Professor Simon Chesterman is Dean of the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law. He is also Editor of the Asian Journal of International Law and Secretary-General of the Asian Society of International Law. Educated in Melbourne, Beijing, Amsterdam, and Oxford, Professor Chesterman's teaching experience includes periods at the Universities of Melbourne, Oxford, Southampton, Columbia, and Sciences Po. From 2006-2011, he was Global Professor and Director of the New York University School of Law Singapore Programme. Prior to joining NYU, he was a Senior Associate at the International Peace Academy and Director of UN Relations at the International Crisis Group in New York. He has previously worked for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Yugoslavia and interned at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Professor Chesterman is the author or editor of twelve books, including One Nation Under Surveillance (OUP, 2011); Law and Practice of the United Nations (with Thomas M. Franck and David M. Malone, OUP, 2008); You, The People (OUP, 2004); and Just War or Just Peace? (OUP, 2001). He is a recognized authority on international law, whose work has opened up new areas of research on conceptions of public authority - including the rules and institutions of global governance, state-building and post-conflict reconstruction, and the changing role of intelligence agencies.

Mr Paul F. Winkelmann was the Risk & Quality leader for PwC in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore. In this role, he oversaw the Firm's Risk Management and Quality functions in Greater China. This included leadership and oversight over audit methodology and technology, adherence to auditing standards, IFRS accounting services, quality assurance, PRC GAAP and GAAS, Risk Management and assisting clients with the conversion from HK GAAP to HKFRS's (now fully converged with IFRS's). He also leads Independence team as Partner Responsible for Independence for China/Hong Kong. He was also the Firm's Regulatory and Public Policy leader and in this role he provided input to discussions and consultations on Regulatory and Public Policy matters. In 2001 he joined the Board of Partners of the Hong Kong Firm and subsequently joined the Management Board of China/Hong Kong and subsequently the Executive Board of CaTSH. He is currently assisting in the handing over of these responsibilities to identified successors and remains a member of the Executive Board and a senior advisor to the CN/HK Firm. In 2004, Paul became Chairman of the Financial Reporting Standard Committee in Hong Kong and lead the change to IFRS. He represented Hong Kong on several standard setting bodies and worked closely with the IASB.

In 2007 he became Vice President of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants (HKICPA) and succeeded as President in 2009. In that role he had extensive dealings and negotiations with Government and all regulators in Hong Kong. In 2002 he was appointed to a working group within Government on re-writing company legislation for Hong Kong which has recently been passed into law with a commencement date of April 2014. In 2005, he was appointed by the Chief Executive of Hong Kong to the Standing Committee and Company Law Reform for a period of 6 years. In 1999, he was appointed as an Independent member (there are 2) to the Insurance Intermediaries Quality Assurance Scheme and still remains a member. This appointment was made by the Commissioner for Insurance.

Bernhard N. Faustenhammer joined the Delegation of the European Union to Singapore in October 2011 as the Head of the Political, Press and Information Section.

Mr. Faustenhammer has been an Austrian diplomat since 1998. In the course of his career, he served in political, economic and legal departments at the Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Vienna, including as Deputy Director for Austrians living abroad (2009-2011).

His previous postings abroad include assignments to the Austrian embassies to Finland and France, as well as to the Austrian Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York. From 2004 to 2008, Mr. Faustenhammer was the Deputy Consul General of Austria to the Western United States, based in Los Angeles.

Mr. Faustenhammer was educated in Geneva, Vienna, Madrid and Bruges. He holds a Master of Laws of the University of Vienna and a Diploma in Higher International Studies (S.E.I., Madrid). Mr. Faustenhammer is married to Mrs. Judith Wielander-Faustenhammer. The couple has two sons.

David Devlin was elected Chairman of the ECGI in 2014. He was a partner in PricewaterhouseCoopers in Dublin until 30 September 2012. He continued with the PwC global network for a further year. He was a lead Partner for PwC's global interaction with governments, regulators and international organisations and most recently Leader, Public Policy and Regulatory Affairs for PwC's network firms in Europe. David was a member of the European Commission's European Corporate Governance Forum from 2005 to 2011. David Devlin is a past President of FEE, the European Federation of Accountants, having served two terms from 2002 to 2006. FEE is the representative organisation for the accountancy profession in Europe. FEE's membership consists of 45 professional institutes of accountants from 33 countries. He was for two terms a member of IFAC's International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants, which is responsible for the profession's global Ethics Code. Previously he has been a member of the Supervisory Board of the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group, established to advise the European Commission and a member of the Urgent Issues Task Force of the United Kingdom Accounting Standards Board. He has been honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland and with honorary life membership by both the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants in the UK and the Institute of Certified Public Accountants in Ireland. He is a director of Our Lady's Children's Hospital Crumlin and a member of the Board of Management of CBC Monkstown. He is a member of the Irish Auditing & Accounting Supervisory Authority, appointed by the government to support and enhance public confidence in the accountancy profession through effective, independent supervision.

