1. Sun Xueling is a Singaporean politician who has been serving as Minister of State for Social and Family Development since 2020 and Minister of State for Home Affairs since 2022.
14 Facts About Sun Xueling
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Sun Xueling previously served as Minister of State for Education between 2020 and 2022.
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Sun Xueling served as Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Home Affairs and Senior Parliamentary Secretary for National Development concurrently between 2018 and 2020.
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Sun Xueling was promoted to Minister of State in 2020.
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Sun Xueling was brought up mostly by her grandmother, who was widowed at the age of 33 with six children as Sun Xueling's parents were both busy in their full-time jobs.
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Sun Xueling grew up in a flat in Clementi with her younger sister before moving to Ang Mo Kio.
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Sun Xueling then went on to Ai Tong Primary before continuing her secondary school education at CHIJ St Nicholas Girls' School.
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Sun Xueling subsequently went on to complete a Master of Science with merit degree in international political economy at the London School of Economics.
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Sun Xueling started her career in the Economic Development Board in 2003 before she joined DBS Bank as an Assistant Vice President.
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Sun Xueling was Director of Investment Groups at Temasek Holdings and had spent eight years based in Hong Kong and China working for Deutsche Bank AG as a Director and later Macquarie Securities as a Senior Vice President.
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Sun Xueling was Chief Executive Officer of Business China from 1 November 2015 to 20 May 2018.
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On 1 May 2018, Sun Xueling was appointed Senior Parliamentary Secretary at the Ministry of Home Affairs and Ministry of National Development.
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On 13 June 2022, Sun Xueling was appointed Minister of State at the Ministry of Home Affairs and relinquished the Education portfolio.
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Sun Xueling is married to an information technology entrepreneur who was born in Beijing and subsequently became a Singapore citizen in 2009.