Mark Tan (JD ’06) was building a software career when the dot-com crash reshaped the job market in the early 2000s. He was the first in his family to pursue law, and he says it began with curiosity about a new field.
Two decades later he has worked in Canada, New York, Australia and Singapore. He is now general counsel and country head, based in Singapore, for a global logistics real estate investor, developer and operator, a role that draws on his earlier technical career.
Tan supports bursaries and scholarship programs at the Henry N.R. Jackman Faculty of Law. He says what stuck with him was how open and embracing the law school was.
Reported from Opening Doors: Mark Tan on Education, Opportunity, and Giving Back (Jackman Law news, September 2, 2026).
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