Joon-Nie Lau
Deputy Chief Executive Officer at Singapore International Mediation Centre (SIMC)- Claim this Profile
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Mandarin Elementary proficiency
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Ayesha Shakya
I worked with Joon-Nie to set up and launch Newsplex Asia's inaugural website and from the beginning she was an amazing mentor for me as I was just starting out my career in tech and media. She took a chance on me and fully trusted my abilities and potential, and that belief and confidence has stayed with me all these years. I am so grateful to have worked with someone like Joon-Nie, who has deep industry knowledge and extensive experience across various media platforms, and also a strong passion for nurturing the next generation of journalists. As an industry leader and a pioneer in digital media, I've learnt a lot from her and she has truly been an inspiration for me.
Oo Gin Lee
It is my privilege to count Joon-Nie as my friend. Strong, smart and opiniated, she is ever ready to take a stand and yet is sensitive, compassionate and diplomatic to understand the need to balance that against respecting the views of others. Like me, Joon studied law at NUS and both of us eventually ended up in the media industry. I used to catch Joon-Nie as a broadcast journalist national TV. But it was in the four years that I worked closely with her, both of us as consultants for an external crisis communications program to train senior public servants, did I see her real prowess in action. Within an hour after the simulated press conference ended (complete with imaginary but realistic scenarios of exploding planes and deaths in numbers) she would be able to whip up a news broadcast segment to show the participants how news reporters turn events into real-life news stories, in quicksilver speed. I have also recently started working with Joon as MC members of the Singapore Press Club can see her commitment and dilligence in making things happen and turning thoughts into action. She has so many different activities, committees and projects in her life (many of which is related to the media industry) that I cannot keep up with her indefatigable action. If you are looking to learn about the media industry here and globally, Joon-Nie is the one to start talking to.
Ayesha Shakya
I worked with Joon-Nie to set up and launch Newsplex Asia's inaugural website and from the beginning she was an amazing mentor for me as I was just starting out my career in tech and media. She took a chance on me and fully trusted my abilities and potential, and that belief and confidence has stayed with me all these years. I am so grateful to have worked with someone like Joon-Nie, who has deep industry knowledge and extensive experience across various media platforms, and also a strong passion for nurturing the next generation of journalists. As an industry leader and a pioneer in digital media, I've learnt a lot from her and she has truly been an inspiration for me.
Oo Gin Lee
It is my privilege to count Joon-Nie as my friend. Strong, smart and opiniated, she is ever ready to take a stand and yet is sensitive, compassionate and diplomatic to understand the need to balance that against respecting the views of others. Like me, Joon studied law at NUS and both of us eventually ended up in the media industry. I used to catch Joon-Nie as a broadcast journalist national TV. But it was in the four years that I worked closely with her, both of us as consultants for an external crisis communications program to train senior public servants, did I see her real prowess in action. Within an hour after the simulated press conference ended (complete with imaginary but realistic scenarios of exploding planes and deaths in numbers) she would be able to whip up a news broadcast segment to show the participants how news reporters turn events into real-life news stories, in quicksilver speed. I have also recently started working with Joon as MC members of the Singapore Press Club can see her commitment and dilligence in making things happen and turning thoughts into action. She has so many different activities, committees and projects in her life (many of which is related to the media industry) that I cannot keep up with her indefatigable action. If you are looking to learn about the media industry here and globally, Joon-Nie is the one to start talking to.
Ayesha Shakya
I worked with Joon-Nie to set up and launch Newsplex Asia's inaugural website and from the beginning she was an amazing mentor for me as I was just starting out my career in tech and media. She took a chance on me and fully trusted my abilities and potential, and that belief and confidence has stayed with me all these years. I am so grateful to have worked with someone like Joon-Nie, who has deep industry knowledge and extensive experience across various media platforms, and also a strong passion for nurturing the next generation of journalists. As an industry leader and a pioneer in digital media, I've learnt a lot from her and she has truly been an inspiration for me.
Oo Gin Lee
It is my privilege to count Joon-Nie as my friend. Strong, smart and opiniated, she is ever ready to take a stand and yet is sensitive, compassionate and diplomatic to understand the need to balance that against respecting the views of others. Like me, Joon studied law at NUS and both of us eventually ended up in the media industry. I used to catch Joon-Nie as a broadcast journalist national TV. But it was in the four years that I worked closely with her, both of us as consultants for an external crisis communications program to train senior public servants, did I see her real prowess in action. Within an hour after the simulated press conference ended (complete with imaginary but realistic scenarios of exploding planes and deaths in numbers) she would be able to whip up a news broadcast segment to show the participants how news reporters turn events into real-life news stories, in quicksilver speed. I have also recently started working with Joon as MC members of the Singapore Press Club can see her commitment and dilligence in making things happen and turning thoughts into action. She has so many different activities, committees and projects in her life (many of which is related to the media industry) that I cannot keep up with her indefatigable action. If you are looking to learn about the media industry here and globally, Joon-Nie is the one to start talking to.
Ayesha Shakya
I worked with Joon-Nie to set up and launch Newsplex Asia's inaugural website and from the beginning she was an amazing mentor for me as I was just starting out my career in tech and media. She took a chance on me and fully trusted my abilities and potential, and that belief and confidence has stayed with me all these years. I am so grateful to have worked with someone like Joon-Nie, who has deep industry knowledge and extensive experience across various media platforms, and also a strong passion for nurturing the next generation of journalists. As an industry leader and a pioneer in digital media, I've learnt a lot from her and she has truly been an inspiration for me.
Oo Gin Lee
It is my privilege to count Joon-Nie as my friend. Strong, smart and opiniated, she is ever ready to take a stand and yet is sensitive, compassionate and diplomatic to understand the need to balance that against respecting the views of others. Like me, Joon studied law at NUS and both of us eventually ended up in the media industry. I used to catch Joon-Nie as a broadcast journalist national TV. But it was in the four years that I worked closely with her, both of us as consultants for an external crisis communications program to train senior public servants, did I see her real prowess in action. Within an hour after the simulated press conference ended (complete with imaginary but realistic scenarios of exploding planes and deaths in numbers) she would be able to whip up a news broadcast segment to show the participants how news reporters turn events into real-life news stories, in quicksilver speed. I have also recently started working with Joon as MC members of the Singapore Press Club can see her commitment and dilligence in making things happen and turning thoughts into action. She has so many different activities, committees and projects in her life (many of which is related to the media industry) that I cannot keep up with her indefatigable action. If you are looking to learn about the media industry here and globally, Joon-Nie is the one to start talking to.
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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Factual TV (Singapore) LLP
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Singapore
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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. Show less
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Singapore Press Club
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Singapore
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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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