Mr Tony Anghie is Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore. His research and teaching interests include public international law, the history and theory of international law, international economic law and globalization, and the position of developing countries in the international legal system. Previously he served as the Samuel D. Thurman Professor of Law at the University of Utah, and he has been a visiting professor at various law schools including the University of Brasilia, Cornell Law School, Harvard Law School and the London School of Economics. He is the co-editor in chief of the Asian Journal of International Law, and a member of the editorial boards of various other journals including the American Journal of International Law, and Humanity.

Mr Colin Brown is a lawyer and Deputy Head of Unit F.2 – Dispute Settlement and Legal Aspects of Trade Policy in the Directorate General for Trade of the European Commission. He advises on a range of trade and investment issues. He leads the team of lawyers working on investor-state dispute settlement in the trade and investment policy of the European Union. He has been responsible for developing the EU’s approach to investor-state dispute settlement, led the negotiations on this issue with Canada; was the EU delegate to UNCITRAL during the preparation of the transparency rules; and is responsible for the Regulation on Financial Responsibility for investor-state dispute settlement. In his career with DG TRADE he has worked on all legal aspects of the work of the European Commission in the field of trade, in particular on EU FTAs, in providing advice on EU legislation and on WTO matters. He leads a team of lawyers working on the EU-US negotiations (TTIP).

Before joining DG Trade in October 2006 he worked for 6 years for the Legal Service of the European Commission, where he litigated WTO and EU law cases. He has been chair of the Legal Advisory Committee of the Energy Charter Treaty since January 2004. He is visiting lecturer in WTO law at the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium since 2009 and at the University of Barcelona (IELPO) since 2016.

He holds an LLB (first class Honours) from the Faculty of Law of the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, a Diploma in International Relations from the Bologna Center of the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University, Bologna, Italy and an LLM in European Law from the College of Europe, Bruges.

Mr Cavinder BULL SC is a Director in Drew & Napier LLC’s Dispute Resolution department.

He has a vibrant international arbitration practice, representing governments, financial institutions and corporations in complex commercial and investment disputes. Mr Bull is also actively engaged in trial and appellate advocacy at all levels of Singapore’s Courts, handling an expanse of complex litigation matters including corporate disputes, fraud, insolvency, private equity disputes, banking, telecommunications, trusts and property. He is the only Senior Counsel in Singapore with a proven track record of antitrust work, having practised competition law in New York and Singapore for over a decade.

Mr Bull is concurrently the Deputy Chairman of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) and Vice-President of the SIAC Court of Arbitration. He is also Vice-President of the Asia Pacific Regional Arbitration Group.

He is on the ICSID Panel of Arbitrators and has been appointed arbitrator in ICSID, ICC, SIAC, LCIA, UNCITRAL and ad hoc arbitrations.

Mr Bull is lauded by prominent publications including Chambers and Partners, Legal 500, and the Global Arbitration Review 100. Chambers and Partners Asia-Pacific (2016) ranked him as a Band 1 lawyer in Arbitration for 4 consecutive years; Legal 500 Asia-Pacific (2015/2016) ranked him as a Leading Individual in International Arbitration for 4 consecutive years. He was named “Dispute Resolution Lawyer of the Year 2015” at The Asian Lawyer Emerging Markets Awards 2015.

Clients say Mr Bull is “thorough, smart, responsive and an international arbitration specialist”; “he enjoys a formidable reputation in Asian arbitration circles and is respected across the region for his skilled handling of sizeable disputes”; “an extremely strong presence in the international arbitration field, and is widely recognised as a very serious operator”; “complex arbitrations are his specialisation” (Chambers & Partners); “Cavinder Bull is the best known name internationally”; “one of the finest advocates, clear, precise, and extraordinarily well prepared. His knowledge of the record and the law is unsurpassed” (Global Arbitration Review 100 9^th edition).

Mr Bull graduated with First Class Honours in law from Oxford University in 1992 and received his LL.M. from Harvard Law School in 1996. He is called to the Bar in Singapore (1994), England (1993) and New York (1996). He is one of a handful of Senior Counsel appointed by the Chief Justice of Singapore before the age of 40.

