Jamus Lim

Jamus Jerome Lim Chee Wui (; born 1976) is a Singaporean politician, economist and associate professor. A member of the opposition Workers' Party (WP), he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) representing the Anchorvale division of Sengkang GRC since 2020. Lim attended Catholic High School, Raffles Institution and Raffles Junior College as part of his early education in Singapore. His first job involved him working at Burger King. He was a service medic in the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) during his National Service (NS). Lim graduated from the University of Southern Queensland in 1998 with a Bachelor of Business degree in economics. He then obtained a Master of Science degree in economics from the London School of Economics in 2000, and went on to the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he graduated in 2006 with a Master of Arts degree in politics and a PhD in international economics. In 2018, Lim graduated from Harvard University Extension School with a Master of Liberal Arts degree in history. Lim started his career at JP Morgan, before working at the World Bank for seven years, from 2007 to 2014, serving in its Development Prospects Group and specialising in long-term macroeconomic projections. He was an economist at the Institute for Southeast Asian Studies and the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority. In 2018, he joined the Singapore-based independent investment management firm Thirdrock. Lim is an associate professor of economics at ESSEC Business School in Singapore. On 23 July 2020, Lim was elected to the council of the Economic Society of Singapore (ESS). Lim became a member of the Workers' Party (WP) in September 2019, having previously volunteered in the party's grassroots activities. On 30 June 2020, he was announced as part of a four-member WP team contesting in the newly-formed Sengkang GRC in the 2020 general election. On 1 July 2020, Lim engaged in a televised political debate with Francis Yuen of the Progress Singapore Party, Chee Soon Juan of the Singapore Democratic Party and Minister Vivian Balakrishnan of the governing People's Action Party.