Ms Lim is Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Education (MOE). Prior to this, she held the concurrent appointments of Permanent Secretary (Education Development), MOE and Permanent Secretary (Development), Ministry of Social and Family Development. Ms Lim is also Chairman of the National Institute of Education Council and a member of the Singapore Institute of Technology Board of Trustees. She previously held various appointments in the Ministry of National Development, Prime Minister’s Office, Trade Development Board (now Enterprise Singapore), Ministry of Trade and Industry, Ministry of Finance, and Civil Service College, and was also Special Assistant to then-Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean. Ms Lim graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations, and a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management from Stanford University.