Mrs. Jurdant advocates better corporate governance standards and practices globally. For 16 years, she has analysed and compared corporate governance frameworks and practices around the world. Under the auspices of the OECD Corporate Governance Committee, since 2006 she manages regional and country programmes in Asia. These high level hubs advance corporate governance reforms among a network of influential decision-makers. She develops policy recommendations and advice to support reforms in Asia and produced numerous reports and articles on corporate governance, such as "Reform Priorities in Asia: Taking Corporate Governance to a Higher Level", "Public Enforcement and Corporate Governance in Asia", "Improving Board Nomination and Election in Asia", "Fighting Abusive Related Party Transactions in Asia". Mrs. Jurdant speaks at conferences around the world on corporate governance issues. She holds a 'Rising Star of Corporate Governance award' from Yale University. Prior to the OECD, Mrs. Jurdant was a trade specialist at the US Embassy in Paris.

GUO Li is a Law School Professor and Associate Dean of Peking University. His scholarly interests cover law, finance, business and social development, as well as the comparative studies. He has published a number of English papers in Banking Law Journal, Cornell International Law Journal, European Business Organization Law Review, Hong Kong Law Journal etc., and co-authored books such as Chinese Business Law (C. H. Beck & Hart) and M&As and Takeovers in China (Wolters Kluwer), in addition to several books and dozens of journal articles in Chinese. He is now serving as the chief editor of PKU Journal of Legal Studies (in English). Prof. Guo received his law degrees from Peking University, Southern Methodist University and Harvard Law School respectively, and was the Visiting Professor at Cornell (08-09), Visiting Scholar at Vanderbilt (Feb.12), Adjunct Professor at Case Western Reserve (Aug.12), and Humboldt Foundation Research Fellow (Freiburg Germany, 10, 11).

Umakanth Varottil is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore. He specializes in corporate law and governance, mergers and acquisitions and cross-border investments. While his work is generally comparative in nature, he focuses particularly on India and Singapore. He has co-authored two books on Singapore law and practice, published articles in international journals and founded the Indian Corporate Law Blog. He has also taught on a visiting basis at the Fordham Law School in New York, the University of Trento in Italy and at various law schools in India. He is the recipient of several academic medals and honors.

Prior to his foray into academia, Umakanth was a partner at Amarchand Mangaldas, a pre-eminent law firm in India. During that time, he was also ranked as a leading corporate/mergers & acquisitions lawyer in India by the Chambers Global Guide.

Mak Yuen Teen is Associate Professor of Accounting at the NUS Business School where he teaches corporate governance and ethics. He holds first class honours and master degrees in accounting and finance and a doctorate degree in accounting, and is a fellow of CPA Australia. He has served on key committees that developed and revised codes of corporate governance for both listed companies and charities in Singapore. He has been a member of the OECD Asian Roundtable on Corporate Governance since its inception in 1999.

Prof Mak developed the Governance and Transparency Index, a ranking of governance of listed companies in Singapore. He was the Singapore expert in the development of the ASEAN Corporate Governance Scorecard and Ranking.

In 2014, Prof Mak received the Singapore Corporate Governance Excellence Award from the Securities Investors Association (Singapore), becoming only the second individual to be given this award in the 15-year history of the Association.

Mr. Ong Boon Hwee is the CEO of the Stewardship Asia Centre. Prior to his current appointment, he has over a diverse career, served in the civil service, in corporations and also in entrepreneurship start-ups. In his earlier military career, BG Ong held various key command and staff positions in the SAF and MINDEF. He left the civil service in 2002 to move into a corporate career in management and business. Joining Temasek Holdings, Mr. Ong was the MD for Strategic Relations. He was concurrently the CEO of Temasek Management Services, managing subsidiaries of diverse businesses including training, consulting, logistics and IT. He was instrumental in starting various new institutions including the Business Leadership Centre and the Wealth Management Institute. Subsequent to Temasek Holdings, he was the COO of Singapore Power, and responsible for SP's business units in Singapore. Concurrently, he drove the business growth of SP Global-Solutions, which was SP's international consultancy and training arm. Prior to joining the Stewardship Asia Centre, he was the MD of Beyond Horizon Consulting, a consultancy firm for leadership development and organisational transformation that he has jointly founded.

