{"id":6349,"date":"2015-03-24T14:57:26","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T13:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/?p=6349"},"modified":"2017-01-06T11:46:22","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T10:46:22","slug":"lee-kuan-yew-2002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/lee-kuan-yew-2002\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee Kuan Yew: 2002"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"45693_1_thumbnail_868x420_page1_2280130\"<\/a>Mr Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore\u2019s Founding Prime Minister, died on 23 March 2015. He was one of the most illustrious recipients of the Fellowship of Imperial College.<\/p>\n

Mr Lee served as Singapore\u2019s Prime Minister for 31 years from 1959 to 1990, later becoming Senior Minister and Minister Mentor. During this period, Imperial and Singapore forged a wide range of education and research ties and in 2002 the College recognised Mr Lee\u2019s extraordinary achievements with the award of the Fellowship of Imperial College at a graduation ceremony on its annual Commemoration Day.<\/p>\n

On the eve of the ceremony, Mr Lee took the chance to reminisce about his first visit to London as a student in 1946, sharing some of his characteristically forthright views on Britain and the world at a special dinner for over 600 Imperial alumni, staff, students and friends held in the Natural History Museum\u2019s Dinosaur Hall.<\/p>\n