About Sim Kee Boon
Lived 1929 – 2007 (aged 78). Sim Kee Boon was a Singaporean civil servant.
Sim Kee Boon was a Singaporean civil servant who played a role in the success of Changi Airport and turned the fortunes of Keppel Shipyard around.
Sim graduated with Bachelor of Arts in Economics from University of Malaya in 1953, and joined the civil service that year. By 1962, aged 33, he was made acting permanent secretary in the National Development Ministry, before taking charge of the Finance Ministry as well as Intraco, the state trading company. He was also the Chairman of the Council of Presidential Advisers.
Changi Airport As Permanent Secretary at the Communications Ministry from 1975 to 1984, he managed the then biggest civil project in Singapore - the construction and opening of Changi Airport - from land reclamation to squatter resettlement.
Biography Low, Shi Ping; Sim, Leanne (2022). Sim Kee Boon: The Businessman Bureaucrat. Landmark Books Pte Ltd. .
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Who was Sim Kee Boon?
civil servant
When was Sim Kee Boon born?
Sim Kee Boon was born on 5 September 1929 in Singapore.
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Sim Kee Boon died on 9 November 2007 in Singapore.
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Sim Kee Boon was a civil servant.
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Sim Kee Boon was Singaporean.
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