Tan Cheng Han

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Who is Tan Cheng Han?

Professor Tan Cheng Han, Senior Counsel, was the dean of the Faculty of Law of the National University of Singapore until 2012. He teaches Contract law and Company Law and directs the Centre for Law & Business. Professor Tan is also a consultant at TSMP Law Corporation. In August 2012 he was appointed the inaugural chairman of Singapore's new Media Literacy Council.

Tan graduated from the NUS in 1987 and obtained his LLM from the University of Cambridge in 1990. Tan also practices as an advocate specialising in complicated commercial disputes and is a member of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre's Regional Panel of Arbitrators. Tan was appointed as Senior Counsel in 2004 at the age of 39, and together with fellow Andrew Phang, became the first academics to be so appointed. Prior to joining NUS in 1996, Tan was a partner in Drew & Napier's litigation department.

Tan's current public appointments include being a Vice-President of the Singapore Academy of Law, a Senate member of the National University of Singapore, a Governor of the Intellectual Property Academy, a member of the Securities Industry Council, a member of the Appeal Advisory Panel to the Minister for Finance constituted under the Securities and Futures Act, the Financial Advisers Act, and the Insurance Act, and a member of the Board of Legal Education. He is also a director of ST Aerospace Ltd, Chuan Hup Holdings Limited and Exploit Technologies Pte Limited.

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  • Singapore
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  • National University of Singapore

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on July 23, 2013

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