Raymond Lim Siang Keat | |
Order1: | Minister for Transport |
Term Start1: | 30 May 2006 |
Term End1: | 20 May 2011 |
1Blankname1: | Second Minister |
1Namedata1: | Lim Hwee Hua (2009–2011) |
Predecessor1: | Yeo Cheow Tong |
Successor1: | Lui Tuck Yew |
Order2: | Minister in the Prime Minister's Office |
Term Start2: | 1 April 2005 |
Term End2: | 29 May 2006 |
Constituency Mp4: | East Coast GRC (Fengshan) |
Parliament4: | Singapore |
Predecessor4: | Chng Hee Kok |
Successor4: | Constituency Abolished |
Term Start4: | 25 October 2001 |
Term End4: | 24 August 2015 |
Birth Date: | 24 June 1959 |
Birth Place: | State of Singapore |
Party: | People's Action Party |
Alma Mater: | University of Adelaide Balliol College, Oxford King's College, Cambridge |
Raymond Lim Siang Keat (Chinese: s=林双吉|p=Lín Shuāngjí, born 24 June 1959) is a former Singaporean politician. A member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), Lim has been a Member of Parliament (MP) representing the East Coast Group Representation Constituency for Fengshan from 2001 to 2015. He served as the Minister for Transport from 2006 to 2011, and as a Minister in the Prime Minister's Office from 2005 to 2006. When taking on the transport portfolio, he was informed by Lee Kwan Yew that this was a "thankless job" but that "someone has to do it".[1]
He retired from politics in 2015 and is presently Executive Chairman of APS Asset Management and Senior Advisor to the Swire Group.[2]
Lim was a Rhodes Scholar and Colombo Plan scholar and holds degrees from the universities of Adelaide, Oxford and King's College, Cambridge (LLM, 1987). Prior to his university education, he was a student and athlete in Raffles Institution.
Before taking on political office, he held numerous positions in the financial industry which he joined after serving as a law lecturer at the National University of Singapore and working as a reporter at the Straits Times.[3]
Lim's brother, Benny Lim Siang Hoe, was with the Internal Security Department, and is also a former Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of National Development.