Biography
Alan Khee-Jin Tan is Professor of Aviation Law at the National University of Singapore. Born in Penang, Malaysia and educated at the NUS and Yale Law Schools, Alan has been a Justices’ Law Clerk at the Supreme Court of Singapore and Hauser Global Visiting Professor at New York University (NYU) Law School. Alan is a leading aviation law academic in Asia and has written extensively on liberalizing the airline industry. He has been aviation consultant to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the Sri Lankan, UAE and Indonesian governments, and airlines including Singapore Airlines, AirAsia, Qatar Airways and Royal Brunei.
Expertise
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Aviation law, policy and regulation; interpretation of the Chicago Convention on International Civil Aviation and regional and bilateral aviation agreements
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Economic and technical regulation of the airline industry
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Liberalization of the airline industry in Asia, ASEAN and other regions/sub-regions; bilateral and multilateral liberalization; the ASEAN Single Aviation Market; “Open Skies” regimes around the world
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Competition/antitrust law, particularly on airline alliances and joint agreements
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Competitiveness of airport hubs in ASEAN and Asia