CIBEL-CCLA Conference | Sustainable Banking and Financial Regulation in Asia: Principles, Practice and Innovation

Professor Lee Pey Woan

Lee Pey Woan is Professor of Law at Singapore Management University. She graduated with an LL.B (First Class Honours) from King’s College, University of London and subsequently obtained the BCL from Oxford University. Pey Woan is currently Dean of the Yong Pung How School of Law. Prior to this appointment, Pey Woan was Vice Provost (Faculty Matters) of the University. In that capacity, she assisted the Provost on the planning and development of faculty and advises on faculty personnel policies generally. Pey Woan teaches Corporate Law and the Law of Torts but her research interests encompass company, private and commercial law. She has published widely in local as well as leading international journals including the Modern Law Review, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Law Quarterly Review, Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly as well as Journal of Business Law. She has also co-authored text books on Contract Law, Tort Law and Company Law. Her works have been cited by the Singapore Court of Appeal, the Singapore High Court and the Canadian Supreme Court. Apart from academic activities, Pey Woan also serves the legal profession by periodically speaking at legal conferences. In 2016, she was appointed amicus curiae to the Singapore Court of Appeal in PH Hydraulics & Engineering Pte Ltd v Airtrust (Hong Kong) Ltd [2017] SGCA 26; [2017] 2 SLR 129. 

Professor Andrew Lynch

Andrew Lynch is the Dean of the UNSW Faculty of Law & Justice. He has previously served as Head of School and Deputy Dean. He teaches and researches in the field of Australian constitutional law. His research concentrates on the topics of federalism, judicial dissent, judicial appointments reform, and legal responses to terrorism. 
 
Andrew is an author of Blackshield & Williams’ Australian Constitutional Law and Theory (6th ed, 2014; 7th ed, 2018), Australia's Greatest Judicial Crisis - The Tim Carmody Affair (2016), Inside Australia’s Anti-terrorism Laws and Trials (2014), What Price Security? Taking Stock of Australia’s Anti-Terror Laws (2006), and Equity and Trusts (2001 and 2005). He is a co-editor of the books Law and Liberty in the War on Terror (2007), Counter-Terrorism and Beyond: The Culture of Law and Justice After 9/11 (2010), Tomorrow’s Federation: Reforming Australian Government (2012) and the editor of Great Australian Dissents (2016). 

Between 2008-2013, Andrew was the Director of the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law at UNSW and he continues to work on research housed within the Centre’s Judiciary Project. He is a member of the Council of the Australasian Institute of Judicial Administration and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law. 

The Honourable Justice Ang Cheng Hock

Justice Ang Cheng Hock was appointed Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court of Singapore on 14 May 2018 and High Court Judge on 1 August 2019. 
He graduated with a Bachelor of Laws degree (1st Class Honours) from the National University of Singapore in 1995 and a Master of Laws degree from Yale Law School in 1998. He served as a Justices' Law Clerk in the Supreme Court in 1996 and 1997. He was called to the Singapore Bar in 1996 and admitted as an Attorney & Counsellor at Law in the State of New York in 1999. 
Before his appointment as a Judicial Commissioner, Justice Ang was a partner in Allen & Gledhill, and a member of its Litigation and Dispute Resolution department.  
 
His main areas of practice included civil and commercial litigation, international arbitration and corporate-related disputes such as shareholders' disputes, breaches of directors' duties, securities-related and banking litigation, defamation and professional liability. He also represented clients in insolvency-related litigation, shipping disputes and intellectual property disputes. He was appointed Senior Counsel in 2009. 

Ms Ipshita Chaturvedi

Ipshita Chaturvedi is a Partner in Dentons Rodyk's Corporate department and Environment and Natural Resources practice. 
 
Ipshita has over 12 years of experience in international environmental law and natural resources management. She has worked with law firms, governments (Indian, European and from the MENA region) as well as international organisations like the United Nations to integrate principles of sustainable development in business and policy-making. 
 
Prior to joining Dentons Rodyk, Ipshita was the founding partner of an award-winning law firm offering end-to-end services exclusively on matters around environmental compliance and regulation, clean-technology, waste management and EPR-related matters, carbon finance, water law and oceans governance. 

