Mr. Lee Yi Shyan
Chairman of Business China &
Former Singapore Senior Minister for Trade & Industry
Mr Lee is a former Member of Parliament. He chairs the board of Business China. He is the Executive Advisor to Chairman’s office, OUE and chairs the board of OUE Hospitality Trust, OUE-Lippo Healthcare, OUE Corp (USA).
Mr Lee is also the Chairman of Intercontinental Exchange Singapore. He is a Council Member for Singapore-Jiangsu Cooperation Council and Singapore-Shandong Economic & Trade Council and Patron for UAE Singapore Business Council. Mr Lee also advises Keppel Corporation Limited.
Previously, between 2006 to 2015, Mr Lee served in various capacities of Singapore government including as Senior Minister of State for Ministry of Trade & Industry, Ministry of National Development, Ministry of Manpower.
He chaired a number of bilateral high-level councils with China, Middle East, Russia and Africa. Specifically, he co-chaired the Singapore-Abu Dhabi Joint Forum with his counterpart Mr Khaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak of Mubadala for 8 years. Prior to 2006, Mr Lee was CEO of International Enterprise Singapore, Deputy CEO of SPRING and held senior operational and staff positions in EDB. He worked in Suzhou Industrial Park, China (1997-1998) as Deputy CEO of China-Singapore Suzhou Development Pte Ltd. Mr Lee was honored with Distinguished Alumni Award by the Centre for Creative Leadership (Greensboro, NC) in 2009, and Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award by the Faculty of Engineering, National University of Singapore in 2013.
Mr Lee graduated from NUS in 1986 and has completed executive programs at Harvard Business School (1997) and Tsinghua University (2001).
Mr Lee Yi Shyan’s message:
I am honoured to be the Patron for the UAE Singapore Business Council. The inauguration of the Council reflects the growing economic cooperation between UAE and Singapore, and the larger regions they represent. I am privileged to have played a role in establishing the business connectivity between UAE and Singapore when I was with the Ministry of Trade and Industry. I am glad to see how the connectivity has flourished. The establishment of UAESBC, being a ground up effort by the private sector, testifies to the importance our business sectors attach to our mutual connectivity, and our confidence in what it can grow to be in the future between the GCC and our region.
My heartiest congratulations.