Mustafar Ali, Deputy Chief Commissioner (Prevention), Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC)

Deputy Commissioner Mustafar Ali joined public service in 1985 at the Anti-Corruption Agency. He held several position as Senior Investigator in Economic Branch, ACA Federal Territory Kuala Lumpur, prosecutor in the Prosecution Division.

In 2000, he was appointed as Director of Research and Planning and since 16 June 2004 was appointed and pioneered the establishment of the Malaysian Institute of Integrity (IIM) as Deputy President of the Malaysian Institute of Integrity.

On the 1st March 2010, he was appointed as Director of Investigation and on the 15th June 2014 as Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission Deputy Chief Commissioner (Prevention) till now. He holds numerous positions at National Level Committees such as Head of Secretariat of the Integrity Management Committee chaired by the Right Honorable Prime Minister of Malaysia and Member of the National Coordinating Committee on Anti-Money Laundering.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree - B.A. (Hons) from University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur in 1984 and Masters of Science (Ms.C) in Criminal Justice, at the University of New Haven, Connecticut, USA in 1995. 

Hon. Overall Deputy Ombudsman Melchor Arthur H. Carandang, Office of the Ombudsman, Philippines, Chair, APEC Network of Anti-Corruption Authorities and Law Enforcement Agencies (ACT-NET)

MELCHOR ARTHUR H. CARANDANG is the present Overall Deputy Ombudsman (ODO) of the Office of the Ombudsman having been appointed by President Benigno C.  Aquino on October 14, 2014. He assists the Ombudsman in overseeing and administering the operations of the Office of the Ombudsman. Aside from his current position, he is designated as the Acting Special Prosecutor of the Office of the Special Prosecutor, an organic component of the office with the primary mandate to prosecute cases of high-ranking officials within the jurisdiction of the Sandiganbayan. At the same time, he takes the helm as the Investment Ombudsman of the budding Investment Ombudsman Team to improve the business climate by protecting the investors against erring and abusive public officials.

Tracing back, ODO Carandang started working at the Office of the Ombudsman in 1989 as a senior planning officer when this said office was barely one year in existence while he was only in his fourth year in the college of law. He passed through the meritorious steps of promotion since a reorganization took place in 1990 occupying various positions.

In 1995, ODO Carandang was a recipient of a scholarship grant given by the Australian government to take up Master of Laws at the University of New South Wales. Upon  his return, he served in various capacities as head of the Legal, Monitoring and Prosecution Division  of the Fact Finding and Intelligence Bureau in 2000 and of the Research and Special Studies Bureau in 2001 before becoming the Assistant Ombudsman of the formerly known Fact-finding, Intelligence  and Research Office (FIRO) which later became the Field Investigation Office.

In 2007, ODO Carandang opted to retire and since then has engaged in the practice of his profession as legal consultant at the Yazaki Torres Manufacturing, Inc. for about five years until his return in 2011 to the Office of the Ombudsman under the leadership of Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales as a consultant before occupying his present position. 

Dr Mark Lovatt, Business Integrity Programme Manager, Transparency International Malaysia

Dr Mark Lovatt is the Business Integrity Programme Manager for Transparency International Malaysia, and concurrently the Managing Director of TI BIP Malaysia Sdn Bhd, the consultancy wing of TI Malaysia. He holds a BA (Hons) and PhD from Nottingham University, UK, and has a background in IT, business analysis, corporate regulation and business development in the power & gas sector. He is an internationally recognised expert in private sector corruption, and speaks regularly at conferences and seminars across the region. A published author, he also lectures in Theology and business ethics.  

Kareena Teh, Partner, Litigation, Dechert 

Kareena Teh advises multinational, PRC and Hong Kong clients in governance, regulatory and compliance matters, contentious regulatory investigations, and corporate and commercial disputes. Ms. Teh’s experience in these areas includes representing multinational companies and individuals in cross-border fraud, corruption, money laundering and market misconduct investigations, including in particular internal and governmental investigations in the PRC.  She also represents such clients in relation to directors’ and officers’ liability issues, joint venture disputes, shareholders’ remedies, insolvency, asset-tracing claims, recovery actions and insurance litigation.

Ms. Teh was the first female solicitor in Hong Kong to be granted higher rights of audience, a designation permitting select, highly-qualified litigators to represent clients in civil matters in all levels of Hong Kong’s judicial system.

