
Associate Professor Irene Lye Lin Heng
Associate Professor, NUS Faculty of Law, and Director of its Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law (APCEL)
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Profile
Dr Lye Lin-Heng LLB (Sing), LLM (King’s College, London, UK), LLM (Harvard, USA) is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore (NUS) and Director of its Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law (APCEL). Her areas of teaching and research are environmental law and property law. She chairs the Programme Management Committee for the NUS MSc (Environmental Management) (MEM) Programme and is a member of the Programme Management Committee for the Bachelor in Environmental Studies (BES) programme. She is former Vice-Dean of the Law School at NUS, former Vice-Chair of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law and member of the Academy’s Board of Governors, representing Southeast Asia. She is Visiting Associate Professor at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, where she teaches a course on ‘Comparative Environmental Law’ each Spring. She was Honorary Legal Advisor to the Nature Society Singapore for many years and is now a member of the Board of Directors for Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) Singapore. She is a member of the Ministry of Environment and Water Resources Committee on Clean Drinking Water Standards for Singapore. She is also a member of the Strata Titles Board, and a former Board Member of the Housing and Development Board (HDB), Singapore.