8th S R Nathan Fellow – Corinna Lim
Ms Corinna LIM is the Executive Director of AWARE, the Association of Women for Action and Research. Ms Lim joined AWARE as a member and volunteer in 1992 and has been a women’s rights activist for close to 30 years.
Since becoming Executive Director in 2010, Ms Lim has been responsible for a range of initiatives including the setting up of the Sexual Assault Care Centre, the only specialised service in Singapore that provides support to sexual assault victims. She also led teams at AWARE to successfully advocate for the enactment of the Protection from Harassment Act, the repeal of marital rape immunity, better access to housing for single parents, gender equal workplaces and greater support for low income families and caregivers of the elderly.
In recognition of her contributions to civil society and the advancement of women’s rights, Ms Lim received a Fulbright Scholarship (1998 – 1999). As Executive Director, Ms Lim has improved the governance and management of AWARE, resulting in AWARE being awarded the Charity Governance and Transparency awards in 2015.
Prior to serving as Executive Director of AWARE, Ms Lim practised law for more than 10 years with Allen & Gledhill and Khattar Wong & Partners. She also has over 20 years of entrepreneurial and management experience, having been the co-founder and CEO of Bizibody Technology Pte Ltd, a dot-com company which was successfully transformed into a technology company specialising in the legal industry, as well as having led the creation, development and operation of Justice On Line, the world's first web-based video conferencing facility between the Courts and law firms.
Ms Lim has a Masters in Public Administration (with focus on social entrepreneurship) from Columbia University. She graduated with an LLB from the National University of Singapore and was called to the Singapore Bar in 1988. Ms Lim is also trained in Organisational Development and completed her Organisational Development Certificate Programme with the NTL Institute for Applied Behavioural Science.
8th IPS-Nathan Lecture Series — Gender Equality: The Time Has Come
8th S R Nathan Fellow Ms Corinna Lim’s lectures will examine the most pressing concerns facing women in Singapore today and contribute insights to the national gender equality review. Singapore has made impressive headway in advancing gender equality over the last half century. But whether gender equality has been a fundamental value in Singapore or merely an effect of economic growth is questionable. What would it mean, for all Singaporeans, to centre gender equality in Singapore’s future? Are there lessons to be learnt from Singapore’s women pioneers in civil society and politics? What socio-economic barriers do women continue to face at the workplace and at home? And critically, how can men play a part in achieving gender equality in Singapore?
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