Mr. Ong has over the last 15 years been serving on the boards of various companies of diverse industries as well as of non-profit organisations.

Mr. Ong graduated with First Class Honours in Economics from the National University of Singapore, and has a Masters Degree in Military Arts & Science from the United States Command & General Staff College.

Dr. Wang Jiangyu (SJD & LLM, University of Pennsylvania; MJur, Oxford; LLM, Peking University; LLB, China University of Political Science and Law) is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law of the National University of Singapore. He was on secondament as an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law of The Chinese University of Hong Kong from August 2006 to July 2009. His teaching and research interests include international economic law, corporate and securities law, law and development, and Chinese legal system. He practiced law in the Legal Department of Bank of China and Chinese and American law firms. He served as a member of the Chinese delegation at the annual conference of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law Conference in 1999. He is a member of the Chinese Bar Association and the New York Bar Association. He is also an Executive Member on the Governing Council of the WTO Institute of the China Law Society, a Senior Fellow at the Law and Development Institute (LDI), and a fellow of the Asian Institute of International Financial Law (Hong Kong). He has also been invited expert/speaker for the WTO, International Trade Centre (UNCTAD/WTO) and United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP). He recently received the 2007 Young Researcher Award of The Chinese University of Hong Kong in recognition of his accomplishment in research from 2006-2007. Dr. Wang has published extensively in Chinese and international journals and newspapers on a variety of law and politics related topics. He is a regular contributor to leading newspapers and magazines in Singapore, Hong Kong, and Mainland China.

Professor of Law at ETH Zurich since 1995. Previously Professor of Administrative Law at the University of Geneva Law School and Director of its Centre d'Etudes Juridiques Européennes (1987-1995). Gerard Hertig has been a visiting professor at leading law schools in Europe, Japan and the U.S. and practiced law as a member of the Geneva bar.

Principal interests are comparative corporate governance, banking, financial systems, and European integration. Publications include various contributions on regulatory and business law topics, including the Anatomy of Corporate Law, with Reinier Kraakman et al. (2d ed., OUP 2009).

Professor Walter Woon SC graduated in 1981 with First Class Honours from the National University of Singapore's (NUS) Faculty of Law and obtained a First-Class Honours two years later at Cambridge University. He served as Sub-Dean and Vice-Dean of the Law Faculty of the National University of Singapore between 1988 and 1995, and has authored several books on company law, commercial law and the Singapore legal system. He was called to the Singapore Bar in 1985 and appointed Senior Counsel in 2007. Prof Woon was a Nominated Member of Parliament from 1992 to 1996, and the Legal Adviser to the President and Council of Presidential Advisors from 1995 to 1997 Between 1997 and 2006, Prof Woon served as Singapore's Ambassador to various European countries. In 2006, Prof Woon was appointed Second Solicitor-General at the Attorney-General's Chambers, and, in 2007, was re-designated Solicitor-General. From 2008-2010, he was appointed Attorney-General. Prof Woon was Chairman of the Steering Committee for Review of the Companies Act, the report of which forms the basis of the latest amendments. He was a director of two listed companies and is an Honorary Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Directors. He is presently the David Marshall Professor of Law at the NUS Faculty of Law.

W.-Georg Ringe is Professor of Law and holds a chair of International Commercial Law at Copenhagen Business School. He also teaches at the University of Oxford, Faculty of Law. He has held visiting positions at various institutions around the world, most recently a visiting professorship at Columbia Law School, New York (spring 2014).

Professor Ringe specializes in European and transatlantic issues of corporate and financial law. He is the general editor of the new Journal of Financial Regulation, which will be published by Oxford University Press from 2015. He has been advising both the European Commission and the European Parliament on issues of European Corporate Law.

Professor Ringe teaches various courses in the field of corporate and business law, and his current research interests are in the general areas of Law and Finance, Comparative Corporate Governance, Capital and Financial Markets, Insolvency Law and Conflict of Laws.

