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honorary fellow at LSE and an honorary university fellow of the
University of Hong Kong. He was conferred the Outstanding Service Award by NUS, the Singapore President's Award for Philanthropy, and the Public Service Medal by the Singapore Government in 2013. In 2015, he was conferred the Honorary Doctor of Letters by NUS and the Distinguished Alumni Leadership Award by LSE.
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contributed £2 million to his other alma mater, LSE, for the student centre building that bears his name and also supported the Saw Swee Hock
Southeast Asia Centre. He has made contributions to universities in Singapore, China, Hong Kong and the UK. His family made its money by investing in bungalows, in part with an inheritance from his businessman father-in-law.
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Saw was also known for his philanthropy. He was named one of the "48 Heroes of
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Nations Committee on Salary Adjustments and the International Statistical Institute, and was the first chairman of the National Statistical Commission of Singapore. He has held visiting positions in, among
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Statistics at the University of Hong Kong, honorary professor at Xiamen University, and President's Honorary Professor of Statistics at NUS. He was made an
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