Leslie Retnam is Director of Veterinary Services at Biological Resource Centre (BRC), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR). He is also Attending Veterinarian for the Animal Care and Use Program at the Biomedical Sciences Institutes (BMSI), A*STAR. Since 2003, he has been a member of Singapore’s National Advisory Committee on Laboratory Animal Research (NACLAR), whose charge is to recommend guidelines for the care and use of animals for scientific purposes in Singapore. He chairs the NACLAR Subcommittee on Training. Since 2006, he has served with AAALAC-I, first as Ad Hoc site visitor and then as Council Member in 2009. He was Assistant Section Leader in 2013 and Section Leader in 2014 and 2015 for the Pacific Rim Section. He is also presently a member of the Ministry of Health’s Expert Subcommittee for Restricted Human Biomedical Research, Singapore’s Accreditation Council, and Chair of the Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) Council Committee.