Ms. Jane Ittogi

Partner, Shook Lin & Bok LLP, Singapore

Jane Ittogi is actively involved in promoting community action for social and environmental causes. She works to help disadvantaged children and youth build confidence in themselves, and ex-inmates rebuild their lives, through the non-profit company Tasek Jurong, which she chairs. Ms Ittogi has also teamed up with a group of volunteers to form GreenSG Collab, a non-profit that is working on programmes that educate, catalyze community initiative, and help shape choices informed by the climate crisis.

She has for a long period been committed to bringing the arts to all. She was Chair of the Board of Singapore Art Museum from 2008 to 2018, during which she guided the museum through its corporatisation. She was Co-chair of the Singapore Biennale 2019 Steering Committee, and of the three previous Singapore Biennales.

Ms Jane Ittogi also served on the Board of the National Heritage Board, and was on the Board and the Executive Committee of the National Gallery Singapore, as well as on the Selection Advisory Committee of the Venice Biennale organised by the National Arts Council. She had also chaired the Istana Art Collection Advisory Committee.

An advocate of the transformative power of art, Ms Jane Ittogi has focused on art education. She has been serving on the Board of LASALLE College of the Arts for more than a decade, and has championed deeper public engagement with contemporary art through collaboration within communities. She worked actively to initiate a structured programme of art training in Prisons in the mid-2000s, conducted by volunteers from the faculty of LASALLE College of the Arts and with professional curators from the national museums working with inmates.

Ms Jane Ittogi was practising as a lawyer, and is on leave from practice. She was educated in Singapore and obtained her LLB and LLM at the London School of Economics. She lectured in law at undergraduate and post-graduate levels in the UK before returning to Singapore.