Mr. Rodman Bundy is a Director in our Dispute Resolution group with over thirty years of experience as counsel and advocate in high profile public international law litigations and international commercial and investment arbitrations, including appearances before the International Court of Justice, The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal and various ad hoc, ICC and ICSID arbitral tribunals. Rodman relocated three years ago from our Paris office to the Singapore office.

Mr N. Jansen Calamita is Principal Research Fellow, Centre for International Law and also the Head for the Investment Law and Policy Programme. He will also co-teach at the Faculty of Law as a Research Associate Professor (CIL) with effect from 1 January 2017. He was previously Director of the Investment Treaty Forum and Senior Research Fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law in London. He has previously held posts on the law faculties of the University of Oxford and the University of Birmingham, and been a visiting fellow of Institute of European and Comparative Law (University of Oxford) and the University of Vienna.

Prior to entering academics, Mr. Calamita served in the Office of the Legal Adviser in the U.S Department of State (International Claims and Investment Disputes Division) and as a member of the UNCITRAL Secretariat. He began his career in private practice in New York. He holds Juris Doctor magna cum laude (Boston) and a Bachelor of Civil Law (Oxford). He continues to advise governments on matters relating to international investment and international dispute resolution. He is a Consultative Expert to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and a member of the editorial board of the Yearbook of International Law and Policy (Oxford University Press).

Ms Tara DAVENPORT is currently a JSD Candidate at Yale Law School focusing on the institutional governance of seabed resources. She received an LLM from Yale Law School in 2014 where she was awarded the Jerome Sayles Hess Prize for International Law. She also has an LLM in Maritime Law from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and an LLB from the London School of Economics. She is a qualified Advocate and Solicitor in Singapore. Ms Davenport received the NUS Overseas Graduate Scholarship in 2014 and a Fulbright Scholarship in 2013.

Ms Davenport worked as a shipping lawyer at Rajah and Tann, as well as in a shipping company, before joining the Centre for International Law at NUS where she worked as a Research Fellow. Her teaching experience includes serving as a co-tutor for Ocean Law and Policy at NUS as well as a tutor for the Maritime Delimitation Workshops organized by the International Boundary Research Unit, Durham University.

Professor Mark Feldman is Associate Professor of Law at the Peking University School of Transnational Law. He also serves as a member of the E15 Initiative Task Force on Investment Policy (World Economic Forum/ICTSD), as a member of the Academic Council of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration, and as co-director of the Pearl River Delta Academy of International Trade and Investment Law. He previously served as Chief of NAFTA/CAFTA-DR Arbitration in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of State. As Chief, he represented the United States as a Respondent or non-disputing Party in more than a dozen investor-State disputes and provided legal counsel supporting the negotiation of U.S. bilateral investment treaties and investment chapters of free trade agreements. Professor Feldman’s government experience also includes service as a law clerk to Judge Eric L. Clay on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Lesotho during South Africa’s transition to democracy. In the private sector, he practiced law for several years at Covington & Burling.

Ms Judith Gill QC has been a partner of Allen & Overy since 1992 and is based in Singapore. She specialises in both international commercial arbitration and investment treaty arbitration. Ms Gill’s practice covers a broad range of commercial dealings and includes acting both for and against government entities. She has extensive experience in both institutional and ad hoc arbitration. Judith primarily acts as lead counsel and was only the second woman solicitor-advocate to be appointed Queen’s Counsel in England. She also sits as an arbitrator. In 2013 Judith was listed in the UK’s top 10 SuperLawyers and more recently was voted the “most highly regarded” figure in international arbitration in Who’s Who Legal 2016. She holds institutional appointments, including as President of the LCIA. Judith is also a former director of both SIAC and AAA, and a past Co-Chair of the Arbitration Committee of the International Bar Association. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. Judith is also joint author of the last four editions of the leading textbook “Russell on Arbitration” and has published widely on arbitration issues.

