Charles Lim received his degree in law in 1979 from Cambridge University and attended the 1996 Executive Program at Stanford University. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Infocomm Development Authority and the recently formed Advisory Council on Impact of New Media on Society (AIMS) and the Bioethics Advisory Committee.

He has since 1990 been closely involved in the deployment of info-comms technology (ICT) in the legal sector as well as the development of a legal framework for ICT and E-Commerce in Singapore.  In 1997, he chaired the E-Commerce Hotbed Study Group on Legal, Regulatory and Enforcement Issues. For this work, he was awarded the IT Leader Award by the Singapore Computer Society in 1999. As a member of the Commonwealth Expert Working Group on Legal Aspects of IT and the Related Law of Evidence (London, 2000 and 2002), he was involved in drafting the Commonwealth Model Law on Electronic Transactions.

As a member of the corporate Finance Committee (1997) and the Pro-Tem Committee on the Demutualisation and Merger of the Singapore equity and derivatives exchanges (1998), he was involved in the restructuring of Singapore's corporate and financial sector.

• Halsbury’s Laws of Singapore, Vol 16, Revenue and Taxation, (2004)

• “Effective Transnational Models of Collaboration: Bilateral Formal Cooperation” in “Cyber Security: Turning National Solutions into International Cooperation, edited by James A. Lewis, CSIS Press, Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Washington DC (2003).

• “Goods and Services Tax – the Law and Practice”, Butterworths Asia, 1997, 2nd Edition (2002)

• "E-Commerce Business Models - the Law's Response" in Leading the Law and Lawyers into the New Millenium, Butterworths (2000)