Sun Xueling (; born 1979) is a Singaporean politician who has been serving as Minister of State for Social and Family Development since 2020 and Minister of State for Home Affairs since 2022. She previously served as Minister of State for Education between 2020 and 2022. A member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), she has been the Member of Parliament (MP) representing Punggol West SMC since 2020. Prior to entering politics, Sun had worked at the Economic Development Board, DBS Bank, Temasek International, Deutsche Bank AG and Macquarie Securities. She made her political debut in the 2015 general election as part of a six-member PAP team contesting in Pasir Ris–Punggol GRC and won 72.89% of the vote. She served as Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Home Affairs and Senior Parliamentary Secretary for National Development concurrently between 2018 and 2020. During the 2020 general election, she contested as a solo PAP candidate in Punggol West SMC and won 60.98% of the vote. She was subsequently promoted to Minister of State in 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. Having been encouraged by her grandmother to help the needy, she started doing volunteering work in 2001, while she was studying at the National University of Singapore, from which she graduated with a Bachelor of Social Sciences degree in economics. She subsequently went on to complete a Master of Science with merit degree in international political economy at the London School of Economics. Career Sun started her career in the Economic Development Board 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 as a Director for Deutsche Bank AG and as Senior Vice-President for Macquarie Securities. She was also the 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