Danielle is a Council Member of the Singapore branch of the International Law Association and a member of the Singapore Domain Name Dispute Policy Panel, Singapore Mediation Centre. She is also an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Singapore Law (CIL NUS) and concurrently a senior advisor at a boutique consultancy. She was most recently the Deputy Director-General of the International Affairs Division of the Singapore Attorney-General’s Chambers, Singapore.
Danielle’s experience spans across a range of public international law issues including trade and investment, environment and climate change, international security including international cyber norms, human rights, law of the sea and sanctions and compliance matters. She has advised and represented the Singapore Government at international negotiations and dispute resolution. Danielle was lead counsel in multiple negotiations at bilateral, regional and multilateral levels, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade negotiations. In the same capacity, she also helmed recent UNFCC and Paris Agreement climate change talks and a WTO panel proceeding (as a third party). In addition, she was an advisor to the Singapore government in the Case concerning Land Reclamation by Singapore in and around the Straits of Johor (Malaysia v Singapore) before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea.
Danielle served as an elected alternate member of the Implementation and Compliance Committee established under the Paris Agreement (Jan 2020 – July 2021) to promote compliance and facilitate the implementation of the Paris Agreement. She was a member of the Genetic Modification Advisory Committee established by the Singapore Ministry of Trade and Industry to advise on the R&D, as well as the production, release, use and handling of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in Singapore (2016 and July 2021). She chaired the General Assembly of Parties to the Singapore Treaty on the Law of Trademarks, World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) in 2009 and was an appointed WIPO expert on mission in 2009. She was also a Member of the Intellectual Property Hub Master Plan, Singapore Steering Committee and former Co-Chair of Subcommittee 2.
Danielle’s previous roles included that of Deputy Chief Executive/Deputy Director-General at the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore, District Judge, Justices’ Law Clerk and criminal prosecutor.
Danielle holds an LLB (Honours) from the University of Bristol and LLM (First Class Distinction) from the University of Cambridge. She is admitted as Advocate & Solicitor (Supreme Court of Singapore) and Barrister-at-Law (England & Wales) (Middle Temple).
