Member, GIC Investment Strategies Committee

Chan Chun Sing was appointed Coordinating Minister for Public Services and Minister for Defence on 23 May 2025. Mr Chan is also Minister-in-charge of the Public Service. He is a member of the GIC Investment Strategies Committee. Mr Chan served with the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) from 1987 to 2011. He was elected a Member of Parliament in May 2011 and subsequently held positions in various ministries, including as Minister for Education, Minister for Trade and Industry, Minister for Social and Family Development and 2nd Minister for Defence. Mr Chan was also Secretary-General of the National Trades Union Congress and Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office.

Mr Chan holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics (First Class Honours) from Cambridge University under the SAF (Overseas) and President’s Scholarship. He was awarded the Distinguished Master Strategist Award 1998 by the US Army Command and Staff College. In 2005, he completed the Sloan Fellows Programme at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the Lee Kuan Yew Scholarship.