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Lim Hwee Hua puts passion for public policy on paper
Book drawing on her experience in govt and business is latest feather in ex-minister's cap
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Mrs Lim Hwee Hua left politics in 2011 and has since advised on projects ranging from e-learning and waste management to power generation and healthcare investments. Her book explores what it means for governments to stay disciplined amid technological disruption and populist pressures.
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Halfway through describing her current role, Mrs Lim Hwee Hua is stumped. The seventh of nine children who grew up in a Singapore Improvement Trust flat and rose to become the first woman Cabinet minister wears so many hats that she has lost count of them.
She left politics 10 years ago after the People's Action Party (PAP) team in Aljunied GRC, which she was a part of, lost to the Workers' Party in the 2011 General Election.
