Henri C. Alvarez QC, Chair, International Dispute Resolution Practice Group, Fasken Martineau (Canada)

Henri has over 20 years of experience in the field of international commercial arbitration and dispute resolution. Since 1985, Henri has taught a course in this field at the Faculty of Law at The University of British Columbia. He has acted as both an arbitrator and as counsel in international and domestic commercial arbitrations involving investments, trade, franchising, licensing, distributorship, construction, forestry, oil and gas, energy, banking, corporate and general commercial disputes. He has served as a sole arbitrator, party-appointed arbitrator and Chairman in a number of international matters and conducted arbitrations in English, Spanish and French.   

John Beechey, Chairman, International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce, Paris (France)

John was the Head of International Arbitration Practice at the international law firm Clifford Chance until his retirement in December 2008. He has extensive international arbitration and dispute resolution experience as counsel and arbitrator and he continues to serve as an arbitrator. Highly respected in the international legal and business community for both his legal and business skills, John has had longstanding links with the LCIA (of which he is a former Vice-President and member of the Board) and the AAA/ICDR (he was a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of the AAA for some 10 years) as well as the ICC. In addition to his Chairmanship of the ICC Court, John remains a Member of the Council of the ICC World Business Institute.

Lawrence Boo, Head of Chambers, The Arbitration Chambers (Singapore)

A founding member of The Arbitration Chambers, Lawrence has been appointed as arbitrator in more than 170 disputes. He is a Law Reform Consultant to the Attorney-General's Chambers and was Singapore’s representative to the UNCITRAL Working Group (Arbitration and Conciliation)(2004-2009). He is also Singapore's National Correspondent to UNCITRAL's Case Law on UNCITRAL Text (CLOUT) and is an adjunct professor in the law faculties of the National University of Singapore, Bond University and Wuhan University.

Michael Brindle, Fountain Court Chambers (United Kingdom)

Michael Brindle QC is ranked by Chambers & Partners (2009 edition) as a leading silk in Commercial Dispute Resolution, Banking and Finance, Financial Services, Civil Fraud, Professional Negligence and International Arbitration. Michael practices in chancery as well as commercial and common law courts. He was appointed Deputy High Court Judge in 1999 and Recorder of the Crown Court in 2001. Michael works in the commercial/corporate sphere and in employment law with emphasis on banking and financial services, company law, professional negligence in financial and commercial matters, insurance, arbitration and international trade. He is experienced in City-related matters, including litigation arising out of audits, take-overs and rights issues and has handled multiple notable cases over the years.

Brooks W. Daly, Deputy Secretary-General and Principal Legal Counsel, Permanent Court of Arbitration (The Netherlands)

As Deputy-Secretary General at the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in The Hague, The Netherlands. Mr. Daly counsels lawyers and arbitrators participating in international arbitration under PCA auspices on a variety of matters relating to arbitral procedure and international dispute resolution. He speaks frequently on international arbitration topics and lectures at Leiden University School of Law.  Prior to joining the PCA, Mr. Daly acted as Counsel at the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) International Court of Arbitration in Paris, France. He is a member of the California Bar and practiced with the firms of Latham & Watkins (Los Angeles) and Hale & Dorr (London) before joining the ICC.

Jason Fry, Secretary General, ICC International Court of Arbitration (France)

Prior to his appointment as Secretary General of the International Court of Arbitration in 2007, Mr Fry was a partner in the international arbitration practice of Clifford Chance LLP. He has significant experience as counsel, advocate and arbitrator in international arbitration proceedings. Mr Fry is a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales and a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrator and was the Member for New Zealand of the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce from 1999 until 2007. In that capacity he represented the ICC Court at the UNCITRAL Working Group on International Arbitration and Conciliation in relation to the 2006 amendments to the Model Law.

