About Dr. Goh Keng Swee

Dr. Goh Keng Swee was the mastermind and chief economic architect behind modern Singapore. Working alongside Singapore's founding Prime Minister, Lee Kuan Yew, Dr. Goh was the pragmatic genius who successfully transformed a small, struggling tropical island into one of the world's wealthiest financial and industrial powerhouses.

Later in life, his economic brilliance was recognized globally when China appointed him as an official economic advisor to help blueprint their own modern economic rise. He is widely remembered as a brilliant, no-nonsense problem solver who used hard data to change the course of history.

Dr Goh Keng Swee has initiated transformations in many fields and is regarded as a world stateman. Here are some features of his life story and achievement.