Board of Directors

Appointed w.e.f. 1 April 2017

Tanguy was a practising lawyer for 12 years before joining The Law Society of Singapore in 2007 to set up and run its Pro Bono Services Office. He served as The Law Society of Singapore’s Director of Pro Bono Services until his appointment to Law Society Pro Bono Services (now Pro Bono SG) in 2017 as its Chief Executive Officer.

He is a passionate advocate for encouraging pro bono service by the legal profession and is a frequent speaker at regional pro bono conferences. A Tote Board scholar, Tanguy has had more than a decade of non-profit leadership experience in working with public-private-people partnerships to enhance access to justice in Singapore. Tanguy received the President’s Volunteerism & Philanthropy Awards (Leaders of Good Award category) in 2022 for creating a positive impact in Singapore and galvanising others to do good.

Appointed w.e.f. 4 January 2017

Gregory is a partner in the Commercial Litigation Practice Group in Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP. He is the immediate past President of The Law Society of Singapore.

Gregory was the inaugural Pro Bono Ambassador of The Law Society in 2009. He has been actively involved over the years in community-based legal clinics, as a facilitator and volunteer as well as representing indigent clients.

In community service, Gregory has had a longstanding and unique relationship with various charities and VWOs in aid of, among others, children and the elderly. Gregory presently serves as a Trustee of the National Youth Fund and the Rare Disease Fund as well as President of the Tribunal of Maintenance of Parents. In 2020, Gregory was also elected as Board Member of the National Council of Social Services and from last year, has been appointed as Honorary General Secretary.

Appointed w.e.f. 24 February 2020

Chengying heads Pro Bono SG’s community lawyering initiative, which provides integrated legal care to the most socially excluded through strong partnerships with the social sector, and the establishment of Community Law Centres in the heartlands. She also oversees the research, knowledge management and development of best integrated legal care practices to enhance access to justice for vulnerable groups.

Prior to joining Pro Bono SG, Chengying practised in the litigation departments of 2 leading Singapore law firms. She volunteered with Pro Bono SG’s various legal aid programmes after getting called to the Bar and was seconded to the Criminal Legal Aid Scheme to do full-time pro bono criminal defence work as a pioneer CLAS Fellow in 2015.

Appointed w.e.f. 4 January 2017

Kelvin is Co-Head of the Corporate & Commercial Department of Allen & Gledhill LLP, and co-heads the Energy, Infrastructure and Projects Practice and the Employment, Health & Safety Practice.

He also serves as an independent director on the boards of the Singapore Anti-Narcotics Association, and a member of the Advisory Board of Victoria Junior College, Victoria School, and the College of Integrative Studies of Singapore Management University.

Appointed w.e.f 5 September 2022

Eek heads the finance function. He holds a Bachelor of Accountancy from the National University of Singapore and is a Chartered Accountant registered with the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants.

Prior to joining Pro Bono SG, Eek held leadership positions in finance and operational functions in several entities in the audit, banking, commercial and social services sectors. He brings a strategic perspective to level up the finance function at Pro Bono SG.

Appointed w.e.f. 16 October 2023

Jo Olivia Lee heads Pro Bono SG’s Outreach initiative, and she also oversees the Help Centre, Law Awareness, Project Law Help, Assist NPOs, Community Legal Clinic, Migrant Worker Legal Assistance, and the Pro Bono Research Institute.

Jo graduated with a Master of Science degree from Edinburgh, Scotland and was later awarded a full scholarship to study Law. Jo has also completed both Mediation Strategy and Conflict Resolution courses at the Singapore Mediation Centre. She strongly believes in the importance of Access to Justice and in being the first point of contact to help those who are the least, last, and lost in Law.

Before joining Pro Bono SG, Jo was a Vice President at a global bank, and she worked with companies like Jardine Cycle & Carriage and DHL before her secondment to the Ministry of Social and Family (MSF). Jo also serves as a Voting Committee Member with Willing Hearts Soup Kitchen, a Board Member with Humanitarian of Migrant Economics (HOME), and volunteers with the Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE).

Appointed w.e.f. 20 November 2023

Joyce heads Development and Communications where she is responsible for fundraising, partnerships, publicity and strategic communications.

Prior to joining Pro Bono SG, Joyce was leading fundraising efforts, volunteer management and corporate communications in a local charity. Before she made the switch to local non-profits, Joyce had 20 years of B2B global marketing, events and communications experience in the maritime industry with an Honours Degree in Maritime Business and a Diploma in Maritime Transportation.

