Lim Chee Onn
Lim Chee Onn | |||||||||
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| Chairman of the National Heritage Board | |||||||||
| In office June 1993 – 1 August 2002 | |||||||||
| Preceded by | Position established | ||||||||
| Succeeded by | Tommy Koh | ||||||||
| Minister in the Prime Minister's Office | |||||||||
| In office 15 September 1980 – 1 August 1983 | |||||||||
| Prime Minister | Lee Kuan Yew | ||||||||
| Preceded by | Position established | ||||||||
| Secretary-General of the National Trades Union Congress | |||||||||
| In office May 1979 – 9 May 1983 | |||||||||
| Deputy | Lawrence Sia Mustafa Kadir Wan Soon Bee | ||||||||
| Preceded by | Devan Nair | ||||||||
| Succeeded by | Ong Teng Cheong | ||||||||
| Member of the Singapore Parliament for Marine Parade GRC | |||||||||
| In office 9 January 1989 – 1 December 1992 Serving with Othman Haron Eusofe, Goh Chok Tong, Matthias Yao | |||||||||
| Prime Minister | Lee Kuan Yew (until 1990) Goh Chok Tong (from 1990) | ||||||||
| Preceded by | PAP held | ||||||||
| Succeeded by | PAP held | ||||||||
| Member of the Singapore Parliament for Bukit Merah | |||||||||
| In office 23 July 1977 – 17 August 1988 | |||||||||
| Prime Minister | Lee Kuan Yew | ||||||||
| Preceded by | Lim Guan Hoo | ||||||||
| Succeeded by | Constituency abolished | ||||||||
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| Born | July 1944 (age 81) | ||||||||
| Spouse | Christine Parsons (m. 1968) | ||||||||
| Children | 3 | ||||||||
| Alma mater | Harvard University (MPA) University of Glasgow (BEng) St. Joseph's Institution | ||||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 林子安 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 林子安 | ||||||||
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Lim Chee Onn DUNU DUBC (born c. July 1944) is a Singaporean former politician who serves as a member of the Council of Presidential Advisers and chancellor of Singapore Management University.
Trained as a naval architect, Lim began his career in the Singapore Civil Service, and subsequently became an elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Bukit Merah Constituency from 1977 to 1988, and for Marine Parade Group Representation Constituency (GRC) from 1989 to 1992. From 1979 to 1983, Lim was the secretary-general of the National Trades Union Congress; he was concurrently a Minister in the Prime Minister's Office from 1980 to 1983.
After leaving the Cabinet, Lim moved into corporate leadership and chaired major Singaporean companies, such as China–Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park Development Company from 1994 to 1999, and Keppel from 2000 to 2008.