Lee Hsien Loong

The Honourable Lee Hsien Loong SPMJ DK
李显龙
Lee in 2019
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 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.

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