Sun Xueling

Sun Xueling (born Soon Sher Rene; 10 July 1979) is a Singaporean politician who has been serving as Senior Minister of State for Transport and Senior Minister of State for National Development since 2025. A member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), she has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Punggol West division of Punggol Group Representation Constituency (GRC) since 2025. She had previously represented the Punggol West division of Pasir Ris–Punggol GRC between 2015 and 2020 and Punggol West Single Member Constituency (SMC) between 2020 and 2025.

Prior to entering politics, Sun had worked at the Economic Development Board, DBS Bank, Temasek International, Deutsche Bank AG and Macquarie Securities. She served as Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Home Affairs and Senior Parliamentary Secretary for National Development concurrently between 2018 and 2020.

Early life and education Sun was brought up mostly by her grandmother, who was widowed at the age of 33 with six children, as Sun's parents were both busy in their full-time jobs. She grew up in a flat in Clementi with her younger sister before moving to Ang Mo Kio.

Career Sun started her career in the Economic Development Board (EDB) in 2003 before she joined DBS Bank as an Assistant Vice President. She 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. She was also Chief Executive Officer of Business China from 1 November 2015 to 20 May 2018.

Political career Sun was introduced by the People's Action Party (PAP) as a candidate contesting in Pasir Ris–Punggol GRC on 1 August 2015 in the lead-up to the 2015 general election. Before her candidacy was announced, she had been active in grassroots activities in Buona Vista since 2001 and had been advocating women's and mothers' rights.

During the campaigning period for the 2015 general election, Sun was the target of xenophobic comments online because her name in hanyu pinyin misled people into thinking that she was a Chinese national. On 1 May 2018, Sun was appointed Senior Parliamentary Secretary at the Ministry of Home Affairs and Ministry of National Development. She won with 60.98% of the vote against Tan Chen Chen from the Workers' Party (WP). On 27 July 2020, she was promoted to Minister of State and appointed to the Ministry of Social and Family Development and Ministry of Education. On 13 June 2022, Sun was appointed Minister of State at the Ministry of Home Affairs and relinquished the Education portfolio.

In 2025, Sun contested in the new Punggol GRC after it was created by merging Punggol West SMC with the Punggol section of Pasir Ris–Punggol GRC as part of a four-member PAP team. The PAP proceeded to defeat the WP with 55.17% of the vote.

Personal life Sun is married to an information technology entrepreneur who was born in Beijing and subsequently became a Singapore citizen in 2009. They have two daughters together.