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CALC Conference 2026, Singapore

Welcome & Keynote Speakers

Attorney-General Lucien Wong, and Minister for Law and Second Minister for Home Affairs Edwin Tong, SC

Last updated 2 June 2026

Welcome remarks by Mr Lucien Wong

Attorney-General of Singapore

Photographic portrait of Lucien Wong

The CALC Conference 2026 is organised by the Attorney-General’s Chambers of Singapore and Mr Lucien Wong, Attorney-General of Singapore, will give welcome remarks.

Mr Wong was appointed the 9th Attorney-General of Singapore on 14 January 2017. Mr Wong graduated with a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) degree from the University of Singapore in 1978 and was admitted to the Singapore Bar in 1979.

He started legal practice the following year as a legal assistant in Drew & Napier, and rose to become a partner of the firm in 1982. From 1987 to 1998, Mr Wong was a partner at Allen & Gledhill. He was managing partner of the firm from 1998 to 2012, when he became chairman and senior partner.

Mr Wong has more than 30 years of experience in legal practice, specialising in banking, corporate and financial services work. He has sat on several law review committees that reviewed amendments to Singapore Company and Securities Law.

Mr Wong was appointed Deputy Attorney-General and Senior Counsel on 19 December 2016 and assumed office as the Attorney-General of the Republic of Singapore on 14 January 2017.

Keynote address by Mr Edwin Tong, SC

Minister for Law and Second Minister for Home Affairs, Singapore

Photographic portrait of Edwin Tong

The keynote address for the Conference will be given by Mr Edwin Tong, SC, Minister for Law and Second Minister for Home Affairs, Singapore.

Mr Tong was appointed Minister for Law and Second Minister for Home Affairs in May 2025. Prior to this, he served as Minister for Culture, Community and Youth, and Second Minister for Law from 2020 to 2025, and as Senior Minister of State at the Ministry of Law and the Ministry of Health from 2018 to 2020.

As Minister for Law, Mr Tong drives policies and initiatives to uphold the rule of law, strengthen Singapore’s legal framework, advance access to justice, and develop the legal industry.

Before entering public service, Mr Tong was Head of the Restructuring and Corporate Insolvency Department, Co-Head of the Litigation & Dispute Resolution Department, and member of the Executive Committee at Allen & Gledhill LLP. Widely acknowledged to be a leading lawyer of the Singapore Bar, he was appointed Senior Counsel in 2015.

Mr Tong read law at the National University of Singapore.