Ms. Teh has received accolades for her anti-corruption and regulatory compliance work on behalf of clients in cross-border fraud, corruption and money laundering investigations. She was included in the 2015 edition of Global Investigations Review’s “Women in Investigations” profile that highlights 100 remarkable women from around the world for their accomplishments in this area of law.

Eric Pesik, Associate General Counsel and Compliance Officer, Seagate Technology

Eric Pesik is the Associate General Counsel and Compliance Officer for Seagate Technology.  He has been a lawyer since 1997 and is a member of the State Bar of California, USA. He is also admitted to the US Court of International Trade in New York and the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC. He recently served as an Adjunct Assistant Professor with the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, in the School of Management, where he taught International Business Law, Politics, & Ethics at their Singapore campus as part of their international Executive MBA program.  He previously taught law school in California. 

Noah Gellner, Compliance Director, Baring Private Equity Asia

Noah Gellner, Compliance Director, joined Baring Private Equity Asia in 2014.  Mr. Gellner has primary responsibility for the ongoing implementation, administration and review of the firm’s compliance programs and works on regulatory matters.  Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Gellner was counsel to BlackRock’s fund businesses in Latin America and Canada and its US registered funds. Before that, he was a corporate associate at Kirkland & Ellis and at Clifford Chance, both in New York.  Prior to law school, Mr. Gellner worked at MarketAxess and at Chase bank in its International Fixed Income group. Mr. Gellner received a B.A. from McGill University in Economics and a J.D. from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law.

Balbeer Singh Jessy, Head, Legal & Secretarial Services, Iskandar Regional Development Authority (IRDA)

Balbeer joined IRDA in 2007, when it was established to spearhead the development of Iskandar Malaysia in south Peninsular Malaysia, with the Strategic Communications Department. Among his roles were to spearhead Media Relations and Stakeholder Management, Public Relations and Branding of Iskandar Malaysia while assisting the Legal Department in various roles.

Prior to joining IRDA, he was an Assistant News Editor with the New Straits Times in Kuala Lumpur and Group Account director in an advertising agency.

In 2011, he was appointed Head of Legal and Secretarial of IRDA, overseeing legal matters to ensure high levels of integrity and corporate governance, and attending to the Secretarial matters in ensuring highest Board standards and transparency.

Balbeer holds an MBA in Marketing (Distinction) from University of New England Australia (2003), Certificate of Legal Practice, Malaysia (2001), LLB (Hons) from University of London (1995) and B.A. (Hons) in Mass Communication from University of Science Malaysia (1983).

He was called to the Malaysian Bar in 2004 and has been the recipient of the Dag Hammarskjold Memorial Fellowship of United Nations Correspondents Association to cover UN General Assembly in 1990/91, Government of Finland Journalism Fellowship (1992), NSK-CAJ Fellowship to Japan (1992) and Harry Britain Memorial Fellowship (1992).

Balbeer is an also an Accredited Chief Integrity Officer (ACeiO), which was awarded by the Malaysian the Anti-Corruption Academy (MACA) in March 2015.

He was a judge and presenter at the Malaysia Law Awards, March 2015 for the “TMT In House Team of the Year” Award and led the IRDA Legal Division to win the Malaysian “Intellectual Property In-House team of the Year” Award at the Asian Legal Business Law Awards in 2014. He has also been Moot Court Judge at LAWASIA 2014 Bangkok,  LAWASIA 2013 Singapore and LAWASIA 2012 in Bali.  

Jackson K Pek, Vice President & General Counsel, Asia Pacific, Amadeus IT Group

Jackson supervises the legal and corporate affairs team at the Asia Pacific regional headquarters of Amadeus, the world’s leading transaction processor for the global travel and tourism industry.  A public company founded by Air France, Iberia and Lufthansa, Amadeus is a component of the IBEX 35, Spain’s benchmark stock market index.

Prior to joining Amadeus, Jackson was an attorney at the law firms Skadden Arps and White & Case in the U.S. and Asia, and most recently a senior attorney at IBM in charge of legal matters for the ASEAN countries and South Asia.

In addition to his work with Amadeus, Jackson has lectured at various universities in Asia, most notably the National University of Singapore Law School, where he served on the faculty for two years.

Jackson holds business and law degrees from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and from New York University School of Law. 

