Competition Law and Shareholder Stewardship: Collaboration Among Businesses as a Driver of ESG?

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SPEAKERS

Dan W. Puchniak
Professor of Law
Singapore Management University

Dr Dan W. Puchniak is a Professor and the Director of the Centre for Commercial Law in Asia at the Yong Pung How School of Law (YPHSL) at Singapore Management University, and a Research Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute. Dan is an internationally recognized scholar in the field of comparative corporate law and governance, with a focus on Asia. He has received numerous domestic and international awards for his academic research and teaching. Dan has held visiting academic positions at leading universities around the world, including Chulalongkorn University, Columbia University, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Melbourne University, Nagoya University, Oxford University, Queen's University, Reichman University, Seoul National University, Stanford University, University of Chicago, University of Tokyo, University of Trento, University of Victoria, Vanderbilt University, and Yangon University. He has advised international organizations on the development of corporate law in Asia, served as an expert in high stakes complex corporate law disputes in Asia, and his research has been cited several times by Singapore's apex court.

Prior to joining YPHSL, Dan was an Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore where he served as the Director of the Centre for Asian Legal Studies, Editor-in-Chief of the Asian Journal of Comparative Law, and Director for Corporate Law at the EW Barker Centre for Law & Business.

Iskandar Ismail
Chief Executive Officer
Malaysia Competition Commission

Iskandar Ismail was appointed as the Chief Executive Officer for MyCC on 15 October 2018 after serving as the Director of Investigation and Enforcement Division for more than 5 years. When he joined MyCC, he brought along with him vast experience across a broad range of international and domestic domains, including human rights, war crimes, genocide, financial crimes, economic and law.

Prior to joining MyCC, he was an Assistant Trial Attorney with the United Nations for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Tanzania for 8 years, prosecuting genocide and serious violations of international human rights laws. In the earliest part of his career, Mr Iskandar honed his legal and economic skills and developed his international experience at the Central Bank of Malaysia, where he was part of the pioneering prosecuting team for financial crime cases. He is currently listed in the Justice Rapid Response expert roster, a professional service provider to entities that have the jurisdiction or mandate to investigate fact-find or carry out inquiries wherever mass atrocities may have occurred.

He received his education both locally and abroad where he read law at the International Islamic University, Malaysia and pursued a master’s degree in International and Comparative Law at the George Washington University Law School, Washington DC.

Sean Tseng
Legal Consultant, ClientEarth
Adjunct Research Fellow, Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law (APCEL), National University of Singapore

Sean is a Legal Consultant with ClientEarth as well as an Adjunct Research Fellow at APCEL. He holds a Masters of Law in Environmental Law & Policy from University College London (Distinction), at which he was awarded the Francis Taylor Building Prize for Best Overall Mark and the Maxi Alexander Prize for Research (2019-2020). Sean's work focuses on the use of corporate and financial laws to promote climate ambition within the private sector in Asia. This includes research, analysis, and the formulation of legal strategies surrounding the emerging developments in directors' fiduciary duties, shareholder engagement, and prudential law and regulation. Sean previously worked as a corporate and commercial disputes lawyer at Allen & Gledhill and has undertaken research projects for the United Nations Environment Programme.

Sean was the 1st Prize winner (Open Category) of the CCCS-ESS Essay Competition 2022, which featured the topic of "Environmental Sustainability: The role of competition and consumer protection laws and policies".

Looi Teck Kheong
Ex-Head, Competition, Consumer Protection and Intellectual Property Rights Division
ASEAN Secretariat

Teck Kheong was Head of Competition, Consumer Protection and Intellectual Property Rights Division (CCPID) under the Market Integration Directorate of the ASEAN Economics Community Department, the ASEAN Secretariat. 

Teck Kheong has numerous years of professional experience spanning private practice as well as an in-house counsel, acting, amongst others, for a triple A global banking corporation in their regional Head Office for the Asia Pacific Region. He has an LLB (Hons) and 3 Masters degrees respectively in Law (LLM), Public Policy (MPP, Temasek Scholar) and Economics (M Soc Sci (App Econs), specializing in Economic Policy & Development) from the National University of Singapore. He was also a Pre-University ASEAN Scholar.