About

Michael Qiu has over 20 years’ worth of experience at Procter & Gamble, one of the world’s foremost fast-moving consumer goods companies. He served as general counsel for China for eight years before moving to Singapore as general counsel for Asia in 2009. Last year he took on responsibility for global brand protection while continuing to have legal oversight of the Asia Pacific and Greater China regions. Though Chinese, Qiu trained as a lawyer in the US and worked as an associate at Baker McKenzie in Chicago and Hawaii-based Lyons, Brandt Cook & Hiramatsu before joining Procter & Gamble in 1995. He is also a trustee of the Lingnan Foundation, a non-profit organisation which seeks to strengthen Chinese-American cross-cultural awareness through education.