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Biography

Justice Kannan Ramesh was appointed Judge of the Appellate Division on 1 November 2022. He was appointed Judicial Commissioner in May 2015, and Judge of the High Court in April 2017. He was also appointed as a Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court of Brunei Darussalam SCBD on a part-time basis from 2019 to 2023 where he heard both commercial and civil cases. He received his Bachelor of Laws with Honors from the National University of Singapore. Before his judicial appointment, Justice Ramesh was Managing Partner of Messrs Tan Kok Quan Partnership, where he specialized in dispute resolution, insolvency and restructuring, and international arbitration. He was one of the founding members of the Judicial Insolvency Network. In 2022, he was appointed by the Chief Justice as the co-chair of the Commercial Practice Panel of the Supreme Court, to develop best practices for the management of commercial cases. He was the first Singaporean Judge recognized as an International Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy and was conferred the Emeritus Fellowship of the Insolvency Law Academy of India in recognition of his global thought leadership in international insolvency. Justice Ramesh served as the President of the III from 2023 to 2025.