Outstanding Service Award

Professor KOH Thong Bee, Tommy

LLD (Hon) (Yale), LLD (Hon) (Monash), Dip Crim (Cambridge), LLM (Harvard), LLB (Hons) (Malaya)
Faculty of Law

• Chairman, International Advisory Board, Asia Research Institute, since 2002
• Chairman, Steering Committee, Faculty of Law, since 2001
• Chairman, Advisory Committee for MSc (Environmental Management) Programme, since 2001
• Dean, Faculty of Law, 1971-1974.

• Director, SingTel Board, since 2003
• Chairman, National Heritage Board, since 2002
• Director, Institute of Policy Studies, since 2000 and 1990-1997
• Ambassador-at-large, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, since 1990
• Singapore's Chief Negotiator, US-Singapore Free Trade Agreement, 2000- 2003
• Director, DBS Bank, 1994-2003
• Founding Chairman, National Arts Council, 1991-1996
• Ambassador to USA, 1984-1990
• Permanent Representative to the United Nations and concurrently High Commissioner to Canada and Ambassador to Mexico, 1974-1984
• Permanent Representative to the United Nations and concurrently High Commissioner to Canada, 1968-1971

• Member and Chairman, World Trade Organisation's Dispute Settlement Panels, 1997-2001
• Founding Executive Director, Asia-Europe Foundation, 1997-2000
• Co-chair, East Asia Economic Summits, 1999
• Special Envoy, UN Mission to the Russian Federation, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, 1993
• Chairman, Preparatory Committee and Main Committee, UN Conference on Environment and Development, 1990-1992
• President, Third UN Conference on the Law of the Sea, 1980-1982

• Second Arthur & Frank Payne Visiting Professor, Institute for International Studies, Stanford University
• Visiting Professor, Zhejiang University
• Member, Board of Directors, Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Georgetown University
• Member, International Council, The Asia Society, New York

• Peace and Commerce Award, USA, 2003
• Officer in the Order of the Legion of Honour, France, 2001
• Grand Officer in the Order of Merit of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, 2000
• Commander, First Class, Order of the Lion of Finland, 2000
• Fok Ying Tung Southeast Asia Prize, Fok Ying Tung Foundation, Hong Kong, 1998
• Grand Cross, Order of Bernardo O'Higgins, Chile, 1997
• Elizabeth Haub Prize, University of Brussels and International Council on Environmental Law, 1997
• Commander in the Order of the Golden Ark, Netherlands, 1993
• Singapore's Distinguished Service Order Award, 1990; Meritorious Service Medal, 1979 and Public Service Star, 1971