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Speakers’ Profiles Judges The Honourable Justice Belinda Ang Supreme Court of Singapore

Justice Ang was appointed Judicial Commissioner on 1 February 2002, and was appointed Judge of the Supreme Court of Singapore on 2 January 2003. Justice Ang sits as a specialist judge for Admiralty, Shipping and Arbitration matters including Finance, Securities, Banking, Complex Commercial Cases. Prior to these appointments, she was a lawyer in private practice and held

the title of Senior Counsel (appointed in 1998). Justice Ang was a member of the sub-committee on the Review of Arbitration Laws, appointed by the Attorney-General in 1991, that made recommendations on Singapore’s laws relating to international commercial arbitrations, and which led to the enactment of the International Arbitration Act (Cap 143). Justice Ang is also in the Rules Committee, Supreme Court; the Senate and the Executive Board of the Singapore Academy of Law. Justice Ang is the Chairperson of the Singapore Mediation Centre. The Honourable Associate Justice Jamie Wood Supreme Court of Victoria, Australia

Graduated from Monash University with Bachelor of Jurisprudence and Bachelor of Laws. Practiced in criminal, civil, family and child protection jurisdictions. Appointed Senior Member of the Work Care Appeals Board and then Deputy District Registrar and Victoria District Registrar of the Federal Court of Australia presiding in bankruptcy and corporation matters and conducting mediations in all areas including trade practices, native title, intellectual property, workplace relations, discrimination and immigration. Appointed Master of the Supreme Court of Victoria in 2006 and then

Associate Judge from 2008 and throughout has conducted mediations in both trial division and Court of Appeal matters.

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Judge Suthatip Jullamon Tasanachaikul Office of the President of The Supreme Court, Thailand

Dr. Suthatip Jullamon Tasanachaikul is a judge of the Office of the President of the Supreme Court. Apart from running the International Affairs Office at the Office of the Judiciary, an administrative organization of the Court of Justice, Thailand, her responsibility includes capacity building involving Court Annexed Mediation program. In October 2016, she was a guest speaker on the “History and Development of Mediation Structures of AMA Members” at the 4th Asian Mediation Association Conference in Beijing, China giving an overview on Court Annexed

Mediation work in Thailand. Prior to joining the mediation work, she had sat in Sakhon Nakhon Provincial court adjudicating both civil and criminal cases in the court of first instance level. She also received her doctoral degree from the Washington University in St. Louis. Her thesis concerns introduction of class action into the Thai civil justice system. Principal District Judge James Leong State Courts Centre for Dispute Resolution, Singapore

Principal District Judge James Leong joined the Singapore Legal Service in 1989 and has served in various judicial positions in the Supreme Court and the State Courts. He currently heads the Centre for Dispute Resolution, a justice division established in 2015 to consolidate the different court ADR services offered by the State Courts. He is a SIMI Certified Mediator, a CEDR Accredited Mediator and an Associate Mediator with the SMC. He received the National Day Public Administration Medal (Bronze) in 2000 and the Public Administration Medal (Silver) and Long Service Medal in 2012.

District Judge Kevin Ng Family Justice Courts, Singapore

District Judge Kevin Ng is the Group Manager of the Family Dispute Resolution and Specialist Services division of the Family Justice Courts (FJC). For the last 12 years, Kevin has focused on the area of amicable dispute resolution in family matters. In 2006, he helped conceive and set up the FJC’s Family Resolutions Chambers and in 2011, the Child Focused Resolution Centre. These units, together with the FJC’s social science arm, the Counselling and Psychological Services, handle the dispute resolution of divorce, probate, adoption and mental capacity cases. They also provide

the mandatory the counselling and mediation services to divorcing couples who have children. Kevin is an accredited mediator with the Singapore Mediation Centre, the Singapore International Mediation Institute and the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution.

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Other Panellists (listed in order of appearance in programme) Professor Tania Sourdin

Professor Tania Sourdin is the Dean of the University of Newcastle Law School. She was previously the Foundation Chair and Director of the Australian Centre for Justice Innovation (ACJI) at Monash University in Australia. Throughout her career she has held a number of senior professorial academic positions and has also held a range of other senior practitioner positions.

