Dr Olivia Tan Swee Leng
Dr. Olivia Tan Swee Leng was a Legal Counsel at Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration (KLRCA) and in charge of the Domain Name Dispute Resolution for both .com from Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre and .my cases, as well as Mediation/Arbitration case management. She obtained her Bachelor of Law Degree with honours in 1993 from University of London (UK) and completed her Certificate of Legal Practise (CLP) in 1996. She was the book prize winner for the Civil Procedure Paper and General Paper awarded by the Certificate of Legal Practise Board (Malaysia) in 1996. She practised as an advocate and solicitor in Malaysia in the area of Corporate Litigation, Intellectual Property (Trademark), and Banking and Conveyancing. She continued to pursue her Masters in Law at the National University of Malaysia (UKM) in 2002. Later that year, she ceased legal practise to lecture Company Law, Business Law and Commercial Law at Nilai University in Malaysia as a Senior Lecturer in Law and headed the Department of Admission and Records as a Deputy Registrar. She obtained her PhD in Law at the National University of Malaysia (UKM) in 2014. Presently, she is the Director Technology Transfer Office (TTO) at Multimedia University (MMU). One of her main duties at TTO is to manage the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) of the academic researchers as TTO. Dr Olivia Tan is also involved in Erasmus+ Spire, European grant project as Quality Manager in 2018 to 2020. SPIRE’s overall objective is contributing to the effectiveness of Research and Innovation management at HEIs by enhancing IPR capacities at three complementary levels, thereby addressing major difficulties identified in the target ASEAN countries (Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand). She is also currently a legal consultant for Valiantlytix Sdn Bhd (a Data analytic platfom) .
Dr. Olivia Tan Swee Leng was a Legal Counsel of Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration (KLRCA) and in charge of the Domain Name Dispute Resolution for both .com from Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre and .my cases at KLRCA, as well as Mediation/Arbitration case management. She obtained her Bachelor of Law Degree with honours from University of London. She obtained her Masters and Ph.D in Law from National University of Malaysia (UKM). She was the book prize winner for the Civil Procedure Paper and General Paper awarded by the Certificate of Legal Practise Board (Malaysia) in 1996. She practised as an advocate and solicitor in Malaysia in the area of Corporate Litigation, Intellectual Property (Trademark), Banking and Conveyancing. At present, she serves as the Director for Technology Transfer Office in Multimedia University (MMU). Dr Olivia Tan Swee Leng also led the “rights of the vulnerable”group in Phase 1 development of the National Human Rights Action Plan in Malaysia (NHRAP) in 2015. In 2017 to 2018 she was the lead researcher for Reviewing Adoption Act 1952 and Registration of Adoptions Act 1952 sponsored by the Legal Affairs Division (BHEUU) under the Prime Minister’s Office of Malaysia. In 2018, she was appointed by the Department of Social Welfare, Kuala Lumpur as the assessor of strategic development for the Activity Centers for the Elderly (PAWE) in Kuala Lumpur. Dr Olivia Tan is also an Honorary member and Committee member of the Activity Centre for the Elderly at Putrajaya (PAWE) . Dr Olivia has been invited by the Mission of Canada to ASEAN in November, 2020 to participate as a guest speaker in a Virtual Armchair Discussion on the topic of “Canada’s Feminist Foreign Policy in the Context of ASEAN and the Women Peace and Security Agenda” and moderated by Her Excellency Diedrah Kelly, Ambassador of Canada to ASEAN. The topic of discussion was on how can the Government of Canada leverage its Feminists Foreign Policy to help women entrepreneurs build and grow their businesses and better compete in an increasingly digital economy.
Selected publications
YSN-ASM Conference Abstract Publication (2021) Date to be published TBD
Olivia Tan Swee Leng, Rossanne Gale Vergara and Shereen Khan, ‘Digital Tracing and Malaysia’s Personal Data Protection Act 2010 amid the COVID-19 Pandemic’ (2021) 1 Asian Journal of Law and Policy 47–62 https://doi.org/10.33093/ajlp.2021.3
Tan O.S.L., Vergara, R.G., Phan, R.C.W., Khan, S., & Khan, N. (2020). Cybersecurity Laws in Malaysia. In M. Khosrow-Pour (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Criminal Activities and the Deep Web (pp. 435-448). Hershey, PA: IGI Global. doi:10.4018/978-1-5225-9715-5
Tan O.S.L., Vergara, R.G., Phan, R.C.W., Khan, S., & Khan, N. (2020). Human Trafficking and Cyber Laws in Malaysia. In M. Khosrow-Pour (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Criminal Activities and the Deep Web (pp. 518-532). Hershey, PA: IGI Global. doi:10.4018/978-1-5225-9715-5
Tan, S.L., Vergara, R.G., Khan, N., & Khan, S. (2020). Cybersecurity and Privacy Impact on
Older Persons Amid COVID-19: A Socio-Legal Study in Malaysia. Asian Journal of Research in
Education and Social Sciences, [S.l.], v. 2, n. 2, p. 72-76, June 2020.
Khan, Nasreen, Tan Swee Leng, Khan Shereen, & Rossanne Gale Vergara. "A Qualitative
Study on Millennials Response to Social Media Marketing on Purchase Intention: Framework
Analysis." International Journal of Business and Technology Management [Online], 2.2 (2020):
18-27. Web. 26 Sep. 2020
Shereen Khan, Olivia Tan, Nasreen Khan and Rossanne Gale Vergara (2017),
"Strengthening Social Safety Net for Older People in Malaysia", Journal of Southeast Asian
Research, Vol. 2017 (2017), Article ID 912568, DOI: 10.5171/2017.912568
Nasreen Khan, Shereen Khan, Olivia Tan Swee Leng, Tan Booi Chen and Rossane Gale
Vergara (2017)," Explore the Factors that Influence Elderly Poverty", Journal of Southeast Asian
Research, Vol. 2017 (2017), Article ID 938459, DOI: 10.5171/2017.938459
Olivia Tan Swee Leng, Shereen Khan, Rossanne Gale Vergara and Nasreen Khan (2016),
"Policies and Protections for Ageing Society in Malaysia", Journal of Southeast Asian Research,
Vol. 2016 (2016), Article ID 974366, DOI: 10.5171/2016.974366
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Malaysia
Role:
Director of Technology Transfer Office
Department:
Technology Transfer Office
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