Ministry of Transport director resigns, 'set to run' in GE2025, says Straits Times

Foo Cexiang, 40, is the director of private and future mobility division at the Ministry of Transport.

Winnie Li

March 17, 2025, 10:18 PM

Foo Cexiang, the director for private and future mobility division at the Ministry of Transport (MOT), has resigned from the ministry, with his last day falling on Apr. 1, 2025, according to The Straits Times (ST).

ST further claimed that Foo, 40, is expected to run in the General Election (GE) 2025, which must be held by November.

The news of Foo's impending departure from MOT came three days after Jasmin Lau, the deputy secretary of policy at the Ministry of Health (MOH), made headlines for resigning from the ministry ahead of GE2025.

Although Lau's plan afterwards remains unclear for now, the timing of her resignation sparked speculation that she might be fielded as a candidate for GE2025.

This is because public service leaders like Lau have gone on to run as a People's Action Party (PAP) candidate in previous elections.

One example is Senior Minister of State Tan Kiat How, a PAP Member of Parliament, who previously worked as the CEO of IMDA before resigning ahead of the 2020 general election.

Upon being selected to run, candidates typically resign from their positions ahead of the general election, as public service leaders are not allowed to be involved in political activities while still in office.

Who is Foo?

According to Foo's LinkedIn profile, he studied City and Regional Planning at Cardiff University in the United Kingdom from 2006 to 2010.

Upon graduation, he returned to Singapore and joined JTC Corporation as a senior planner, where he worked on the master planning of Jurong Innovation District and CleanTech Park.

In 2013, Foo began working as the senior assistant director for Land and Manpower Resource for the Ministry of Trade and Industry.

Two years later, he joined the Ministry of Home Affairs as the senior assistant director for policy development, overseeing the development of security policies to ensure racial and religious harmony.

In 2017, Foo moved to the Ministry of Education, where he served as the senior deputy director for planning and international cooperation.

After three years at the ministry, he went to Canada to pursue a Master of Engineering Leadership degree in Urban Systems from the University of British Columbia in 2021.

In 2022, Foo served as the director for futures and transformation division at MOT for around a year before assuming his latest position as the director for private and future mobility division.

During his tenure at the ministry, Foo attended the 27th and 29th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP) in 2022 and 2024, respectively.

At COP27, Foo spoke about how the public and private sectors in Singapore are working together to make the country's land transport network more environmentally friendly.