Appointed w.e.f. 1 February 2019
Appointment as Treasurer commenced w.e.f. 24 February 2021

Paul is a Senior Partner of Tan Kok Quan Partnership. Widely recognised as a leading practitioner by leading independent legal publications, Paul has acted as lead counsel in some of Singapore’s most important and high-profile litigation cases in recent years. Paul also has a speciality in insolvency and restructuring work, having advised on numerous well-publicised insolvencies. In addition, Paul is a regular writer and speaker on dispute resolution, restructuring and insolvency topics.

Outside of legal practice, Paul is a board member of the Living Waters Methodist Church, a board member of Metropolitan YMCA Singapore and an executive board member of the Trinity Annual Conference of the Methodist Church in Singapore. Paul also volunteers at Pro Bono SG’s Community Legal Clinics where he dispenses free legal advice to the under-resourced on a regular basis.

Appointed w.e.f. 19 April 2021

Prior to joining Pro Bono SG, Steven was the head of IT in a Singapore publicly listed company. An IT leader with a powerful blend of technology vision and business acumen he has helped many firms innovate and digitalised their businesses.

Well-versed in leading big data, Data analytics & Machine learning, he is leading the team in transforming Pro Bono SG to a new digital era.

Appointed w.e.f. 4 January 2017

Arfat is a Managing Director of Duane Morris & Selvam LLP and Selvam LLC. She practices in the area of corporate law. Arfat was the President of The Law Society of Singapore in 2003. Before that, she had served as Council and Exco Member of The Law Society of Singapore and as Chairman of its Inquiry Panel and Corporate Practice Committee. She was Chairman of the Law Society Pro Bono Management Committee for 10 years up to 2017.

In 2015, she was awarded the CC Tan Award for upholding the values of honesty, fair play and personal integrity by The Law Society of Singapore and was made Law Society Pro Bono Ambassador in 2017.

Appointed w.e.f. 4 January 2017

Derek is the Managing Director of Cairnhill Law LLC. He is a dispute resolution lawyer with a focus on commercial and civil litigation, as well as criminal matters and has conducted and won trials and appeals at all levels of the Singapore judicial system.

Derek represents and advises companies and individuals in a broad range of cases, including shareholders’ and directors’ disputes, contractual and employment disputes and cases involving fraud.

He is currently the Chairman of the Criminal Legal Aid Scheme Committee and has also served on the Criminal Practice Committee of The Law Society of Singapore since 2006.

Appointed w.e.f. 4 January 2017

Dinesh is a Partner at Allen & Gledhill LLP. He is the Co-Head of the firm’s International Arbitration practice and practises international arbitration and litigation. He is the immediate past President of The Singapore Institute of Arbitrators and Vice Chair of the Asia Pacific Regional Forum of the International Bar Association.

He was also previously Honorary Treasurer of The Law Society of Singapore. Dinesh has been a volunteer of Pro Bono SG’s Criminal Legal Aid Scheme, a non-profit initiative to provide legal assistance to needy defendants in criminal cases, and Ad Hoc Pro Bono Scheme since 2015.

Appointed w.e.f 01 April 2023

Sadhana heads the Representation Department. She oversees the management and operations for the Criminal Legal Aid Scheme, Family Justice Support Scheme and the Ad Hoc Pro Bono Scheme. She also continues to hold a practising certificate which allows her to take up criminal cases.

Prior to joining CLAS, Sadhana practised commercial litigation at Drew & Napier LLC. She then joined the pioneer batch of CLAS Fellows in mid-2015 and was extended as a Fellow in 2016. This was unprecedented. She was subsequently appointed as one of the first CLAS Advocates in 2017 and mentored incoming CLAS Fellows.

Appointed w.e.f. 1 April 2017

Claudine joined The Law Society of Singapore in August 2015 to head Outreach and Communications in the Pro Bono Services Office. Prior to that, Claudine had spent over 17 years in the education and hospitality industries. Since coming on board, she has overseen initiatives and programmes that (a) serve the community through the Community Legal Clinics, Law Awareness outreach programmes and Project Law Help initiatives that support community organisations (b) support volunteers (c) assist or collaborate on pro bono initiatives with other agencies. In July 2023, Claudine assumed the role of Head, HR, Admin and Volunteer Management.