Sir Christopher Greenwood has been a Judge of the International Court of Justice since February 2009. He was educated at Raeburn Park School, Singapore, Wellingborough School and Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, where he is now an Honorary Fellow. Prior to his election to the International Court by the United Nations, he was Professor of International Law at the London School of Economics and a barrister. Sir Christopher was called to the Bar by the Middle Temple in 1978 and was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1999. He was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) for services to international law in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2002 and was knighted in the 2009 New Year Honours. Sir Christopher holds the degrees of BA (Law) (First Class Hons), LLB (International Law) (First Class Hons) and MA from the University of Cambridge. Before becoming a Judge, he acted as counsel for numerous States and private clients in both domestic and international courts and tribunals, as well as sitting as an arbitrator in a number of cases. He is the editor of the International Law Reports and author of a number of articles on international law.

Dr Ben JURATOWITCH is the global head of Freshfields’ public international law practice and a partner in the international arbitration group.

He represents States before the International Court of Justice and inter-State arbitral tribunals, and represents corporations and States in arbitrations governed by investment treaties and commercial contracts. Examples of his current cases include a series of four arbitrations arising from the cessation of gas supply from Egypt to Israel during the Arab Spring, the case between Bolivia and Chile concerning Bolivia’s claim to sovereign access to the Pacific Ocean, the arbitration between India and Italy concerning which of them has jurisdiction over two Italian Marines arrested by India, and a case between Kenya and a foreign investor concerning an investment in the exploitation of geothermal power. He teaches a course in international dispute settlement at the University of Paris V and has been a visiting fellow in the law faculty at the London School of Economics.

Ms Meg KINNEAR is currently the Secretary-General of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) at the World Bank.  She was formerly the Senior General Counsel 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, and participated in the negotiation of bilateral investment agreements.  In November 2002, Ms. Kinnear was also named Chair of the Negotiating Group on Dispute Settlement for the Free Trade of the Americas Agreement.

From October 1996 to April 1999, Ms Kinnear was Executive Assistant to the Deputy Minister of Justice of Canada.  Prior to this, Ms. Kinnear was Counsel at the Civil Litigation Section of the Canadian Department of Justice (from June 1984 to October 1996) where she appeared before federal and provincial courts as well as domestic arbitration panels.

Ms Kinnear was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1984 and the Bar of the District of Columbia in 1982.  She received a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) from Queen’s University in 1978; a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) from McGill University in 1981; and a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from the University of Virginia in 1982.

Ms Kinnear has published numerous articles on international investment law and procedure and is a frequent speaker on these topics.  She is a co-author of Investment Disputes under NAFTA (published in 2006 and updated in 2008 & 2009).  She also co-authored texts on Canadian legal procedure including Federal Court Practice (1988-1990, 1991-1992, and 1993-2009 annually) and 1995 Crown Liability and Proceedings Act Annotated (1994).

Ms Koh Swee Yen is a Partner in the Commercial & Corporate Disputes Practice of WongPartnership LLP.

She has acted as counsel in arbitration cases under the major institutional rules, including ICSID, ICC, ICDR, SIAC and UNCITRAL, with particular focus on commercial, energy, international trade and investment protection matters.

Ms Koh graduated with First Class Honours from the National University of Singapore (NUS), and was awarded the Singapore Academy of Law prize for being the top student in her final year. She served as a Justices’ Law Clerk to the Chief Justice of Singapore before entering private practice, and was later selected to be placed on the Supreme Court’s Young Amicus Curiae 2009/2010 list.

Ms Koh is the co-chair of YSIAC Committee, formed under the auspices of the SIAC, and the co-chair of IBA Arb40, a sub-committee of the IBA Arbitration Committee.

Described as a “marvel” in Global Arbitration Review (GAR) 100 – 9th edition (2016), she has also been identified by Asian Legal Business in their inaugural 40 Under 40 List, which showcases 40 of the brightest young legal minds across Asia. Ms Koh was praised for “her keen sense of strategy” and “great ability to quickly grasp her clients’ perspective and understand their commercial issues”.

Mr. Edmund Kronenburg began his career at Drew & Napier in 1997, and is today the Managing Partner of Braddell Brothers LLP, Singapore’s third-oldest law practice, founded in 1883 by the sons of Singapore’s first Attorney-General.

He appears as counsel in trials and appeals before the Singapore courts, as well as in international commercial arbitrations, predominantly conducted under the SIAC, ICC and UNCITRAL Rules. He also sits as an Arbitrator; his present appointments include tribunals seated in Indonesia and Vietnam.

