Perry Lim

Perry Lim
Lim in 2017
Born1972 (age 52–53)
Singapore
Allegiance Singapore
Service / branch Singapore Army
Years of service1990–2006, 2008–2018
RankLieutenant-General
CommandsChief of Defence Force
Chief of Army
Chief of Staff – General Staff
Commander, 3rd Division
Commander, 7th Singapore Infantry Brigade
Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion Singapore Guards
Deputy Assistant Chief of the General Staff for Operations
Branch Head, Defence Policy Office
Head, Joint Plans and Transformation Department
Alma materChrist's College, Cambridge
INSEAD
US Army Command and General Staff College
In this Chinese name, the family name is Lim (Chinese: 林; pinyin: Lín).
Perry Lim Cheng Yeow
Simplified Chinese林清耀
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinLín Qīngyào

Perry Lim Cheng Yeow PJG PPA(E) PPA(P) is a Singaporean former lieutenant-general who served as Chief of Defence Force between 2015 and 2018.

Education

Lim studied at Raffles Institution and won the President's Scholarship[1] and the Singapore Armed Forces Overseas Scholarship in 1991. He studied at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he received a starred first in mechanical engineering. In 2008, he won the Lee Kuan Yew Postgraduate Scholarship and went on to study for a Master of Business Administration at INSEAD's Singapore campus.[2][3]

Military career

Lim enlisted in the SAF in December 1990 and was commissioned as a Guards officer in August 1991. He served as the Commanding Officer (CO) of the 1st Battalion Singapore Guards from 2003–2005, the Commander of the 7th Singapore Infantry Brigade in 2009, the Commander of the 3rd Division from 2011–2013, and the Chief of Staff (General Staff) from 2013–2014. Before he became the Chief of Staff (General Staff), he held the following appointments in the Ministry of Defence (MINDEF): Head, Joint Plans and Transformation; Branch Head, Defence Policy Office, Joint Operations Department; Deputy Assistant Chief of the General Staff (Operations). He was also the chairman of the executive committee of Singapore's National Day Parade in 2013.[4]

Lim completed the Combined Arms Tactics Course conducted by the British Army in Warminster in 1998. He also attended the United States Army Command and General Staff College in Fort Leavenworth between 2001 and 2002. He was promoted to the rank of Brigadier-General on 1 July 2011.[4]

Lim succeeded Ravinder Singh as the Chief of Army on 21 March 2014.[4][2][3] He was succeeded by Melvyn Ong as the Chief of Army on 14 August 2015 and replaced Ng Chee Meng as the Chief of Defence Force (CDF) on 18 August 2015.[5][6]

Lim was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General on 1 July 2016.[7]

Non-military career

In addition to his military appointments, Lim was also a member of the Singapore Administrative Service.

From 2006 to 2008, he briefly retired from active military service and served as the Director of Higher Education in the Ministry of Education, where he was in charge of policies, planning and funding for tertiary and technical education, and regulating private education.[4]

Lim joined resource manufacturer Royal Golden Eagle as a managing director in January 2019.[8]

Personal life

Lim is married with three children.[4]

Awards and decorations

References

  1. ^ Warren Fernandez (2001). Without Fear Or Favour: 50 Years of Singapore's Public Service Commission. Times Media for the Public Service Commission, Singapore. p. 93. ISBN 978-981-232-348-4.
  2. ^ a b "SAF gets new Chief of Army". AsiaOne. 20 February 2014. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 21 February 2014.
  3. ^ a b Xue, Jianyue (21 February 2014). "New army chief named". Today. Archived from the original on 29 March 2014. Retrieved 21 February 2014.
  4. ^ a b c d e "SAF Leadership". MINDEF. Archived from the original on 9 June 2017.
  5. ^ "Chief of Defence Force Ng Chee Meng will retire after 29 years in SAF". Channel NewsAsia. 31 July 2015. Archived from the original on 2 August 2015. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
  6. ^ "Change in Chief of Defence Force and Chief of Army". MINDEF Official Releases. MINDEF. 31 July 2015. Archived from the original on 3 August 2015. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
  7. ^ Koh, Jeremy (30 June 2016). "Chief of Defence, Army chief and Air Force chief receive promotions". The Straits Times. Archived from the original on 6 January 2018. Retrieved 13 June 2019.
  8. ^ "Ex-chief of defence force Perry Lim joins Royal Golden Eagle". The Straits Times. Jan 21, 2019. Archived from the original on 6 February 2019. Retrieved 7 February 2019.
  9. ^ "Panglima TNI Sematkan Bintang Yudha Dharma Utama Kepada Mantan Panglima Angkatan Bersenjata Singapura". Kabar65News (in Indonesian). 2018-09-19. Retrieved 2023-05-21.
  10. ^ "Pangab Singapura Terima Tanda Kehormatan Bintang Kartika Eka Paksi Utama". Tribunnews.com (in Indonesian). 2023-05-27. Retrieved 2023-05-27.
  11. ^ Bernama (2017-10-14). "Agong kurnia 549 pingat kepada tentera". MalaysiaGazette. Retrieved 2023-06-09.
  12. ^ "Singapore Chief of Defense Full Honors Arrival". www.army.mil. Retrieved 2023-06-09.
  13. ^ Commander-in-Chief, Governor-General and. "Order of Australia - Honorary Appointments within the Military Division - 21 May 2018". www.legislation.gov.au. Retrieved 2023-05-27.
Military offices
Preceded by
Lieutenant-General Ng Chee Meng
 9th Chief of Defence Force
18 August 2015 – 23 March 2018 		Succeeded by
Major-General Melvyn Ong
Preceded by
Major-General Ravinder Singh
 Chief of the Singapore Army
21 March 2014 – 14 August 2015 		Succeeded by
Brigadier-General Melvyn Ong