Ben Chester Cheong

Ben Chester Cheong is a Singaporean legal academic and lawyer with 10 years' experience. He holds several senior academic appointments, including Visiting Fellow in Law at University of Reading, Associate Academic Fellow at National University of Singapore Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law, and Centre Researcher at the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG). He is a Law Academic (with tenure) at the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS) since December 2018, and a consultant lawyer at RHTLaw Asia LLP. Ben graduated from the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge in June 2015 with a Master of Law. In the following year, he placed 3rd out of 664 candidates in the Singapore Bar Examinations (Part B) and is the highest performing Cambridge graduate in that year’s Bar Examination. He completed his undergraduate degree in law (with first class honours) at the University of Exeter and was ranked 2nd out of 241 students, with several academic awards including two Dean’s Commendations, the Stones Prize for best LLB dissertation, and the top student for the Commercial Law module. Ben has published extensively on most law and legal policy topics, spanning private and public law, legal and political theory, and technology law, and his work has been cited over 400+ times, including by the Singapore government, INTERPOL, and WIPO.  Ben has received multiple teaching awards at the university level for outstanding and sustained achievement in teaching excellence. Ben previously served as an international finance lawyer at American law firm Baker McKenzie, where he has worked on loan transactions in excess of US$500 million, initial public offerings and bond issuances.