The Legal 500 (Asia-Pacific, 2012 to 2015 ed.) Guide describes him as “aggressive”, “articulate”, “good strategist”, “trusted confidant”, “good advocate” and “best in class”, as well as having a “flair for arbitration”.

Chambers & Partners (Asia-Pacific & Global, 2013 to 2015 ed.) report that Edmund

“… is a top-notch lawyer who comes up with comprehensive and pragmatic advice”;

“… is valued by clients, not only “because we need his knowledge and experience in the law, but more than that, because he is streetwise”;

“… a deeply experienced litigator who is well versed in commercial disputes and provides sound advice to his clients”; and

“… impresses clients with his strategic approach. One source comments: ‘He has the ability to think beyond the conventional and has brilliant ideas in terms of legal strategy.’”

Mr. Kronenburg’s practice areas include Corporate and Commercial Litigation & Arbitration, Medical Negligence, Employment, Cross-Border Family Litigation, Corporate Insolvency and Injunctions. Between 2011 and now, he and his team have been instructed on matters involving Mareva / Freezing Injunctions with a combined value of approx. USD 1 billion.

Mr Toby LANDAU QC is a barrister and arbitrator, practising at Essex Court Chambers in London, and also a member of the New York, BVI, DIFC and Northern Ireland Bars, and a registered foreign lawyer at the SICC. He was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2008. As Arbitrator, he has sat in numerous major international cases (both investor-State and commercial), in many countries worldwide, including ICSID; LCIA; ICC; SCC; SIAC; HKIAC; CRCICA; NAI; VIAC; and UNCITRAL matters. As Counsel, he has appeared in over 300 international arbitrations (investor-State and commercial), and argued many of the leading arbitration cases before the English Courts (including Dallah v Govt of Pakistan; Jivraj v Hashwani and Ust-Kamenogorsk v AES before the UK Supreme Court). He has also argued many high profile arbitration cases before foreign Courts, including PT First Media v Astro in the Singapore Court of Appeal and Hong Kong Court of Appeal; and Hubco v WAPDA in the Pakistan Supreme Court. He is an LCIA Court member; SCC Board Member; SIAC Court member; Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators; Chartered Arbitrator; UK delegate to the UNCITRAL Working Group on Arbitration; and one of the draftsmen of the English Arbitration Act 1996; the Pakistan Arbitration Ordinance of 2005; the Mauritius Arbitration Act of 2008; and the 2010 IBA Rules on Evidence. He is Visiting Professor (arbitration law) at Kings College London, and Visiting Lecturer at the Pakistan College of Law. He was named “Most Highly Regarded Individual” in International Arbitration in Who’sWhoLegal’s Global Survey in 2014 and 2015. In April 2012, he was appointed to the Panel of Advisers of the Attorney-General of Singapore. He holds a first-class law degree and a first class BCL from Oxford University (Eldon Scholar), and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School (Kennedy Scholar).

Mr Junianto James Losari practices international investment arbitration and commercial arbitration at Allen & Overy Singapore.  Previously, James was a Research Fellow at the Centre for International Law where his main research areas include Public International Law, International Trade and Investment Law, and their intersections.  During his time at the Centre, James advised several governments in Southeast Asia on International Investment Law and taught in several universities in Asia and Spain.  He was also a consultant to the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia.  James used to work for the Office of the President of Indonesia where he worked closely with the Special Staff for International Relations.  He was involved in drafting the President’s speeches and provided legal analysis on issues related to public international law, international trade law and international investment law.  James has a Masters (LL.M) from the IELPO Programme of Universidad de Barcelona and a Bachelor of Law degree (magna cum laude) from Universitas Pelita Harapan, Indonesia.  He is admitted to the Indonesian Bar Association (PERADI).

Mr. Gavin MacLaren is head of our Asia-Pacific energy and natural resources practice. He acts for multi-national corporations, governments, international organisations, private equity and financial institutions across the Asia Pacific. He is particularly sought after for his abilities in structuring and negotiating complex cross border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and project developments.He also provides public international law advice to governments and energy companies in connection with overlapping international boundary claims. He has been recognised as a leading lawyer by numerous legal directories.

