Grace Fu

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Singaporean politician (born 1964)

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FieldValue
honorific-prefixThe Honourable
nameGrace Fu
honorific-suffix
native_name傅海燕
imageGrace Fu attends the 2nd EU-Singapore Free Trade Agreement Trade Committee Meeting - 2024 (P064254-639033) (cropped).jpg
image_size200px
captionFu in 2024
officeMinister for Sustainability and the Environment
primeministerLee Hsien Loong
Lawrence Wong
term_start27 July 2020
predecessorMasagos Zulkifli
(as Minister for the Environment and Water Resources)
office1Minister for Culture, Community and Youth
term_start11 October 2015
term_end126 July 2020
primeminister1Lee Hsien Loong
predecessor1Lawrence Wong
successor1Edwin Tong
office2Leader of the House
term_start21 October 2015
term_end223 August 2020
primeminister2Lee Hsien Loong
deputy2Desmond Lee
predecessor2Ng Eng Hen
successor2Indranee Rajah
office3Minister in the Prime Minister's Office
term_start31 August 2012
term_end330 September 2015
predecessor3Lim Hwee Hua
primeminister3Lee Hsien Loong
office4Second Minister for the Environment and Water Resources
term_start41 August 2012
term_end430 September 2015
primeminister4Lee Hsien Loong
minister4Vivian Balakrishnan
office5Second Minister for Foreign Affairs
term_start51 August 2012
term_end530 September 2015
primeminister5Lee Hsien Loong
minister5K. Shanmugam
predecessor5Lui Tuck Yew
successor5Josephine Teo (2017)
constituency_MP6Jurong East–Bukit Batok GRC
term_start63 May 2025
predecessor6Constituency established
majority669,350 (53.34%)
constituency_MP7Yuhua SMC
term_start721 May 2011
term_end715 April 2025
predecessor7Constituency established
successor7Constituency abolished
majority7{{plainlist
constituency_MP8Jurong GRC
term_start827 April 2006
term_end818 April 2011
predecessor8PAP held
successor8Constituency abolished
birth_nameGrace Fu Hai Yien
birth_date
birth_placeSingapore, Malaysia
partyPeople's Action Party
alma_materNational University of Singapore (BAcy, MBA)
spouseIvan Lee
children3
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An accountant by profession, Fu worked at Overseas Union Bank, Haw Par Group, and PSA Corporation before entering politics. She made her political debut in the 2006 general election as part of the five-member PAP team for Jurong GRC and won. After Yuhua SMC was carved from Jurong GRC, she won reelection there in the 2011 general election and would do so until 2025. Following the redrawing of electoral boundaries in the 2025 general election, Yuhua SMC was absorbed into Jurong East–Bukit Batok GRC, where she won reelection as part of a five-member PAP team.

Before her appointment as the Minister of Sustainability and the Environment, Fu served as Senior Minister of State for National Development and Education between 2008 and 2011, for the Environment and Water Resources and for the Information, Communications and the Arts between 2011 and 2012, Second Minister for Foreign Affairs between 2012 and 2015, Leader of the House and Minister for Culture, Community and Youth between 2015 and 2020.

Early life and education

Fu was born on 29 March 1964 in Singapore, then a state in Malaysia. She was educated at Nanyang Girls' High School and Hwa Chong Junior College before graduating from the National University of Singapore in 1985 with a Bachelor of Accountancy with honours degree in 1985. She subsequently completed a Master of Business Administration degree at the NUS Business School in 1991.

Career

Fu started her career at the Overseas Union Bank as an auditor from 1985 to 1988. She then joined the Haw Par Group, where she worked in corporate planning, financial control and business development from 1991 to 1995.

In October 1995, Fu joined PSA Corporation as Assistant Director (Finance). She took on additional responsibility as Vice-President (Marketing), and assumed the position of Financial Controller in October 1998. She was promoted to Executive Vice-President (Finance) in January 1999. In April 2003, Fu was appointed CEO of Singapore Terminals. In 2004, she became CEO of PSA South East Asia and Japan, where she was responsible for the business performance of PSA's flagship terminals in Singapore, Thailand, Brunei, and Japan.

Fu has been a non-practising member of the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants since 1992.

On 5 January 2024, Fu was elected as the President of the Singapore National Olympic Council. Tan Chuan-Jin, the previous president and Speaker of Parliament, had resigned after an extramarital affair with fellow PAP MP Cheng Li Hui.

Political career

Fu made her political debut in the 2006 general election as part of the five-member PAP team contesting in Jurong GRC and won. Fu was subsequently elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) representing the Yuhua division of Jurong GRC in June 2006. She was one of 24 new PAP candidates introduced ahead of the general election.

On 1 August 2006, Fu was appointed Minister of State for National Development.

On 1 April 2008, Fu was promoted to Senior Minister of State for National Development, and appointed Senior Minister of State for Education concurrently.

At the 2011 general election, Fu contested in the newly created Yuhua SMC and won with 66.9% of the vote. Following the election, Fu was appointed Senior Minister of State for Information, Communications and the Arts, and Senior Minister of State for the Environment and Water Resources concurrently.

In January 2012, Fu expressed concerns over the planned 36–37% income cuts for ministers, saying that if ministerial pay was further reduced in the future, it would "make it harder for anyone considering political office". Her comments contributed to the public debate over the compensation and motivation of public officials, and were criticised by Singaporean netizens. Others defended her remark as fair, supporting her position that the loss of privacy and public scrutiny added to a large personal cost to working in public positions not found in the private sector.

On 31 July 2012, Fu was made full minister, becoming the second woman in Singapore's history, after Lim Hwee Hua, to become a full minister in the Cabinet. She served as Minister in the Prime Minister's Office, Second Minister for the Environment and Water Resources, and Second Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2012 to 2015.

In 2014, as the Minister in the Prime Minister's Office, Fu was in charge of the Municipal Services Office.

In 2015, Fu was appointed Minister for Culture, Community and Youth, becoming the first female minister in Singapore to head a ministry.

Following the 2020 general election, Fu became Organising Secretary of the PAP's Central Executive Committee (CEC).

Fu served as Leader of the House from 2015 to 2020, before being appointed Minister for Sustainability and the Environment in 2020.

She has also been a member of the Global Leaders Group on Antimicrobial Resistance, co-chaired by Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina, and Prime Minister of Barbados Mia Mottley, since 2020.

On 14 January 2024, Fu became Minister-in-charge of Trade Relations after a cabinet reshuffle. S. Iswaran had previously held the position, as well as the ministership for transport, before he resigned in response to being prosecuted on 27 charges of corruption.

Personal life

Fu's father, James Fu, was a former leftist journalist who became press secretary to Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew. Her mother was a nurse. Her grandmother, Liew Yuen Sien, was the principal of Nanyang Girls' High School from 1927 to 1966.

Fu is married to Ivan Lee, a technology entrepreneur; they have three sons.

Notes

References

References

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  10. (5 January 2012). "Singapore's Lee Fights Voter Grievances by Accepting Pay Cut". [[Bloomberg L.P..
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  12. Kong, Loh Chee. (5 January 2011). "Deep cuts proposed to pay of political leaders". TodayOnline.
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  20. Chang, Rachel. (2012-08-12). "Grace Fu: Steely leader sticks to her convictions". The Straits Times.
  21. Yong, Charissa. (30 July 2017). "Schools should remain open to all: PM".
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  23. Heng, Janice. (2015-03-08). "When a woman outshines her man". The Straits Times.
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