Judith Gill, Head of International Arbitration Group, Allen & Overy LLP (United Kingdom)

Judith specializes in international arbitration, both institutional and ad hoc, under ICSID, LCIA, ICC and AAA Rules amongst others. She also sits as an arbitrator and is qualified as a Solicitor Advocate and frequently appears as an advocate in arbitration proceedings. Judith is only the second woman solicitor-advocate to be appointed QC and the first with an international arbitration practice. She is Vice-Chair of ICDRC of the ABA Section of International Law, Senior Vice-Chair of the Arbitration Committee of the International Bar Association, Director of the SIAC, LCIA and AAA. Judith also chairs the International Arbitration Club.

H.E.Judge Sir Christopher Greenwood, CMG, International Court of Justice (The Hague)

Christopher Greenwood became a member of the Internatiopnal Court of Justice (ICJ) in February 2006. Educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he is now an Honorary Fellow, prior to his election to the Court, he was Professor of International Law at the LSE and a barrister practising International Law. He was counsel in a number of inter-State arbitrations, as well as several cases before the ICJ and other international tribunals, including the European Court of Human Rights, the European Court of Justice, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the UN Compensation Commission. His appearances in the English courts include the Pinochet case, the Kuwait Airways case and two leading cases concerning British forces in Iraq. A member of the Panel of Arbitrators of ICSID, he has sat as an arbitrator in several ICSID cases.

Pierre-Yves Gunter, Python & Peter ( Switzerland)

Pierre-Yves Gunter is a partner of the international arbitration group at Python & Peter. He has been acting since 1991 in the field of international and domestic commercial arbitration. Up to September 2009, he has acted as counsel and arbitrator (chairman, sole arbitrator and party appointed arbitrator) in Switzerland and abroad in a total of 94 arbitration proceedings both ad hoc (including UNCITRAL) and administered (ICC, Swiss Rules, LCIA, WIPO, FOSFA, Vienna International Arbitral Center, Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, etc). He is regularly appointed arbitrator by the leading arbitration institutions. He is experienced in disputes involving agency, sales, distribution, joint-venture, construction and complex projects, telecommunications and IT, intellectual property, pharmaceutical, real estate, commodity and international trade. He has extensive knowledge in the field of telecommunications and IT, and was asked by the ICC to join a working group of experts on arbitration, telecommunications and electronic commerce. He also frequently represents parties in arbitration matters before the Swiss Supreme Court (appeals filed against arbitration awards) and before other Swiss courts. He sits in the Board of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC).

Bernard Hanotiau, Hanotiau & van den Berg (Belgium), Professor of arbitration law at the University of Louvain (Belgium)

Bernard Hanotiau is a member of the Brussels and Paris bars. He is a member of the ICCA Council, of the Council of the ICC Institute and a member of the ICC International Arbitration Commission. He is also Vice-President of CEPANI (Belgian Arbitration Center) and of the Institute of Transnational Arbitration (Dallas, Texas), and a past Vice-President of the LCIA Court. He is on the Panel of arbitrators of numerous institutions, including the ICC, LCIA, ICSID, ICDR, SIAC,HKIAC, the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, CIETAC, BAC, and the Japan Commercial Arbitration Association. He is also frequently appointed as arbitrator in UNCITRAL and other ad-hoc arbitration cases. Since 1978, he has been involved in more than 300 international arbitration cases as chairman, co-arbitrator, sole arbitrator, counsel or expert in all parts of the world.

Veijo Heiskanen, Lalive (Geneva)

Dr Veijo Heiskanen is Partner with Lalive, Geneva, Switzerland. He specializes in international commercial arbitration, international investment disputes and international law, in particular international claims. Prior to joining Lalive in 2002, Dr Heiskanen served as Secretary General and Senior Claims Judge of the Claims Resolution Tribunal for Dormant Accounts in Switzerland (2000-02), Deputy Chief of the Legal Service of the United Nations Compensation Commission (1994-98) and Legal Adviser of the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal (1990-94). Dr Heiskanen is member of the panels of arbitrators of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and the American Arbitration Association/International Centre for Dispute Resolution. Dr Heiskanen has published extensively on international law and international arbitration and has taught at The Hague Academy of International Law (2002).

