Faculty
CY LIM
Fellow, Director of STP
 Having
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
 After
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
Qixian 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
 Karen 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.
EXTERNAL TRAINERS
Where necessary,
various locally and foreign trained professionals will be appointed by the
Centre to conduct the lectures and workshops
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