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'''Professor Alan Khee Jin Tan '''

Alan Khee Jin TAN (born October 1969) is a law professor at the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law (NUS Law) in Singapore. Tan researches into and teaches aviation law, criminal law and environmental law, and is recognised as the leading aviation law academic in Asia.

I.	EARLY LIFE

Alan Tan was born in Penang, Malaysia in 1969, the younger of two children of Tan Keat Seng (born 1937, died 2021) and Teoh Kim Heoh (born 1936). Both of Tan’s parents were primary school teachers in Penang. Tan’s elder brother, Andrew Khee Guan Tan, is an economics professor at the Universiti Sains Malaysia (Science University of Malaysia) in Penang. Tan received his primary school education at Francis Light School (1) in Penang from 1976 to 1978, subsequently transferring to Batu Lanchang Primary School where he studied from 1979 to 1981. Tan then attended high school at the Penang Free School, Southeast Asia’s oldest English-language school, from 1982 to 1986.

Tan completed the Malaysian equivalent of the ‘O’-Level examinations in 1986 with a perfect score of 10 A1 grades, topping the state of Penang as well as emerging as one of the top students in all of Malaysia. For his outstanding achievements, Tan was awarded the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Scholarship in 1987 by Singapore’s Ministry of Education to continue his studies at Raffles Junior College. He completed his Cambridge Advanced (‘A’-Level) Examinations in 1988.

'''II. LEGAL EDUCATION'''

Tan then enrolled to study law at the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law in 1989, graduating in 1993 with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) degree. During those undergraduate years, he held the Kuok Foundation Scholarship, awarded by the Kuok Group which own businesses in Asia such as Shangri-La Hotels. Tan was also the recipient of multiple book prizes, including the Law Society of Singapore Book Prize for being one of the top two students and the Koh Han Kok Book Prize for Public International Law.

Throughout his undergraduate studies, Tan resided at Raffles Hall, an NUS hall of residence, and was Vice-President of the Hall’s Junior Common Room Committee. In his final year of law school in 1993, Tan represented the NUS Faculty of Law and Singapore at the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition in Washington D.C., USA, where his team emerged as World Semi-Finalists.

Upon graduation in 1993, Tan was offered a Senior Tutorship at NUS Law which put him on the road to legal academia. For a period, he was seconded to the Supreme Court of Singapore as a Justices’ Law Clerk. He was in one of the early batches of law clerks who served directly under the then-Chief Justice of Singapore, Mr. Yong Pung How, who had established the law clerkship system in Singapore.

Tan then went on to pursue his Master of Laws (LL.M) degree at Yale Law School, USA, from 1994 to 1995 under the National University of Singapore Overseas Graduate Scholarship. In 2001, Tan completed his Doctor of the Science of Law (J.S.D.) degree at Yale Law School under the supervision of W. Michael Reisman, Myres McDougal Professor of International Law. Tan’s doctoral thesis on the law and politics of international regulation over ships was partially written in London where he had interned at the International Maritime Organization (IMO). His thesis won the Yale Law School Ambrose Gherini Prize for Best Dissertation in International Law in 2002.

'''III. ACADEMIC CAREER'''

Upon completing his LL.M at Yale, Tan returned to NUS Law and was appointed a Lecturer and subsequently an Assistant Professor. In 2002, he attained tenure and was promoted to an Associate Professorship. In the fall of 2009, Tan was appointed a Hauser Global Visiting Professor at New York University School of Law, where he taught Global Aviation Law and Policy. In 2010, Tan was promoted to a full Professorship at NUS Law.

'''IV. MAJOR APPOINTMENTS'''

Widely respected for his work in aviation law, Tan has had several major appointments on the international stage. These include:


 * Advisor to the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) 国家发展和改革委员会 of the People’s Republic of China on airline alliances and competition law;
 * Consultant to the Attorney-General’s Chambers of Sri Lanka on air services agreements and the politics of aviation;
 * Consultant to Royal Brunei Airlines, Cebu Pacific Airways, AirAsia, AusAid, the ASEAN Airlines Association, the United Arab Emirates General Civil Aviation Authority and the government of Indonesia, all on air transport liberalisation.

In Singapore and Southeast Asia, Tan has had several major appointments, including serving as Eminent Expert to the International Advisory Panel on Transboundary Pollution, Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources, Singapore, and as Consultant and Research Partner to the CIMB ASEAN Research Institute (CARI) and AirAsia on the emerging ASEAN Single Aviation Market.

V.	SERVICE AND AWARDS

Tan has been recognised for his instructional and teaching skills. From 2014 to 2019, he won the NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award at the Faculty level, and in 2017, the same Award at the University level. For his service to Singapore’s academic scene, Tan was awarded the Long Service Medal, Pingat Bakti Setia, at the Singapore National Day Awards in 2020.

Tan has also served in several key positions within NUS Law, including as:
 * Vice-Dean, Research and Graduate Studies, 2006 to 2010
 * Director, New York University School of Law Singapore Program (NYU@NUS), 2012 to 2014
 * Law Representative, University Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2018 to 2019
 * Deputy Director, Asian Law Institute (ASLI), 2003 to 2006
 * Associate Director, Alumni Affairs and Inaugural Editor, LawLink Alumni Magazine, 2001 to 2004

'''VI. PUBLICATIONS'''

Tan is the author of several leading works on aviation, maritime, environmental and criminal law. His seminal work on shipping regulation, Vessel-Source Marine Pollution: The Law and Politics of International Regulation, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2006. He was also co-editor of a leading work on protected areas, Biodiversity and Human Livelihoods in Protected Areas: Case Studies from the Malay Archipelago (Cambridge University Press, with Navjot S. Sodhi, Maribeth Erb and Gregory Acciaioli, 2008). In 2005, he co-edited Developments in Singapore and Malaysian Law with his childhood friend, Azmi Sharom, formerly of the University of Malaya Faculty of Law and now Deputy Chairman of the Malaysian Election Commission. The book commemorated the centenary of the predecessor institution of both the National University of Singapore and the University of Malaya. In 2006, Tan’s article in the Air & Space Law academic journal, “Liberalizing Aviation in the Asia-Pacific Region: The Impact of the EU Horizontal Mandate”, won the Diederiks-Verschoor Prize for best publication in air and space law.

Tan is also an expert on the legal aspects of forest and land fires in Indonesia, having published in the International and Comparative Law Quarterly and the New York University Environmental Law Journal on the topic. Tan is currently working on a major book on aviation, tentatively titled Liberalizing the Aviation Industry: Regulation and Aero-Politics in Asia.

'''VII. PERSONAL LIFE'''

Tan is married to Sun Sun Lim, a communications and media professor who is Vice-President, Partnerships and Engagement, at the Singapore Management University and a former Nominated Member of Parliament (NMP) in Singapore. They have two teenaged children.