Matthew C. Stephenson, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

Matthew Stephenson is Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where he teaches and researches in the areas of anticorruption law & policy, administrative law, legislation, and the political economy of public law. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Global Anticorruption Blog (www.globalanticorruptionblog.com), and regularly consults on anticorruption and governance topics for the World Bank, United Nations, Transparency International, and other governments and non-governmental organizations. Prior to joining the Harvard Law School faculty, Professor Stephenson clerked Justice Anthony Kennedy on the United States Supreme Court. He received his J.D. and Ph.D. (in political science) from Harvard in 2003, and his B.A. (in East Asian Studies) from Harvard College in 1997. 

 Anthony Rose, Chairman and CEO, House of Rose Professional, former Vice-Presiident, Corporate Affairs, Walmart Asia

Anthony Rose is founder Chairman and CEO of the House of Rose Professional, a business consultancy committed to providing services in the Public Relations, Publishing and People segments and is based in Singapore.  Prior to this, Anthony was Vice President and head of the Corporate Affairs function for Walmart Asia based in Hong Kong.

Anthony has held a range of Corporate Affairs and Influencer Marketing roles since 1991 across Asia and North America with Walmart, Procter & Gamble, Clea PR, Glaxo and the Datamatics Group.

Anthony’s experience of 24 years spans every aspect of Influencer Marketing and Communications including his blueprint vision for the Future of Influencer Marketing in 2005, which became the basis of P&G’s global capability in that area.  He is also Co-Chair of the ECR Asia Pacific Executive Council - the industry’s pre-eminent association of Manufacturers and Retailers. Anthony is currently a faculty member at Singapore Management University (SMU) and former faculty at the Xavier Institute of Communications (XIC).

In his spare time, Anthony writes for charity. All his royalties from his best-selling book “Daddy’s Logic” have been donated to Habitat for Humanity. He will similarly donate all royalties from his latest book “Break the Ceiling, touch the sky” to Save the Children.

Anthony holds a Masters Degree in Geology and post-graduate qualification in Mass Communications from St Xavier’s College, Mumbai, India and the Xavier Institute of Communications, India, respectively. 

Sangeet Dalliwall, Director of Compliance, APAC, Carlson Wagonlit Travel

Sangeet Dalliwall is the APAC Director of Compliance at Carlson Wagonlit Travel based in Singapore. Sangeet is responsible for designing and overseeing all compliance and corporate governance matters in the region. She joined Carlson in 2013 from Rolls-Royce where she led the implementation of the bribery and corruption program globally. Her career has also spanned across risk consultancies as well as the legal sector. She has extensive expertise in legal and compliance matters globally and is experienced in handling the difficulties associated with making headway into unchartered markets and managing regulatory and compliance risks whilst being commercially sensitive.

Mark Pulvirenti, Managing Director, Control Risks

Mark is a chartered and certified forensic accountant with deep international experience in fraud and corruption advisory and investigation and dispute matters. He leads Control Risks’ compliance consulting services, complex multi-jurisdictional investigations and diverse technology solutions for clients in the Australia Pacific region.

Over the past 21 years, having resided in Australia, Hong Kong, the Cayman Islands and Thailand, and having case management experience in 25 countries across Asia Pacific, Europe and the Americas, Mark has established extensive international experience.

He specialises in financial crime advisory and investigation matters with a particular bribery and corruption specialty, having led multi-national teams in a number of high profile global matters. He also conducts financial investigations within disputed litigation and arbitration proceedings, having historically performed such investigations in the context of formal insolvency proceedings and restructuring appointments.

Mark’s career has included a number of significant investigation and advisory engagements, including:

• Assumed two senior regional leadership roles in one of the largest global forensic investigations related to alleged breaches of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

• Led several bribery, corruption and money laundering investigations for global mining and mining-services companies in businesses from Central Europe to East Asia, managing multi-discipline and multi-lingual teams

• Retained by US clients to investigate supply chain corruption allegations in China

• Acted as an expert in high profile criminal money laundering proceedings in Hong Kong

• Led an investigation into the collapse of a substantial energy sector hedge fund in New York

• Retained to trace funds from Australia, through Asia, into Caribbean offshore jurisdictions via hedge funds and other investment vehicles

• Led forensic components of a criminal investigation on behalf of an Australian regulator

• Retained by listed corporations as an expert to assess bribery and corruption risks and to ensure that internal controls, as part of wider corruption compliance programs, are robust and successfully mitigate such risks and detect issues

• Acted as an expert in proceedings against a large European financial institution involving allegations of fraud.

