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CAPTEL Fellows
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Khaw | YK
Lim | KK Lau
| KK Lim | M Khoo | G Leong
| R Sreenivasan | SH Goh
| P Duggal
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Khaw Lake Tee - a graduate of the University of Malaya, with postgraduate degrees from Monash University and the London School of Economics, is a professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Malaya. Currently, she is the Head of the Legal and Management Services Unit of the University of Malaya, which provides legal and advisory services to the University and the Vice-Chancellor. Prof Khaw’s teaching and research interests and experience are in intellectual property and information technology. Her foray into information technology law started in 1994, when she was commissioned by the Government of Malaysia to prepare a report on the Laws and Policies Affecting the Development of Information Technology. The report was subsequently used as a basis for the enactment of the so-called ‘Cyberlaws’, as part of the legal framework for the national project, the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC). On the basis of her involvement with the initial development of these laws, Prof Khaw was seconded in December 1997, to the Multimedia Development Corporation (MDC), a Government-owned company in charge of the overall development of the MSC, to further develop the legal framework. At the MDC, Professor Khaw’s responsibilities included advising, developing and assisting the relevant government ministries and agencies on the policies and legal issues relating to cyberlaws and intellectual property laws as well as the development of a legal and regulatory framework in the fulfilment of the MSC Bill of Guarantees. Amongst other things, she was involved with discussions on the draft data protection law; the optical disc law as a means of containing the illegal reproduction of copyright works on optical discs; the formation of the content and consumer forums and the drafting of the respective content and consumer codes under the auspices of the Communications and Multimedia Act; the Steering and Technical Committees on the harmonization of laws with the cyberlaws; and the formulation of the IP Management Policy. Professor Khaw also represented the MDC in the eASEAN Legal Infrastructure Sub-Group established by the eASEAN Working Group on E Commerce. Prof Khaw’s major publications include Copyright Law in Malaysia (2nd Ed) and Land Law in Malaysia – Cases and Commentary. She has also presented papers at numerous conferences and seminars, mainly on intellectual property and information technology. | ||
Yee
Fen Lim - Yee
Fen is a
Senior Lecturer in the Department of Law at Macquarie
University.
Prior to coming to Macquarie University, she taught at the University of
Sydney and the University of New South Wales.
Her teaching experience span a great number of areas of law including
Cyberspace Law, Information Technology Law, Intellectual Property Law,
Competition Law, Contracts, Remedies, Torts and Litigation.
She also has extensive industry experience as an IT professional having
worked as a computer programmer and a systems manager for a number of years
after obtaining her double degree.
Yee Fen's research interests
lies primarily in Cyberspace Law, loosely defined.
Yee Fen has published and lectured on a wide range of computer and law
related issues. She has delivered
conference papers in the United States, Europe, New Zealand, Singapore as well
as in Australia. She is a member of
the Editorial Board of the Internet Law Bulletin and she is the co-editor
of Jurist Australia, the Law Professor’s
Network and she is one of the founding academic advisors to the Macquarie Law
Journal. She has published widely
and in acclaimed journals such as the Australian Law Journal and the International
Review of Law, Computers &Technology.
Her most recent major work, Cyberspace Law: Commentaries and Materials
(Oxford University Press 2002) has been adopted by a number of universities
in Australia and overseas. She is
currently working on another book due to be published in 2003 on the principles
of Internet Law. Her work has been
cited domestically and internationally
and has had an impact on the development of law in the area.
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Lau Kok Keng - Executive Partner and Head of Intellectual Property, Technology, Entertainment and Communications Practice Group (iTec) of Messrs Rajah & Tann. Kok Keng has been in practice in Singapore since 1990. He undertakes a broad range of work including advising on the strategic protection, exploitation and enforcement of intellectual property rights in Singapore and the region in the areas of copyright, trade mark, passing off, industrial designs, patents, trade secrets and confidential information. He has also been advising various corporate clients on licensing, franchising, technology and other electronic commerce issues, including domain name disputes, defamation over the Internet, electronic contracts, copyright issues, and content regulation. He has a broad litigation experience including information technology, intellectual property and telecommunications related litigation. He acts for various owners of famous trade marks, copyright licensing organisations, major software and hardware manufacturers, providers of electronic commerce and internet services, banking institutions, media related, gaming and telecommunications companies.
