Simon SC Tay LL.B Hons (National University of Singapore) LL.M (Harvard) teaches international law at the National University of Singapore. He was selected for three terms as a Nominated Member of the Singapore Parliament, proposed by the public and confirmed by the President. He is concurrently chairman of the Singapore Institute of International Affairs, a non-governmental think tank, a member of the ASEAN-Institutes of Strategic and International Studies (ASEAN-ISIS), a “track-2” grouping of nine regional think-tanks that study and advise on international issues.

He also serves on a number of civil society organizations and government bodies, including the Singapore Environment Council, and National Parks Board. In 1998-99, he served on the Singapore 21 committee, appointed by the Prime Minister to look at challenges in the next century. In 2000, he co-chaired a feedback committee for the Ministry of National Development to look at the city’s concept plan and issues concerning conservation. In Jan 2000, the World Economic Forum (Davos) named him a “global leader of tomorrow”.