BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Mr Haridass chairs our board’s Risk Committee and is a member of the Audit Committee. In addition, Mr Haridass is an independent director of Sembcorp Marine, chairman of the Sembcorp Marine nominating committee and a member of a number of its board committees.

With close to 40 years of legal experience, Mr Haridass specialises in maritime law and deals with commercial and banking litigation. Currently a consultant with Haridass Ho & Partners, a legal firm he founded in 1985, Mr Haridass is a panel member of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre and the Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration, an accredited mediator of the Singapore Mediation Centre, as well as a referee of the Small Claims Tribunal of the State Courts of Singapore (formerly known as the Subordinate Courts). He is a Commissioner for Oaths, a Notary Public and a Justice of the Peace. He is also the lead independent director of Nam Cheong.

Mr Haridass holds a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) degree from the University of London and qualified as a Barrister-at-Law at the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple in London.