Raymond Lim is the Minister for Transport and the Second Minister for Foreign Affairs. He is a Member of Parliament for East Coast Group Representation Constituency (GRC).
Mr Lim started work as a law lecturer at the National University of Singapore, before joining the Straits Times as a journalist. He then entered the financial industry where he held various positions. He was the research director for Kim Eng Securities; chief economist for Asia for ABN AMRO Asia Securities; chief executive officer for DBS Securities and managing director for strategic overview of business at Temasek Holdings. Mr Lim was also an active volunteer in community work. He was an advisor to the Juvenile Court and Board member of the Toa Payoh Girls’ Home; Singapore Broadcasting Authority; Public Utilities Board and the Energy Market Authority.
Mr Lim was first elected to Parliament in 2001. He was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for Trade & Industry. In 2003, he was given the additional responsibility of being Minister of State in charge of entrepreneurship. In 2005, he was appointed Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office; Second Minister for Finance and Second Minister for Foreign Affairs. In 2006, he became Minister for Transport, continuing to serve concurrently as Second Minister for Foreign Affairs. In 2006, he was re-elected to his seat in East Coast GRC.
Mr Lim was educated at Raffles Institution and studied economics at the University of Adelaide on a Colombo Plan scholarship. He subsequently won a Rhodes scholarship to read law at Oxford University, where he obtained a bachelor’s degree and then at Cambridge where he obtained a master’s degree in public international law.
Mr Lim was born in 1959 and is married to an architect and has two children.