Mr Lim Siong Guan
Founder Chairman, Honour (Singapore); Professor, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (NUS); Senior Fellow of the Singapore Civil Service College

Keynote Title: The Future of Leadership
Leadership is making good things happen that on their own would not happen. It brings out the best in people and
organisations, and positions the enterprise to be in time for the future. The future, particularly in the era of COVID-19, is particularly uncertain and unpredictable. How can we prepare ourselves for such a future?

About the Speaker
Lim Siong Guan is a Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, instructing on leadership and change management, as well as a Senior Fellow of the Singapore Civil Service College. He was the Group President of GIC from 2007 to 2016 and subsequently, Advisor to Group Executive Committee to Mar 2019. He was the Chairman of the Singapore Economic Development Board, Singapore’s investment promotion agency, from 2006 to 2009. Prior to that, Siong Guan was the Head of the Singapore Civil Service from September 1999 to March 2005, and in the period 1981 to 2006 was variously Permanent Secretary of the Prime Minister’s Office, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Education, and Ministry of Defence.

Siong Guan is a Board Director of of Wilmar International Ltd., chairs the Board of Directors of Swiss Re Asia Pte. Ltd., and is a member of the International Board of the stars Foundation, a Swiss foundation that promotes leadership development for leaders of the next generation. He is an Advisor to Insignia Venture Partners and to Razer Fintech.

He has co-authored with Joanne H. Lim two books. The first was “The Leader, The Teacher & You – Leadership Through the Third Generation,” a book on leadership and governance. The second was "Winning with Honour in Relationships, Family, Organisations, Leadership, and Life,” a book on winning in life and work. He is the founder chairman of Honour (Singapore), a charity that seeks to promote the culture of honour and honouring in Singapore. He has also authored a third book “Can Singapore Fall? – Making the Future for Singapore.”