Brief Biodata

Assoc Prof NG Siew Kuan, Elizabeth teaches subjects on intellectual property law, biotechnology law and global exploitation of IPRs. She is also a tutor in IP law of the WIPO Worldwide Academy.

She is the author of several books and has published widely and delivered papers at numerous international conferences on intellectual property law.

She was a consultant to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and a visiting scholar to the US Court of Appeal for the Federal Circuit, Washington DC, USA. She served on many national and international projects to advise on intellectual property laws. Recently, she was a consultant to WIPO on the publication of a study for the WIPO Patent Agenda: "The Impact of the International Patent System on Developing Countries". Prof. Ng regularly gives opinions on intellectual property law to clients in the public and private sectors.

Prof Ng holds a Bachelor of Laws (Honors) from the University of London, England, and a Master of Laws (First Class) from the University of Cambridge, England. She was awarded the Sweet & Maxwell Law prize, the Faculty of Law prize and the Clough prize from the University of London and the University of Cambridge. She is also a Barrister-at-Law of the Middle Temple, England, an Advocate and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore and a Fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Society, University of Cambridge, England.