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Desmond Lee

Politician

Desmond Lee is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Desmond Lee · Desmond Li · Дезмънд Ли · Десмонд Ли · דזמונד לי · 4 more...				[sources]
Other name	Desmond Lee Ti-Seng · Desmond Li · Lí Chṳ-sṳ̂n · Lí Tì-seng · Десмонд Ли · 3 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	리즈성 · 이지승				[sources]
Birth date	1976-07-15				[sources]
Place of birth	Singapore				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Singapore				[sources]
Country	Singapore				[sources]
Citizenship	Singapore				[sources]
Classification	National government (current)				[sources]
E-Mail	desmond_lee@msf.gov.sg				[sources]
First name	Desmond				[sources]
Last name	Li				[sources]
Title	Mr				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q16215886				[sources]
Position	Chairman · Member of the Parliament of Singapore · Member of the Parliament of Singapore (2025-) · Minister for Education · Minister for Education (2025-) · 5 more...				[sources]
Education	Anglo-Chinese School · Bachelor of Civil Law · Bachelor of Laws · National University of Singapore · Raffles Institution · 1 more...				[sources]
Source link	www.cia.gov · www.sgdi.gov.sg · www.sgdi.gov.sg				[sources]
Last change	2025-09-23	Last processed	2025-10-02	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Singaporean politician and lawyer (born 1976)

— Wikidata non-official source, 2025-05-09

Relationships

Family members
Relative	Relationship	Start date	End date
Lee Yock Suan Politician	child · father	-	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Minister, Prime Minister's Office	2017-05-01	2017-09-10

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Data sources

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories375,836

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Wikidata · non-official source

US CIA World Leaders11,019

An index of most national-level cabinet members in world governments that is publicly maintained by the CIA.

United States of America · CIA

Singapore Government Directory34,716

Senior officials of ministries, statutory boards and other public bodies in Singapore.

Singapore · SGD

Every Politician58,326

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons274,067

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions546,036

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata349,338

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External dataset · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: NK-JLP8p5uG6RFTXbgpgxnKvM · sg-gov-b14887cdab6a1a0abc055e4da7e1e188e87502d4 · us-cia-singapore-desmond-lee-minister-for-education · sg-gov-20a1e537f3b177307276f5cd32bf7f22e6682db9 · us-cia-singapore-desmond-lee-minister-for-national-development · evpo-15139953-a9b0-4358-a59d-813185268131 · sg-gov-b46627bcc3d0e9540e43f9f5749b8f3ca5bf4a04 · NK-78qgSWKMRwYPrEoPNFvq6b · NK-AAzGLAYrQ5ZwBpTNSWWkip · sg-gov-090bb9344b1821f721b61f930d99c54b87891092 · sg-gov-934115c5cce34b88e686f04f6b86c40e5b6b79f0

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