Senior public affairs executive with 14+ years driving market access, regulatory clearance, and government relations for world-leading technology platforms across Asia-Pacific. Currently Head of Public Policy at Tencent — one of the world's top-5 technology companies by market capitalisation — managing politically sensitive multi-market portfolios across Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, and India simultaneously. Former Singapore diplomat (MFA / MTI) with treaty-negotiation, trade policy, and multilateral credentials at the G2G level; fintech and blockchain policy architect at Ant Group and Tron Foundation.
Track record of converting hostile regulatory environments into operational green lights, securing ministerial endorsements that protect platform continuity, and building the government coalitions that enable tech businesses to grow. Engineering and finance foundations (Cornell MEng; ETH Zurich BSc; CFA Level 1). Six languages.
Singapore Leaders Network Fellow 2026.
Tencent
Singapore
Architect simultaneous multi-market government affairs programmes across SG, MY, VN, JP, and IN for one of the world's largest technology platforms, covering gaming, digital media, cloud, and healthcare verticals.
Principal interface to cabinet-level ministers and regulatory agencies translating political risk directly into product, market-entry, and operational strategy for C-suite leadership.
Developed and executing a two-track public-private engagement strategy for Tencent Cloud (e.g GCC, Healthcare) creating a commercial route into a highly regulated government procurement environment.
Leading Malaysia Online Safety Act 2025 consultation response covering WeChat licensing exposure across three code categories (RMC, CPC, OSP); removed mandatory contribution requirements for the company
Led incentive applications for the establishment of Malaysia Data Centre, US$ 35m+ savings in tax burden.
Resolved operations ban arising from compliance incident for WeTV Vietnam with the Cinema Department — protecting platform operational continuity while building long-term regulatory goodwill.
Driving India MeitY senior stakeholder strategy for Tencent's India commercial re-entry thesis; building ministerial pipeline through coordinated engagement across MeitY, MIB, and industry bodies.
Sponsored by Tencent to attend the SGLN Fellowship in 2026.
Ant Group
Singapore
Renegotiated Singapore tax incentive package for Ant International amid corporate restructuring — direct commercial value creation through policy navigation, delivering a measurable outcome for the P&L.
Built Ant International's ASEAN government relations function from the ground up; established relationships with newly appointed C-suite leaders across key ASEAN government agencies within 90 days of joining.
Conducted multi-year R&D lobbying campaign in privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs), securing Minister-level political endorsement — a direct market-access enabler for Ant's Singapore hub ambitions.
Established Ant International Foundation
Tron Foundation
Singapore
Promoted from Manager to Director-level Advisor within 12 months; advised Group CEO directly on regulatory strategy across the blockchain and digital asset ecosystem in 6 markets.
Managed compliance regime development before and after Tron's acquisition of Huobi cryptoexchange — navigating concurrent regulatory expectations across multiple jurisdictions simultaneously.
Deployed multi-year government affairs and PR strategy for the Tron ecosystem; engaged international regulators proactively on desired compliance principles.
Embassy of Singapore to France
Paris
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore
Singapore
Conceived and executed the 2018 France-Singapore Year of Innovation; successfully lobbied Singapore's removal from potential EU tax blacklist — protecting bilateral investment flows.
Provided commercial political intelligence to Temasek-linked companies on target infrastructure projects.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore
Singapore
Chief of Staff to Singapore's Chief Negotiator at the UNFCCC — managed multilateral negotiation logistics, political communications, and stakeholder briefings across 190+ country delegations; successive promotions within first two years of Service.
Monitored and reported on a wide range of commercially relevant emerging issues for Singapore: startups, health, investment authorities, taxation, BEPS, AML/CFT, R&D — a proto-intelligence function for market entry and regulatory risk.
MEng
BSc. (ETH)
Fluent – C2
Fluent – C2
Fluent – B1
spoken
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