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OUR HISTORY

Dr Lien Ying Chow (1906 – 2004) was born in Guangdong, China, and immigrated to Singapore at the age of 14 in year 1920. He was an extraordinary business leader and banker, best known as the founder of Overseas Union Bank. He was also a dedicated community leader, trusted diplomat and big-hearted philanthropist.
Dr Lien was closely associated with education throughout his life. He believed in helping the poor and needy through formal education, and he played a key role in the founding of Nanyang University, the predecessor of Nanyang Technological University (NTU).
The legacy of Dr Lien continues to this day through the Lien Foundation, established in 1980, and has grown from strength-to-strength in recent years with the partnership with NTU. These programmes are the Lien Ying Chow Legacy Fellowship, the Lien Challenge for Sustainable Society, the Lien Public Service Excellence Index for Chinese Cities, an initiative under the Lien Chinese Public Service Research, and Lien’s China Private Philanthropy Sector Research and Survey.

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Dr Lien Ying Chow (1906-2004)

OUR EVENT
  • Upcoming Events
  • Past Events
2024 Lien China Development Forum
04/11
2024
Lien Fellow Speakers Series - Lifelong Learning System in Singapore
09/19
2024
NCPA Distinguished Speaker Series - Government in Business: Friend or Foe?
09/12
2024
Lien Fellow Speakers Series 2024
05/20
2024
2023 Lien Fellows Night
01/24
2024
2023 Lien International Conference on Good Governance
10/03
2023
2022 Lien Development Conference
01/19
2023
Lien Fellow Speakers Series 2024: Tripartism in Singapore
05/20
2024
Lien International Conference on Good Governance 2023 Good governance for the common good
10/03
2023
Lien Development Conference 2022 The Dynamics of Governance in a Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous World
01/19
2023
Double Celebration for the Nanyang Centre for Public Administration and Lien Ying Chow Legacy Fellowship
12/07
2022
International public administrators gather to discuss governance in a post-COVID world
11/29
2021
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