Lye Lin-Heng retired as a full-time staff member in July 2019. She is now Adjunct Professor teaching a course on Environmental Law in semester 1. She graduated in law from the University of Singapore, and holds Masters degrees in law from the University of London (King’s College) and Harvard University. She is an Advocate & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore and was Director of the Law Faculty’s Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law (APCEL) from 2013-2017. She was Vice-Dean and Director of the Faculty’s Graduate Programme from 1995-1998. She chaired the University’s Inter-Faculty Programme Management Committee on the multi-disciplinary MSc (Env Mgt)) [MEM] programme hosted by the School of Design and Environment since its inception in 2001, to 2019. 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 Technical Committee on National Drinking Water Quality Standards, National Environment Agency, Ministry of Environment and Water Resources, and a member of the Board of Directors, WWF Singapore. She was awarded the Public Service Medal (PBM) in 2016.
At the international level, she was a member of the Board of Governors of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law, and co-chair of its Teaching and Capacity-Building Committee. She was 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, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, China, Germany, Holland, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Korea, Macao, Malaysia, the Philippines, the South Pacific, United Kingdom and the United States. She has been visiting Associate Professor at Yale University’s School of Forestry & Environmental Studies since 2003, teaching a course on Comparative Environmental Law.