Hideki Kanda is Professor of Law at the University of Tokyo in Japan. His main areas of specialization include commercial law, corporate law, banking regulation and securities regulation. Mr. Kanda served as Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago Law School (1989, 1991, 1993 and 2006), Harvard Law School (1996) and University of Pennsylvania Law School (2012). Mr. Kanda's recent publications include "The Anatomy of Corporate Law" (co-authored, 2nd ed. Oxford University Press, 2009) and "Official Commentary on the UNIDROIT Convention on Substantive Rules for Intermediated Securities" (co-authored, Oxford University Press, 2012). Mr. Kanda is a Fellow and a Board member at the European Corporate Governance Institute, a member of the Governing Council at the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) and a member of the American Law Institute. In Japan, he is a member of the Financial Council and a member of the Council of Experts Concerning the Corporate Governance Code, both at the Financial Services Agency of Japan. He is also a member of the Policy Board at the Deposit Insurance Corporation of Japan, a Councillor of the Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies at the Bank of Japan, and a member of the Board of Governors at the Japan Securities Dealers Association. He also serves as Chairman of the Tokyo Stock Exchange Advisory Group on Listing System Improvement

Lan Luh Luh has a PhD (Business Policy) from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and a LLM (First Class) in Commercial Law from the University of Cambridge. She currently holds a joint position with both the NUS Business School and Law School. She specializes in company law, corporate finance law and corporate governance. She has published in both internationally-ranked management and law journals such as the Academy of Management Review, Harvard Business Review, Journal of Public Policy and Marketing, Journal of Business Law, and Singapore Journal of Legal Studies. She was a contributor to Walter Woon on Company Law, rev 3rd ed (2008) and Woon's Corporation Law. She teaches Corporate Law and Finance, Corporate and Securities Law and Corporate Governance at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, including the joint-degree UCLA-NUS Executive MBA programme. She was the Assistant Dean at NUS Business School (2008-09) and is currently the Deputy Director of the Centre for Law & Business.

Kon Sik Kim is Professor of Law at Seoul National University(SNU), specializing in corporate and securities law. A graduate of the SNU College of Law, he got an LL.M. from Harvard Law School, and a J.D. and a Ph.D. from University of Washington Law School. He served as dean of the SNU College of Law and was in charge of setting up a new U.S.-style law school at SNU.

Dr. Dan W. Puchniak is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at the National University of Singapore. He specialises in company law with an emphasis on comparative corporate law in Asia-particularly Singapore and Japan. Dan has published widely on comparative, Asian, Japanese and Singapore corporate law and governance and is regularly invited to present his scholarship and lecture at leading law schools around the world. Dan has received numerous domestic and international awards for his academic research and teaching. Most recently, his article on derivative actions in Asia was awarded the Best Paper Prize at the annual Corporate Law Teachers Association Conference. He was also recently placed on the National University of Singapore Annual Teaching Excellence Award Honour Roll as recognition for receiving the university wide NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award three times. Also, he was recently selected by the Open Society Foundations to be a Fellow and Visiting Professor in the Department of Law at the University of Yangon. Dan is currently the ASEAN Convener for the Australian Network for Japanese Law and a member of the Editorial Board for the Max Planck Institute's Journal of Japanese Law. Prior to entering academia, Dan worked as a corporate commercial litigator at one of Canada's leading law firms.

Adrian heads the Corporate Department at the law firm, Lee & Lee. He serves as First Vice-Chairman of the Singapore Institute of Directors and is on the board of the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority of Singapore.

He is an independent director on the boards of several publicly-listed companies on the SGX. He serves on the Corporate Practice Committee and Finance Committee of the Law Society of Singapore and has been appointed by the SGX onto its Catalist Advisory Panel.

He was appointed to the Directors' Duties Working Group of the Steering Committee that was established by the Ministry of Finance to rewrite the Companies Act. He is a member of the Pro-Enterprise Panel, which is a public-private partnership chaired by Head of Civil Service to eliminate unnecessary rules and regulations. He has also co-authored Singapore's first "Annotated Code of Corporate Governance" for Lexis-Nexis that is published in Woon's Corporations Law.

Dr. Harald Baum is Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Japan Law Department at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg; Professor at the University of Hamburg; Research Associate at the European Corporate Governance Institute, Brussels.

Harald graduated from Freiburg University in 1977 and received his doctorate and Habilitation from the University of Hamburg in 1984 and 2004 respectively; admission to the Hamburg bar in 1981. He joined the Institute in 1985. He serves as a Vice-president of the German-Japanese Association of Jurists and is, among others a Member of the Académie Internationale de Droit Comparé. Harald is the executive founding editor of the Journal of Japanese Law and has authored and edited numerous books and articles on business law, corporate governance, and capital markets in Germany, the EU, Japan, and the U.S.