Ms Yeong Joo Kean

Penasihat Undang-Undang IBFAN-ICDC

Yeong Joo Kean is a Malaysian lawyer with a postgraduate degree from the University of London. She was in private practice for 11 years before joining IBFAN-ICDC in 1999.

Joo Kean helms ICDC’s Code monitoring programme and is in charge of ICDC’s periodic publications like its flagship global monitoring report, Breaking the Rules, Stretching the Rules, State of the Code by Country and other Code publications like the Code Essentials series.

Based in Penang, Malaysia, Joo Kean also acts as consultant to national governments on Code projects, which includes legislative drafting and training. Her work assignments have taken her to many countries in Asia-Pacific, Africa, Europe, and the Americas.