Ms Natalie Curtis

Natalie leads Herbert Smith Freehills' financial services regulatory practice in Singapore, which also covers Southeast Asia. Natalie is valued by the industry for her 'multi-jurisdictional experience' and her 'proactive' approach’. The team she leads is described as 'forward thinking and proactive' and has 'a generally unique offering in its relationship with regulators and know-how of the market which it shares with clients and industry players' (Asia-Pacific Legal500 2019). 
 
Natalie has extensive experience advising on a broad range of regulatory and compliance matters, including financial services licensing, senior management accountability, culture and conduct issues, anti-money laundering (AML) regulation and compliance, suitability of investment products, cross-border marketing, M&A involving regulated entities, and the cross-border and local impact of regulatory change. She has also advised a number of fintech clients, including in relation to robo-advice, online distribution platforms, cryptocurrency exchanges, payments and acquiring business and initial coin offerings. 
 
Her contentious experience includes advising clients on internal and regulatory investigations and enforcement, including in relation to insider trading, conflicts of interest, employee conduct issues, systems and controls breaches, IPO sponsorship conduct, misleading financial advice fees, mis-selling and breaches of AML regulations. 

Mr Lam Chee Kin

Chee Kin is accountable for the team which manages the legal and regulatory risk of DBS across legal entities, segments and geographies. Prior to joining, he held various legal and compliance portfolios in Standard Chartered Bank, JPMorgan, Rajah & Tann and Allen & Gledhill, including a stint as Chief Operating Officer, South East Asia for JPMorgan. 
 
A lawyer by profession, he has particular expertise in financial services regulation, and financial markets product and business structuring. Currently, however, he is focusing on the impact of digitisation, and the evolution of frameworks that will be necessary to cope with digitisation and data, together with second-order issues such as how criminal activity will also evolve, and how legal and compliance departments can benefit from analytics and AI. 
 
Chee Kin currently serves on the Advisory Board to the Singapore Management University Yong Pung How School of Law and the Advisory Panel to the NUS Centre for Banking and Finance Law. In 2015, Chee Kin was recognised as a Distinguished Fellow by the Institute of Banking and Finance in the field of compliance. 

Mr Howard Silby

As Chief Innovation Officer at National Australia Bank, Howard is responsible for developing partnerships and incubating innovations to take the bank forward in leaps. Working across both Australia and New Zealand, his team works closely with both small and large technology firms, fintechs and other partners to provide innovations, particularly in the area of Sustainability and Digital Assets. Howard is also responsible for NAB Ventures, the corporate venturing division of NAB. His previous roles have included being on the banks group-wide Risk leadership team and managing regulatory affairs, as well as being CEO of Ubank and COO of the Bank of New Zealand. 

Howard has worked in the UK, Australia and New Zealand in Financial Services for over 25 years. He has a Masters degree in Mathematics from New Zealand and a M.B.A from Durham University in England. 

Mr Tan Boon Gin

Mr Tan Boon Gin joined Singapore Exchange (SGX Group) as Chief Regulatory Officer on 15 June 2015. He now heads Singapore Exchange Regulation, an independent regulatory subsidiary of SGX Group, which undertakes all front-line regulatory functions to promote a fair, orderly and transparent market. 
 
Before joining SGX Group, Mr Tan was the Director of the Commercial Affairs Department of the Singapore Police Force. Prior to this, Mr Tan held several appointments at the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) including Director of the Enforcement Division, Director of the Corporate Finance Division and Executive Director of the Investment Intermediaries Department. Mr Tan was seconded to MAS after serving as a District Judge at Singapore’s Subordinate Courts. Mr Tan’s earlier roles include serving as a Justices’ Law Clerk at Singapore’s Supreme Court and a Deputy Public Prosecutor at the Attorney General’s Chambers, where he specialised in corruption and white collar crime, before leaving to practise at Messrs Sullivan & Cromwell in New York. He is a member of the Singapore Institute of Directors Council and serves on the Board of the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore and SATA CommHealth.  

Mr Tan is an advocate and solicitor and holds degrees from the University of Cambridge and Harvard Law School. Mr Tan was awarded the Public Administration (Silver) Medal in 2010. 

