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

People's Action Party The People's Action Party (abbreviation: PAP) is a major conservative centre-right political party in Singapore and is one of the three contemporary political parties represented in Parliament, alongside the opposition Workers' Party (WP) and ...

(PAP), she has been the

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(MP) representing the Fengshan division of

East Coast GRC The East Coast Group Representation Constituency is a five-member Group Representation Constituency in the eastern area of Singapore. The areas of the Group Representation Constituency consists of locations such as East Coast Park, Bedok, Chang ...

since 2020 and previously Fengshan SMC between 2015 and 2020.

Education

Chan attended Singapore Chinese Girls' School and

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before graduating from the Nanyang Technological University 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

Chan is currently Head of APAC Clean Hydrogen, Linde plc (Gas & Engineering). She is responsible for identifying market and technology trends in Clean Hydrogen and developing strategies for business growth for APAC. Prior to joining Linde in 2007, Chan worked at Kulicke & Soffa, a design and manufacturing company for semiconductor, LED and electronic assembly equipment. She spent several years in technical roles and as a

process engineering Process engineering is the understanding and application of the fundamental principles and laws of nature that allow humans to transform raw material and energy into products that are useful to society, at an industrial level. By taking advantage ...

manager before becoming a

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manager.

Political career

On 27 August 2015, the

(PAP) announced that Chan would contest in the revived Fengshan SMC in the 2015 general election. Chan was elected into Parliament when she defeated

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of the Workers' Party 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 Workers' Party, alongside

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, and

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. 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.

Awards

*2013: As chairperson of Fengshan Community Club Management Committee (CCMC), Chan was awarded the

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(Public Service Medal). *2016: Nanyang Outstanding Young Alumni Award.

References

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Cheryl Chan
on Parliament of Singapore {{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