Joon-Nie Lau
Deputy Chief Executive Officer at Singapore International Mediation Centre (SIMC)- Claim this Profile
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English Native or bilingual proficiency
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Malay/Bahasa Indonesia Limited working proficiency
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Mandarin Elementary proficiency
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Raju C.
I've known Joon-Nie for the last 20 years, from the time I was BizIT Editor@The Business Times. She's a GEM: * Gifted: As a journalist & a communicator. I remember her as the first tech journalist on local TV who produced numerous scoops, including the first Internet defamation case in Singapore heard in a court, and IP theft of digital art. * Efficient: At multi-tasking & solutioning. At WAN-IFRA, she organizes dozens of events with news publishers & tech companies. She's been VP@Singapore Press Club for the past 16 years and set up a US$700K multimedia training newsroom@NTU. * Manager: Of people & performance. She has excellent people-management skills. She co-founded Hacks/Hackers Singapore & organised hackathons, ideathons, conferences, and training programs involving media, industry players, government and the courts. We continue to collaborate in the tech/media space to spread awareness of data privacy & cybersecurity.
Adrian Ang
Thanks for your invitation to do a sharing with the Singapore Press Club members on SEO Strategies. Your ability to spot knowledge gaps in the media industry and passion in driving the industry forward would definitely help make an impact for your fellow members. Thanks again for facilitating this session.
Raju C.
I've known Joon-Nie for the last 20 years, from the time I was BizIT Editor@The Business Times. She's a GEM: * Gifted: As a journalist & a communicator. I remember her as the first tech journalist on local TV who produced numerous scoops, including the first Internet defamation case in Singapore heard in a court, and IP theft of digital art. * Efficient: At multi-tasking & solutioning. At WAN-IFRA, she organizes dozens of events with news publishers & tech companies. She's been VP@Singapore Press Club for the past 16 years and set up a US$700K multimedia training newsroom@NTU. * Manager: Of people & performance. She has excellent people-management skills. She co-founded Hacks/Hackers Singapore & organised hackathons, ideathons, conferences, and training programs involving media, industry players, government and the courts. We continue to collaborate in the tech/media space to spread awareness of data privacy & cybersecurity.
Adrian Ang
Thanks for your invitation to do a sharing with the Singapore Press Club members on SEO Strategies. Your ability to spot knowledge gaps in the media industry and passion in driving the industry forward would definitely help make an impact for your fellow members. Thanks again for facilitating this session.
Raju C.
I've known Joon-Nie for the last 20 years, from the time I was BizIT Editor@The Business Times. She's a GEM: * Gifted: As a journalist & a communicator. I remember her as the first tech journalist on local TV who produced numerous scoops, including the first Internet defamation case in Singapore heard in a court, and IP theft of digital art. * Efficient: At multi-tasking & solutioning. At WAN-IFRA, she organizes dozens of events with news publishers & tech companies. She's been VP@Singapore Press Club for the past 16 years and set up a US$700K multimedia training newsroom@NTU. * Manager: Of people & performance. She has excellent people-management skills. She co-founded Hacks/Hackers Singapore & organised hackathons, ideathons, conferences, and training programs involving media, industry players, government and the courts. We continue to collaborate in the tech/media space to spread awareness of data privacy & cybersecurity.
Adrian Ang
Thanks for your invitation to do a sharing with the Singapore Press Club members on SEO Strategies. Your ability to spot knowledge gaps in the media industry and passion in driving the industry forward would definitely help make an impact for your fellow members. Thanks again for facilitating this session.
Raju C.
I've known Joon-Nie for the last 20 years, from the time I was BizIT Editor@The Business Times. She's a GEM: * Gifted: As a journalist & a communicator. I remember her as the first tech journalist on local TV who produced numerous scoops, including the first Internet defamation case in Singapore heard in a court, and IP theft of digital art. * Efficient: At multi-tasking & solutioning. At WAN-IFRA, she organizes dozens of events with news publishers & tech companies. She's been VP@Singapore Press Club for the past 16 years and set up a US$700K multimedia training newsroom@NTU. * Manager: Of people & performance. She has excellent people-management skills. She co-founded Hacks/Hackers Singapore & organised hackathons, ideathons, conferences, and training programs involving media, industry players, government and the courts. We continue to collaborate in the tech/media space to spread awareness of data privacy & cybersecurity.
