh heads The Sikh Centre, a not-for-profit organisation engaged in promoting greater interaction between Sikhs and the wider New Zealand community. He also runs a small publishing company specialising in niche areas.
He is a writer, with a novel and a book of analytical essays in the pipeline. Through the Sikh Centre, he has been involved in running three annual competitions in the field of Painting, Short Story Writing, and traditional Punjabi embroidery art of Phulkari. He is an active participant in the ongoing inter-faith dialogue amongst various faith communities of New Zealand. Verpal Singh is a keen student of history, especially religious history.[1]
Verpal Singh has contributed editorially or contributed a chapter to the following books produced by various publishing agencies.
Author: Daljit Singh;
Author: Jagjit Singh;
Editor: Kharak Singh;
Editor: Kharak Singh;
Author: Gurbaksh Singh; Publisher: SGPC, Amritsar
Author: Harjot Oberoi; Publisher: Institute of Sikh Studies, Chandigarh
Author: Gurbaksh Singh; Publisher: Institute of Sikh Studies, Chandigarh
Editor: Kharak Singh; Publisher: Institute of Sikh Studies, Chandigarh
Author: GBS Kahlon; Publisher: Punjab Institute for Sustainable Development, Ludhiana
In addition, he has published essays and research articles in AEN Journal, Abstracts of Sikh Studies and The Sikh Review amongst others.