Prior to joining Control Risks, Mark was an Executive Director in AlixPartners’ Financial Advisory Services practice in Asia, responsible for the delivery of key forensic accounting and financial crime advisory services. Prior to joining AlixPartners, Mark was a Director in the Financial Crime group of Deloitte’s Australian Forensic practice and subsequently a Principal, and the Regional Forensic & Disputes Services Leader, of an independent Hong Kong advisory firm.

Mark holds a Bachelor of Business (Accounting Major) from Griffith University in Australia and a Diploma of Government (Investigations) in Australia. He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners in the United States, and the Australian Restructuring Insolvency & Turnaround Association.

Roshini Subapanditha, Sales Specialist - Enhanced Due Diligence, Thomson Reuters

Roshini is a Sales Specialist for Enhanced Due Diligence, Thomson Reuters, Southeast Asia and is based out of Hong Kong. She is a law graduate from the University of Wales and has been working in the field of risk management and compliance for over 7 years.She has a wealth of knowledge and experience in the industry with her last role being with The Red Flag Group and has dealt with a variety of clients within the financial, health-care, technology and logistics industry. They consisted of multi-national corporations with many of them being under the fortune 500 list. Prior to RFG, she spent a number of years at I-On Asia Limited, a due diligence firm, initially as a Researcher before working her way up to Senior Manager.

Steven Howard, General Counsel, APAC, Sony Mobile Communications

Steven Howard is General Counsel, Asia Pacific, for Sony Mobile Communications.  Based in Singapore, Steven is responsible for all legal, compliance and regulatory matters for Sony’s mobile telecommunications business in the region (ex-Japan, ex-Greater China).  Prior to this, he held in-house and private practice positions in Tokyo and Singapore.  In addition to handling any and all legal matters that come his way, he has experience developing and implementing internal compliance programs, investigations, policies, procedures and training for Sony Mobile.

Steven graduated from the University of Hawaii, William S. Richardson School of Law, and is a member of the State Bars of Hawaii and California, the International Bar Association, the Inter-Pacific Bar Association, Association of Corporate Counsel and the Singapore Corporate Counsel Association.

Dominique Abrokwa, Resources, Environment and Water Group Compliance Officer, SNC-Lavalin

Dominique Abrokwa is the RE&W Group Compliance Officer (GCO) for the Resources, Environment and Water Group at SNC-Lavalin. He obtained his law degree from the University of Hamburg in Germany. Prior to joining SNC-Lavalin, he practiced international contract law in Germany before deciding to move into the engineering sector by joining Siemens. There Dominique held the position of Regional Compliance Officer and General Manager and then moved on to become the Compliance Officer for the Energy Middle East and Africa Region.

As Regional Compliance Officer and General Manager he was responsible for the Western Africa Region. Dominique, a Ghanaian origin, became a professional advisor not just to top-and middle management, but also for employees in sensitive key functions. One of his success stories was establishing a solid network in Nigeria with reputable stakeholders to fight collective corruption. Simultaneously, he became an avid ambassador of a robust compliance system for Western Africa.

Dominique is passionate about his role and strives to ensure that ethics and compliance become a natural way of operating for the teams he works with. He sees his most important challenge as transforming the company’s values into everyday behaviour so that ethics and compliance become a living code, much more than just theory and regulations. 

Kiat Seng Lee, Senior Compliance Officer, Asia, Fujitsu

LEE Kiat Seng is currently the Senior Compliance Officer, Asia, in Fujitsu. Based in the Asia Region Office in Singapore, he covers Fujitsu’s business operations in Asia, including China. Prior to joining Fujitsu, Kiat Seng fulfilled the roles of Interim Risk & Compliance Counsel, Asia, for DTZ and Regional Counsel, Legal & Compliance, Asia Pacific & Middle East for DaVita. In all of these roles, Kiat Seng had charge of the compliance program and regulatory affairs of the company in question.

Before Kiat Seng took up the in house roles above, he was a partner of Baker & McKenzie, based in Singapore. He was a member of the Firm’s Asia Pacific Restructuring & Insolvency Steering Committee, the Asia Pacific Compliance Task Force as well as the Asia Pacific Dispute Resolution Steering Committee. He was heavily involved in the disputes, compliance and restructuring & insolvency practices at both the Singapore office as well as across the Asia Pacific region.  Kiat Seng has advised and represented clients in Singapore, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, South Korea, USA, UK, Italy, Japan, the Peoples’ Republic of China, the Republic of China, Laos, India, Germany, Vietnam and other countries in the region.

