Fellows

CY LIM

Fellow, Director of ESP

 

Description: C:\Users\wsp\images\adviso6.gifHaving graduated from Cambridge, following a four-year course, with a Master of Engineering on a full scholarship from the Commonwealth Trust, CY Lim has worked both in academia and industry. This includes his sabbatical on policy recommendation on the electronics industry in Europe, working together with Institute of Manufacturing, University of Cambridge and DG Research of the European Commission. He has also worked with Cambridge University's overseas undergraduate admissions team (Malaysia and Singapore). His experience in industry includes firms such as Invensys, Grant Instrument and Granta Design, dealing with business strategy and manufacturing systems issues. His other working experience includes Change Management with Accenture. He is also Director of the Winter School Programme and Consultant to a number of companies in both Singapore and Malaysia.

 

KRISHNA RAMACHANDRA

Fellow

 

Description: C:\Users\wsp\images\adviso7.gifAfter completing his Master of Laws at Christ's College, Cambridge, Krishna worked as a corporate finance lawyer at leading international law firm, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer for several years in London. During his time with Freshfields, he was involved in cross-border mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance transactions. He was also involved in telecommunications, media and technology-slanted transactions. Since returning to Singapore, Krishna has acted as legal consultant for several technology companies. He is currently practising as a corporate finance lawyer with Clifford Chance in Singapore.

 

Professional Qualifications

Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales

Advocate and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore

 

YU QIXIAN

Fellow

 

Description: C:\Users\wsp\images\adviso8.gifQixian pursued his law degree at Christ's College, Cambridge University and has since worked for top international law firms, both in Singapore and Hong Kong. Prior to that, he was doing strategy consulting for a leading Singapore SME and advised on its debt-restructuring. Qixian also acted as the Chief Executive Officer of Gravity Magazine, a publication by Cambridge Alliance. He is currently practising as a corporate finance lawyer with an international law firm. He was also the founding President of Cambridge University Asian Lawyers Association.

 

Professional Qualifications

Advocate and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore

 

Andrew Khoo
Fellow


Prior to working as a General Manager of a leading London Hotel, Andrew worked for Marriott Management Services in Seattle, where he also graduated with an MBA. Andrew is currently the Corporate Affairs Director for both the Corus Hotels group and Laura Ashley. He also sits on the board of several listed companies.

Andrew graduated from Robinson College, Cambridge University with a law degree. He was also past President of the Cambridge University Asian Lawyers Association.

Professional Qualifications:
Barrister-at-law, Lincoln's Inn

 

ALAN BATES

Fellow

 

Alan Bates graduated in Law from Christ's College, Cambridge University with first class honours and was awarded the University's Clive Parry Prize for International Law. He was a scholar of Christ's College which twice awarded him the De Hart Prize for Public Law. He then served as a research assistant at the Law Commission of England and Wales where he worked on an audit of the compatibility of the English law of bail with the UK's Human Rights Act. He obtained the degree of Master of Laws in 2002 at the University of Pennsylvania where he was a Thouron scholar, specialising in comparative constitutional law and the interaction between environmental concerns with the law of international trade. Alan's legal interests include public, constitutional and elections law, civil liberties, human rights, and comparative competition law.

 

TREVOR NG

Fellow

 

Trevor holds a Master in Engineering (Aeronautics) from Hughes Hall, Cambridge University and has worked for a number of engineering companies both in Singapore and Hong Kong.

 

At present, he is pursuing his PhD in Aeronautics & Astronautics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and advises Cambridge Alliance on any technology-related matters.

 

KAREN TONG

Fellow

 

Description: C:\Users\wsp\images\adviso9.gifKaren Tong graduated in Law from Downing College, Cambridge University in 2000 and topped the Department with first class honours both in her second and final year Tripos and was awarded the University's Slaughter & May Prize 2000 for best overall performance, and the College's Senior Jarvis Scholarship. Karen studied Natural Sciences in her first year in Cambridge and obtained a first honours before pursuing her interests in Law.

 

After her graduation in 2000, she took the professional certificates in law exam in Hong Kong and was awarded the Baker & McKenzie Postgraduate Prize 2001, the YM Wong Memorial Prize 2001, the Brian McElney Medel in Law 2001 and the Bloomsbury Books Prize in Law 2001. She then commenced her legal career in 2001 with international law firm Clifford Chance in Hong Kong.

 

YEN LEE HENG

Fellow

 

Yen Lee read Chemical Engineering at Christ's College, Cambridge University and also Management Studies at the Judge Institute of Management.

 

She joined Accenture with their Strategy Consulting group based in Singapore and has advised multinational companies within the financial services, telecommunication and government sectors on a broad range of issues. Her work includes advising on customer relationship management, business strategy, change management and system implementation issues. Prior to joining Accenture, she had worked in London with both KPMG Consulting and Goldman Sachs.