Assistant Professor Lau Kwan Ho

Kwan Ho Lau is the Deputy Director of the Centre for Commercial Law in Asia at the SMU Yong Pung How School of Law. He teaches and researches primarily on the law of contracts and private law. His other research interests include the legal process and the development of the legal profession. His writings have been published in top-ranked journals and cited by the courts in Singapore. Prior to joining SMU, Kwan Ho practised in the corporate mergers and acquisitions department of a major law firm in Singapore for a number of years and, before that, worked in the Supreme Court of Singapore as a Justices’ Law Clerk.

Mr Robert Chalmers

Rob is a Lecturer in Law at Flinders University, with broad experience in legal practice, commercial development, and investment management. He has worked for over three decades at the interface between public sector research and industry. He teaches in the fields of Technology Regulation, Intellectual Property, Contract and Innovation. His key research interests are in the intersection between technology, society and the law and the role that regulatory theories and approaches play in managing that interaction. He has extensive experience as a company director, including on technology start-ups in the AI and biotechnology fields.

Associate Professor Xichen Li

Dr Li Xichen is currently an associate professor of the School of Law, Xihua University. She teaches economic law and financial law. Dr Li is the Reserve Candidate of Sichuan Province Academic and Technical Leader. Dr Li's research focuses on financial and technological law. She published 4 books and more than 30 papers, many of which are retrieval periodicals by Chinese Social Science Citation Index. Her recent works are mainly about smart contracts; Legal Effect of Smart Contracts Based on Blockchain was published in Chongqing Social Sciences in 2020 and Challenges of Blockchain Smart Contract to Traditional Contract Law and the Way to Deal with It appeared in the Journal of Xihua University in 2020. 

Dr George Tian

Dr George Tian is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia. George has published extensively in intellectual property, competition law, digital laws, and cross-border commercial transactions in Australia, China, the UK, and the US. He is the author of the book Re-thinking Intellectual Property: The Political Economy of Copyright Protection in the Digital Era (Routledge, UK, 2009) and a co-author of the book Australian Commercial Law (Cambridge University Press, 2nd ed, 2020). George is also a current UDRP Neutral (domain name arbitrator) appointed by World Intellectual Property Organization. He previously served as a Consultant of the International Labour Organization (2007), a Visiting Scholar of Berkman Centre at Harvard Law School (Summer 2005), and a Visiting Research Fellow of Oxford IP Research Centre, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford (Michaelmas 2011).

Professor Deborah Healey

Deborah Healey, Professor at UNSW Law & Justice and Co-Director of UNSW Law’s Herbert Smith Freehills CIBEL Centre, teaches courses in Competition Law at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and a comparative competition law course Global Issues in Competition Law and Policy (which focuses on jurisdictions including China). She has developed a course in Asian Competition Law which she teaches with other regional experts, and also teaches Australian Consumer Law. Deborah's current research focus is on competition law, particularly the Anti-Monopoly Law of China, but also Singapore and Hong Kong. Deborah is also a well-known sports lawyer, who has developed and teaches in number of sports related commercial courses in the LLM programme, as well as researching and writing in the area. 

Assistant Professor Nydia Remolina León

Nydia Remolina is an Assistant Professor of Law at Singapore Management University, and the FinTech track lead at the SMU Centre for AI and Data Governance. Her research focuses on the intersection of law, finance and technology. Before SMU, Nydia worked for 10 years in the financial sector, was a Senior Advisor to the OECD, and worked at Sullivan & Cromwell. Nydia obtained a JSM degree from Stanford University, and is completing her PhD in Law at the University of Zurich. Her research has been published in internationally recognised peer-reviewed journals, cited in outlets such as Forbes, and featured in the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, the Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog, the Oxford Business Law Blog, and the Regulatory Review of the University of Pennsylvania Law School. 

Professor Heng Wang

Professor Heng Wang is a co-director of UNSW Law & Justice's Herbert Smith Freehills China International Business and Economic Law (CIBEL) Centre, the largest centre in this field outside China. He is also a co-director of the Tsinghua-UNSW Joint Research Centre for International Commercial and Economic Law (JCICEL). He explores the future of international economic relationship, including digital currency and sustainable development. Heng is a recipient of major grants and awards. He has advised or spoken at events organized by international organizations and institutions (e.g., APEC, BIS, HCC, ICC, IMF, UNCITRAL, WTO), and the private sector. 

