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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lim_Tean
Early life and education[edit]
Lim Tean was born in 1964 as the eldest son of Lim Chin Teong, a senior Singaporean civil servant and former Chief Executive Director of the
People's Association in the late 70's and early 80's, and his mother Aw Eng Lian, a Chinese-language teacher at Zhonghua Girls School for over 40 years. Both of Lim's parents graduated from (the now defunct)
Nanyang University (Nantah).
[11]
At age seven, Lim was sent to Montfort Junior School for his primary education. However, after being sent to study
Russian in
Moscow by the Singapore Government, his father accepted a posting as First Secretary for the Singaporean mission to the
Soviet Union, and Lim travelled with his family to live in Moscow.
[12] While in the USSR, Lim attended the
Anglo-American School of Moscow from 1971-1974.
After three years in the Soviet Union, Lim's parents became increasingly worried about the state of his children's education. They resolved for Lim's father to leave the foreign service and return to Singapore and return to the
civil service. Consequently, Lim returned to Montfort Junior School in
Primary 4. He continued there until completion, and went on to attend
Montfort Secondary School. After graduating from Montfort Secondary School, Lim entered
Hwa Chong Junior College, where he was elected as a student councillor, taking Biology, Physics, Chemistry and Maths for his A-levels.
After his graduation from Junior College, Lim Tean served two years of
compulsory military service. He joined the
Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) and after completing his basic training entered
Officer Cadet School (OCS) where he was trained as an artillery officer.
Legal Career[edit]
In 1985 after National Service, Lim left for England to study Law at the
University of Reading. After obtaining his
LLB in 1988, he moved to London and qualified as a barrister at the Middle Temple.
[13] He was called to the
Bar of England and Wales in 1989. He went on to read a Master of Law (
LLM) degree at the
University of Cambridge,
Gonville and Cauis College. Lim remained at Cambridge from 1989-1990.
After finishing his LLM, Lim returned to Singapore and joined the noted law firm
Drew & Napier LLC in 1990. He was admitted to the Singapore Bar in June 1991. While at Drew and Napier, Lim became the pupil of
Steven Chong, who would go on to become the Singaporean
Attorney-General from 2012-2014. Lim remained at Drew and Napier until 1997. He moved to
Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP on 2 January 1998 and became Head of the Admiralty & Shipping department in 2000. In 2007, Lim became an equity partner in Rajah and Tann, joining the ranks of such noted alumni as
VK Rajah, Steven Chong and
Sundaresh Menon.
Additionally in 2007, Lim left the legal practice and Rajah and Tann to enter the business world. He founded an Indonesian mining company based out of
Sulawesi.
[14] His mining company became the first company to produce and ship iron-ore from the island.
[15][16] In 2017, Lim returned to Singapore and founded his law firm Carson Law Chambers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chan_Chun_Sing
Education[edit]
Chan Chun Sing was educated at
Raffles Institution (1982–85) and
Raffles Junior College (1986–87). Chan was one of the top four scorers from Raffles Junior College for the
GCE A Levels in 1987.
[2][3]
In 1988, Chan was awarded a
President's Scholarship and
Singapore Armed Forces Overseas Scholarship to study in the
University of Cambridge,
[4] where he completed a degree in economics at
Christ's College and graduated with First Class Honours.
In 2005, Chan completed the
Sloan Fellows programme at the
MIT Sloan School of Management under a Lee Kuan Yew Scholarship.
[5]
Career[edit]
Military career[edit]
Chan served in the
Singapore Army from 1987 to 2011. His appointments included Commanding Officer of the 2nd Battalion,
Singapore Infantry Regiment (1998–2000), Army Attaché in
Jakarta (2001–03), Commander of the 10th Singapore Infantry Brigade (2003–04), Head of the Joint Plans and Transformation Department (2005–07), Commander of the 9th Division / Chief Infantry Officer (2007–09),
[6] and Chief of Staff – Joint Staff (2009–10).
