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Biography |
Dr Toh See
Kiat is concurrently an Associate Professor at
the Nanyang Technological University and Chairman of Goodwins Law Corporation.
He has a Bachelor of Laws (NUS), Master of Laws (Harvard) and a PhD in Law (London).
He is an Advocate and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore, a Solicitor
of England and Wales, Associate of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Fellow
of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and Fellow of the Singapore Institute
of Directors. Besides being an accredited mediator of the Singapore Mediation
Centre, Dr Toh practices and conducts seminars on information technology, intellectual
property, commercial and corporate law. Dr Toh
is the author of Paperless International Trade: Law of Telematic Data Interchange
(Butterworths Asia, 1992), co-editor of Legal Aspects of Doing Business in
Singapore (Addison-Wesley, 1996), editor of The Electronic Commerce Law
Review (Graham & Trotman) and a member of the International Editorial
Advisory Board of eBusiness World (International Chamber of Commerce).
He has published numerous articles and papers on eBanking, EDI, eCommerce and
Internet law. He has also advised on and drafted laws for the Dubai Internet City
and Dubai Port Authority. Dr
Toh is a former Singapore Member of Parliament. His past appointments include
Chairman of Aljunied Town Council, a municipality of 100,000 plus residents (1997-2001),
and President of the Consumers’ Association of Singapore (1995-2000). He is presently
a member of the Board of Governors of Temasek Polytechnic, Singapore; a member
of the National Trust Council, the National Internet Advisory Committee and the
Singapore EDIFACT Committee; and member of the eCommerce Working Groups of the
Asia-Pacific Council for Trade Facilitation and eBusiness (AFACT), the International
Organisation of Standards (ISO) Consumer Policy Committee and the International
Chamber of Commerce. In
the area of entrepreneurship, Dr Toh has been involved in starting up companies
in the areas of e-learning, eCommerce and biotechnology. He has also been a founder
and Chairman of CommerceNet Singapore (part of a global consortium of eBusiness
companies) since its inception in 1998.
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