Title
Minister for Trade and Industry
Company
Singapore
Bio
Lim Hng Kiang is Minister for Trade and Industry of the Republic of Singapore. He is also
Deputy Chairman of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and a Board Director of
the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC). Mr Lim assumed his current
post in 2004, and has served in a number of other government positions, including Minister in
the Prime Minister’s Office (2003-2004), Second Minister for Finance (1998-2004), Minister
of Health (1999-2003), and Minister of National Development (1995-1999). He joined the
civil service in 1986, beginning his career in the Ministry of Defence, after graduating from
the Kennedy School at Harvard University with a Masters in Public Administration and from
Cambridge University with First Class Honours (Distinction) in Engineering.