Date: 9 September 2014 (Tuesday)
Time: 7 – 9.30pm (Registration at 6.30pm)
Venue: 2 Goodwood Hill
* Food and drink will be provided.
https://www.eventbrite.sg/e/oxbridge-sg-agm-fireside-chat-with-lim-siong-guan-tickets-12686773481
Note: The AGM is only open to members in good standing; membership fees can be accepted on the day itself but we must receive a sign-up first. If you are an Ordinary Member and have not paid your membership dues in 2014, your membership has expired. Contact dominic.soon@gmail.com if you wish to check your membership status.
PROFILE: LIM SIONG GUAN
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Siong Guan LIM has been the Group President of GIC Private Limited since September 2007. GIC is the Singapore Government’s investment company managing the country’s foreign reserves amounting to well above USD100 billion. He concurrently chairs the Boards of Directors of GIC Asset Management, GIC Real Estate, and GIC Special Investments.
Siong Guan was Chairman of the Singapore Economic Development Board from October 2006 to June 2009. The Board is the Singapore government’s lead agency for planning and executing strategies to enhance Singapore’s position as a global business centre.
Siong Guan has been instructing on leadership and change management as an Adjunct Professor in the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore since 2005. He has also been instructing emerging public sector leaders on issues of governance and policy development as a Senior Fellow of the Civil Service College since 2006.
Siong Guan was the Head of the Singapore Civil Service from September 1999 to March 2005. From May 1978 to June 1981, Siong Guan was the first Principal Private Secretary to Singapore’s founding Prime Minister, Mr Lee Kuan Yew. Siong Guan has been the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Defence (July 1981 – May 1994), the Prime Minister’s Office (June 1994 – July 1998), the Ministry of Education (April 1997 – June 1999) and the Ministry of Finance (June 1999 – September 2006).