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Thursday, 7 May 2015, 5.00pm to 7.00pm
BTC Staff Lounge, Level 2, Block B, NUS (Bukit Timah Campus)
This book was the product of a research project co-funded by the CLB and the Competition Commission of Singapore in late 2013
where leading competition law scholars from 8 jurisdictions in Asia presented papers at a symposium (“Competition Law and
Cartels: An Asian Perspective”) held at the National University of Singapore.
Programme Schedule
5.00pm
Welcome Address by Prof Tan Cheng Han, Chairman, Centre
for Law & Business & Mr Toh Han Li, Chief Executive,
Competition Commission of Singapore
5.10pm
Presentation by Co-editors, Dr Sandra Marco Colino &
Associate Professor Burton Ong
5.35pm
Book Launch
5.45pm
Reception
RSVP
Participation is by invitation only.
Contact Person
Ms Meryl Kong
email: clb@nus.edu.sg
tel : 6516 3102
About the Editors
Thomas Cheng is an associate professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Hong Kong. He received a Bachelor of Arts
degree from Yale College, and a Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School, and a Bachelor of Civil Law degree in European
and Comparative Law from the University of Oxford. His research focuses on competition law and policy issues, especially
comparative competition law and competition law in developing countries. He is a member of the Competition Commission,
Administrative Appeals Board, the Energy Advisory Committee, the Committee on Slots Complaints, and the Consumer Council,
where he is also the chairman of the Competition Policy Committee. He has assisted the Hong Kong government in drafting the
city's first comprehensive competition law. He is also a member of the executive board of the Academic Society for Competition
Law (“ASCOLA”).
Sandra Marco Colino is an Assistant Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is currently the Director of the
Faculty of Law's Centre for Financial Regulation and Economic Development (“CFRED”), and the Deputy Director of the
European Union Academic Programme in Hong Kong. She previously taught EU and competition law at the University of
Glasgow, and worked as a stagiaire at the Directorate General for Competition of the European Commission. A qualified lawyer
in Spain, called to the Madrid Bar, her main teaching and research interests lie in the fields of competition law, communications
law, EU law, and the regulation of gambling. In 2007 she was awarded a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence,
and she also holds an LLM in EU Law from the University Carlos III of Madrid. Sandra is a member of the Academic Society of
Competition Law (“ASCOLA”), a Fellow of the Transatlantic Technology Law Forum (“TTLF”) of Stanford University, and an
Associate Researcher at the University Institute for European Studies in Madrid. She is the founder of the Communications
Policy and Regulation Scholars Forum (“CPRSF”) and the Hong Kong news contributor for the European Competition Law
Review.
Dr Burton Ong (DPhil / B.C.L (Oxon), LL.M (Harv), LL.B (NUS)) is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law of the National
University of Singapore where he teaches and researches in the areas of Competition Law, Intellectual Property Law and
Contract Law. He is a Director at the NUS Centre for Law and Business (“CLB”), focusing on Competition Law matters, and
Deputy Director of the Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law (“APCEL”). He also serves as the Chairman of the Gas Market
Surveillance Panel, the branch of the Energy Market Authority (“EMA”) responsible for regulating competition in the gas
industry, as well a member of the Dispute Resolution Board of the Casino Regulatory Authority (“CRA”).
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