Lim Boon Tat

Lim Boon Tat My career has taken me from the Army as an Infantry Officer, teaching math to high school students, organising the first ever Secondary School Hackathon in Singapore, working on higher education policies that impacted our local universities, running a Junior College with >1,000 students, to running medium-sized product and tech development teams. I thrive when working with creative and smart people in highly challenging and innovative environments and am skilled at building high-performance teams and nurturing new ideas into viable business models. My background is a varied mix of advanced mathematics, research, education, technology, management, and policy work. As a Singapore Government Scholar, Cambridge University and Brown University graduate, I bring direct experience with policy-making and strategic planning in the education sector, having worked on several projects including the establishment of new higher educational institutions. In my work, I regularly made contact with C-level executives, and have experience coordinating various governmental and private agencies. I also have direct experience in classroom teaching, as well as mentoring and improving the pedagogical practices of classroom teachers. I am familiar with student development (discipline, leadership, character and moral education) and have extensive experience planning for workshops and development programmes for students. I have also presented educational papers on the use of technology at various conferences, most recently at the National Institute of Education's Redesigning Pedagogy.