Fellows
Yu Qixian, Seminar Director
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
CY Lim
Fellow
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
a 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
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.
Professional Qualifications
Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England
and Wales
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.
Shao Ming Thien
Fellow
Shao
Ming Thein is an investment banker in the Real Estate group of the Blackstone
Group and is based in London. Since joining Blackstone in 2002, Mr. Thein has
been involved in Blackstone's Real Estate activities in the UK and in Italy.
Mr. Thein received a Bachelors degree in Engineering from Imperial College of
Science, Technology and Medicine, where he graduated with first class honors and
was awarded the Governor's Prize for the most outstanding academic performance.
He was then awarded a full-paying Citibank scholarship for his MPhil in
Management Studies at Queens' College, Cambridge University.
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.