Cheryl Chan Wei Ling ( zh, s=陈慧玲, p=Chén Huìlíng; born 1976) is a Singaporean businesswoman and retired politician. A member of the governing

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(PAP), she had been the Member of Parliament (MP) representing the Fengshan division of

East Coast GRC The East Coast Group Representation Constituency is a five-member Group Representation Constituency (GRC) in the eastern area of Singapore. It consists of locations such as East Coast Park, Bedok, Changi (in part), Simei, Siglap, Joo Chia ...

from 2020 to 2025 and previously Fengshan SMC between 2015 and 2020.

Education

Chan attended Singapore Chinese Girls' School and

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before graduating from the

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in 1999 with a

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with honours degree in materials engineering. She subsequently went on to complete a

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degree at the

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in 2004. Chan was awarded the Nanyang Outstanding Young Alumni Award in 2016.

Career

Prior to joining ST Engineering in July 2021, Cheryl was Head of APAC Clean Hydrogen in Linde, a leading global industrial gases and engineering company. In her 14 years with the company, she had held various global and APAC management positions in corporate strategy, product portfolio management and marketing, supply chain operations, project integration and business development. She also led the merger and integration of Praxair and Linde for the APAC Management Office. Chan is currently the Group Chief Strategy and Sustainability Officer and President New Ventures of ST Engineering, a global technology, defence and engineering group with a diverse portfolio of businesses across the aerospace, smart city, defence and public security segments.

Political career

On 27 August 2015, PAP announced that Chan would contest in the revived Fengshan SMC in the 2015 general election. Chan was elected into Parliament when she defeated Dennis Tan of the

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and clinched 57.5% of the electorate valid votes. Leading up to the 2020 general election, the Electoral Boundaries Review Committee updated Singapore's electoral boundaries, in which Fengshan SMC would be absorbed into

. Chan would contest in the 2020 general election under the PAP's ticket in East Coast GRC against the

, alongside

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, Maliki Osman, Jessica Tan, and Tan Kiat How. On 11 July 2020, Chan and the PAP team were declared elected Members of Parliament for East Coast GRC after garnering 53.41% of the valid votes. She was then appointed Chairperson of National Development Government Parliamentary Committee (GPC) in the 14th Parliament. Chan was appointed as Vice-Chairperson of East Coast Town Council since 2020. Chan retired from politics on 21 April 2025, citing a desire to spend more time with her family.

Awards

*2013: As chairperson of Fengshan Community Club Management Committee (CCMC), Chan was awarded the Pingat Bakti Masyarakat (Public Service Medal). *2016: Nanyang Outstanding Young Alumni Award.

References

External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Chan, Cheryl 1976 births Living people Members of the Parliament of Singapore Catholic Junior College alumni Nanyang Technological University alumni People's Action Party politicians Singaporean politicians of Chinese descent Singaporean people of Cantonese descent Singaporean women in politics