Chan excelled as a student at the US Army Command and General Staff College in 1998, and was the first foreign student to be conferred the "Distinguished Master Strategist Award" in the same year.
[7]
Chan was appointed the Chief of Army on 26 March 2010 (replacing Major-General
Neo Kian Hong). He left the Singapore Armed Forces on 25 March 2011 in order to stand for
Parliament (and was replaced as Chief of Army by Brigadier-General
Ravinder Singh).
[8]
Early political career[edit]
Chan was a PAP candidate in the
Tanjong Pagar Group Representation Constituency at the 2011 general election, representing the
Buona Vista ward previously held by
Lim Swee Say.
[9][10] The PAP's team in the constituency was led by former Prime Minister
Lee Kuan Yew, and was declared elected on Nomination Day (27 April 2011) in a walkover.
[11] During the election campaign, Chan used the
Hokkien phrase "kee chiu" (meaning "hands up") at a rally to engage the crowd, and the term became a well-known nickname for him in Singapore.
[12]
Following the general election, Chan was appointed the Acting Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports, and the Minister of State at the Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts. At the age of 42 then, Chan was one of the youngest ministers to be appointed to the Singapore Cabinet.
On 31 July 2012, Chan relinquished his appointment in
MICA and was appointed as Senior Minister of State in the
Ministry of Defence (MINDEF). Following a restructuring of government ministries in November 2012, he began heading the newly created
Ministry of Social and Family Development as Acting Minister.
[13] He was promoted to full Minister in September 2013,
[14] and concurrently serves as Second Minister for Defence.
On 23 January 2015, Chan joined the
National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) on a part-time basis; He was appointed as NTUC's deputy secretary-general on 27 January 2015 and will join NTUC full-time from April.
[15]
On 1 October 2015, following the
2015 election, Chan is appointed the Deputy Chairman of the People's Association
[1] Chan is seen as one of the frontrunners for the top position of the fourth-generation of PAP leaders.
[16][17]
Minister for Social and Family Development[edit]
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Chan has announced three key priorities for his Ministry in the Committee of Supply debate 2014.
[18][19] These priorities are: (i) to maintain the currency and adequacy of Singapore's social support policies, (ii) to deliver integrated social services and (iii) to develop manpower for the social service sector.
He launched the first of 23 Social Service Offices to bring social assistance touch points closer to the populace.
[20]
The tender evaluation process was revised for commercial childcare centres. The joint effort by ECDA and
Housing Development Board aimed to keep rental costs in HDB estates manageable, and in turn keep childcare programmes affordable.
[21]
More infrastructure support to benefit non-Anchor Operators (AOP) setting up preschools in high demand areas and workplaces. Non-AOPs who provide quality and affordable programmes can tap on a Teaching & Learning Resources Grant of up to $4,000 per year for materials and equipment.
[22]
During a Parliament session in 2017, responding to a raised question, he replied that there will be no change to an existing policy, that single mothers will continue to get only eight of the 16 weeks paid maternity leave that married mothers are entitled to, and will still not be entitled to claim a child relief tax incentive.
[23]
Minister in the Prime Minister's Office[edit]
Chan was a Minister in the Prime Minister's Office
[24] and Secretary General of the National Trade Union Congress. He is widely seen as a contender to be the fourth-generation Prime Minister of Singapore.
[25]
Minister of Trade and Industry[edit]
On 24 April 2018, it was announced that Chan would succeed
Lim Hng Kiang and
S. Iswaran as the new Minister for Trade and Industry, and would relinquish his NTUC chief portfolio to then-
Minister of Education Ng Chee Meng, effective from 1 May.
[26] He also took over responsibility for the Public Service Division on the same day.
[27]
On 23 November, Chan succeeded
Tharman Shanmugaratnam as the
People's Action Party's second Assistant Secretary-General (alongside
Minister of Finance Heng Swee Keat).
[28]