President:
Chief Justice Chan Sek Keong
The Chief Justice
Members:
Prof Walter Woon
The Attorney-General
Mr Eddie Teo
Chairman, Public Service Commission
Justice
V K Rajah
Judge of Appeal, Supreme Court
Justice
Lee Seiu Kin
Judge, Supreme Court
Mr Michael
Lim Choo San
Dr Philip
N Pillai
Mr Lucien
Wong Yuen Kuai
Mr Lee Tzu
Yang
Secretary, LSC:
Mr Hamzah Moosa
PEN PICTURE OF MEMBERS OF THE LSC
Mr Eddie Teo
Mr Eddie Teo was appointed a Member
and Deputy Chairman of the Public Service Commission on 17 March
2008. Prior to that, he was Singapore's High Commissioner in Australia
from February 2006 to March 2008.
Mr Teo has had extensive experience
in public administration, having held senior leadership positions
in the Civil Service. He started his career in the Civil Service
in the Security and Intelligence Division, Ministry of Defence,
in 1970 after graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy,
Politics and Economics from Oxford University on a President's
Scholarship. He obtained a Master of Science in International
Relations from the University of London, United Kingdom in 1974.
Mr Teo rose rapidly in the Intelligence
Service to become the Director of the Security and Intelligence
Division in 1979, and concurrently held the position of Director,
Internal Security Department in the Ministry of Home Affairs from
1982 to 1986. He was appointed Permanent Secretary (Defence) in
1994. In 1998, he was appointed Permanent Secretary (Prime Minister's
Office) and concurrently held the post of Permanent Secretary
(Defence) until 2000. He retired from the Administrative Service
in 2005 after 35 years of distinguished service in the Singapore
Civil Service.
Mr Teo had also served as Director
on various government-linked companies over the years, including
those related to the defence industry. He was Chairman of Singapore
Technologies Pte Ltd from 1995 to 2000 and ST Kinetics from 2001
to 2004. He was also Chairman of the Health Corporation of Singapore
Pte Ltd from 1996 to 1998 and the Civil Service College from 2001
to 2005.
For his contributions to the
Singapore Public Service, Mr Teo was awarded the Public Administration
Medal (Gold) in 1983, the Meritorious Service Medal in 1997 and
the Distinguished Service Order in 2006.
Justice
V K Rajah
Justice V K Rajah was first appointed
a Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court on 2 January 2004
and thereafter a Judge on 1 November 2004. Justice Rajah was appointed
a Judge of Appeal on 11 April 2007.
Justice Rajah graduated from the
National University of Singapore in 1982 with several prizes for
academic merit and subsequently obtained an LLM (First Class)
from the University of Cambridge in 1986.
Justice Rajah commenced practice
with Rajah & Tann in 1983. In 1997, he was appointed a Senior
Counsel. He was the Managing Partner of Rajah & Tann from
1987 to 2003, prior to his elevation to the Bench. He oversaw
the growth of the firm from 6 lawyers to more than 160 lawyers
and 200 staff.
Justice
Lee Seiu Kin
Justice Lee Seiu Kin was appointed
a Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court on 15 October 1997.
He was appointed the Second Solicitor-General at the Attorney-General’s
Chambers on 15 October 2002. He was appointed a Judge of the Supreme
Court on 11 April 2006.
Justice Lee graduated with a BA
in Engineering (Honours) from the University of Adelaide in 1976.
He thereafter obtained a Masters of Science from the National
University of Singapore in 1982 and an MBA (Distinction) in Business
Admin/Studies from the European Institute of Business Administration
(INSEAD) in 1983. He went on to complete his law degree at the
National University of Singapore in 1986. After completing his
LLM at the University of Cambridge in 1987, Justice Lee joined
the Singapore Legal Service and was posted to the Attorney-General’s
Chambers and appointed a State Counsel.
Justice Lee was appointed a Member
of the LSC on 19 April 2006 and chaired the Legal Service Personnel
Management Review Panel which undertook from April to September
2006 a comprehensive review of the HR framework and practices
in the Legal Service.
Mr Michael Lim Choo San
Mr Michael Lim is the Chairman
of the Land Transport Authority, the National Healthcare Group
Pte Ltd and Nomura Singapore Ltd. He retired on 31 December 2003
as the Executive Chairman of PricewaterhouseCoopers, Singapore,
after more than 30 years with the firm, including 11 years as
Executive Chairman. He was appointed a Member of the Public Service
Commission in 1998. He was appointed a Member of the Nanyang Technological
University Board of Trustees in March 2006. He was awarded the
Public Service Star and the Public Service Medal in 2003 and 1998,
respectively.
Dr Philip N Pillai
Dr Philip Pillai is the Senior
Partner at Shook Lin & Bok LLP. He graduated from the University
of Singapore with an LLB (First Class) in 1971, the LLM in 1973
and the SJD at Harvard. He was called to the Singapore Bar in
1972. Dr Pillai taught at the Law Faculty of the NUS from 1971
to 1985, and was Vice Dean from 1982 to 1985. His practice is
corporate, corporate finance, international finance, regulatory
and international trade.
Dr Pillai is a Trustee on the
International Board of Trustees for the Haggai Institute, Atlanta
and is a Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators and
the Singapore Institute of Directors. He sits on the Board of
Directors of Prudential Assurance Company Singapore (Pte) Ltd,
Hotung Investment Holdings Ltd, ST Engineering Ltd, ST Electronic
Ltd and Singapore Press Holdings Ltd. Among other appointments,
he had previously been a board member of the Monetary Authority
of Singapore and the Singapore General Hospital Pte Ltd.
Mr Lucien Wong Yuen Kuai
Mr Lucien Wong is the Managing
Partner of Allen & Gledhill LLP. He graduated from the University
of Singapore in 1978. He was called to the Singapore Bar in 1979.
Mr Wong specialises in banking, corporate and financial services
work and has extensive experience in debt and equity issues, mergers
and acquisitions, banking transactions, and securitisations.
Mr Wong is a board member of the
Monetary Authority of Singapore and a member of the Board of Trustees
for the SingHealth Endowment Fund and the National University
of Singapore. He also sits on the Boards of Directors of Cerebos
Pacific Limited and Singapore Airlines Ltd.
Mr Lee Tzu Yang
Mr Lee Tzu Yang joined Shell in
May 1979. He read economics at the London School of Economics
and Political Science. He is concurrently Vice-President, Asia
Pacific, Shell Global Solutions, and Chairman, Shell Companies
in Singapore. Mr Lee has worked in supply, trading, manufacturing,
sales and marketing, and internal consultancy within Shell, in
a wide range of countries.
Mr Lee is very active in public life, and has a keen interest
in the arts. His roles and appointments include membership of
the boards of the Singapore International Chamber of Commerce,
the Singapore Arts School, the National Arts Council, and the
Board of Trustees of the National University of Singapore. He
was awarded the Public Service Star in 2005.