Foo Lee Mei is the Managing Director (MD) in the Office of the Chairman. She is currently overseeing SC’s Enterprise Risk Management & Risk Analysis, Market Regulations, Corporate Governance, Internal Compliance, Anti-Money Laundering policies and coordinates SC’s role with the National Financial Crime Centre. As Managing Director, Lee Mei also assists the Chairman across key areas of work with oversight on selected operational matters, leads special projects that have organisation-wide impact and outcomes.
Lee Mei was admitted as an advocate and solicitor of the High Court of Malaya in 1993. Before assuming the MD position, she was the SC’s Chief Regulatory Officer, where her scope of work spans across a wide spectrum of SC’s initiatives including policy and regulatory reforms and managing complex litigation involving the SC.
Lee Mei also has extensive experience in enforcement related work, having served in SC’s Enforcement Division for 16 years. Before joining the SC, she served as a Deputy Public Prosecutor for 6 years in the Attorney-General’s Chambers. She is a trained assessor of the Asia Pacific Group on Money Laundering and was appointed as World Bank’s consultant in its project on modernizing the capital market’s regulatory framework for Sri Lanka in 2011.
