IUCN State and Governmental Agency Member
Mr Lim Liang Jim is the Group Director of the Conservation Division of the National Parks Board. Jim leads a team of 80 officers who are responsible for the management of, and research projects carried out in the four nature reserves in Singapore, as well as Pulau Ubin. Jim is concurrently Senior Director of the International Biodiversity Conservation Division, which is tasked with leading Singapore’s efforts in supporting the UN Convention on Biological Diversity; as well as supporting elements of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Prior to this, Jim headed the National Biodiversity Centre (NBC) which administers the Nature Conservation Masterplan, a comprehensive action plan for national biodiversity conservation.
Before joining NParks in 2009, Jim spent nine years in the Foreign Service. He is an ecologist and reptile taxonomist by training.