[2][3] Lim earned his Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Economics from the City of London Polytechnic in 1976, and his Post Graduate Certificate of Education from Keele University in 1977.

[6][7] Retno Marsudi, Dato Lim, Anies Baswedan, and other attendees attended the groundbreaking ceremony on the same day to commemorate the Government of Indonesia's construction of the new ASEAN Secretariat building.

[8] The ASEAN agenda for the period after 2025 should be more dynamic and able to introduce new initiatives and put policies into place in response to shifting market and economic conditions, according to Dato Lim, who wrote the article that appeared in the Jakarta Post on 31 December 2022.

Taken together, these challenges have exposed gaps or weaknesses in the ability of ASEAN to address some of its goals, such as participation in global value chains, enhancement of macro-financial coordination and narrowing development gapsDato Lim expressed his satisfaction with the strengthening of ASEAN-EU cooperation during the previous 44 years in an interview from 2021.

[12] During the Spring Conferment of Decorations on Foreign Nationals on 29 April 2024, the Japanese government awarded Dato Lim the Order of the Rising Sun in recognition of his noteworthy achievements to promoting positive ties between Japan and ASEAN.