Mr. Hugo Perezcano is an independent consultant in areas of international arbitration, international trade regulation, international law and corporate and transactional law. He is also very knowledgeable and experienced on trade remedies.

He worked for the Mexican Government for nearly 20 years: He headed Mexico’s Trade Remedy Authority from January 2007 through October 2011. He was General Counsel for International Trade Negotiations at the Ministry of Economy from December 1994 to December 2006. In such capacity, he was the principal legal advisor for the Government on international trade negotiations and foreign trade and investment matters arising under the WTO, NAFTA and other free trade and bilateral investment agreements. He was lead counsel for Mexico in State-State dispute settlement proceedings initiated under the WTO and NAFTA, as well as in disputes brought by investors under the NAFTA and bilateral investment agreements. Prior to being appointed General Counsel for Trade Negotiations, Mr. Perezcano was part of the Mexico’s legal team during the NAFTA and Uruguay Round Negotiations and was designated lead counsel for Mexico in trade negotiations with several Latin American countries.

He has broad experience as a professor of law and numerous specialized publications.

Dr Vincent-Joël Proulx is Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore’s Faculty of Law, where he teaches and researches in the areas of public international law, international dispute settlement, and comparative law. Prior to joining NUS Law, he served a three-year term as Special Assistant to the President of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague. His past appointments also included serving as Legal Officer to the Vice-President of the ICJ, Law Clerk at both the Court of Appeal for Ontario and the ICJ, Québec Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and Secrétaire-rédacteur at the last three sessions of the Institut de Droit International. He is the author of Institutionalizing State Responsibility: Global Security and UN Organs (Oxford University Press 2016) and Transnational Terrorism and State Accountability: A New Theory of Prevention (Hart Publishing 2012).

Professor Reed was a partner from 2000-2016 with the international law firm of Freshfields, where she headed the international arbitration and public international law groups. She has represented private and public clients in more than 100 complex commercial and investment treaty arbitrations, focusing on energy and Asia disputes. She was awarded the 2014 Asia Women in Business Award for Best in Dispute Resolution.

Professor Reed is active as an arbitrator, and served as a Commissioner on the Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission (the first Geneva Convention/international humanitarian law tribunal) and as Co-Director of the Claims Resolution Tribunal for Dormant Accounts in Switzerland (the first Holocaust claims tribunal). She has focused her pro bono work on gender violence issues.

Her career has also included several years of high-level public service. While with the US State Department, she served as the US Agent to the Iran-US Claims Tribunal in The Hague and a lead adviser on international claims and investment disputes. Later, as the first general counsel of the international organization KEDO (Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization) in New York, she led diplomatic and nuclear energy negotiations with North Korea.

Professor Reed is the former President of the American Society of International Law. She is a member of many professional bodies, including the ICC Court as Vice President, the Singapore International Arbitration Centre Court, and the Governing Board of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration.

She is author of numerous articles and co-author of three books: “A Guide to the SIAC Arbitration Rules” (OUP 2014), “Guide to ICSID Arbitration” (2nd edition, Kluwer 2011) and “The Freshfields Guide to Arbitration Clauses in International Contracts” (3rd edition, Kluwer 2011). She delivered private international law lectures at the Hague Academy of International Law in 2001.

Professor Reed was educated at the University of Chicago Law School (Juris Doctor 1977) and Brown University (Bachelor of Arts 1974). She is a member of the New York bar.

Ms. Gitta Satryani Juwita is a Senior Associate in Herbert Smith Freehills LLP’s International Arbitration Practice.

Ms. Satryani Juwita read law at the National University of Singapore and qualified as an advocate and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore in 2006. She started her career working for an international firm’s international arbitration practice and gained experience in its London, Singapore, and Jakarta offices. Gitta joined Herbert Smith Freehills in 2009 and was seconded to the firm’s London office in 2013. She recently returned to the Singapore office.

Ms. Satryani Juwita specialises in international arbitration and public international law and is also a member of the firm’s business and human rights practice group. She advises companies, states, and state-owned enterprises, in relation to international disputes across a wide range of industries with a focus on the energy and infrastructure sectors.

