Mr LIM Siong Guan

Founding Chairman

Honour (Singapore)

Mr Lim Siong Guan is a professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore and a Senior Fellow of the Singapore Civil Service College. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Wilmar International Ltd, chairs the Board of Directors of Swiss Re Asia Pte. Ltd. (the Asia subsidiary of Swiss Reinsurance of Zurich), is a Senior Advisor of Insignia Ventures Partners (a tech VC fund focused on Southeast Asia), and is a member of the International Board of the stars Foundation (a Swiss not-for-profit organisation that develops leaders of the next generation). He chairs the Board of Directors of Honour (Singapore), a charity that seeks to promote a culture of honour and honouring.

Siong Guan was the Group President of GIC (Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund) from 2007 to 2016 and Head of the Singapore Civil Service from 1999 to 2005. He was the first Principal Private Secretary to Singapore’s founding Prime Minister, Mr Lee Kuan Yew, and has also been the Permanent Secretary variously in the Ministries of Defence, Education, Finance, and the Prime Minister’s Office. He has also chaired the Singapore Economic Development Board, the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore, the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority, and the Central Provident Fund Board. He graduated with First Class Honours in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Adelaide and has a Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration from the National University of Singapore.