Speaker

Lem Chin Kok is the Head of KPMG Forensic practice in Asia Pacific and leads the Singapore and Indonesia Forensic practices. Prior to joining KPMG in 2002, Chin Kok was the Regional Finance Manager of a Singapore-listed company, where he managed the financial functions of the group’s regional subsidiaries. Chin Kok started his career with the Singapore Police Force where he specialized in the investigation of white collar crimes such as criminal breach of trust, forgery and cheating. Chin Kok is the chairman of the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants (ISCA) Financial Forensic Accounting Oversight Committee. He assisted in the design and development of the ISCA financial forensic professional programme, the first applied learning financial forensic qualification developed by a professional qualification body in the region. Chin Kok is also a board member of the Goods and Services Tax Board of Review (GSTBR), one of the Tax Boards under the Ministry of Finance and is an administrative tribunal established under the Goods and Services Tax Act to adjudicate disputes between taxpayers and the Comptroller of Goods and Services Tax (Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore).