The Regionalisation of Competition Law and Policy: Implications for the ASEAN Economic Community

Monday, 25^th April 2016
Centre for Law & Business
Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore

From left: Dr Nguyen Anh Tuan (LNT & Partners), Mrs. Apiradee Springall (University of Essex), Dr Mary Catherine Lucey (UCD Sutherland School of Law), Dr Pornchai Wisuttisak (Chiang Mai University), Professor Alison Jones (King's College London), Mr. Ng Ming Jie (Competition Commission of Singapore), Dr Cheong May Fong (UNSW Australia), Ms. Wan Khatina Wan Mohd Nawawi (Khazanah Research Institute), Dr Andrea Gideon (NUS Law), Associate Professor Nazura Abdul Manap (National University of Malaysia), Dr. Gozde Deniz Both (Independent Legal Researcher), Associate Professor Burton Ong (NUS Law), Professor Barry Rodger (University of Strathclyde), Ms. Haliza A Shukor (National University of Malaysia), Mr. Toh Han Li (Competition Commission of Singapore), Dr. Corinne Chew (Drew & Napier), Professor Josef Drexl (Max Planck), Professor Eleanor Mae Fox (New York University), Mr. John William James Townsend (KPMG Singapore), Professor Tan Cheng Han (NUS Law)

Organised by the Centre for Law & Business (CLB), this conference took place in National University of Singapore's Faculty of Law, Bukit Timah Campus on 25 April 2016.

The conference participants were welcomed by Professor Tan Cheng Han, Chairman of Centre for Law & Businesses and were given a keynote address by Mr. Toh Han Li, Chief Executive Officer, Competition Commission of Singapore.

Competition law academics, practitioners and policy-makers from ASEAN and around the world were invited to present papers that offer diverse perspectives on how competition law and policy might or should develop in the ASEAN region in response to the regional imperatives of the proposed AEC. This conference drew inputs from competition officials from around the world attending the 2016 International Competition Network (ICN) meeting hosted by Singapore during the same period.

Papers presented at this conference fell within 3 broad (and potentially overlapping) categories:

(a)	Competition law and policy in the ASEAN region;
(b)	Competition law development in other regional settings;
(c)	The regional dimensions of specific competition law principles: what impact will doctrinal developments relating to these rules have on the creation of a regional economic community?

The conference convenor, Associate Professor Burton Ong aims to edit and compile the papers presented and discussed at this conference into a book to be published by early 2017.

Professor Tan Cheng Han (Chairman, Centre for Law & Business, NUS Law), with Associate Professor Burton Ong (Conference Convenor, NUS Law) seated on his left.

Mr. Toh Han Li (Chief Executive Office, Competition Commission of Singapore) giving his keynote speech.

From far left: Dr Nguyen Anh Tuan (LNT & Partners), Dr Andrea Gideon (NUS Law), Dr. Gozde Deniz Both (Independent Legal Researcher), Professor Josef Drexl (Max Planck) and Dr Mary Catherine Lucey (UCD Sutherland School of Law).

From far left: Dr Pornchai Wisuttisak (Chiang Mai University), Dr Cheong May Fong (UNSW Australia), Ms. Wan Khatina Wan Mohd Nawawi (Khazanah Research Institute), Professor Alison Jones (King's College London), Professor Eleanor Mae Fox (New York University) and Mrs. Apiradee Springall (University of Essex).

From left: Ms. Wan Khatina Wan Mohd Nawawi (Khazanah Research Institute) giving her presentation.

Dr Cheong May Fong (UNSW Australia) presenting her paper, co-authored by Dr Pornchai Wisuttisak (Chiang Mai University), seated on her right.

From left: Dr Nguyen Anh Tuan (LNT & Partners), Dr Andrea Gideon (NUS Law), Dr. Gozde Deniz Both (Independent Legal Researcher), Professor Josef Drexl (Max Planck), Dr. Corinne Chew (Drew & Napier) and Mr. John William James Townsend (KPMG Singapore).

From left: Professor Barry Rodger (University of Strathclyde), Associate Professor Burton Ong (NUS Law) Mr. John William James Townsend (KPMG Singapore), and Professor Josef Drexl (Max Planck).

From left: Dr. Gozde Deniz Both (Independent Legal Researcher) and Professor Eleanor Mae Fox (New York University).

Live Indian Prata lunch buffet: (From left): Professor Tan Cheng Han (NUS Law), Professor Josef Drexl (Max Planck) and Professor Eleanor Mae Fox (New York University).

Foreign participants (From left): Mrs. Apiradee Springall (University of Essex) and Associate Professor Nazura Abdul Manap (National University of Malaysia).

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