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 ongoing public debate over compensation and motivation of public officials, and were subject to criticism from netizens in Singapore. Others defended her remark as fair, supporting her position that loss of privacy and public scrutiny adds a large personal cost to 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 2015, she was appointed Minister for Culture, Community and Youth, becoming the first female minister in Singapore to head a ministry. In 2018, Fu appeared in the seventh episode of the television series Eat Already? 4 to promote the ActiveSG programme launched by the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth. Following the 2020 general election, Fu became Organising Secretary of the PAP's Central Executive Committee (CEC), and an advisor of Yuhua SMC Grassroots Organisations. 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. 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. Fu is married to technopreneur Ivan Lee and they have three sons. References External links Grace Fu on Prime Minister's Office Grace Fu on Parliament of Singapore 1964 births Living people Culture ministers Government ministers of Singapore Hwa Chong Junior College alumni Members of