Lim Siong Guan

Lim Siong Guan, DUNU (First Class) (Chinese: 林祥源; pinyin: Lín Xiángyuán, born 1947) is the current Group President of the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC).

Lim was educated at the Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore. He was awarded the President's Scholarship to study at the University of Adelaide, Australia, where he graduated with First Class Honours in Mechanical Engineering in 1969. He attained a Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration from the National University of Singapore in 1975.

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 (ACRA) and the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore from 2004 to 2006. Previously he had been the Chairman of the Central Provident Fund Board from 1986 to 1994 and Deputy chairman of the board of Commissioners of Currency (now absorbed into the Monetary Authority of Singapore)from 1999 to 2002. He was a board member of the Monetary Authority of Singapore from 1999 to 2006.

In 2005, Lim Siong Guan, as the chairman of the ACRA, was one of the 3 member Presidential Elections Committee who reviewed the qualifications of Sellapan Ramanathan, who was subsequently elected President of Singapore, in the 2005 Singapore President Elections.

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