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Mr Joseph Yubaraj Manuel Pillay is currently Chairman of the Singapore Exchange Limited Board (1999 - ) and Chairman of the Council of Presidential Advisers since 2 September 2005 (member since 2 January 2001). Mr Pillay was one of Singapore's top-ranking civil servants and was one of the pioneers who helped build Singapore's economy. He has served in the Ministries of Finance, Defence and National Development and as Chairman of the board of several government-linked companies including SIA, Temasek Holdings and DBS. He was the Managing Director of MAS and the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation from 1985 to 1989. Some of the organisations that he is currently involved in are the Singapore Indian Development Association, Investment Committee of the United Nations Pension Fund, the Board of Governors of Asia-Europe Foundation, the Assisi Home & Hospice, the Mount Alvernia Hospital, the Presidential Council for Minority Rights, and the Singapore Hospice Council. Mr Pillay obtained a Bachelor of Science (Hons) First Class in Engineering from the Imperial College of Science & Technology in 1965.
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