Her experience includes acting for:

• an operator of a tight gas project in Eastern Europe in a London-seated ICC arbitration against its joint venture partner, in respect of a dispute arising from the joint venture agreement for the exploration and development of the project;
• a Japanese multinational in a Singapore-seated SIAC arbitration against a consortium partner, in respect of a dispute arising from the terms of a consortium agreement and the agreement to supply rolling stock to a railway project in India;
• the Government of Malaysia against the Government of Singapore in the Railway Land Arbitration administered by the PCA;
• an Asian State and its national oil company in relation to potential claims under various concession agreements and investment treaties to which the State is party, arising from the Government’s contemplated changes to its laws providing for forced reduction of the concessionaires’ participating interests and increase in taxes.

Ms. Satryani Juwita is fluent in English and Indonesian (native).

Mr. Nish Shetty is a Partner and Head of Litigation & Dispute Resolution for Asia-Pacific at Clifford Chance. He specialises in international arbitration, restructuring and insolvency and regulatory work. Mr Shetty has advised on many complex, high profile multi-jurisdictional disputes in the past 22 years including arbitrations in Europe and Asia. He is widely recognised as a leader in the field of dispute resolution. He is qualified in both England & Wales and Singapore.

Mr. Shetty is the Chairman of the SIAC Users Council Regional/National Committee for Singapore and a member of the SIAC Users Council Executive Committee. He is the co-Chairman of the Council of Arbitration of the Mumbai Centre for International Arbitration. He also sits as a Judge of Appeal on the FIA International Court of Appeal in Paris.

Ms. Sylvie Tabet is General Counsel at the Government of Canada’s Trade Law Bureau and provides trade and investment law advice to the Government of Canada.  She has appeared as counsel in WTO proceedings, and in NAFTA and investment treaty arbitrations on behalf of the Government of Canada. She has also advised the Government in some of the most important recent negotiations on trade and investment, including the Bilateral Investment Treaty with China, the Canada Japan Economic Partnership Agreement, the Trans Pacific Partnership, the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement between Canada and the European Union and the TISA negotiations. She was previously with the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, the Privy Council Office and the law firm Stikeman Elliott.

Ms Charis TAN is a senior associate specialising in public international law, international investment and commercial arbitration, and the upstream oil and gas industry.

She has been admitted as an Advocate and Solicitor of Singapore, an Attorney and Counselor-at-Law of the State of New York, and a Solicitor of England & Wales.

Charis has advised States and multinational corporations on a wide range of public international law issues, including in high profile State-to-State disputes before the International Court of Justice, and on issues such as land and maritime boundary delimitation, law of the sea, State-to-State bilateral co-operation agreements, national development issues, State responsibility and the law of treaties.

She has also worked on a wide range of investment treaty and commercial arbitrations under the rules of major arbitration institutions, including ICSID, ICC, SIAC and SCC, as well as ad hoc proceedings under UNCITRAL Rules. Charis has also been appointed as an arbitrator.

Charis acts for National Oil Companies (NOCs) and International Oil Companies (IOCs) in both contentious and non-contentious matters, including the drafting and review of PSAs, JOAs, farm-in agreements, cooperation agreements, and advising on complex issues of domestic and international unitization, and participation. A unique area of her specialization is where the practice of oil and gas crosses into the public international law sphere, such as where blocks straddle disputed boundaries.

Besides practice, she was also concurrently an adjunct tutor at the National University of Singapore for about eight years. Charis is recommended by Asia Pacific Legal 500 for international arbitration.

