Simon Tay
Professor Simon Tay
Singapore Institute of International Affairs
Simon Tay is Chairman of the Singapore Institute of International Affairs (SIIA), rated in 2014 as the best in Asia and the Pacific. He is concurrently Associate Professor, teaching international law at the National University of Singapore, and author of the well-received book on Asian regionalism and the role of America, Asia Alone (2010, Wiley).
Professor Tay is Senior Consultant at WongPartnership, a leading Asian law firm. He serves on Global Advisory Boards for Toyota Motor Corporation and MUFG, and on the boards of Hyflux Ltd. and Far East Organization. He has also served as Chairman of the National Environment Agency, and has taught as a visiting professor at Yale University, the Fletcher School and Harvard Law School.
He graduated in law from the National University of Singapore (1986) and Harvard Law School (1993), where he won the Laylin prize for the best thesis in international law.
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