Mark Ortega is a Sheridan Fellow with the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore (NUS), and an Academic Fellow and an Executive Committee member of the Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law (APCEL).

 Mark has published in the areas of private environmental governance, environmental, social and governance (ESG) frameworks, and sustainability and directors’ and officers’ fiduciary duties, in the Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum and Environs: Environmental Law and Policy Journal. He currently researches in the areas of transnational law, with a focus on the human, institutional, and legal dynamics around setting ‘science-based’ net-zero targets for corporations by private organizations, through the lenses of accountability and legitimacy.

Mark has taught Equity and Trusts, and the Law of Torts, to LLB candidates at NUS Faculty of Law. He has previously worked in a leading Singapore law firm, and as in-house counsel to financial institutions and a Singapore governmental agency.

Mark obtained his LLM in Environmental Law (Summa Cum Laude) from the Elisabeth Haub School of Law, Pace University, in New York. He obtained his LLB (First Class Honours) from NUS.