Overview

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The NRF supports the Research Innovation and Enterprise Council (RIEC).

The RIEC is chaired by the Prime Minister of Singapore, who appoints members to two-year terms. The RIEC comprises Cabinet Ministers and distinguished local and foreign members from the business, science and technology communities.

Set up in 2006, the RIEC provides strategic direction for national R&D. It has two main goals:

Advise the Singapore Cabinet on national research and innovation policies and strategies to drive the transformation of Singapore into a knowledge-based society, with strong capabilities in R&D; and

Lead the national drive to promote research, innovation and enterprise by encouraging new initiatives in knowledge creation in science and technology, and to catalyse new areas of long term economic growth.

This high-level council underscores the political commitment to and importance placed on the national R&D agenda.

RIEC Members

Mr Lee Hsien Loong Prime Minister and Chairman, RIEC	Mr Teo Chee Hean Deputy Prime Minister, Coordinating Minister for National Security, and Special Advisor to NRF	Mr Heng Swee Keat Minister for Finance and Chairman, NRF Board
Dr Ng Eng Hen Minister for Defence	Dr Vivian Balakrishnan Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister-in-charge of the Smart Nation Initiative	Mr Gan Kim Yong Minister for Health
Mr S Iswaran Minister for Communications and Information	Mr Chan Chun Sing Minister for Trade and Industry	Mr Lawrence Wong Minister for National Development & Second Minister for Finance
Mr Masagos Zulkifli Minister for the Environment and Water Resources	Mr Ong Ye Kung Minister for Education	Mr Dominic Barton Global Managing Partner Emeritus, McKinsey & Co
Professor Isaac Ben-Israel Chairman, Israel National Council for Research and Development & Chairman, Israel Space Agency	Professor Robert Brown President, Boston University	Ms Chua Sock Koong Group CEO, Singtel
Mr Raymond Dalio Founder, Bridgewater Associates	Sir Richard Friend Cavendish Professor of Physics, University of Cambridge	Mr Hsieh Fu Hua Chairman, National University of Singapore Board of Trustees
Mr Koh Boon Hwee Chairman, Nanyang Technological University Board of Trustees & Chairman, Credence Partners	Dr Wilhelm Krull Secretary General, Volkswagen Foundation	Mr John Rice Chairman, GE Gas Power
Mr Michael Splinter Chairman, NASDAQ (Former Chairman and CEO, Applied Materials)	Mdm Sun Yafang Former Chairwoman, Huawei Technologies	Sir Richard Sykes Chairman, Royal Institution of Great Britain
Mr Tan Min-Liang Co-founder, CEO, and Creative Director, Razer Inc	Sir Andrew Witty CEO, Optum