Michael Hwang, President, Law Society of Singapore (Singapore)

Described by Chambers Asia 2008 as "a brilliant world class arbitrator" who is "popular, prominent, incisive and decisive”, Michael currently practices as a barrister and arbitrator. He has over 40 years’ experience in the legal arena and his areas of practice include banking, finance, company, real property, intellectual property, tort, criminal, administrative and family law. Michael currently serves as a Vice President of the International Council of Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) and a member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration as well as a Court member of the London Court of International Arbitration(LCIA) and a Trustee of the Dubai International Arbitration Centre (DIAC).

David Joseph, Essex Court Chambers (London)
David Joseph QC specialises in the field of international commercial arbitration and has appeared as counsel and acted as arbitrator in arbitrations in the major arbitral seats and under the major arbitral institutions all over the world, particularly in the fields of telecommunications, satellite television, mining, energy, insurance, financial instruments and joint ventures. He is the author of Jurisdiction and Arbitration Agreements and their Enforcement, the second edition of which is due for publication in 2010. He also serves on the International Litigation Committee of the ILA.

Kevin Kim, Head, International Arbitration & Litigation Practice Group, Bae, Kim & Lee LLC (Republic of Korea)

As head of the International Arbitration and Litigation Practice Group, Kevin has sat as chairman or member of the tribunal in numerous domestic and international arbitration proceedings in Korea in the areas of construction, distributorship, M&A, intellectual property and IT. He has also acted a counsel in numerous international arbitration proceedings, ad hoc (UNCITRAL) and under the Rules of the ICC, LCIA, SIAC, JCAA, AAA (ICDR) and Korean Commercial Arbitration Board (mostly post M&A, Constructions, IP & IT, distributorship and international transactions), among others.

Meg Kinnear, Secretary-General, International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (USA)
Meg serves as the first full-time Secretary-General of ICSID. Between 1999 and June 2009, Meg was the General Counsel (Senior General Counsel from 2006) and Director General of the Trade Law Bureau of Canada, where she was responsible for the conduct of all international investment and trade litigation involving Canada. Meg has served as counsel before international investment tribunals, participated in the negotiation of bilateral and multilateral investment and trade treaties and advised on Canada?s international investment and trade obligations.

Christopher Lau (Singapore)

Christopher Lau is a Senior Counsel and Chartered Arbitrator.  He is a Singapore representative to ICC Commission on Arbitration and Chairman of the Singapore Chapter of CIArb’s East Asia Branch.  His practice encompasses all aspects of commercial & corporate disputes and competition law.  He has been regularly recognised as a leading individual in the area of dispute resolution in various international publications as well as a leading shipping lawyer in Guide to the World's Leading Shipping & Maritime Lawyers 2004 and AsiaLaw Leading Lawyers 2005.  He has also been recognised as a leading individual in the area of construction practice in The International Who's Who of Construction Lawyers 2007.  His recent arbitration appointments have included appointments as sole arbitrator, co arbitrator and chairman in ad hoc and institutional international arbitrations relating to construction/infrastructure, power/energy, mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures/shareholders’ agreements, shipbuilding and maritime.

Julian D M Lew, 20 Essex Street (United Kingdom)

Julian Lew has been involved with International Arbitration for well over 30 years as both practitioner and academic. He has acted as chairman of arbitral tribunals, sole arbitrator and co-arbitrator under all the major international arbitration systems, including ICC, ICSID, LCIA, UNCITRAL, Swiss Rules, and Stockholm Institute. Until 2005, he was a Partner at Herbert Smith, and head of its International Arbitration Practice. He is Professor of Law and Head of the School of International Arbitration, Queen Mary, University of London. He has written and lectured extensively on all aspects of International Arbitration.  He is a member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration (UK). He has an LLB from the University of London and a Doctorate in private international law from the Catholic University of Louvain.

Sundaresh Menon, Arbitrator & Senior Counsel, Rajah & Tann (Singapore)
Sundaresh has been practising in the field of commercial arbitration and litigation for more than 20 years and during that time has advised and represented clients in complex and technical disputes throughout Asia in numerous arbitrations. He has also acted as arbitrator many international arbitrations. He is recognised as one of Asia’s leading lawyers in the fields of commercial litigation and arbitration by several journals. The 2006 edition of the Chambers Global Guide named him among the leading international arbitration practitioners in the world.