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Lim Kian Kim Managing Director of Integer Knowledge Pte Limited , an IT security and training firm. The firm provides security advisory services to financial , oil and gas , education, manufacturing, and engineering sectors. Prior to co-founding the company, he has worked both in the public sector in Singapore and global consultancy firms in international market research, standards and technology, electronic commerce policy and technology law research, and security consulting. He has published in professional journals and magazines such as the Asian Business Law Review and The CIO. He is the current President of the Information Security Association in Singapore.
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Martin Khoo
- is the Assistant Director of Infocomm Security with the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) of Singapore. He takes charge of security incident management and intrusion detection and management and oversees a group of Infocomm Security Consultants in providing security services to the various government organisations. His expertise and area of interests are in network & system and application security, web security and computer investigation and forensics. Martin also heads up the Singapore Computer Emergency Response Team (SingCERT) which is the national security incident response center charged with the prevention, detection and resolution of computer security incidents. He manages a group of Security Consultants providing incident resolution and security awareness promotion services to the local IT industry and general IT users.
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Gilbert
Leong –
Partner, Messrs
Rodyk & Davidson. An
accomplished lawyer, specializing in Intellectual Property and Technology,
Gilbert has represented some of technology's biggest names, multi-national
companies and statutory boards.
He has extensive experience in negotiating and drafting agreements in relation
to distribution of goods/services; manufacturing arrangements; acquisition of
hardware; software development; acquisition, maintenance and exploitation of
intellectual property rights; information technology turnkey projects;
consultancy services; electronic transactions and employment related issues.
Gilbert
has applied his expertise and wide view of the industry, to bodies such as SGNIC
(Singapore Network Information Centre), NIAC (National Internet Advisory
Committee) and Singapore Academy of Law’s Technology Law Development
Committee. He has IP
litigation experience and also provides advice on aspects of joint ventures,
alliances and acquisitions. In
addition to his legal qualifications, Gilbert also holds a Certificate in
Computer Programming and Systems Analysis from the City & Guilds Institute
of London. Gilbert
is a well-regarded speaker and writer. His
articles have been published in legal journals in Singapore and abroad and he
authored the Singapore section of the book "Internet Law and
Regulation".
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Rajesh
Sreenavisan – Partner, Messrs Rajah & Tann
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Goh Seow
Hiong – Seow Hiong has been in the Singapore public service for the past 10 years.
Prior to joining Rajah & Tann, he was the Deputy Director of Infocomm Development
Policy of the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA). He was also the
Special Assistant to the Chief Executive Officer of IDA and supported her in corporate
matters and other pre and post merger issues in the creation of IDA. Under Infocomm
Development Policy, he headed a division to establish strategies and approaches
to public policy and development policy issues in the field of Infocomm, and was
responsible for formulating e-commerce policies and legislation, removing policy
barriers faced by Infocomm industry, providing for consumer concerns and addressing
emerging policy challenges in the new digital economy (including managing the
licensing of certification authorities in Singapore). He was also Singapore’s
lead negotiator for the areas of telecommunication services and electronic commerce
in a Free Trade Agreement negotiation with another country. In addition, he held
the concurrent appointment of Deputy Director for Infocomm Security, where he
headed an office responsible for the technical security programmes at the infrastructure,
government and national levels, and was responsible for planning and protecting
the critical Infocomm infrastructures in Singapore.
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Pavan Duggal - is a practising Advocate, Supreme Court of India, having specialized in the newly emerging field of Cyberlaw and E-Commerce law in the last few years. He is advising numerous clients, national and international, on various issues concerning Cyberlaw and e-commerce law. He is also doing work in the field of Convergence Law. He is the Founder President of Cyberlaw Asia, committed to the passing of dynamic cyberlaws in the Asian continent. He is Member of Membership Advisory Committee and Member of the Membership Implementation Task Force (MITF) of The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Pavan is a member of the World Intellectual Property Organization's (WIPO) Arbitration and Mediation Centre Panel of Neutrals. He has been associated with UNESCO on Ethical, Legal, and Societal Challenges of Cyberspace in Asia and the Pacific. He is the Member of AFACT Legal Working Group of UN/CEFACT. Pavan is interacting with UNESCAP on legal issues relating to Cybercrimes & Information Security. He is the Founder of The Cyberlaw Association, Cyberlaw India & Cyberlaw Arbitration.