Mr Ian Kwek

Ian Kwek holds an LLB (First Class) from the University of Birmingham. He is a Relevant Legal Trainee at Legis Point LLC and will be undertaking his Part A Bar Course. At Birmingham Law School, he was the Pro Bono Coordinator for the Environmental Law Matters Project where he undertook research on Sustainable Neighbourhood Planning in Birmingham on behalf of the Environmental Law Foundation. His motivation for his paper stems from his intellectual interest in the complex challenges posed by the climate emergency and his aspiration to contribute to Singapore’s thriving hub for clean energy in Southeast Asia. 

Dr I-Ju Chen

Chen I-Ju is a Teaching Fellow at the University of Birmingham Law School, where she completed her funded PhD. She was a Visiting Scholar at Durham University School of Law (2021). She holds an LLM from University College London after practising corporate and commercial law in BNP Paribas Taiwan for 3 years. Her research interests lie in international economic law, in particular international trade and investment law, financial law, and comparative competition law. Her publications appear in the Chinese Journal of Comparative Law (OUP), Asian Journal of WTO and International Health Law and Policy, and Vermont Journal of Environmental Law.

Assistant Professor Stefanie Schacherer

Dr Stefanie Schacherer is Assistant Professor of Law at the Singapore Management University. Previously, she held research positions at the Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore, and at the World Trade Institute, University of Bern, Switzerland. Dr Schacherer obtained her Ph.D. in International Law from the University of Geneva and the University of Vienna, and holds an LL.M. from King’s College London, a Master and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Geneva. Dr Schacherer has published widely on sustainable development and international investment law. Her monograph titled Sustainable Development in EU Foreign Investment Law was published in 2021 with Brill/Nijhoff. 

Associate Professor Christian Hofmann

Dr Christian Hofmann is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law of the National University of Singapore, where he holds the positions of Deputy Director at the Centre for Asian Legal Studies (CALS) and Head of Financial Regulation and Central Banking at the Centre for Banking & Finance Law (CBFL). Prior to joining NUS Law, he was a senior legal counsel for the German Central Bank and a law professor at the Private University in the Principality of Liechtenstein. He held many further research and teaching appointments with law faculties in Europe, North America and Asia, among them as a Global Research Fellow at NYU, Visiting Scholar and Humboldt Fellow at UC Berkeley, and Visiting Fellow of the Commercial Law Centre at Harris Manchester College, Oxford. Christian’s research focuses on Banking Law, Financial Regulation, Comparative Company Law, European Union Law and Comparative Civil Law 

Ms Lisa-Marie Ross

Lisa-Marie Ross specializes in comparative studies between Asia and Europe at the Centre for Asian Legal Studies (Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore). A graduate of NUS Law (LLM) and the University of Kiel (LLB), Lisa is completing a doctoral degree in the field of Sustainability and Insurance Law at the Goethe-University Frankfurt, where she was a research associate for six years. Lisa is a trained banker and has worked in several banking and lecturing positions. Therefore, Lisa is particularly interested in responses to legal challenges resulting from the transformation of financial markets by the fast-moving digital ledger technology.

Mr Tony Song

Tony Song is a Research Fellow for the NSW Law Society’s Future of Law and Innovation (FLIP) research stream at UNSW Law & Justice. Tony’s research interest covers the impact of technology on the legal profession and across society, with a focus on AI, remote courts, drones, online trust, and web3. Tony is also a part-time trader of financial markets (primarily cryptocurrencies) with certificates in the Wyckoff methodology of technical analysis. 

Associate Professor Jason Grant Allen

Jason Grant Allen is an Associate Professor of Law at SMU Yong Pung How School of Law. His work is focused on private law and regulatory issues raised by blockchain and DLT, particularly for the concept of money, the digitalisation of contracts, and the proprietary protection of digital assets. He is a member of UNIDROIT and UNCITRAL working groups on the law of emerging technologies, and co-chairs the working group "emerging money systems" under the Cambridge Digital Assets Programme. A dual qualified lawyer in NY and Australia, Jason is a founder partner of Stirling & Rose, an Australian incorporated legal practice specialised on digital law.