Partner and member of BLG’s International Trade and Arbitration Group. Mr Greg TEREPOSKY has practiced international trade and investment law for over 20 years.  Counsel and advisor in over thirty WTO disputes. Panelist in European Union – Anti-Dumping Measures on Imports of Certain Fatty Alcohols from Indonesia(DS442). Regularly appears as counsel before panels, arbitrators and the Appellate Body in WTO dispute settlement proceedings, NAFTA panels, investor-state arbitration tribunals and Canadian domestic trade authorities and tribunals.  Advisor in international trade negotiations, including the NAFTA, Uruguay and Doha Rounds of WTO negotiations and various bilateral negotiations. Has extensive experience in dealing with matters involving interaction between multilateral and regional trade agreements. Founder and Editor of the WTO legal research database www.TradeLawGuide.com.  Co-founder and Advisor of the investor-state law research database www.InvestorStateLaw.com. Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent Peer Review Rated. Recognized in Chambers Global – The World’s Leading Lawyers (International Trade/WTO), The Legal 500 (International Trade), Lexpert Cross-Border Litigation Guide, Leading Cross-Border Litigators (International Trade Regulation),The International Who’s Who of Trade & Customs Lawyers and Who’s Who Legal: Canada (Trade & Customs). Recognized by The Best Lawyers in Canada as the Ottawa International Trade and Finance Law Lawyer of the Year (2012 and 2016).

Mr. John Christopher Thomas QC has acted as counsel or legal advisor in GATT, Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, WTO, and NAFTA disputes, having acted both for private industry interested in the outcome of a particular dispute, and directly for governments (both as complainants and as respondents). He has acted as a Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement panelist, a GATT panelist, and argued the first State-to-State dispute to arise under the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement. He has appeared in proceedings before NAFTA and WTO Panels and the WTO Appellate Body. He is Senior Principal Research Fellow at the Centre for International Law at the National University of Singapore.

Mr. Thomas has appeared as counsel in many investor-State disputes, judicial review applications involving investor-State arbitration awards, and has acted as an arbitrator or is currently acting as an arbitrator in many investment treaty claims. He has also acted as an arbitrator, including as presiding arbitrator, in various other arbitral fora, ranging from LCIA commercial arbitration to dispute settlement proceedings under Canada’s Agreement on Internal Trade (AIT).

Dr Romesh WEERAMANTRY specializes in investment treaty disputes and complex cross-border commercial arbitrations. He has worked at the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal and at the United Nations Compensation Commission, which resolved claims resulting from Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait. His publications include The Hong Kong Arbitration Ordinance: Commentary and Annotations (2^nd edition, Sweet & Maxwell 2015), Treaty Interpretation in Investment Arbitration (Oxford UP 2012); and International Commercial Arbitration: An Asia-Pacific Perspective (Cambridge UP 2011).  He is a General Editor of the Asian Dispute Review, a General Arbitration Editor of the Hong Kong White Book and is an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong.  He also serves on the Editorial Board of the ICSID Review, the IBA Subcommittee on Investment Treaty Arbitration and the Hong Kong Arbitration Charity Ball Committee.

Mr Alvin Yeo, Senior Counsel, is the Chairman & Senior Partner of WongPartnership LLP. His main practice comprises corporate, commercial and infrastructure disputes, both in litigation and arbitration.

Mr. Yeo has also acted as arbitrator in disputes under ICC, UNCITRAL, HKIAC and SIAC Rules, involving projects in various parts of Asia.

Mr. Yeo graduated from King’s College London, University of London, and was admitted to the English Bar (Gray’s Inn) in 1987 and the Singapore Bar in 1988. In January 2000, Mr. Yeo became the youngest lawyer to be appointed Senior Counsel.

He is a member of the Court of the SIAC and the ICC Commission on Arbitration. He is also the Vice-President of the LCIA Asia Pacific Users’ Council, a Fellow of the SIArb and on the panel of arbitrators of the ICDR, HKIAC, KCAB, KLRCA and SCIA. Mr. Yeo has served on various public committees which undertook comprehensive reviews of the legal services sector. He is a member of the Panel of Disciplinary Tribunal Chairmen of The Singapore Medical Council and the Appeals Advisory Panel of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). Mr. Yeo served from 2006 to 2015 as an elected Member of Parliament, during which period he was appointed at various times as Deputy Chairman and then Chairman of the Government Parliamentary Committee for Home Affairs & Law. He is also an independent director on the boards of various public listed companies in Singapore.

Mr. Yeo is also recognised as a leading litigation and arbitration counsel in international legal directories such as The Legal 500: Asia Pacific; IFLR1000; Chambers Global; Chambers Asia Pacific; Expert Guides; Who’s Who Legal; Best Lawyers; Asialaw Leading Lawyers, Asialaw Profiles and Benchmark Asia Pacific.