In this Chinese name, the family name is Lee (李) and Hsien (显) is a generation name.
The Honourable
Lee Hsien Loong
SPMJ DK
李显龙
Lee in 2016
3rd Prime Minister of Singapore
Incumbent
Assumed office 12 August 2004
President
S. R. Nathan Tony Tan Halimah Yacob Tharman Shanmugaratnam
Deputy
Tony Tan S. Jayakumar Wong Kan Seng Teo Chee Hean Tharman Shanmugaratnam Heng Swee Keat Lawrence Wong
Preceded by
Goh Chok Tong
Succeeded by
Lawrence Wong (designate)
Secretary-General of the People's Action Party
Incumbent
Assumed office 7 November 2004[1]
Chairman
Tony Tan Lim Boon Heng Khaw Boon Wan Gan Kim Yong Heng Swee Keat
Preceded by
Goh Chok Tong
Member of the Singapore Parliament for Ang Mo Kio GRC (Teck Ghee)
Incumbent
Assumed office 21 August 1991
Preceded by
Constituency established
Senior positions
Chairman of the Monetary Authority of Singapore
In office January 1998 – August 2004
Preceded by
Richard Hu
Succeeded by
Goh Chok Tong
Ministerial offices
6th Senior Minister of Singapore
Designate
Assuming office 15 May 2024
Prime Minister
Lawrence Wong (designate)
Succeeding
Teo Chee Hean
Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore
In office 28 November 1990 – 12 August 2004
Serving with Ong Teng Cheong (1985–1993) Tony Tan (1995–2004)
Prime Minister
Goh Chok Tong
Preceded by
Goh Chok Tong
Succeeded by
S. Jayakumar
Minister for Finance
In office 10 November 2001 – 1 December 2007
Prime Minister
Goh Chok Tong Himself
Second Minister
Lim Hng Kiang Raymond Lim Tharman Shanmugaratnam
Preceded by
Richard Hu
Succeeded by
Tharman Shanmugaratnam
Minister for Trade and Industry
In office 1 January 1987 – 6 December 1992 Acting: 18 February 1986 – 31 December 1986
Prime Minister
Lee Kuan Yew Goh Chok Tong
Preceded by
Tony Tan
Succeeded by
S. Dhanabalan
Second Minister for Defence (Services)
In office 1 January 1987 – 27 November 1990
Serving with Yeo Ning Hong (Policy)
Prime Minister
Lee Kuan Yew
Minister
Goh Chok Tong
Parliamentary offices
Member of the Singapore Parliament for Teck Ghee SMC
In office 22 December 1984 – 14 August 1991
Preceded by
Constituency established
Succeeded by
Constituency abolished
Personal details
Born
Lee Hsien Loong
(1952-02-10) 10 February 1952 (age 72)[2] Colony of Singapore
Political party
People's Action Party
Spouses
Wong Ming Yang
(m. 1978; died 1982)
Ho Ching
(m. 1985)
Children
4
Parent(s)
Lee Kuan Yew (father) Kwa Geok Choo (mother)
Relatives
Lee Hsien Yang (brother) Lee Wei Ling (sister)
Alma mater
Trinity College, Cambridge (BA, Dipl.) Harvard University (MPA)
Occupation
Politician
Profession
Military general
Signature
Military service
Branch/service
Singapore Army
Years of service
1971–1984
Rank
Brigadier-General
Commands
Director of the Joint Operations and Planning Directorate Chief of Staff – General Staff Assistant Chief of the General Staff (Operations) Commanding Officer, 23rd Battalion Singapore Artillery
Lee Hsien Loong
Lee's name in Simplified (top) and Traditional (bottom) Chinese characters
Simplified Chinese
李显龙
Traditional Chinese
李顯龍
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Lǐ Xiǎnlóng
Wade–Giles
Li3 Hsien3-lung2
IPA
[lì ɕjɛ̀n.lʊ̌ŋ]
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization
Léih Hín-lùhng
Jyutping
Lei5 Hin2-lung4
IPA
[lei˩˧ hiːn˧˥ loŋ˩]
Southern Min
Hokkien POJ
Lí Hián-liông
Lee Hsien Loong[a]SPMJ DK (born 10 February 1952) is a Singaporean politician and former brigadier-general who has been serving as the third Prime Minister of Singapore and Secretary-General of the People's Action Party since 2004. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Teck Ghee division of Ang Mo Kio GRC since 1991, and previously Teck Ghee SMC between 1984 and 1991.
Born in Singapore during British colonial rule, Lee is the eldest son of Singapore's first prime minister, Lee Kuan Yew. He graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1974 with a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics with first class honours and a Diploma in Computer Science with distinction (equivalent to a first-class masters in computer science). He served in the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) between 1971 and 1984, and attained the rank Brigadier-General, completing a Master of Public Administration degree at Harvard Kennedy School in 1980. Lee resigned from the SAF in 1984 to enter politics and was elected the MP for Teck Ghee SMC. Since its dissolution in 1991, he has represented the Teck Ghee ward of Ang Mo Kio GRC.
Lee has served as deputy prime minister, Minister for Finance, Minister for Trade and Industry, and Second Minister for Defence under Prime Ministers Lee Kuan Yew and Goh Chok Tong before assuming the office of prime minister in 2004. In his first two years, his government enacted a five-day work week and extended maternity leave days. His proposal to build two Integrated Resorts in Singapore to increase tourism revenue led to the development of the Marina Bay Sands and Resorts World Sentosa. Following the Great Recession, he oversaw the country's economic recovery within two years. Further political reforms in 2010 saw increased online activism as well as the number of Non-Constituency Members of Parliament (NCMPs) in Parliament.
Since the 2020s, he oversaw the COVID-19 pandemic and its subsequent recession and recovery. In 2022, he responded to the Russian invasion of Ukraine by being the only Southeast Asian country to impose sanctions on Russia. That same year, his government repealed the then already unenforced colonial-era Section 377A, de jure and de facto legalising same-sex sexual activity between men. Lee is frequently noted by the international media as the world's highest paid state leader. His libel suits against journalists and political opponents have been frequently covered by international news outlets.
^Jayakumar 2021, p. 712.
^"PMO |Mr LEE Hsien Loong". 4 September 2020. Archived from the original on 23 July 2020. Retrieved 18 July 2020.
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