Michael Moser, Chairman, Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (Hong Kong)

Listed in The World’s Leading Lawyers by Chambers Global and regarded as an expert on China-related disputes, Michael practices as an independent arbitrator with chambers at 20 Essex Street in London and Singapore. He is also a consultant to O'Melveny & Myers LLP in Hong Kong. He is a commission member of CIETAC in Beijing and was the first foreigner to act as an arbitrator in China. He is a Court Member of the LCIA and a Board Member of the Stockholm Arbitration Institute (SCC). Dr. Moser has acted as arbitrator, mediator and counsel in over 250 international dispute resolution proceedings.

Minn Naing Oo, Chief Executive Officer & Registrar, Singapore International Arbitration Centre (Singapore)

Minn started his legal career with Drew & Napier and later joined Rajah & Tann, practising commercial litigation and arbitration, with a specialisation in shipping and admiralty matters. He then joined the Singapore Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) in 2002 and rose to head the Ministry’s WTO and International Trade Negotiations Division. During this time, Minn was closely involved in the formulation of Singapore’s trade policy, the WTO Doha Round negotiations, as well as several Free Trade Agreements, including with the United States, Australia and China. He moved to SIAC in October 2008.

Richard W. Naimark, Senior Vice President, American Arbitration Association (USA)

Richard is Senior Vice President of American Arbitration in charge of International of the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR). He is an experienced mediator and facilitator, having served as a neutral in a wide variety of business and organisational settings from government to corporate to real estate. Richard is also the founder and former Executive Director of the Global Center for Dispute Resolution Research, and has conducted hundreds of seminars and training programmes on dispute resolution.

Sir Brian Neill, 20 Essex Street (United Kingdom)

Sir Brian Neill is a CEDR accredited mediator and was the first Chairman of the Civil Mediation Council. He was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1968 and was appointed a Hight Court judge in 1978. He was appointed a Lord justice of Appeal in 1985 and sat in the Court of Appeal until 996. Following his retirement, he sat from time to time in the Court of Appeal as a retired Lord Justice and also sat as a member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. From 1998 to 2003, he sat on a part-time basis as the President of the Court of Appeal for Gibraltar.

Vinayak P. Pradhan, Skrine (Malaysia)

A senior partner of Skrine, Vinayak handles all aspects of civil and commercial litigation, arbitration and alternative dispute resolution. Vinayak is also a Chartered Arbitrator and has served as arbitrator, solicitor and counsel in domestic and international arbitrations conducted under ICC, KLRCA, UNCITRAL, LCIA, HKIAC, SIAC and PAM arbitration rules. He is a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration and on the panels of arbitrators and conciliators of ICSID.

Michael Pryles, Chairman, Singapore International Arbitration Centre (Singapore)

Michael is one of the leading arbitrators in the Asia-Pacific Region. He has sat as an arbitrator in some 200 cases in Asia, Europe, North America and Australia. Michael has experience in both ad hoc and institutional commercial arbitrations under the UNCITRAL, ICC, LCIA, SIAC, HKIAC, CIETAC, JCAA, KLRCA and Swiss rules, and investor-state arbitrations under the ICSID rules, the ICSID Additional Facility Rules and the UNCITRAL Rules (BITs, NAFTA and state investor protection laws). He has held many appointments. Details can be found on his web site - www.michaelpryles.com.

Chelva R. Rajah, Chairman, Maxwell Chambers (Singapore)

Chelva R. Rajah SC, a member of Singapore Bar since 1972, heads M/s Tan Rajah & Cheah’s dispute resolution team having developed a distinguished practice in both litigation and arbitration, particularly in substantial commercial disputes, property-related matters and insolvency. He was the President of the Law Society of Singapore from 1990 to 1992 and was appointed a Senior Counsel on 10 January 1998. He is on the panel of Accredited Arbitrators, Singapore International Arbitration Centre. He is also a director of Singapore listed companies

Sir Vivian Ramsey, High Court Judge, Queen's Bench Division (United Kingdom)

