Regulatory Summit Asia 2024

Nhat Nguyen is a US licensed attorney with over 9 years of global regulatory compliance. He currently serves as the Chief Analyst for Enhesa Product Intelligence and leads a new department which provides further insights and solutions to Enhesa Product Intelligence's customers on regulatory compliance, technology and scientific data regarding chemical and chemical products. 

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.

As a regulatory toxicologist with 16 years experiences, Dr. Zhang helps Chemical manufactures understand and comply with global regulations during producing and using of new and existing chemicals. She has successfully delivered compliance solutions to more than 200 International chemical manufacturers. 

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.

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.   

Jeff Li is a Principle Scientist with nearly 14 years experience in Procter & Gamble, specialising in chemical regulations in Asia. He has been the technical source for Procter & Gamble Asia chemical compliance strategies, and is also actively involved in tracking and shaping existing and emerging chemical legislations from the region. He has a chemistry background and received his Bachelor degree and PhD from Tsinghua University in China.

Mr. Bryan Zhou is Deputy General Manager and Senior Regulatory Consultant of CIRS Europe based in Dublin, Ireland. He has been working for CIRS since 2015. He has practical experience on both global chemical and cosmetic regulations including EU, UK, China, South Korea and many other Asian countries. Bryan has assisted hundreds of EU companies meet regulatory compliance requirements in different regions.

Dr. Caroline Li is currently APAC regional director of IFRA. Prior to this, Dr. Li has been Advisor, product safety and regulatory, Exxon Mobile Asia Pacific. She has been the Regional Head, Asia Pacific – Product Safety, BASF until June 2017. Her responsibilities included management of a team of regulatory experts in Asia Pacific countries and a regional team in Kuala Lumpur, notification of products and chemicals, as well as regulatory compliance in Asia Pacific countries.

Dr. Piyatida (Tung) Pukclai has worked in several technical and managerial positions within the Business Development and Regulatory Policy. Currently, she is Asia-Pacific Lead for Regulatory Policy and Business Development of knoell, an independent service provider for Regulatory Affairs and Product Registration over 25 years.

DANG THUY LINH has worked in Vietnam government for near 20 years, and as well has been actively involved in pollution control, environmental quality management, sound management of chemicals and wastes, environmental health programs and land management, including those funded by international organizations (Global Environment Facility (GEF), World Bank, UNDP, UNIDO, UNEP, Japan International Cooperation Agency-JICA, Korea International Cooperation Agency-KOICA, …). She is also in charge of POPs matter and more than 15 years for implementing Stockholm Convention on POPs in Vietnam.

Since 2019, I have been managing toxic and concerned chemical substances at the Chemicals Administration of the Ministry of Environment. My responsibilities include conducting substance screening and background investigations based on scientific risk evidence, promoting evaluations, and implementing control measures. Additionally, I facilitate inter-agency cooperation and ensure regulatory compliance, assisting companies in meeting regulations.

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.

Jinhe Chen, Associate Chief Physician and Certified Safety Engineer, at the NRCC (National Registration Center for Chemicals) MEM is engaged in studying hazardous chemical regulations and standards, chemical registration, GHS classification, hazard communication.

Leendert brings over 30 years of experience in the (petro-) chemical industry, of which 5 years in sales and over 30 years in product stewardship and regulatory compliance related functions.

Olivier has a background as a chemical engineer and started his career as a consultant and later head of section in safety risk management. Since he moved to Bangkok, Olivier has worked as a consultant for UNEP in the then SAICM Secretariat. He is currently under the chemicals and health branch of UNEP and supports the work of SAICM’s successor, the Global Framework on Chemicals.

Nick is subject matter expert for both Australia and New Zealand in chemical regulatory affairs. He currently works for Chemistry Australia, who is the pre-eminent national body representing the chemistry industry in Australia. Prior to joining Chemistry Australia, Nick held variable positions within the petroleum industry, which included product regulatory advisory roles for the Asia-Pacific region. Nick holds over 20 years experience in chemical regulatory affairs.

Shaun is currently the Manager of the Hazardous Substances Reassessments program within the New Zealand EPA. There he is responsible for the reassessment of already approved substances and the existing Group Standards. Previously having worked 13 years in Belgium and Germany for BASF SE and Cefic, he has wide experience in chemical regulatory affairs in the EU, USA and New Zealand.

Rajesh completed his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from UDCT, Mumbai (Currently referred as ICT) a globally acclaimed premier institute for Chemical Engineering and Technology. During his 18 year career he has good experience in Basic research in search new chromophores for Dyes & Pigments and development  activity involving  different variety of Surfactants, catering to diverse industries  like  Coating, Plastics, Ink &  textile industries  to name a few. During his stint in Clariant, Rajesh has worked in Global Research Projects, where he developed a new Red Pigment C.I.Pigment Red 285 which was patented by Clariant.

Dr. Liu is a Partner at ERM in Taiwan. In recent years, he has managed numerous programs primarily focusing on two fields: the development of new chemical materials for industries and the implementation of chemical substance-related national regulations for the government. With his diverse professional background in organic synthesis, polymer science, material science, life science, and chemical management, he is well-versed in various chemical-related areas and assists companies in complying with chemical management laws and regulations. As a Partner, he is responsible for sustainable product and supply chain services.

Ramesh Shamsul is a chemical engineer by qualification (alumni of the University of Bradford). He obtained his Masters of Science in Occupational and Environmental Health (Industrial Hygiene) from the University of Iowa, United States, in 2010.  Mr Shamsul has been with the present agency since 1992 where industrial hygiene constitutes a major part of his activities, although he has working experience in occupational safety. He has been involved in various working committees drafting codes of practices and guidelines, among others, on personal protective equipment, confined space and chemical health risk assessment.  

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.

Rich joined CHEMTREC in 2019 and serves as the Director of International Business. With nearly 20 years of experience working with private and public sector organizations who have complex risk and compliance challenges, Rich is responsible for forming strategic partnerships with international accounts that interface into and out of the U.S.

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.