About

Theresa Low’s appointment as general counsel and company secretary of the Sentosa Development Corporation Group of Companies came after both corporate and private practice roles, spanning from listed company Dairy Farm International Holdings’ South Asia office to Burger King’s Asia Pacific office, where she was actively involved in the company’s entry into new markets across the Asia Pacific region. She is currently in the position of heading the legal team at SDC which develops and manages Sentosa, a statutory board in Singapore. Being a strong advocate of education, she is the driving force behind the advancement of legal training and setting up the PDPA compliance regime as her organisation’s data protection officer. She has also held roles as the compliance officer and crisis management officer and also managed the Have It Your Way Foundation activities in Asia. In all her roles, she has been tasked with a vast array of complex strategic issues in different areas of law where she has demonstrated not just sound legal knowledge but also business savvy and practicality. She has been described as a very dynamic individual who is passionate about her role and rises to the challenge of doing more with less. ‘We are a bit like doctors’, she says. ‘We try to fix our clients’ problems when they consult with us and try to help them along with an immunity jab for prevention. In-house lawyers need to work in parallel with the businesses to pre-empt issues, think ahead and not just fix the issues post-event’.