MEDIA RELEASE: Business China Appoints New Chief Executive Officer

With effect from 1 November 2015, Member of Parliament, former Director (Investment) of Temasek International, Ms Sun Xueling will be appointed the new Chief Executive Officer of Business China. She is the fourth CEO of Business China, a non-profit organisation set up in November 2007 by Singapore’s Founding Prime Minister, Business China’s Founding Patron, the late Mr Lee Kuan Yew.

Ms Sun is effectively bilingual and bicultural. Prior to joining Business China, Ms Sun has accumulated extensive business and management experience in senior positions in the financial sector. In particular, her focus on working with China SOEs and POEs on capital market solutions from 2007 to 2013 had culminated in her building up substantial knowledge of and network with China’s business community.

Under the new leadership, Business China will continue to play a key role in strengthening bilateral ties between Singapore and China, and spearhead initiatives in promoting bilingualism and biculturalism, to grow Singapore’s prominence as the nexus connecting the world.

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Deng Shiying (Miss), Associate (Corporate Communications)
Josephine Gan (Ms), Director (Corporate Communications & Go East)
Business China
Email: shiying@businesschina.org.sg

About Business China

Launched in November 2007 by Founding Patron and Singapore’s Founding Prime Minister Mr Lee Kuan Yew, Business China’s mission is to nurture an inclusive bilingual and bicultural group of Singaporeans through extensive use of the Chinese language as the medium of communication, so as to sustain our multi-cultural heritage, and to develop a cultural and economic bridge linking the world and China.

For more information, please visit: www.businesschina.org.sg/en.