Lim Swee Say

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Lim Swee Say
林瑞生
Lim in 2011
Minister for Manpower
In office 4 May 2015 – 30 April 2018
Prime Minister	Lee Hsien Loong
Second Minister	Josephine Teo (2017–2018)
Preceded by	Tan Chuan-Jin
Succeeded by	Josephine Teo
Secretary-General of the National Trades Union Congress
In office 15 October 2007 – 3 May 2015
Deputy	Heng Chee How
Preceded by	Lim Boon Heng
Succeeded by	Chan Chun Sing
Party Whip of the People's Action Party
In office 1 April 2007 – 20 May 2011
Preceded by	Lee Boon Yang
Succeeded by	Gan Kim Yong
Minister in the Prime Minister's Office
In office 12 August 2004 – 3 May 2015
Prime Minister	Lee Hsien Loong
Preceded by	Lim Hng Kiang
Succeeded by	Josephine Teo (2017) Desmond Lee (2017)
Second Minister for National Development
In office 12 August 2004 – 29 May 2006
Prime Minister	Lee Hsien Loong
Minister	Mah Bow Tan
Succeeded by	Desmond Lee (2017)
Minister for the Environment
In office 23 November 2001 – 11 August 2004 Acting: 1 October 2000 – 22 November 2001
Prime Minister	Goh Chok Tong
Preceded by	Lee Yock Suan
Succeeded by	Yaacob Ibrahim
Member of the Singapore Parliament for East Coast GRC (Bedok)
In office 7 May 2011 – 23 June 2020
Preceded by	S. Jayakumar (PAP)
Succeeded by	Heng Swee Keat (PAP)
Member of the Singapore Parliament for Holland–Bukit Timah GRC (Buona Vista)
In office 6 May 2006 – 19 April 2011
Preceded by	Constituency established
Succeeded by	Chan Chun Sing (PAP)
Member of the Singapore Parliament for Holland–Bukit Panjang GRC (Buona Vista)
In office 25 October 2001 – 20 April 2006
Preceded by	Constituency established
Succeeded by	Constituency abolished
Member of the Singapore Parliament for Tanjong Pagar GRC (Buona Vista)
In office 2 January 1997 – 18 October 2001
Preceded by	Constituency established
Succeeded by	Constituency abolished
Personal details
Born	Lim Swee Say (1954-07-13) 13 July 1954 (age 70) Colony of Singapore, British Empire
Political party	People's Action Party
Spouse	Elaine Cheong Siew Boon ​ ​ (m. 1981; died 2021)​
Children	2
Alma mater	Loughborough University Stanford University

Lim Swee Say (Chinese: 林瑞生; pinyin: Lín Ruìshēng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lîm Sūi-seⁿ; born 13 July 1954)^[1] is a Singaporean former politician who served as Secretary-General of the National Trades Union Congress between 2005 and 2015, Minister for Manpower between 2015 and 2018, Minister in the Prime Minister's Office between 2004 and 2015, Second Minister for National Development between 2004 and 2005, and Minister for the Environment between 2000 and 2004.

A member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), he was the Member of Parliament (MP) representing the Buona Vista ward of Tanjong Pagar GRC between 1997 and 2001, Holland–Bukit Panjang GRC between 2001 and 2006, Holland–Bukit Timah GRC between 2006 and 2011, and the Bedok ward of East Coast GRC between 2011 and 2020.

Lim was appointed as a non-executive independent director in Singtel in 2021.^[2]