She has worked as a lawyer, judicial registrar, senior tribunal member and extensively as a dispute resolution practitioner (both with Australia and overseas). Professor Sourdin has led national research projects and produced important recommendations for justice reform. In the past two decades, she has conducted qualitative and quantitative research projects into aspects of the justice system systems in 11 Courts and Tribunals and five external dispute resolution schemes. Other research has focussed on justice innovation, technology, delay and systemic reforms. Professor Sourdin is the author of books, articles and papers, and has published and presented widely on a range of topics including justice issues, mediation, conflict resolution, collaborative law, artificial intelligence, technology and organisational change. She is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Sydney and an Adjunct professor at Monash University and has worked as a senior Tribunal member in respect of appellate matters and as a mediator for more than 25 years. She has worked extensively overseas as an expert consultant in relation to disputes and dispute system design. In 2014 she was appointed as the National Broadband Network (NBN) Industry Dispute Adviser in Australia and also co-chaired the 2014 National Mediation Conference. She has been a co director of Endispute Pty Ltd that has dealt with large scale commercial disputes since 2008 Professor Jean-Francois Roberge

Professor Jean-François Roberge is Director of Dispute Prevention and Resolution (DPR) Programs at the Faculty of Law at Université de Sherbrooke (Québec, Canada). He holds a doctorate in law (LL.D.), a Master’s degree in psychology (M. Sc.) and a Master’s degree in dispute prevention and resolution (LL.M.). He is a member of the Quebec bar and a Chartered Mediator. He is a faculty member of the National Judicial Institute of Canada (NJI) judicial mediation training programs for Canadian judges. He also participated as a faculty member in mediation sessions delivered by École nationale de la magistrature de France

(ENM) (2008–2014) and has developed training programs for civil and commercial mediators in Western Africa. He also acts as a “Comparative Dispute Resolution Expert” for the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a subsidiary of the World Bank.

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Professor Nancy Welsh

Nancy A. Welsh is Professor of Law and Director of the Dispute Resolution Program at Texas A&M University School of Law. In 2016-2017, she was Chair of the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution and previously served as Co-Chair of the Editorial Board of the Dispute Resolution Magazine. She has also served as Chair of the

AALS Alternative Dispute Resolution Section. From 1998-2017, she was Professor of Law and William Trickett Faculty Scholar at Penn State University, Dickinson School of Law, receiving its Teaching Excellence Award in 2010. Professor Welsh is a leading scholar and teacher of dispute resolution and procedural law. She examines negotiation, mediation, arbitration, judicial settlement, and dispute resolution in U.S. and international contexts, focusing on self-determination, procedural justice, due process, and institutionalization dynamics. Professor Welsh has written more than 60 articles and chapters that have appeared in law reviews, professional publications and books and is co-author of DISPUTE RESOLUTION AND LAWYERS, 5TH ED. In 2006, she conducted research in the Netherlands as a Fulbright Scholar and taught at Tilburg University. In 2016, she was named a Visiting Scholar of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School and a Visiting Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study at Indiana University-Bloomington. She earned her B.A. magna cum laude from Allegheny College and her J.D. from Harvard Law School. Asscociate Professor Joel Lee

Joel Lee is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, the National University of Singapore. Joel co-pioneered the teaching of Negotiation and Mediation in the Singapore Universities and has played a significant role in furthering the development of mediation in Singapore, not just in education but in practice. A graduate of Victoria University of Wellington and Harvard Law Schools, Joel is a senior consultant with CMPartners (USA) and a principal mediator with and the Training Director of the Singapore Mediation Centre. Joel is an adjudicator with the Financial Industry Disputes Resolution

Centre and a member of the ADR Advisory Council of the Subordinate Courts of Singapore. He is also a member of the International Mediation Institute's Independent Standards Commission and Intercultural Taskforce and was a key member of the Ministry of Law’s Working Group on International Commercial Mediation.

Joel has taught overseas at the University of Copenhagen (Denmark), University of Law, Economics and Science of Aix-Marseille (Aix-en-Provence France) and Anglia Law School (UK) and is the co-editor and co-author of the book "An Asian Perspective on Mediation" and the General Editor for the Asian Journal on Mediation. Joel was recently awarded the Outstanding Educator Award which is the National University of Singapore's highest teaching award.

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Assistant Professor Eunice Chua

Eunice is an Assistant Professor at the Singapore Management University (“SMU”) School of Law teaching Evidence and Business Law. She is also qualified as an Advocate and Solicitor in Singapore and an Associate Mediator of the Singapore Mediation Centre (SMC).

