[Hybrid/Free] America Through the Eyes of Lim Hwee Hua, Former Singapore Cabinet Minister

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Join us for the next instalment of America Through the Eyes of Lim Hwee Hua, the first woman to be appointed a full Cabinet minister.

Moderated by AmChamSG CEO Dr. Hsien-Hsien Lei, we look forward to a candid discussion with Mrs. Lim on her views on the social and economic landscape of the United States through the prism of a Singaporean leader with years of experience in government, academia, and the private sector.

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Lim Hwee Hua

Former Minister, Singapore Prime Minister's Office at Tembusu Partners Pte Ltd

Dr. Hsien-Hsien Lei

CEO of AmChamSG

Lim Hwee Hua completed her junior college education at Raffles Institution, Singapore, before graduating with a Master/Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Mathematics/Engineering from the University of Cambridge in 1981. In 1989, she obtained a Master of Business Administration, major in Finance, from Anderson School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles.

Lim Hwee Hua was first elected to the Singapore Parliament in December 1996 and served till May 2011, last as Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office, Singapore, and concurrently as Second Minister for Finance and for Transport.

Between 2002 and 2004, she was Deputy Speaker of Parliament and Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee. Prior to joining the Singapore Cabinet, Lim Hwee Hua enjoyed a varied career in financial services - investment banking and management – at Swiss Bank Corporation (1989-1992) and Jardine Fleming (1992-2000).

At Temasek Holdings (2000–2004), she served as Managing Director where she oversaw divestments, restructured companies and boards, established strategic relations with key foreign counterparts (including China) and sat on boards (including PSA, Keppel and Mapletree). Post retirement from politics in 2011, Lim Hwee Hua has been engaged in private equity (Tembusu Partners, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts till June 2023), financial services (Asia Pacific Exchange and United Overseas Bank till April 2021), sits on a few international boards (Nippon Paint, JERA Co., Jardine Cycle & Carriage, ReSustainability) and lectures at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. Between 2011 and 2014, she served on the Ernst & Young Global Advisory Council.

Lim Hwee Hua has authored two publications:
(1) “Government in Business – Friend or Foe” in 2014, which has been translated into Chinese, Portuguese and Spanish; and
(2) “Government in Business – Leading or Lagging?” in 2021.

Dr. Hsien-Hsien Lei is Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of The American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) in Singapore — the largest and the most active international business association in Singapore and Southeast Asia representing over 650 companies. Hsien is also Adjunct Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, member of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Advisory Board, Vice President of the Precision Public Health Asia Society, board member of TalenTtrust, member of the United Women Singapore STEM Advisory Panel, and member of the 2023 FIRST Global Challenge host committee.

Prior to AmCham, Hsien was Vice President, Medical and Scientific Affairs, Medtronic Asia Pacific, where she was responsible for the Medtronic Innovation Centers in Japan and Korea, training and education, and the company’s health systems transformation strategy in the region. Hsien has extensive experience in scientific affairs, corporate and healthcare communications, advertising, public relations, and government affairs.

Hsien has lived and worked in the US, Taiwan, Japan, Vietnam, UK, and is now based in Singapore. She holds a BA (with honors) in Human Biology from Stanford University and a PhD in Epidemiology from The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health where she was the recipient of a US National Institutes of Health Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology Training Grant. Her doctoral thesis explored the genetic epidemiology of end-stage renal disease and type 2 diabetes. She completed her post-doctoral fellowship at National Taiwan University Hospital in the Department of Internal Medicine.

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