Appointed w.e.f. 11 July 2022

Wei-Ling is CEO of Vanda Global Capital, a Singapore Financial Institution comprising internationally systemically important governmental & non-governmental ecosystem. She contributes with extensive experience on boards & senior management roles in financial institutions, with expertise in strategic governance, risk management and compliance. Her appointments include, Advisory Board Member of the Singapore Management University Academy; Monetary Authority of Singapore Banking Industry Group, the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth SEA Advisory Group, Singapore Co-Chairman for International Trade Missions and at Board & Chair capacities at Rotary International Club, Foundation & District, Singapore.

Honoured to be Pro Bono SG’s first Non-Lawyer Board Member, Wei-Ling hopes to enhance the Board’s focus on areas of Finance and Investment, Governance and Compliance, Risk and Crisis Management and Technology, Digitalisation and Digitization and strengthen innovation in delivering legal education.

Appointed w.e.f. 4 January 2017

N Sreenivasan is the Managing Director and Managing Partner, Singapore at K&L Gates Straits Law LLC. He was previously a Council member, Exco member and Treasurer of The Law Society of Singapore. He has been actively involved in the pro bono activities of The Law Society of Singapore for over 25 years and has served as the Chairman of the Law Awareness Committee of The Law Society of Singapore and led various projects. He was also a member of the Steering Committee of the Enhanced CLAS.

N Sreenivasan was the Law Society Pro Bono Ambassador in 2010. He was also awarded the Public Service Medal in 2014.

Appointed w.e.f. 1 September 2022

Guan Seng is currently the Manging Director of Cohen Assurance PAC. He has over three decades of experience in accounting and auditing related fields.

Guan Seng is active in the community and also serves as the Chairman of Finance Board at the Diocese of Singapore, Member of the Parochial Church Council at St James’ Church, Director of Anglican Preschool Services Limited, and Chairman of Finance Committee and Director of National Volunteers & Philanthropy Centre.

Appointed w.e.f. 1 February 2020

Sunil is the Head of Quahe Woo & Palmer LLC’s Criminal Department. Sunil’s passion is criminal law. He is currently the President of the Association of Criminal Lawyers of Singapore. Sunil is actively involved in pro bono work and attends regularly to various legal clinics. He is also a volunteer lawyer with the Criminal Legal Aid Scheme.

For his efforts, Sunil was awarded one of the two Subordinate Courts’ Volunteer of the Year (Advocate and Solicitor category) awards in 2010.

Currently, Sunil is one of a small group criminal lawyers assisting in the Enhanced Guidance for Plea Scheme in the State Courts. Sunil sits on the CLAS Steering Committee and is Council member of The Law Society of Singapore. Sunil is a member of the Law Society’s Women in Practice Committee and the Criminal Practice Committee. He was Law Society Pro Bono Ambassador in 2019.

w.e.f 12 September 2023

Vivienne is the Founding Director of Genesis Law Corporation. Her main practice areas are corporate and commercial dispute resolution.  Vivienne has also advised and helped set up numerous local and international charities, IPCs, social enterprises, non-profit organizations, and frequently advises (often on a pro bono basis) on governance, legal and regulatory compliance matters for charities and non-profit organisations.

Vivienne is Lead Independent Director of Far East Hospitality Trust, the Chairperson of the CHIJ Board of Management of the 11 CHIJ Schools in Singapore, and the Vice-Chairperson of Catholic Foundation Limited. She also sits as Council Member of the Law Society of Singapore, and as a member of the Disciplinary Committee and Women’s Committee of the Football Association of Singapore. She was awarded the Public Service Medal in 2023.

Appointed w.e.f. 4 January 2017

Cheow Hung is a Director at Beacon Law Corporation. He has more than two decades of experience in private legal practice. The greater part of his experience has been in Dispute Resolution; of which pro bono representation for the underprivileged among both the local and migrant communities formed a considerable part of his work.

He was Law Society Pro Bono Ambassador in 2016. In addition to being on the Board of Pro Bono SG, Cheow Hung is also currently a director of the Lions Home for The Elders.

Appointed w.e.f. 4 January 2017

A founding member of TSMP Law Corporation and a leading figure in Singapore’s legal community, Shen Yi served as the 25th President of The Law Society of Singapore from 2015 to 2016. He was appointed Senior Counsel in 2008 and elected a Master Bencher of The Middle Temple in 2016. He specialises in corporate, commercial and financial litigation disputes.

Shen Yi is often cited as a leading individual in Dispute Resolution in many top international legal publications for his work in dispute resolution, primarily as counsel, occasionally as arbitrator.