Sir Vivian Ramsey studied Engineering Science and Economics at Oxford University before working as a civil engineer in the UK and overseas. During this time he became a Chartered Engineer and a Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers. After studying law in London he was called to the Bar (Middle Temple) in 1979 and was a practising barrister in Keating Chambers from 1981 to 2005. He became a Queen’s Counsel in 1992 and was Head of Keating Chambers from 2003 to 2005. He is also a Special Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Nottingham and has recently been appointed as a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Construction Law and Management at King’s College, London. He continues to lecture worldwide on topics involving construction, arbitration and the courts. In November 2005 he was appointed as a High Court Judge in the Queen’s Bench Division and in September 2007 took over as Judge in Charge of the Technology and Construction Court for a period of three years..

Justice V K Rajah, Judge of Appeal, Supreme Court of Singapore (Singapore)

He was made Senior Counsel in 1997, and was Managing Partner of Rajah & Tann from 1986 to2003 He was first appointed Judicial Commissioner in January 2004, Judge in November 2004 and Judge of Appeal in April 2007. In 2008, he chaired a government appointed committee tasked with making recommendations to develop the Singapore Legal Sector. He is currently also a Vice-President of the Singapore Academy of Law. As an appeals judge he has written a number of judgments on arbitration issues.

David W. Rivkin, Debevoise & Plimpton (USA)

David has broad experience in the areas of international arbitration and litigation, as he has handled international arbitrations throughout the world and before virtually every major arbitration institution. Subjects of these arbitrations include long-term energy concessions, investment treaties, joint venture agreements, insurance coverage, construction contracts, distribution agreements and intellectual property. He also frequently represents Asian and other companies in litigation over transnational disputes in United States courts. David holds leadership positions with many arbitration institutions, including acting as a director of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre. Chambers Global 2009 recently ranked him among the top six arbitration practitioners worldwide.

John Savage, Shearman & Sterling (USA)

As deputy head of the firm's global international arbitration group, John represents governments, corporations and high net worth individuals in international arbitrations, including corporate, construction and investment treaty disputes. Formerly based in Singapore, where he led Shearman & Sterling's Asian arbitration practice, John has extensive experience of arbitration in Asia. He has acted as counsel in over 90 international arbitrations around the world, both institutional and ad hoc. In addition to his practice as counsel, John has been appointed as chairman, sole arbitrator and co-arbitrator in ICC, ICSID, KLRCA, SIAC and ad hoc arbitrations. John is a director of the SIAC and a co-editor of "Fouchard Gaillard Goldman on International Commercial Arbitration"

Pallavi Shroff, Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A Shroff & Co (New Delhi)

Pallavi Shroff is the lead litigation partner at Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A Shroff & Co. She also heads the firm's competition law practice, having been a member of the high-powered Raghavan Committee, entrusted with the task of recommending Competition Policy and Competition Law. Pallavi Shroff is also the India expert and a member of Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC)'s board of international arbitration, Singapore. During her 28 years as a litigator, Pallavi has attained international recognition as a leading practitioner in dispute resolution and litigation by several global publications. She has successfully litigated some of the most complex commercial litigations, both nationally and internationally, and handled domestic and international arbitrations. She was one of  the lead members of the team that recently advised the government of India appointed directors on the board of Satyam, on all aspects and issues arising from the recent multibillion-dollar fraud, including its sale to Tech Mahindra.

Davinder Singh, Chief Executive Officer, Drew & Napier LLC (Singapore)

Described as an “extremely gifted advocate” who is “as skilled as can be” in Chambers Asia 2009, Davinder is considered Singapore’s most revered litigator and counsel of choice and since 2004, been continually recommended by Chambers & Partner for his excellent work. Davinder has litigated cases in almost every area of law, including Banking and Corporate Litigation, Intellectual Property and Defamation, many of which are landmark cases in these areas. He has also been appointed as arbitrator.

Michael Forbes Smith, Director General, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (United Kingdom)

With 30 years of international experience working with business, diplomatic, political and academic communities on four continents, Michael’s most recent overseas appointment was as the first resident British ambassador in Tajikistan. Prior to this, he was Deputy High Commissioner in Pakistan. He has also held diplomatic positions in Germany, Switzerland and Ethiopia.