After graduating with a First Class Honours law degree from the National University of Singapore, Eunice served as a Justices’ Law Clerk in the Singapore Supreme Court. She subsequently obtained a Masters of Law from Harvard. On her return, she was appointed an Assistant Registrar of the Singapore Supreme Court, a Magistrate of the Singapore State Courts and Assistant Director of the SMC. In 2014, she became the first Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Singapore International Mediation Centre. Eunice has conducted mediation training and spoken about mediation at various local and international fora. Apart from mediation, she is also interested in dispute resolution procedure and justice issues. She has co-authored a monograph on Singapore Civil Procedure as well as published book chapters and articles in various academic journals. Associate Professor Masood Ahmed

Masood Ahmed is Associate Professor in Civil Dispute Resolution at the University of Leicester. His research and teaching interests focus on civil justice/procedure and alternative dispute resolution. He has written extensively on the inter-relationship between ADR and the Civil Procedure Rules and judicial approaches and attitudes towards ADR, especially mediation. Mr Ahmed is the Alternative Dispute Resolution editor of the Civil Justice Quarterly and the convenor of the Civil Procedure and ADR stream for the Socio-Legal Studies Association

Conference. He was co-opted to a specialist sub-committee of the Civil Procedure Rule Committee (CPRC) to assist it on the implementation of the Jackson Reforms to the General Pre-action Protocol. He is also a member of the Civil Procedure Rule Committee.

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Associate Professor Shahla Ali

Dr. Shahla Ali's research and practice centers on questions of governance, development and the resolution of cross-border disputes in the Asia Pacific region. She is as an Associate Professor and Deputy Head of the Department of Law and Deputy Director of the LLM in Arbitration and Dispute Resolution in the Faculty of Law at the University of Hong Kong. Shahla is the author of Governing Disasters: Engaging Local Populations in Humanitarian Relief (Cambridge University Press); Consumer Financial Dispute Resolution in a Comparative Context (Cambridge University Press); International Commercial

Arbitration in Asia (Juris) and Resolving Disputes in the Asia Pacific Region (Routledge) and writes for law journals in the area of comparative dispute system design drawing on empirical and comparative methods. Shahla is a bilingual arbitrator (English/Chinese) with FINRA, HKIAC (ADNDRC), SCIA, a conciliator with WTC Macau and a mediator with the HKMC, HKMAAL and the HK Building and Lands Tribunal. She has studied and practiced in China, Hong Kong SAR, Israel, the US and Switzerland and speaks English, Chinese and Farsi. She is qualified to practice law in California. Prior to moving to Hong Kong, Shahla was an attorney with Baker & McKenzie, LLP where she focused on international trade, corporate transactions and regulatory compliance. She received her JD and PhD from UC Berkeley in Jurisprudence and Social Policy, her MA in Conflict Resolution from Landegg University and BA in International Relations and Chinese Language from Stanford University. She has conducted mediation and collaborative negotiation trainings in both the private and public sector for managers as well as UN staff. Associate Professor Sue Prince

Sue’s research interests focus on access to justice in the civil courts looking particularly at the role of court-based mediation. She has conducted empirical studies in England and Wales for the Civil Justice Council and the Ministry of Justice. Sue has published on mandatory mediation in Canada, Florida and New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. She is a member of the Civil Justice Council Advisory Group on ODR led by Professor Richard Susskind,

which recommended the online court and which has had huge impact on developments in England & Wales. Sue is a member of the newly formed JUSTICE Working Party on Assisted Digital which is considering access to justice issues for the online court.

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Professor Archie Zariski

Professor, Legal Studies Athabasca University, B.A. (Alberta), LL.B. (Alberta), L.M. (York University), Grad. Dip. Higher Education (University of New South Wales) After receiving his law degree Archie practiced litigation in Edmonton as an associate and partner for 15 years. In 1989 he returned to university and obtained a Masters in Law degree from Osgoode Hall Law School where his thesis concerned theoretical and practical aspects of dispute resolution. In 1991 he joined the faculty of Murdoch University Law School in Perth, Western Australia where he taught in the Law and Legal

Studies programs. At Murdoch Professor Zariski designed and coordinated courses in the litigation and dispute resolution areas including Evidence, Negotiation and Mediation. He was trained as a mediator in Australia and Canada and mediated for the Citizens Advice Bureau in Perth. He has also trained mediators for the Institute of Arbitrators and Mediators Australia. After returning to Canada in 2005 he has acted as a volunteer mediator for the Mediation and Restorative Justice Centre in Edmonton. Assistant Professor Dorcas Quek Anderson

Dorcas is an Assistant Professor of Law in the Singapore Management University’s School of Law. Her main research interests focus on dispute resolution, the administration of justice in the courts, family law and civil procedure.

