Chan Chun Sing was elected Member of Parliament for Tanjong Pagar GRC in the 2011 General Election. He was appointed Acting Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports, and Minister of State for Information, Communications and the Arts on 21 May 2011.

Mr Chan was educated at the Raffles Institution (1982 to 1985) and Raffles Junior College (1986 to 1987). In 1988, he was awarded the SAF (Overseas) and President’s Scholarship to study Economics at Christ’s College, Cambridge University in the United Kingdom. In 2005, he completed the Sloan Fellows Programme at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the Lee Kuan Yew Scholarship.

In 1987, Mr Chan began his military career with the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF). He has held the appointments of Commanding Officer of 2nd Battalion, Singapore Infantry Regiment (1998 to 2000), Army Attaché to Jakarta (2001 to 2003), Commander of 10th Singapore Infantry Brigade (2003 to 2004), Head of Joint Plans & Transformation Department (2005 to 2007), Commander of 9th Division, Chief Infantry Officer (2007 to 2009) and Chief of Staff, Joint Staff (2009 to 2010).

In March 2010, Mr Chan was appointed Chief of Army, holding the rank of Major-General. Under his command, the Singapore Armed Forces made significant contributions to multinational stabilisation and reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan.

He also served on various Boards including International Enterprise Singapore (2006 to 2009), Defence Science Organisation (2009 to 2010), Defence Science & Technology Agency (2009 to 2010), Civil Service College (2010 to 2011), ST Kinetics Limited (2010 to 2011) and Singapore Totalisator Board (2011).

Mr Chan was born in 1969 and is married with three children. He enjoys reading and jogging.