President of Singapore
The eighth and current president, Halimah Yacob, took office on 14 September 2017, becoming the first president elected as she was the sole eligible candidate under the new reform terms which took effect earlier that year. She is also the first female President of Singapore.
Lim Tean
"This is a Chinese name; the family name is Lim."
Lim Tean (born November 17, 1964) is a Singaporean opposition politician and Cambridge-educated lawyer. He is the founding leader of People’s Voice (PV), the 11th political party in Singapore, and previously served as Secretary-General of the National Solidarity Party from 30 August 2015 - 18 May 2017. He identifies as centre-left, and has been associated with both Progressive and Social Democratic causes.
Lim is currently is the lawyer representing prominent anti-government critic and blogger Leong Sze Hian in the ongoing high profile case brought by current Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.
Lim Tean was born in 1964 as the eldest son of Lim Chin Teong, a senior Singaporean civil servant and former Chief Executive Director of the People’s Association in the late 70’s and early 80’s, and his mother Aw Eng Lian, a Chinese-language teacher at Zhonghua Girls School for over 40 years. Both of Lim’s parents graduated from (the now defunct) Nanyang University (Nantah).