Renaud Sorieul, Director, International Trade Law Division, United Nations Office of Legal Affairs, United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (Austria)

Renaud Sorieul is the Director of the International Trade Law Division (ITLD) of the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs, which functions as the substantive secretariat for the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL).Since he joined the UNCITRAL secretariat in 1989, he was actively involved in the UNCITRAL Working Group on International Payments, which prepared the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Credit Transfers. He then served as Secretary of the UNCITRAL Working Group on Electronic Commerce, which drafted the UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Commerce and the UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Signatures. Between 2002 and 2008, he was the Secretary of the UNCITRAL Working Group on Arbitration and Conciliation. From 2005 to 2008, he was also the Principal Legal Officer, Head of the Legislative Branch of the International Trade Law Division, in charge of supervising the Secretariat support to the standard-making activities of UNCITRAL.

Johnny Tan, President, Singapore Institute of Arbitrators (Singapore)

A Colombo Plan Scholar, Johnny has been on the SIA Panel of Arbitrators since 1993 and a Mediator from 1997. He has served on the Singapore Institute of Architects as Chairman of the Contracts Committee and the Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee and held various appointments in the Council as Honorary Secretary, 2nd Vice-President and 1st Vice-President. He is also on the Panel of Arbitrators of the SIAC, HKIAC, DIAC and KLRCA. Johnny has served as arbitrator, mediator, neutral evaluator and an Accredited Adjudicator with the Singapore Mediation Centre under the Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act (2004).

J. Christopher Thomas, Independent Arbitrator and Consultant to Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (Canada)

J. Christopher Thomas, Q.C. is a lawyer and chartered arbitrator based in Vancouver. He has acted as counsel and as arbitrator/panelist in many disputes arising under the GATT, the WTO Agreement, the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement (“FTA”), the NAFTA and bilateral investment treaties, as well as under commercial contracts. He was Senior Policy Advisor to the Canadian Minister for International Trade during the FTA negotiations and thereafter advised other States on the negotiation and implementation of trade and investment treaties. After running a small boutique firm for fifteen years, Mr. Thomas became a sole practitioner in June 2008.

Erik Wilbers, Director, WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center, World Intellectual Property Organization, (Switzerland)

Erik, a national of The Netherlands (1958), is the Director of the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center, World Intellectual Property Organization, based in Geneva, Switzerland. The WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center is an international provider of non-for-profit services for the out-of-court resolution of commercial disputes, with emphasis on cases arising out of technology, entertainment and other transactions involving intellectual property. Before joining WIPO, Mr. Wilbers was a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property Law, practiced with Clifford Chance, was on the legal staff of the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal , and headed a division of the Compensation Commission of the United Nations Security Council.

David A.R. Williams, Bankside Chambers (New Zealand)

David A R Williams QC is a graduate of the University of Auckland (LLB, 1965) and of Harvard University (LLM, 1966) and a member of the New Zealand, Australian and English Bars. From 1992 to 1994, he was a judge of the High Court of New Zealand. He was a visiting Fellow at the University of Virginia, US in 1979 and at Cambridge University in 2002. Mr Williams is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a member of numerous international arbitration panels including ICSID (nominee of New Zealand government). He is a former member of the board of the American Arbitration Association, the ICC International Court of Arbitration and the London Court of International Arbitration. He is a member of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA). He teaches international arbitration at the University of Auckland Law School and was recently appointed as the first Honorary Professor in the Law School.

Mr Williams has acted as counsel in many international arbitrations. He has extensive experience as an international arbitrator in ad hoc, ICC, LCIA, AAA, SIAC and ICSID arbitrations in disputes involving construction, contracts, infrastructure projects, oil and gas concessions, joint ventures, licensing disputes, political risk and expropriation insurance claims, and investment treaty claims. He is the former president of the Arbitrators' and Mediators' Institute of New Zealand Inc. He serves part-time as Chief Justice of the Cook Islands and as a Justice of the DIFC Court in Dubai, UAE. Mr Williams is a door tenant at Essex Court Chamber.