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Anne Fitzgerald (Australia) - JSD degree (Doctor of the Science of Law) Columbia University (New York). Masters degree (LLM with Merit) in International Business Law from University College, University of London (1989) and a Masters degree (LLM) from Columbia University (1992). She did her undergraduate law degree (LLB (Hons)) at the University of Tasmania, after which she worked for 2 years as Associate to the then Chief Justice of Tasmania, Sir Guy Green, who is presently the Administrator (acting Governor General) of Australia. She has been admitted to legal practice in Queensland (2000), Victoria (1990) and Tasmania (1985). Before embarking on a career in law, Anne completed a Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) degree at the University of Queensland and worked as a social worker. She was an initiator of the Going Digital series of seminars on legal aspects of e-commerce, multimedia and the Internet which were held in Brisbane, Melbourne and Hobart in 1997 and 1998 in association with QANTM Australia Co-operative Multimedia Centre. The project culminated in the publication of a book, Going Digital: Legal Issues for Electronic Commerce, Multimedia and the Internet (Prospect Media) in August 1998. The second edition, Going Digital 2000: Legal issues for e-commerce, software and the internet was launched in February 2000 by High Court Judge Michael Kirby (whose review was published in the Australian Law Journal, May 2000).
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Hong
XUE - is the professor at the International Law Department at China Foreign
Affairs University, and the research fellow at the Faculty of Law at the
University of Hong Kong, specializing in intellectual property law and
information technology law.
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Benjamin Wright - A
true Net pioneer, Mr. Wright has since 1988 delivered over 500 speeches on
electronic commerce and records -- including speeches in Hong Kong, Australia,
Germany, France, UK, Malaysia, Colombia, Brazil, Taiwan, Switzerland and India.
From the Wall Street Journal to the Sydney Morning Herald, Wright
has been quoted and published as an e-commerce and information security expert
in hundreds of publications worldwide, and May 26, 2001 he was featured in the
30-minute documentary The Cutting EdgeTechnology Report:Electronic Signatures,
nationally broadcast on CNBC. He serves as a consultant to a World
Bank-sponsored project advising Indonesia on revision of its national laws to
accommodate electronic commerce. He helped IBM as it built a root PKI
certification authority for the Canadian Payments Association, and he advised
biometric signature pioneer, PenOp, Inc., in its development and marketing of
e-signature technologies (PenOp sold its business to CIC 4Q 2000). Mr. Wright
served as an expert consultant to a team in litigation against PayPal, the
Internet payments company, and he consults to PestPatrol, a leading edge
Internet security developer. signOnline, INC. commissioned him in 2000 to write
a paper on the law of digital signatures, and the Mississippi Secretary of State
retains him to author white papers on electronic signatures. In 1988, Mr. Wright
wrote EDI and American Law, the first North American book on electronic
contract law, and 1992-1998 he served part-time as editor of The Journal of
Electronic Commerce. His present book The Law of Electronic Commerce
was originally published in 1991; its completely revised 4th edition, released
December 2000, is now written primarily by co-author Jane K. Winn, with
contributions from Mr. Wright. (http://wright.safeshopper.com)
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Zaid Hamzah (Singapore) - An intellectual property and technology law strategist specializing in ICT-based commercial transactions, e-security & biotechnology, 47 year old Zaid Hamzah is currently a Consultant to Microsoft’s Legal & Corporate Affairs Department for the Asia Pacific region (based in Singapore). Author of the Law & Strategy trilogy (Intellectual Property Law & Strategy; Biotechnology Law & Strategy; E-Security Law & Strategy) and a legal practitioner’s book entitled “Information Technology Contracts”, Zaid has over 20 years of professional work experience spanning technopreneurship, technology transactions, strategic technology & intellectual property licensing, strategic policy engagements and government service. An industry practitioner with in-depth regional experience in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines, Zaid is at present an adjunct teaching staff in several tertiary institutions in Singapore and Malaysia. Zaid specializes in technology and intellectual property strategies in Asia with a focus on value creation & strategic risk management, intellectual property competitive strategies, innovation management and technology commercialization. Zaid holds a Bachelor of Law degree from the National University of Singapore and was a Fulbright scholar when he completed his Masters at the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University, USA. He was admitted to the Singapore Bar in 1985 and admitted as Solicitor, England & Wales in 2000. |
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