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Ms Elsa Chen

+65 6890 7663 elsa.chen@allenandgledhill.com View profile

Work Department

Competition & Antitrust, ESG & Public Policy

Position

Co-Head of the Firm’s Competition & Antitrust Practice and ESG & Public Policy Practice

Career

Elsa is Regional Co-Head of the Firm’s Competition & Antitrust Practice, and Co-Head of its ESG & Public Policy Practice. She regularly assists clients on complex antitrust matters, including merger control, global cartel and abuse of dominance investigations. Elsa’s ESG and public policy experience ranges from assisting clients to map out ESG trends and implications, policy drafting, advocacy, and assisting on legislative changes.

In 2021, Elsa was cited for the third time in the Global Competition Review (GCR) Women in Antitrust survey as amongst the leading women globally recognised for their standout careers in antitrust. In 2020, GCR named Elsa as one of the world’s top 40 antitrust practitioners under the age of 40, and the only economist named in Asia, in its quadrennial 40 under 40 survey. She was also recognised amongst the 10 competition economists globally in GCR’s Women in Antitrust 2016: Economists. She is the only economist cited as a Thought Leader in Asia and Singapore by Who’s Who Legal: Thought Leaders: Competition 2020 to 2022.

Elsa was previously from the Ministry of Trade and Industry of Singapore, and was also a pioneer member of the Competition Commission of Singapore (CCS), now known as the Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore (CCCS).

Languages

English, Mandarin

Education

Recipient of the Prime Minister’s Book Prize, graduated summa cum laude with a double degree in Economics and International Relations from Tufts University, Massachusetts, and was placed yearly on the Dean’s List. Holds a postgraduate degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and an LL.M. with a specialisation in Competition Law.