Kiat Seng has been a professor at the Law School at the National University of Singapore for just over 25 years: first as a full time academic and now as an adjunct associate professor. He is extensively published in both criminal law and insurance/reinsurance law.

Terence Teo, General Counsel, Asia-Pacific, Atlas Copco

Terence is a graduate of the National University of Singapore Law School Class of 1986.  He has nearly 30 years of experience as a legal professional in general practice, government service, and senior legal counsel positions in large corporations such as Thomson multimedia.  He joined the Edwards Group in 2006, and now holds the position of General Counsel, Asia Pacific of Atlas Copco, which acquired the Edwards Group in 2014.

Terence is responsible for the management of legal issues and risk management in Asia Pacific for Edwards and now Atlas Copco covering ASEAN, South Asia, Korea, Japan and until recently Greater China. He conducts regular training workshops on contract risk management, compliance with the Edwards Code of Conduct, the Atlas Copco Code of Business Practice, the UK Bribery Act, the FCPA, and the handling of dawn raids.  Terence is a keen student of military history, and continues to find valuable lessons to be learnt from past conflicts that apply in life and work. 

Paul Frontczak, Senior Legal Counsel, ABC and Antitrust, Shell Eastern Petroleum

Paul is Senior Legal Counsel, Anti-bribery & Corruption and Antitrust at Shell Eastern Petroleum.  He is based in Singapore and covers Shell’s business in Asia Pacific.  Prior to joining Shell, Paul was Counsel at Clifford Chance based in Washington, DC where he focused on Antitrust and internal investigations for large multinational clients.  He also spent time at the United States Federal Trade Commission where he was a Senior Attorney and led case teams conducting merger clearance reviews.

Paul graduated with honors from Albany Law School and received his MBA from Rice University. 

Mun Shern Yeoh, Legal Counsel, Hitachi

Mun Shern Yeoh is currently a Legal Counsel and Compliance Advisor in Hitachi Asia Ltd, in charge of the establishment and day-to-day operation and management of, and providing training on the anti-bribery and corruption compliance programme within the company’s Singapore office, as well as the regional offices in ASEAN.  Mun Shern has also provided training to other Hitachi group companies in the region on behalf of HQ. Her experience in this area include providing physical training on laws and policies, practical training and workshops to colleagues, and developing e-learnings and investigation work. 

Mun Shern has previously practised as a litigation lawyer in Rajah & Tann LLP from 2005 to 2007 and Rodyk & Davidson LLP from 2007 to 2009.  She has been with Hitachi Asia Ltd. from 2009 to-date. She was called to the Singapore Bar in 2005 and English Bar in 2003.

Boey Swee Siang, Partner, ATMD Bird & Bird LLP

Boey Swee Siang is a Partner based in ATMD Bird & Bird LLP in Singapore, where he heads the Dispute Resolution practice group. He has been practising in the field of civil litigation and international arbitration for more than 18 years, and has handled aspects of litigation at all levels, from the State Courts through to the Court of Appeal. He was involved in the largest representative action in Singapore's history to date, and has also represented international banks and large corporations in the High Court and the Court of Appeal.

Swee Siang has experience in the areas of commercial and banking litigation, defamation, professional negligence, construction law, and employment law: a field within which he advises a number of multi-national companies and international airlines.

He also has extensive experience in the field of domestic as well as international arbitration, having regularly represented parties in high value international arbitrations involving various rules, including ICC, SIAC, LCIA and Swiss Rules of Arbitration. He has also acted in ad hoc arbitrations.

Jelita Pandjaitan, Partner, Linklaters

Jelita leads Linklaters’ Southeast Asia disputes practice, with a focus on complex, high value cross-border disputes and investigations for major international banks and corporations, particularly in the financial, energy and resources sectors. After serving as a judicial clerk to the Chief Justice of New South Wales and then a Justice of the High Court of Australia, Jelita has spent 10 years acting for the firm’s key financial institution and corporate clients in Hong Kong, Singapore and throughout the Asian region in contentious regulatory, litigation, arbitration and mediation matters.