Adrian Ang
Thanks for your invitation to do a sharing with the Singapore Press Club members on SEO Strategies. Your ability to spot knowledge gaps in the media industry and passion in driving the industry forward would definitely help make an impact for your fellow members. Thanks again for facilitating this session.
Credentials
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Digital Marketing
General AssemblyDec, 2017- Nov, 2024
Experience
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Singapore International Mediation Centre (SIMC)
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Singapore
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Alternative Dispute Resolution
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1 - 100 Employee
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Deputy Chief Executive Officer
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Feb 2022 - Present
Strategic engagement, financial and operational responsibilities, governance, developing and promoting international commercial mediation solutions and services, building relationships with public and private sector stakeholders in key markets. Strategic engagement, financial and operational responsibilities, governance, developing and promoting international commercial mediation solutions and services, building relationships with public and private sector stakeholders in key markets.
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Managing Partner
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Feb 2017 - Present
A boutique production business specialising in documentary and factual genres founded in partnership with Factual TV (Malaysia). Our first project in Feb-Mar 2017 was for Channel NewsAsia where we assembled a team of 80 and successfully delivered 18 three-minute thematic profiles shot in seven countries in under two months. This was quickly followed by in-depth historical research and field production for the reality documentary "Who Do You Think You Are?" featuring Dr Charlie Teo in Singapore and Malaysia for Warner Brothers Australia.
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Vice-President
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2005 - Present
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WAN-IFRA, the World Association of News Publishers
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Germany
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Newspaper Publishing
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1 - 100 Employee
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Director, Asia
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Jan 2019 - Jan 2022
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Program Director
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Feb 2018 - Dec 2018
Bringing over 20 years of experience in the media industry to serve WAN-IFRA's 3,000 members across the world, and especially those in Asia. Members operate in 120 countries and are responsible for 18,000 publications globally. From the APAC office in Singapore, we offer training programmes and workshops, conferences and networking opportunities for members in Asia to exchange knowledge and benefit from shared learning experiences.
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Programme Director
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Feb 2018 - Dec 2018
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Distance Learning Manager
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Dec 2016 - May 2018
I curated and ran an 18-month-long webinar series for WAN-IFRA's Strengthening Media & Society in Fragile States and Developing Countries programme. We served 160 journalists in 88 media companies in 12 countries throughout Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East. The webinars can be experienced on WAN-IFRA's Media Freedom e-Learning channel below.
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Nanyang Technological University Singapore
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Singapore
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Assistant Director, Newsplex Asia
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Aug 2012 - Jul 2016
At Newsplex Asia, we helped professionals and students work seamlessly in a convergent, multi-platform environment and tell stories better.Besides being responsible for the setting up of Newsplex Asia at Nanyang Technological University, I organised regular events about digital media and technologies which are of particular relevance to the news industry.
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Deputy Head, Division of Journalism & Publishing
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Jul 2009 - Aug 2012
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Mediacorp Pte Ltd
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Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
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700 & Above Employee
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Assignments Editor
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Apr 2008 - Jul 2009
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Editor, International News Desk
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2005 - 2008
Daily coordination of correspondents' assignments, copy-editing news stories and commissioning freelance journalists.
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Senior Producer, English News Output
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2004 - 2005
Producing daily TV news bulletins, scripting, video editing and narrating news packages.
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Current Affairs Producer
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2001 - 2004
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Senior Interactive Producer, E-News
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2000 - 2001
Managing channelnewsasia.com and maintaing website content
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Interactive Producer, E-News
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1998 - 1999
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Broadcast Journalist
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1994 - 1998
News reporting News reporting
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Broadcast Journalist
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1994 - 1994
News reporting News reporting
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Pupil
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1993 - 1994
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Education
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1999 - 2000
Columbia University - Graduate School of Journalism
M.Sc, Broadcast & New Media -
1993 - 1993
Board of Legal Education
Practice Law Course (Bar Exam) -
1989 - 1993
National University of Singapore
LL.B, Law -
1987 - 1988
Hwa Chong Junior College
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