Mrs Lim Hwee Hua was appointed Minister of State for Finance and Transport on 12 August 2004. She was promoted to Senior Minister of State for Finance and Transport on 1 April 2008.

On 1 April 2009, she was promoted to Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office and appointed concurrently as Second Minister for Finance and Second Minister for Transport.

Mrs Lim was elected Member of Parliament for the Marine Parade Group Representation Constituency and appointed Adviser to the Serangoon grassroots organisations in both 1996 and 2001. Between April 2002 and August 2004, she was the Deputy Speaker of Parliament and Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee. In May 2006, Mrs Lim was re-elected as a Member of Parliament for the Aljunied Group Representation Constituency.

Mrs Lim began her career as an Administrative Officer in the Ministries of Finance, Education and Law. In 1989, she joined Swiss Bank Corporation as an investment analyst and moved on to Jardine Fleming in 1992, where she served as Head of Research and Director of Business Development. In August 2000, she joined Temasek Holdings first as Managing Director of Corporate Stewardship and later, Managing Director of Strategic Relations.

An Overseas Merit Scholar, Mrs Lim graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Mathematics/ Engineering from the University of Cambridge in 1981. She obtained a Master of Business Administration, majoring in Finance, from the Anderson School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles, in 1989.

Mrs Lim is presently a member of the Central Executive Committee and Chairman of the Women’s Wing of the People’s Action Party.

Mrs Lim is married to Andy Lim. They have a son and two daughters.