President:
Chief Justice Chan Sek Keong
The Chief Justice
Members:
Mr Sundaresh Menon
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
Justice Philip
Pillai
Judge, Supreme Court
Mr Michael
Lim Choo San
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. He assumed the role of Chairman of the Public Service Commission
on 1 August 2008. He has been a Member of the LSC from 1 August
2008.
Mr Teo was Singapore's High Commissioner
in Australia from February 2006 to March 2008. He 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 appointed
a Member of the LSC on 1 November 2007.
Justice Rajah graduated from the National University of Singapore
in 1982 with several prizes for academic merit. He subsequently
obtained an LLM with a First Class from the University of Cambridge
in 1986.
Justice Rajah commenced practice with Rajah & Tann in 1983.
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.
He was appointed in 1997 as one of the first twelve Senior Counsel
in Singapore.
Justice Rajah was first appointed a Judicial Commissioner of the
Supreme Court on 2 January 2004 and thereafter a Judge on 1 November
2004. He was appointed a Judge of Appeal on 11 April 2007.
Justice Rajah recently chaired a Government-appointed committee
tasked with making recommendations to develop the Singapore legal
sector. He is currently also a Vice President of the Singapore
Academy of Law and the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the
newly formed Singapore Institute of Legal Education.
Justice Rajah was re-appointed
a Member of the LSC on 1 November 2010 for another 3-year term.
Justice
Lee Seiu Kin
Justice Lee Seiu Kin was first
appointed a Member of the LSC on 19 April 2006. Justice Lee was
again appointed a Member of the LSC on 1 November 2007 (when the
LSC was re-constituted).
Justice Lee graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours)
from the University of Adelaide in 1976. He worked as an engineer
in the Public Works Department from 1977 to 1984. He obtained
a Masters of Science from the National University of Singapore
in 1982 and an MBA (with Distinction) from INSEAD in Fontainebleau,
France in 1983.
Justice Lee graduated from the National University of Singapore
with an LLB in 1986 and obtained an LLM at the University of Cambridge
in 1987. He joined the Singapore Legal Service in 1987 and was
posted to the Attorney-General’s Chambers and appointed
a State Counsel. He was the Deputy Head of both the Civil Division
and the International Affairs Division of the Attorney-General’s
Chambers (prior to his elevation to the Supreme Court in 1997).
Justice Lee was appointed a Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme
Court from 15 October 1997 to 14 October 2002. He was concurrently
the President of the Industrial Arbitration Court from 1 September
1999 to 14 October 2002. He was thereafter 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 chaired the Legal Service Personnel Management Review
Panel which undertook a comprehensive review of the HR framework
and practices in the Legal Service in 2006. He also chaired the
Legal Service Remuneration Review in 2007.
Justice Lee was re-appointed a
Member of the LSC on 1 November 2010 for another 3-year term.
Justice Philip Pillai
Justice Philip Pillai was appointed
a Member of the LSC on 1 November 2007 (while he was still in
private practice at Shook Lin & Bok LLP).
Justice Pillai graduated from the University of Singapore in 1971
with an LLB (First Class) Hons. He subsequently obtained an LLM
in 1973 and the SJD in 1982 at Harvard Law School.
Justice Pillai was called to the Singapore Bar in 1972. He taught
at the Law Faculty of the NUS from 1971 to 1985 and was Vice Dean
from 1982 to 1985. He was the Senior Partner at Shook Lin &
Bok LLP from 1992 to September 2009 (prior to his elevation to
the Supreme Court). His practice was corporate, corporate finance,
international finance, regulatory and international trade with
extensive transactions in China, Indonesia and India.
Prior to his appointment to the Supreme Court, Justice Pillai
had served as non-executive director of Prudential Assurance Company
Singapore (Pte) Ltd, Hotung Investment Holdings Ltd, ST Engineering
Ltd, ST Electronics Ltd and Singapore Press Holdings Ltd. He had
earlier also served as a director of the Monetary Authority of
Singapore, Mediacorp Ltd and the Singapore General Hospital Pte
Ltd.
He was a Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators and
the Singapore Institute of Directors.
Justice Pillai was first appointed a Judicial Commissioner of
the Supreme Court on 1 October 2009 and thereafter a Judge on
1 June 2010.
Justice Pillai was re-appointed
a Member of the LSC on 1 November 2010 for another 3-year term.
Mr Michael Lim Choo San
Mr Michael Lim was appointed a
Member of the LSC on 1 November 2007.
Mr Lim graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce and Administration
from the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He is
a Chartered Accountant with the Institute of Chartered Accountants
of New Zealand and a Fellow of the Institute of Certified Public
Accountants of Singapore.
Mr Lim was the Managing Partner from 1992 and the Executive Chairman
from 1999 of PricewaterhouseCoopers Singapore until his retirement
from the firm at the end of 2003. He was also the Chairman of
the Auditing Practices Committee of the Institute of Chartered
Accountants of Singapore.
Mr Lim has been a Member of the Public Service Commission since
1998. He is the Chairman of the Land Transport Authority and Nomura
Singapore Limited. He sits on the Board of several companies including
PSA International Pte Ltd and Olam International Limited. He was,
among his other appointments, also previously the Chairman of
the National Healthcare Group Pte Ltd and a Member of the Board
of Trustees of Nanyang Technological University. Mr Lim was awarded
the Public Service Medal in 1998, the Public Service Star in 2003
and the Meritorious Service Medal in 2010.
Mr Lim was re-appointed a Member
of the LSC on 1 November 2010 for another 3-year term.
Mr
Lucien Wong Yuen Kuai
Mr Lucien Wong was appointed a
Member of the LSC on 1 November 2007.
Mr Wong graduated from the University of Singapore in 1978. He
was called to the Singapore Bar in 1979.
Mr Wong is the Managing Partner of Allen & Gledhill LLP. He
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 has over the years sat on several law review committees
which reviewed amendments to Singapore company and securities
law. He is regularly cited as a leading lawyer in banking, finance,
mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance in various publications.
Mr Wong is the Chairman of the Maritime and Port Authority of
Singapore and a Board Member of the Monetary Authority of Singapore.
He is a Member of the Board of Trustees of the National University
of Singapore. He also sits on the Boards of Directors of Cerebos
Pacific Ltd, Singapore Airlines Ltd and Singapore Press Holdings.
Mr Wong was re-appointed a Member
of the LSC on 1 November 2010 for another 3-year term.
Mr Lee Tzu Yang
Mr Lee Tzu Yang was appointed
a Member of the LSC on 1 November 2007.
Mr Lee read economics at the London School of Economics and Political
Science and graduated in 1976.
In May 1979 Mr Lee joined Shell and is currently Chairman, Shell
Companies in Singapore. He has worked in supply, trading, manufacturing,
sales and marketing, and internal consultancy in a wide range
of countries.
Mr Lee is very active in public life and has a keen interest in
the arts. He was a past chairman and currently remains as a board
member of the Singapore International Chamber of Commerce. He
is the Chairman of the Workplace Safety and Health Council, the
School of the Arts and the Middle East Institute, National University
of Singapore. In August 2010 he was appointed Chairman of the
Arts & Culture Strategic Review Steering Committee (under
the Ministry of Information, Communication and the Arts) to formulate
recommendations that harness arts and culture to transform Singapore
into Asia’s most liveable city, maximise the creative capacity
of the people, and strengthen the social fabric.
Mr Lee was awarded the Public Service Star in 2005.
Mr Lee was re-appointed a Member
of the LSC on 1 November 2010 for another 3-year term.
