About
Jean Gan is an experienced in-house legal counsel with over 15 years of practice across South Asia and the wider Asia-Pacific region. Her work covers corporate and commercial law, contracts, compliance, governance, and M&A, advising multinational businesses on growth and risk control.
She currently serves as Regional Senior Legal Counsel, overseeing contracts and compliance across multiple jurisdictions and advising executive teams on strategic legal and business matters.
While Jean recognised the emergence of artificial intelligence years ago, it was only after she began using AI tools in her own work that her curiosity deepened. This growing interest inspired her to pursue a fully self-funded PhD in Law at Leicester Law School (UK), focusing on AI regulation, arbitration, corporate governance, and access to justice.
At the intersection of law and AI, Jean observed a widening gap between technological advancement and legal understanding. In response, she created several initiatives to help close that gap and make AI governance more accessible to legal and compliance professionals.
She founded the Global AI & Law Network (GAIL) to connect experts, researchers, and practitioners shaping responsible AI governance, and AIgnite Women to promote women’s leadership and inclusion in AI. She also developed How to Legal AI, a practical playbook series that guides lawyers in using AI effectively and ethically.
Jean believes that building the future of AI governance must be a shared global effort. Collaboration between law, technology, and business is, in her view, essential to shaping a fair, transparent, and human-centred future of work.
