Ms Caryn Lim
Chief Executive Officer
Ms Caryn Lim brings with her experience in manpower planning and policy development. She is presently the CEO of e2i. Caryn has led the organisation to engage with and forge deeper partnerships with industry sectors, including the launch of Accountancy Careers Hub and Tourism Careers Hub, to provide sector-specific skills upgrading and jobs support. She also worked closely with Government partners to develop and administer the Company Training Committee Grant, empowering industries to drive workforce transformation and business growth. Under her leadership, e2i now manages an extensive network of 27 touchpoints, expanding its role in the national personalised placement landscape to better support workers in their career journeys, and brings essential career support closer to communities. Caryn has strengthened the role and relevance of NTUC’s Job Security Council ecosystem in supporting the different needs of various employers and workers, be it during crises or peacetime. With her strategic guidance, e2i continues to amplify efforts to create solutions for better employment and employability.
Before helming e2i, she was already with the Labour Movement family since 2019 as Director of NTUC’s Economic and Social Policy Units. She helped developed the 2 new departments to formulate and advocate policy positions on labour issues as well as internal policies. During her time there, Caryn also advocated for Self-Employed Persons (SEPs) whose livelihoods were badly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. She worked with NTUC and Ministry of Manpower (MOM) counterparts to develop and administer the Self-Employed Persons Income Relief Scheme (SIRS). As a result, SIRS helped about 200,000 SEPs.
Prior to that, she worked in various roles at MOM, including developing policies for Continuing Education and Training (CET) as well as the protection of foreign workers and foreign domestic workers in Singapore. At MOM, she was part of the team that developed and implemented the Skills Programme for Upgrading and Resilience (SPUR) during an economic downturn to cut costs and save jobs. She was also involved in policy formulation to develop the two major CET Campuses – which today are the Devan Nair Institute for Employment and Employability and the Lifelong Learning Institute.
