Mr Alexander Joseph Woon is currently a lecturer at the Singapore University of Social Sciences, School of Law, with a focus on criminal law, evidence and procedure, and technology and the law.

Alex was previously a Deputy Public Prosecutor/State Counsel with the Attorney-General’s Chambers (“AGC”), Financial and Technology Crime Division, and concurrently appointed to the Technology Crime Unit.

He prosecuted a wide variety of crimes including corruption, white collar crime, technology crime, maid abuse, intellectual property crime, and homicide. He also advised the Singapore Government on a variety of legal issues related to criminal law. He specialises in white collar and technology crime.

Alex was also part of the AGC team that led evidence before the Committee of Inquiry into the SingHealth Cyberattack in 2018.

Subsequently, Alex joined the Office of Transformation and Innovation (Judiciary). As Deputy Director, Alex was part of the team overseeing transformation efforts across Singapore’s judiciary, comprising the Supreme Court, State Courts, and Family Justice Courts. He was involved in legal strategy and law reform initiatives, culture and capacity building for legal innovation, and the development of LegalTech products — including the Authentic Court Orders website, the SG Courts mobile app, and the new Singapore Courts integrated website.

Mr Paul Cheong is presently a senior lecturer in the School of Law at the Singapore University of Social Sciences. He taught the Wills, Probate and Administration, Criminal Law, Procedure and Evidence as well as Trial Advocacy Courses. In addition, he is Of Counsel at Kalidass Law Corporation.

Previously, as a Legal Service Officer, Paul had served as a Deputy Public Prosecutor, Assistant Official Assignee, Assistant Official Receiver, Assistant Public Trustee and a Senior Assistant Director of the Insolvency and Public Trustee’s Office, Ministry of Law. Thereafter, he also served as a Principal Prosecuting Officer and Senior Assistant Director of the Ministry of Manpower.

Ms Raneeta Mutiara is an Associate Faculty member in the Public Safety and Security (PSS) Programme at the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS). She teaches courses related to violent extremism, transnational crime and public safety. She is also pursuing her Ph.D. at the same university.

Her research interests include prevention of radicalisation in online and offline spaces, religiopolitical movements, and the gender-sensitive approach to deradicalisation. Her goal is to contribute to the academic and policy discourse; and work collaboratively to prevent such extremist behaviour within the region.

Ms Tricia Ho is a Lecturer of Law at the Singapore University of Social Sciences. She is a course lecturer for the Family Law and Family Justice Courts modules 1 and 2. She is also the Principal Investigators in a funded applied research project involving changing attitudes towards sexual misconduct in Singapore. Tricia holds an LLB from the Singapore Management University, an LLM from UC Berkeley and is admitted to practice law in Singapore.

Mr Ben Chester Cheong is a Law Lecturer at the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS) since 2018. He is based in C-EENRG at the University of Cambridge since 2024. He is Of Counsel at RHTLaw Asia LLP and serves as Vice-Chairman in the CLC Committee at Pro Bono SG, Secretary at the Asia Pacific Institute of Experts, and Admissions Committee Member at the Law Society of Singapore. He received his Master’s degree in Law from the University of Cambridge in 2015 with 1st class in Int’l Commercial Litigation, and placed 3rd out of 664 candidates in the Singapore Bar Exams (Part B).