Brief Biodata

Lye Lin Heng graduated in law from the University of Singapore, and holds Masters degrees in law from the University of London and Harvard University. She is an Advocate & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore and is Deputy Director of the Law Faculty's Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law (APCEL). She was Vice-Dean and Director of the Faculty's Graduate Programme from 1995-1998. She chairs the University's Inter-Faculty Executive Committee on the new Masters in Environmental Management (MSc (Env Mgt)) programme hosted by the School of Design and Environment. She is a member of the Land Titles (Strata) Board, and was a former board member of the Housing Development Board and the Tenants' Compensation Board. She was a member of the Ministry of Environment's Committees on Environmental Education and on Waste Minimization and Resource Conservation in the Revised Singapore Green Plan 2012.

She is a member of the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law, and chairs the Research Group in the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law. She is a consultant-trainer to the Regional Institute for Environmental Technology and was Consultant to TRAFFIC Indochina for Vietnam and Cambodia. She is a resource person in capacity-building programs conducted by the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank and the Ministry of Environment, Singapore. She has presented papers at conferences worldwide including Australia, Chile, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Korea, the South Pacific, United Kingdom and the United States. She has taught in the University of Sydney, City University of Hong Kong and Airlangga University (Indonesia). She has just returned from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies where she was Visiting Associate Professor (Spring 2004), teaching a course on Comparative Environmental Law.