Regarding Leo Yip Seng Cheong
The Straits Times, 18 January 2000, Page 61 - eResources
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Jan 18, 2000 - He takes over from Senior Assistant Commissioner Leo Yip, 36, who has been appointed Principal Private Secretary to Senior Minister Lee ...
http://www.todayonline.com/singapore/five-new-permanent-secretary-appointments
SINGAPORE — The Public Service Division has made changes to the line-up of Permanent Secretaries, which will take effect from Dec 1.
Chairman of the Economic Development Board (EDB) since 2009, Mr Leo Yip will be appointed Permanent Secretary for Home Affairs. Mr Yip was Principal Private Secretary to then Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew in 2000, and Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Manpower in 2002. He has also served as Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Manpower in 2005.
He will replace Mr Tan Tee How, who will be appointed as Commissioner of Inland Revenue and Chief Executive Officer of the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore.
More about Leo Yip:
Mr Leo Yip, born in 1963, joined the Singapore Police Force in September 1982 on award of the Singapore Police Force (Overseas) Scholarship. After graduating with an Economics degree from the University of Cambridge UK, he returned to serve the police in July 1985. He obtained a Master of Business Administration from University of Warwick, UK in 1991 and a Master in Public Administration from the JFK School of Government, Harvard University, USA in 1994. In the Singapore Police Force he held a series of policy, planning and command appointments. His last position was as Director (Operations) at police headquarters.
In January 2000 he became Principal Private Secretary to then Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew till August 2002 when he joined the Ministry of Manpower as the Deputy Secretary in charge of policy and development matters. His responsibilities covered labour relations and welfare, human capital development, manpower policy and planning, corporate planning and organisation development. He led the Ministry’s work to establish the Singapore Workforce Development Agency (WDA) in 2003, and served concurrently as Chief Executive of WDA from September 2003 to June 2005.
Mr Yip was Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Manpower from July 2005 to September 2009. He led the ministry’s policy and operations work covering manpower planning, workforce upgrading, foreign workforce policy, occupational safety and health, industrial relations, workplace practices, Central Provident Fund policy, human capital development and global talent attraction.
Mr Yip joined the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) as Deputy Chairman in September 2008. Mr Yip was appointed Chairman of the EDB on 1 July 2009. He also chairs the Boards of Directors of EDB Investments and EDBI.
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Based on the above, I believe that Leo Yip was and still is a high flyer, because within 15 years (since he graduated from Cambridge), he became a Senior Assistant Commissioner of Police, and during that 15 years, he obtained a MBA (1991) and a MPA (1994)