Alvin Yeo Senior Partner, WongPartnership LLP (Singapore)

Alvin Yeo, Senior Counsel, is the Senior Partner of WongPartnership LLP. Alvin has extensive experience in arbitration proceedings both in Singapore and in the region including Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and Brunei. Some notable matters he has been involved in include acting  for an international media group in an international arbitration in Singapore concerning a proposed joint venture for satellite pay television services in Indonesia, which also involved multiple proceedings in other jurisdictions with claims totalling over US$1.75 billion; the Land Transport Authority of Singapore on a dispute with NCC International AB relating to the Singapore Circle Line Project; a global energy conglomerate in an international arbitration with a statutory board and a consortium of contractors in relation to damage caused to its crude oil discharge facilities; and a U.S. private equity firm in a shareholder dispute arising from a US$270 million buyout of a manufacturing company. Alvin has also acted in various court proceedings involving arbitration issues, including a landmark jurisdictional challenge of an award arising out of a clause requiring the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) to administer an arbitration under the ICC Rules [Insigma Technology Co Ltd v Alstom Technology Ltd [2009] SGCA 24]; a significant ruling in the arbitral tribunal's ability to hear further arguments [Tang Boon Jek Jeffrey v Tan Poh Leng Stanley [2001] 3 SLR], which led to legislative amendment, and the Singapore aspect of a series of multi-jurisdictional enforcement proceedings (spanning the United States, Singapore, Canada and Hong Kong) on a Swiss arbitral award for US$261 million against Pertamina, Indonesia's state-owned oil and gas corporation. He is a member of the ICC Commission of Arbitration, the SIAC Council of Advisors, the ICDR Panel of Arbitrators and a Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators.

Yoon Byung Chol, Kim & Chang (South Korea)

Byung Chol is a member of the SIAC's Board of Directors and the ICSID Panel of Arbitrators. He also serves as an arbitrator with the SIAC and KCAB, and a vice chairman of the Korean Council for International Arbitration. He has represented the firm’s clients in more than fifty arbitrations in various jurisdictions in Asia, Europe and the United States, and under the rules of all major international arbitral institutions including the ICC, LCIA, AAA, SIAC, JCAA and the KCAB. In addition to his active practice acting as counsel, Byung Chol has been appointed as chair and co-arbitrator in several domestic and international arbitration proceedings in Korea.

Yu Jianlong, Vice Chairman and Secretary-General, CIETAC (People’s Republic of China)

Mr. Yu Jianlong was born in Beijing in 1965. He got his Bachelor of Art from the Beijing Capital Normal University in 1986, majoring in American and British literature. He majored in Inter-cultural Communications for his graduate degree at the International Politics Department of the Beijing University from 1986-1988. He spent five months in Brussels, Belgium in 1990 and received training in simultaneous interpretation at the Joint Service of Interpretation and Translation of the then European Community. Mr. Yu studied at the School of International Service of the American University as a visiting scholar under the Hubert Humphrey Program in 1996-1997. From 2002-2004, he majored in business administration in the Beijing International MBA Program jointly sponsored by the Beijing University and the Fordham University in New York. Mr. Yu is currently a PHD candidate for International Economic Law at the Law School of the University of International Business and Economics. Mr. Yu began to serve in the International Relations Department of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) upon graduation from the Beijing University in 1988. He held the positions of Deputy Director and Director of the American Affairs Division consecutively from 1992 to 1998. He became Deputy Director General of the International Relations Department in 1998. Mr. Yu served as Director General of the Economic Information Department of the CCPIT from 2004 to October 2006. He was appointed Vice Chairman and Secretary General of the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission in March 2006 and was elected Vice Chairman of the Asia Pacific Arbitration Group in the same year. Mr. Yu was elected Vice President of the International Federation of Commercial Arbitration Institutions in May 2009. He is also the Vice Chairman of the China Academy of Arbitration Law. Mr. Yu was awarded the title of Young and Middle-aged Expert with Outstanding Contributions by the Chinese Ministry of Personnel in 2001.