Tan Cheng Han

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Professor Tan Cheng Han, Senior Counsel, is the current dean of the Faculty of Law of the National University of Singapore (NUS) where he teaches Contract law and Corporations law. Professor Tan is also a consultant at TSMP Law Corporation.

Tan graduated from the NUS in 1987 and obtained his LLM from the University of Cambridge in 1990. Tan also practices as an advocate specialising in complicated commercial disputes and is a member of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre's Regional Panel of Arbitrators. Tan was appointed as Senior Counsel in 2004 at the age of 39, and together with fellow Andrew Phang, became the first academics to be so appointed.^[1] Prior to joining NUS in 1996, Tan was a partner in Drew & Napier's litigation department.

Tan's current public appointments include being a Vice-President of the Singapore Academy of Law, a Senate member of the National University of Singapore, a Governor of the Intellectual Property Academy, a member of the Securities Industry Council, a member of the Appeal Advisory Panel to the Minister for Finance constituted under the Securities and Futures Act, the Financial Advisers Act, and the Insurance Act, and a member of the Board of Legal Education. He is also a director of ST Aerospace Ltd, Chuan Hup Holdings Limited and Exploit Technologies Pte Limited.^[2]

In 2004, Tan was one of three Singaporeans who were chosen out of a pool of 8000 candidates worldwide to be part of The Forum of Young Global Leaders, a forum which was created by Klaus Schwab, executive chairman of the World Economic Forum.^[3] In 2005, Tan was also named by the Straits Times as one of "50 young Singaporeans to watch".^[4]

In August 2006, Tan was appointed to the Subordinate Courts' Bench as a new specialist judge to preside over the Informatics case.^[5] He was also awarded the Public Administration Medal (Silver) at Singapore's 41st National Day celebrations.^[5]