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Lee Kuan Yew GCMG CH SPMJ DK (born Harry Lee Kuan Yew; 16 September 1923 – 23 March 2015), often referred to by his initials LKY, was a Singaporean statesman and lawyer who served as the first Prime Minister of Singapore from 1959 to 1990, and Secretary-General of the People's Action Party from 1954 to 1992. He was the Member of Parliament ...
Lim is an adjunct professor of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and has been a member of the Lee Kuan Yew Exchange Fellowship from 2005 to 2006. He has been a director of Temasek Holdings Pte. Ltd., a director of DBS Bank Ltd, a director of Neptune Orient Lines Limited , and variously chairman or director of a number of companies which ...
Lee Kuan Yew was the first Prime Minister of Singapore (1959–1990). A founding member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), he is often credited for transforming Singapore from a third-world to a first-world country. [1] [2] [3] He was known for practising political pragmatism in his governance of Singapore, but has been criticised ...
The President's Scholarship has its roots in the Queen's Scholarship, which was founded in 1885. The Queen's Scholarship was initiated by Cecil Clementi Smith, Governor of the Straits Settlements. It was awarded to the best performing student of the year by a special selection board. The Queen's Scholarship was abolished in 1959 and replaced by ...
Looking East to Look West: Lee Kuan Yew's Mission India won India's most prestigious literary non-fiction prize, the Vodafone Crossword Book Award for 2009. Written by Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, the book is a "profound" and "intricate" analytic-history of India's first major foreign policy innovation since Non-alignment: the Look East policy.
His son, Gene Yeo, received the Lee Kuan Yew Graduate Fellowship that funded his PhD in computational neuroscience at MIT and is now a tenured professor at University of California San Diego. Elaine is a Doctor of Clinical Psychology from Roosevelt University, Chicago. See also. Agency for Science, Technology and Research; Notes
Death of Lee Kuan Yew on 23 March 2015. 03:18: Singapore's founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew died at the Singapore General Hospital. [3] 04:07: Prime Minister's Office issued a statement acknowledging Lee Kuan Yew's death. Simultaneously, the statement was published via its official Facebook page.
Wang is a University Professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and also Chairman of the Managing Board of the NUS's Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. He was the Director (1997-2006) and Chairman (2006-19) of the East Asian Institute in Singapore. [24]