Harold Foo

Harold Foo is senior assistant director in the Policy Advisory Division, and the counsel for Parliamentary Affairs, at the Ministry of Law of the Republic of Singapore in Singapore. He has been closely involved in debt-restructuring, insolvency policy development and legislative reform in Singapore, including the Companies (Amendment) Act 2017, Companies (Amendment) Act 2018, and Insolvency,Restructuring and Dissolution Act 2018 — Singapore’s omnibus insolvency legislation. Internationally,Mr. Foo has been part of Singapore’s delegation to UNCITRAL Working Group V (Insolvency Law)since May 2017, and he has chaired the Working Group since its 56th session (December 2019). He also was actively involved in the negotiations and completion of the UNCITRAL Model Law on Recognition and Enforcement of Insolvency-Related Judgments (2018) and the UNCITRAL Model Law on Enterprise Group Insolvency (2019). Mr. Foo is a member of the International Insolvency Institute’s NextGen Leadership Programme and a facilitator for the insolvency law preparatory course for the Singapore BarExaminations. Prior to joining the Singapore Legal Service, he was a member of the debt-restructuring and insolvency team at one of Singapore’s largest law firms. Mr. Foo received his LL.B. with honors from the National University of Singapore and his LL.M. in insolvency Law and practice from the Singapore Institute of Legal Education.