Sze-Wei manages the ASEAN Law and Policy programme at CIL together with Programme Head Professor Joseph Weiler. They oversee CIL’s annual flagship programmes of the ASEAN Law and Policy Academy and Global Trade Law Academy, as well as the CIL Document Database and its collection of ASEAN and International Law instruments.
Sze-Wei’s research focuses on the development of ASEAN institutions and legal frameworks, and is a continuation of their work on the ASEAN Charter process from 2006-2007 where they assisted Singapore’s representatives to the Eminent Persons’ Group on the ASEAN Charter, then-Deputy Prime Minister S Jayakumar and chairman of the High Level Task Force on the ASEAN Charter Ambassador-at-Large Tommy Koh. They were also an editorial assistant for the book The Making of the ASEAN Charter (eds Koh, Rosario and Woon, World Scientific 2009) and The ASEAN Charter: A Commentary (Walter Woon, 2015). They left the Singapore Foreign Service in 2008 and joined the Centre for International Law in 2009.
