Lim Siong Guan
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| Lim Siong Guan | |
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| From the GIC Website | |
| Company: | Government of Singapore Investment Corporation |
| Current Position: | Group Managing Director
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| Last Company: | Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority
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| Date of Birth: | 1947
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Lim Siong Guan is Group Managing Director of the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation. He is chairman of GIC Asset Management.
Lim Siong Guan's official biography:[1]
Lim Siong Guan was appointed Group Managing Director of the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation on 22 September 2007. He has also been the Chairman of the Economic Development Board since 1 October 2006. He is an Adjunct Professor in the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore (since March 2005), instructing on leadership and change management in the public sector, and a Senior Fellow of the Civil Service College. He is also a member of the International Advisory Panel of the Asian Competitiveness Institute.
Lim was the Head of the Singapore Civil Service from September 1999 to March 2005. He was the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Defence from July 1981 to May 1994, Permanent Secretary in the Prime Minister's Office from June 1994 to July 1998, (concurrently) Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Education from April 1997 to June 1999, and Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Finance (June 1999 to September 2006). He was the first Principal Private Secretary to former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew from May 1978 to June 1981.
Lim was the Chairman of the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (2004 to 2006), the Chairman of the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (2004 to 2006), the Chairman of the Central Provident Fund Board (1986 to 1994) and Deputy Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of Currency (now merged into the Monetary Authority of Singapore)(1999 to 2002). He was a Board Member of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (1999-2006), a Member of the Lee Kuan Yew Exchange Fellowship (2005 to 2006), a Board Member of the Institute of Policy Studies (1999 to 2005), and a Board Member of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (1997 to 1999). He has been a Director of Temasek Holdings Pte. Ltd., a Director of DBS Bank Ltd, a Director of Neptune Orient Lines Ltd, and variously Chairman or Director of a number of companies which are now part of the Singapore Technologies Engineering group of companies.
