A/Prof Raymond Chua graduated from the Faculty of Medicine in National University of Singapore in 1997. He was awarded the United Kingdom Chevening Scholarship to take up a Masters of Science in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London in 2002. Raymond also holds a MBA degree from the University of Nottingham. He is a Registered Public Health specialist and Fellow with the Academy of Medicine, Singapore since 2007.

Raymond is currently the Deputy Director of Medical Services to oversee and reform the regulations of healthcare services, premises (including hospitals, clinics and nursing homes) and health digitalisation in Singapore, so as to safeguard public health, assure patient safety and ensure healthcare data security. Prior to that, his career spans both public service and private sector pharmaceutical industry from 2007 to 2011. From 2012 to 2016, A/Prof Chua was also the Group Director of the Health Products Regulation Group in the Health Sciences Authority.

In 2019, he has also been concurrently appointed as the Assistant Commissioner for Cybersecurity in the healthcare sector by the Cybersecurity Agency of Singapore (CSA) to assist in tracking and enhancing the cybersecurity policies relating to the Critical Information Infrastructures and medical devices in Singapore.

He also holds other adjunct academic appointments, including an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health in National University of Singapore and Centre of Regulatory Excellence in Duke- NUS. He also co-chairs the Public Service Division’s Regulatory Advisory Group since 2019 to provide guidance and directions in the use of appropriate regulatory tools and capability development of regulators in the public service. He is also a member of the Enforcement Practices Advisory Panel to help steer the development of the training and career development of the enforcement officers in the public service. Raymond also chairs the Council Committee on Business Development under the Singapore Accreditation Board, and  is  a  Committee  Member  of  the  SingaporeAccreditation Council and the Advertising Standards Authority of Singapore.