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Alvin Koh

Alvin Koh is chief executive and a commission member of the Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore. He also serves as a member of the Copyright Tribunal under the Ministry of Law, a board member of the Consumers Association of Singapore, and a Lien Fellow at Nanyang Technological University’s Nanyang Centre for Public Administration. His work focuses on competition law, consumer protection, public-sector governance, and regulatory policy.

Koh previously served as chief legal officer and divisional director at the Ministry of Manpower, where he led the ministry’s legal division and oversaw prosecution, adjudication, and civil advisory functions tied to labor and workplace-policy initiatives. Before that, he was founding chief legal officer and director at the Ministry of Finance, where he established and led the legal directorate covering tax, corporate regulation, procurement, government finance, and international law.

He has also served as chief legal officer and chief tax prosecutor at the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore, where he led the law division and strengthened its litigation and enforcement capabilities. Earlier in his career, Koh was a director in the Civil Division of the Attorney-General’s Chambers, advising the government on civil and administrative law and overseeing commercial, procurement, tax, intellectual-property, and competition matters.

In an earlier stint at the Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore, he served as director of the Legal and Enforcement Division. Koh also held roles as a deputy public prosecutor with both the Singapore Police Force’s Commercial Affairs Department and the Attorney-General’s Chambers, focusing on white-collar and major-crimes prosecution. He began his judicial career as a magistrate and deputy registrar in the State Courts, where he presided over criminal and civil matters, and earlier served as a justice’s law clerk to the chief justice and judges of the Supreme Court.

In addition to his primary roles, Koh served for more than a decade as president of the Court Martial Panel under the Ministry of Defence, contributing to military-discipline oversight.

Koh is a recipient of the Lien Ying Chow Legacy Fellowship, a research-focused program supporting work on public policy, governance, and institutional development.