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Andrew Khoo currently serves as Deputy Chair of the GATS Committee. Over the last 2 years he has represented the Bar at preparatory meetings, services working group meetings and free trade agreement negotiations that are on-going in respect of liberalising the legal services market between the government of Malaysia and the governments of Australia, New Zealand, Pakistan and the U.S., as well as in meetings on WTO/GATS issues. Andrew acts as a resource person for the Ministry of International Trade and Industry on WTO/GATS/FTA matters. He is also the Bar's Alternate Member on the Professional Services Development Corporation's Advisory Panel.

As one of 3 Co-Deputy Chairs of the Human Rights Committee, Andrew manages the Advocacy and Public Relations Working Group. This deals with issues of the ISA, IPCMC/SCC, promoting Malaysia's membership of the International Criminal Court, Malaysia's human rights record and the Universal Periodic Review Process before the Human Rights Council, proposed amendments to the SUHAKAM Act, and Article 11. He is also involved in on-going work relating to proposed data protection legislation and on the DNA identification bill. He has spoken at various public and closed-door forums and seminars on human rights issues.

As a member of the Legal Profession Committee, he worked on further liberalising the Publicity Rules. He is currently working on the Limited Liability Partnership proposals issued by the Companies Commission of Malaysia. He is also on the joint GATS/LPC working group negotiating rules for entry of foreign lawyers into Malaysia with the Attorney-General's Chambers, as well as the GATS/LPC/Islamic Finance group responding to Bank Negara Malaysia's proposals for stand-alone foreign law firms for Islamic Finance. He is also a member of the Islamic Finance Committee.

Andrew was on the Bar Council team assisting the Panel of Eminent Persons to Review the 1988 Judicial Crisis in Malaysia. He was also on the Bar Council's research team assisting the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Video-clip Incident.

Andrew is concurrently involved with good governance and local government reform initiatives between civil society and the Selangor Government. In his spare time he contributes occasional articles to the Malaysian Bar website and is part of a group led by Raja Aziz Addruse writing on constitutional issues in The Sunday Times. He also writes regularly for www.thenutgraph.com  and www.micahmandate.com. Since May 2008 he acts as the coordinator for assistance by the Anglican Church in Peninsular Malaysia to the Anglican Church in Myanmar for post-Cyclone Nargis relief and rehabilitation work among affected persons in Myanmar's Delta region.

Proposers: Mah Weng Kwai
Christopher Leong
Edmund Bon Tai Soon

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