Joon-Nie Lau

A lawyer by training, Joon-Nie spent over 15 years in broadcast television as a law and technology reporter, interactive producer, news and current affairs editor at Channel NewsAsia and its predecessors SBC News and TCS News.She then spent seven years at Nanyang Technological University, where she launched Newsplex Asia and taught courses in news and PR writing, news presentation and overseas reporting which led her to Timor-Leste, Southern Thailand, North Korea and remote places in China. For four years, she headed the Asia office of the World Association of News Publishers and brought the Canadian Journalism Foundation’s World News Day to Asia in 2019, where it was marked by the region’s mainstream media newsrooms. She then returned to her legal roots, serving as Deputy CEO at the Singapore International Mediation Centre from 2022 to 2024. She then joined the Singapore Academy of Law, where she ran TechLaw.Fest, tripling attendance to over 2,000 legal and technology professionals from over 40 countries in the three editions that she ran, till September 2026. Joon-Nie served on the Singapore Press Club’s Management Committee for 24 years and is a director of the company which operates the Singapore Press Club.