Dr. Geh Min () is the former President of Nature Society in

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ...

. She was formerly a

Nominated Member of Parliament A Nominated Member of Parliament (NMP) is a member of the Parliament of Singapore who is appointed by the president. They are not affiliated to any political party and do not represent any constituency. There are currently nine NMPs in the Parl ...

from January 2005 to April 2006.

Early life and education

Geh studied at

Methodist Girls' School Methodism, also called the Methodist movement, is a group of historically related denominations of Protestant Christianity whose origins, doctrine and practice derive from the life and teachings of John Wesley. George Whitefield and John's br ...

and

Anglo-Chinese School Anglo-Chinese School (ACS) is a family of Methodist schools in Singapore and Indonesia. It was founded in 1886 by Bishop William Fitzjames Oldham as an extension of the Methodist Church. Anglo-Chinese School is usually abbreviated as "ACS", wit ...

. She is a medicine graduate of 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 ...

Career

Geh is a consultant ophthalmologist at

Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre Mount Elizabeth Hospital, known colloquially as Mount E, is a 345-bed private hospital in Singapore operated by Parkway Health. Construction began in 1976 and the hospital officially opened on 8 December 1979. The hospital specialises in cardi ...

, and also a visiting consultant at the Singapore National Eye Centre and the

National University Hospital The National University Hospital (NUH) is a tertiary referral hospital and academic medical centre in Singapore, located in Kent Ridge. It is a 1,160-bed tertiary hospital serving more than 670,000 outpatients and 49,000 inpatients and serves a ...

. In December 2004, Geh was appointed as a

. In 2006, Geh was one of the three recipients of the inaugural President's Award for the Environment, along with

Tommy Koh Tommy Koh Thong Bee (; born 12 November 1937) is a Singaporean diplomat, lawyer, professor and author who served as Singapore's Permanent Representative to the United Nations between 1968 and 1971. Early life and education Koh was born in Si ...

and the Waterways Watch Society (WWS). Geh heads the Environment and Health Functional Committee of the South-West Community Development Council. She is a board member of the Nature Conservancy's Asia Pacific Council; the Water Network of the PUB; and the Singapore Environment Council.

Personal life

Geh is the granddaughter of philanthropist

Lee Kong Chian Lee Kong Chian (; 18 October 1893 – 2 June 1967), also known by his alias Lee Geok Kun (), was a prominent Chinese businessman and philanthropist based in Malaya and Singapore between the 1930s and the 1960s. He was the founder of the Lee ...

References

1950 births Living people Singaporean ophthalmologists Singaporean people of Hokkien descent Singaporean people of Chinese descent Singaporean environmentalists Singaporean women environmentalists Singaporean Nominated Members of Parliament Anglo-Chinese School alumni National University of Singapore alumni Methodist Girls' High School, Singapore alumni {{Singapore-bio-stub