Jelita has extensive experience in local and international investigations, disciplinary proceedings and inspections involving financial regulators, regularly engaging with the key authorities and tribunals in Hong Kong as well as supporting clients dealing with the Monetary Authority of Singapore. In the areas of bribery and corruption, fraud and misconduct, Jelita provides end-to-end support from complex and sensitive transaction due diligence to risk-based drafting, compliance programmes and post-acquisition investigations in any relevant jurisdiction.  She offers tailored, practical, global risk analysis with a suite of strategic mitigation options and supports clients through the self-reporting and remediation processes as well as pursuing recovery of value in the post-acquisition context.

Examples of anti-bribery and corruption-related work include: investigating and advising a global investment bank on its PRC, Hong Kong, Singapore, UK and US risk exposure in respect of a substantial internal fraud with possible corruption elements, including multi-jurisdictional self-reporting and internal systems and controls assessments for regulated business units; investigating and advising a US-based private equity portfolio company on potential corruption issues in its PRC manufacturing enterprise, including alleged violation of currency restrictions, liability of the Hong Kong management office and self-reporting obligations in Hong Kong and the US; due diligence investigation for a multinational corporate on the structure of a proposed telecommunications joint venture in Malaysia to assess counterparty and government-connected funds flow risks; conducting bribery and corruption due diligence for a Swedish investor under both UK and US regimes on a proposed PRC joint venture in the diamond business; and assisting various financial institutions and corporations with suspicious transaction reporting and handling of funds in respect of potential proceeds of crime in Hong Kong and Singapore. 

Dan Shea, Director of Compliance & Litigation, Microsoft Asia Pacific & Japan

Dan Shea is based in Singapore and is currently the Director of Compliance and Litigation for Microsoft Asia Pacific & Japan.  Dan joined Microsoft in 2009 and his experience there has included providing global labor and employment law support, as well as conducting and directing global internal investigations.  His extensive experience in investigative work also includes nearly a decade as a litigator in the insurance industry. 

Cristopher Landrito, Regional Compliance Officer, Asia Pacific, Merck KGaA Group 

Cristopher Landrito is the Regional Compliance Officer for the Merck KGaA Group in Asia Pacific. He is a qualified lawyer from the Philippines with experience in litigation, banking, tax, and in government regulatory matters, in addition to ethics and compliance. He has worked in various capacities in the legislature, as well as in the banking, pharmaceutical and chemicals industries. Before assuming his current role, Cris was the Legal Counsel for Merck Serono, the Merck Group’s pharmaceutical division, in Southeast Asia.

Taur-Jiun Wong, President, Singapore Corporate Counsel Association, Head of Legal, Rabobank

Mr Wong Taur-Jiun is the President of the Singapore Corporate Counsel Association. He is the Head of Legal at the Singapore branch of Rabobank, one of the largest banks in the Netherlands. He graduated from the National University of Singapore with both a law degree and an MBA. He was admitted as an Advocate and Solicitor in Singapore and a Solicitor in England and Wales. Taur-Jiun started his career in litigation and corporate commercial practice before moving in-house into international trade, technology and now, financial services. Taur-Jiun is one of the founding members of the SCCA.

Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao, Project Coordinator, ASEAN CSR Network

Thao is the Project Coordinator at the ASEAN CSR Network where she works with local business networks and partners to promote responsible business conduct in ASEAN, with a special focus on the issues of business integrity, and business and human rights. Prior to this, she specialized in the Southeast Asia, South Asia and South Pacific regions at the Central Commission for External Relations, Vietnam. Thao holds a B.A. (Hons) in Journalism and International Studies, a Diploma (Hons) in Political Science from Academy of Journalism and Communication Vietnam, and Masters in Public Policy from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. 

Kelvin Yeo, Managing Director, Singapore, MLS Group

Kelvin Yeo has more than 27 years of experience counseling CEOs and senior management from multinationals, local corporations and organizations in branding and corporate communications, marketing communications, crisis and issues management and communications, leadership communications and media skills.

His clients are from industries and sectors as diverse as automotive products, energy, defence, FMCG, luxury products, banking and finance, government, healthcare, heavy industry, industry lobbying groups, tourism and travel, technology and telecommunications.

Kelvin is an experienced crisis, media and presentation skills trainer, and founded his own training company.    

Ranajit Dam, Managing Editor, Asian Legal Business

Ranajit Dam is the Managing Editor of Thomson Reuters’ Legal Media Group, which includes Asian Legal Business, Asia’s foremost monthly publication covering the legal industry. A former lawyer, he been a journalist for more than a decade, after graduating from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Since then, he has worked in China, India and Singapore, where he is currently based