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Embassy of the Republic of Singapore in Beijing

Peter Tan Hai Chuan

Biographical summary of Mr Peter Tan Hai Chuan, Ambassador of the Embassy of Singapore in Beijing, China.

Last updated 6 November 2025
Portrait photo of Peter Tan Hai Chuan.

Mr Peter Tan has been Singapore’s Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China since May 2023. Mr Tan was Deputy Secretary/Southeast Asia & ASEAN in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from January 2015 to September 2019. Mr Tan also served as the Singapore Ambassador to Japan from October 2019 to April 2023 and the Republic of Korea (concurrently accredited to Mongolia) from February 2011 to January 2015.

Since joining the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1992, Mr Tan has served in various capacities on issues related to Southeast Asia, Northeast Asia, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, United Nations and Technical Cooperation. Mr Tan served in the Singapore Embassy in Tokyo as First Secretary from 1995 to 1998 and in the Singapore High Commission in Kuala Lumpur as Counsellor from 2001 to 2002.  He also served in the Singapore Embassy in Tokyo from 2002 to 2005 as Counsellor, and subsequently as Acting Minister-Counsellor and Deputy Chief of Mission.  Mr Tan was appointed as Second Director of the Southeast Asia Directorate on 27 December 2005, and served as Director from October 2006 to August 2010. 

Mr Tan graduated with a Bachelor of Arts, Hons II Upper from the National University of Singapore in 1992.  He was awarded the Fulbright Scholarship and obtained his Master of Arts (East Asian Studies) from Columbia University, USA, in 2000.

Mr Tan was awarded the Public Administration Medal (Silver) in 2008. He is married to Madam Sim Siew Eng.