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Our Vice-Chancellors:
A Biographical Sketch

 

Lim Tay Boh
1963-1967

 

 


Education
Raffles Institution, where he was in the Queen’s Scholarship class.
Dip.Arts, Class I (Raffles College). While he was a teacher, he was a private candidate for the external honours degree in History in the University of London
Jesus College, Cambridge (1st Class Hons. For Part II of Economics Tripos exams)
PhD (London School of Economics)

 

Career

 
1949-55
 
Lecturer, late Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Malaya
1956

Visiting Lecturer in Southeast Asian Affairs, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
 

1958-62 Dean of Arts, University of Malaya
 
1960-63

Professor of Economics, University of Malaya
 

 
1962 Hon. Research Fellow, Faculty of Economics, Harvard
 
1962-63

1963-64

1964

1965-67
Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of Singapore

Acting Vice-Chancellor, University of Singapore

Visitor, Faculty of Economics & Politics, Cambridge

Vice-Chancellor, University of Singapore

 

 

 

Offices held

Member, Singapore Government Commission on Minimum Standards of Livelihood
Chairman, Government Commission on Education in Singapore
Consultant, UN Economic Commission for Asia & the Far East

 

 

Honours

Bintang Bakti Masharakat (Public Service Star)

 

 

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