Regulatory Developments @ Regulatory Summit Asia 2025

Sok-Han gains her industry experience as an independent regulatory affairs consultant, with a focus on Japan, South Korea and other Asian markets. She serves as a conduit between the Japanese market and the rest of the world, assisting industry in navigating through complex compliance frameworks. Her specialty is in food and beverage, food contact, health supplement and cosmetic products. Sok-Han is a fluent speaker of Cantonese, Japanese, Korean and Mandarin.

Agnes Lau is a seasoned regulatory leader with close to two decades of experience in product safety and chemical regulations across the Asia Pacific region. As Director of Product Safety Asia Pacific at BASF, she leads a cross-functional team responsible for steering regulatory compliance and product stewardship across more than 60 entities in the region.

Fabien Henry is responsible for ensuring that developing regulations for nickel and nickel compounds in South-East Asia are based on sound science and risk management. He represents the nickel sector with supra-governmental organisations in the region, national authorities, and industry associations. He is based in Singapore and is the current industry co-chair of the APEC virtual working group on GHS as well as co-chair of the ARCP. Prior to joining the Nickel Institute in 2018, Fabien worked for 8 years as Regulatory Affairs and Business Consultant. Fabien gained extensive experience on regulatory monitoring and support for corporate clients, working on GHS, SDS authoring, chemical management, and other regulatory topics.

Helen has over 20 years’ extensive product compliance and stewardship expertise in chemical industry. She also has rich management experience as regional head for product safety and compliance team in Asia Pacific and as global compliance head managing compliance team covering three continents. Helen holds a Master degree in Chemical Engineering from East China University of Science and Technology in 2003.

Junho Lee is a Director at CIRS Group Korea and has 18 years of international experience specializing in the field of chemical regulations, standards and certifications in Korea, China and Europe. He has supported industry on major chemical regulatory updates around the world starting with EU REACH, and now Korea’s K-REACH.

Yuki Sakuratani is the director of Chemical Risk Analysis Division, Chemicals Management Center, National Institute of Technology and Evaluation (NITE), where he is engaged in the work on the risk assessment under Chemical Substances Control Raw in Japan. He also serves as the director for International Affairs of Chemical Management Center involving in coordinating international activities. His expertise is the development and utilization of alternative methods to animal testing such as QSAR, read-across, IATA and WoE in chemical management regulations, and he has over 20 years of work experience in this field. From 2014 to 2017, he was seconded to the OECD and was involved in running OECD projects related to alternative methods to animal testing. He received his Ph.D. degree in Engineering from Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology in 2002.

From 2004 to 2019, I held positions as a specialist and head of department at the Ministry of Industry and later the Ministry of Industry and Trade, focusing on chemical and environmental management. During my 15 years at the Ministry, I actively participated in the development of the Law on Chemicals and related legal documents from 2006 to 2019. Since 2019, I have been involved in chemical management projects in Vietnam funded by international organizations such as UNIDO, GEF, UNDP, and GIZ. 

I have been with the Chemical Management Section of the Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) since 2009. My tasks include permitting, monitoring/inspection of chemical industries and incidents, policy formulation, and online system (development and management). I was involved in various multilateral environmental agreements activities, programs, and projects. I represent EMB as a technical person to the technical working group, committee, and other inter-agency meetings related to environmental and chemical regulation.

Eric Xiong has 15 years working experience in product stewardship and regulatory compliance for chemical industry in China, EU and other Asian Pacific countries. His team has provided solutions for hundreds of enterprises to achieve chemical regulatory compliance in China, EU and other countries in Asian Pacific countries and help those enterprises to put thousands of chemicals into the market in these countries without barriers.

Wee Kuan is an experienced regulatory professional with more than 10-year experience in the chemical industry. Currently, he is a Product Stewardship Advisor in Infineum Singapore LLP responsible for product stewardship and regulatory compliance in the Asia Pacific region.

Inezia Aurelia is a highly experienced professional with over 19 years in the Chemical and Life Science industry. Currently, she leads the Regulatory Management and Trade Compliance team in Southeast Asia at Merck Chemicals and Life Sciences, where she ensures product and trade compliance to secure smooth business operations. With more than 15 years of extensive expertise in product regulatory compliance across Southeast Asia and the Asia Pacific region, Inezia is dedicated to ensuring adherence to industry standards and navigating complex regulatory landscapes.

Dr. Ishkandar MD Yusoff brings nearly three decades of expertise in chemical safety and occupational health. He began his career as a Process Engineer in 1996 and has served as Deputy Director at DOSH Malaysia since 1997. Dr. Yusoff holds a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from the United States, a Master’s in Ergonomics and Technology from Australia, and a Ph.D. in Occupational Safety and Health from Malaysia.

Rongrong has worked as an EHS and Products Regulatory Consultant for Enhesa for more than 7 years and now are deeply engaged in the laws and regulations related to chemicals and products in the Asian region.

Steven Van de Broeck is Executive Director Product Stewardship at Cefic. He leads the Product Stewardship team of Cefic overseeing the implementation and development of EU Chemicals regulations and policies. 

Rati Bhattacharya serves as Partner at ERM Singapore, leading Sustainable Operations across the Asia-Pacific region. She brings more than 18 years of hands-on experience empowering chemical, pharmaceutical, consumer goods, and technology companies to manage operational risks, strengthen compliance, and build resilient and responsible supply chains.

Dr. Passarella is an expert strategist in navigating international chemical regulations.  At Intertek, she uses her chemical and legal experience and skill at interpreting complex chemical regulations to design and implement effective policies to protect client’s products.  During her career, Dr. Passarella has advocated for sustainable chemical management to enable the manufacture and sale of products in US and global markets. After completing her Ph.D. in chemistry, she formulated products, managed R&D groups, and managed global Product Stewardship and Sustainability. It was during this time that she pursued a law degree at night school, and is licensed to practice law in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.  Her combination of industry experience, and an in-depth knowledge of chemistry and the law enables her to translate regulatory trends and requirements into business and compliance action plans.

Willi has over 30 years’ experience in the Chemical industry. In his long carrier he has held positions in R&D, Technical Customer Service and Business Development. At the same time as the EU REACH white book was published, he moved into Product Compliance in 2006. Willi has been involved in all sorts of Product Stewardship topics on an international scale, such as REACH, GHS, Biocides, Transport classification, import and export regulations ever since.   

Soo Lin is HP’s Sustainable Impact Lead for Southeast Asia, Australia, & New Zealand. She has more than a decade’s experience in sustainability, ranging from life cycle assessments to greenhouse gas accounting. In her previous role at A*STAR Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology, Soo Lin helped companies develop strategic roadmaps for sustainability transformation and trained them in sustainability topics. She is a certified auditor in ISO 9001 Quality Management Systems, Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Chain of Custody, and Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) Chain of Custody. Soo Lin has conducted due diligence assessments and audits in multiple countries in the region, such as China, Vietnam, and Malaysia.

Rebecca is an Associate Expert at UNEP’s Global Framework on Chemicals Secretariat in Geneva. She supports the Global Framework on Chemicals Fund by providing operational and technical assistance to countries implementing the Framework. Her work focuses on advancing sustainable chemical management by strengthening national and regional capacities, promoting safe and sustainable practices along value chains and fostering multi-stakeholder cooperation to deliver tangible benefits for both people and the environment.