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Edward Lee Kwong Foo is a former ambassador and businessman from Singapore. He completed his study at the
National University of Singapore The National University of Singapore (NUS) is a national public research university in Singapore. Founded in 1905 as the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States Government Medical School, NUS is the oldest autonomous university in the c ...
(Bachelor of Arts in History) in 1970.


Career

He started his career as a high commissioner to Brunei Darussalam (1984-1990). Following that, he served as Singapore's Ambassador to the Philippines from 1990 to 1993, and continued to be Singapore's Ambassador to Indonesia from 1994 to 2006. He supported Indonesia with humanitarian aid during the crisis in 1997/98. He is on the board of two Singaporean public companies:
Indofood Agri Resources Indofood Agri Resources Ltd. (shortened as IndoAgri) is an investment holding company and a subsidiary of . Through Anthoni Salim's First Pacific and Indofood, he owns 74% of the company's voting rights. The company is listed on Singapore Exchange ...
and QAF as well the Indonesian food production company Dermaga Perkasa Pratama.


Awards

*1993:
Order of Sikatuna The Order of Sikatuna ( fil, Orden ng Sikatuna) is the national order of diplomatic merit of the Republic of the Philippines. It is conferred upon individuals who have rendered exceptional and meritorious services to the Republic of the Philipp ...
, Grand Cross by the
Government of the Philippines The Government of the Philippines ( fil, Pamahalaan ng Pilipinas) has three interdependent branches: the legislative, executive, and judicial branches. The Philippines is governed as a unitary state under a presidential representative and d ...
*2007: ''Bintang Jasa Utama'' (First Class Order of Service Award) from the Indonesian government for the improvement of bilateral relationship between Singapore and Indonesia.


References

Singaporean diplomats Ambassadors of Singapore to Indonesia Ambassadors of Singapore to the Philippines University of Singapore alumni 1947 births Living people {{Singapore-business-bio-stub