Lam Chuan Leong

Before his retirement, Chuan Leong has been the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Finance, Ministry of the Environment, the Ministry of National Development, the Ministry for Trade and Industry, and the Ministry of Communications and Information. From 1981 to 1984, he served as Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister of Singapore. He has also been an Ambassador-at-Large with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Chairman of the National Science and Technology Board, the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore, and the Competition Commission of Singapore.

His key areas of interest and expertise are in the application of market analysis and micro-economics, particularly in regard to sectoral regulation of monopolies, externality pricing, particularly in the field of transport policy and market efficiency. He has been involved in the privatisation of key government sectors such as the utilities and telecoms sectors in Singapore and also the structuring and use of Public Private Partnership projects such as the Sports Hub. He is also closely involved with the evolution of competition policy and law in Singapore as the inaugural Chairman of the Competition Commission of Singapore. As previous Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Trade and Industry, he is familiar with the economic development and international trade policies of Singapore.