Dorcas graduated from the National University of Singapore (LL.B with First Class Honours) and obtained her LL.M from Harvard University

School of Law. Upon completing her LL.M, she was Visiting Researcher in Harvard Law School under the supervision of Emeritus Professor Frank Sander, who is widely regarded as a pioneer in mediation in the USA. Prior to joining academia in 2016, Dorcas was a Justices’ Law Clerk and subsequently an Assistant Registrar in the Singapore Supreme Court, as well as Assistant Director of the Singapore Mediation Centre. Dorcas has also been District Judge in the State Courts for almost seven years, where she conducted mediation and early neutral evaluation for civil and criminal matters.

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Professor Nadja Alexander

Nadja Alexander is Academic Director of the Singapore International Dispute Resolution Academy, Asia’s first institution dedicated to thought leadership and educational excellence in negotiation and dispute resolution, and Professor of Law at the Singapore Management University. An award-winning author and educator, Nadja has trained

judges, lawyers, arbitrators and mediators around the world and has advised on mediation policy to international bodies, such as the World Bank Group and to national governments in Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa. She is accredited as a mediator in Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia and has been engaged as a conflict intervener in legal, corporate and development settings. Nadja is a Senior Fellow of the Dispute Resolution Institute at Mitchell Hamline School of Law, The United States and holds honorary academic appointments at the University of Queensland and Newcastle University, Australia. Nadja is editor of the Global Trends in Dispute Resolution book series and the Kluwer Mediation Blog. Her work has been published variously in the English, German, Chinese, French, Spanish, Russian and Arabic languages. Her books include the award-winning International and Comparative Mediation, Global Trends in Mediation, Negotiation: Strategy Style Skills, and The EU Mediation Handbook: Regulatory Robustness Ratings for Mediation Regimes. Mr Mark Beer, OBE

Mark is the Chief Executive of the Dubai International Financial Centre’s (DIFC’s) Dispute Resolution Authority, a statutory body comprising the DIFC Courts, the DIFC-LCIA Arbitration and Mediation Centre, the Academy of Law and the DIFC Wills and Probate Registry. Mark was formerly the Chief Executive and Registrar General of the DIFC Courts where he remains a Judge of the DIFC Courts’ Small Claims Tribunal and a Member of its Rules Subcommittee. Mark is also a Registrar of the

Special Tribunal Related to Dubai World. In 2010 Mark was appointed for a year's term as a Member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the International Legal System and he remains a member of the World Economic Forum’s Expert Network for Justice. In 2017, Mark was appointed as a Visiting Fellow of Oxford University by its Chancellor. Mark is also the President-Elect of the International Association for Court Administration and a member of The International Council of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

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Mr Lim Tat

Lim Tat was called to the Singapore Bar in 1989. He is an alumnus of National University of Singapore and King’s College London. Tat has acted as counsel in hundreds of court-connected mediations. He has been appointed by institutions and

parties to mediate a broad spectrum of cases, including commercial, construction, intellectual property, shareholder, joint venture, healthcare and family disputes. Who’s Who Legal: Mediation describes Tat as "always prepared for the unexpected", "a true asset to any mediation", an “outstanding” mediator and “a distinguished figure in Singapore mediation”. The Legal 500 describes Tat as “knowledgeable and sharp”, leading a team that “punches above its weight in heavyweight commercial litigation”. Tat is an IMI-certified mediator, and accredited with many distinguished institutions. He is a 2017 Weinstein JAMS International Fellow, Chair of the Society of Mediation Professionals (Singapore) and Co-Chair of the Mediation Committee of the International Bar Association. Mr Rajan Chettiar

Rajan Chettiar is a barrister-at-law from the United Kingdom and an Advocate and Solicitor of Singapore since 1997. He set up Rajan Chettiar & Co in April 2003 which is today known as Rajan Chettiar LLC. He is a well-known family lawyer who has acted in high net-worth domestic and international divorces. Mr Rajan is also an Associate Mediator with the Singapore Mediation Centre, a Volunteer Mediator in the State Courts’ Centre for Dispute Resolution and Family Justice Courts’ Child Focussed Resolution Centre and the Community Mediation Centre. He is also a Child Representative and a private mediator where he acts as mediator in disputes.

Mr Samuel Chacko

Samuel Chacko heads Legis Point LLC’s Dispute Resolution Practice Group. His areas of practice include arbitration, banking, building contracts, commercial disputes, copyright infringement, defamation, debt recovery, employment contracts, international trade, judicial review, probate matters, land disputes and general civil litigation. He has appeared at all levels of the Singapore Court structure and has handled numerous cases which have been reported in the Singapore Law Reports. A number of these cases are now leading decisions in various

areas of law.

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Samuel graduated from the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth in 1991 with an LLB in the top five percentile of his class winning the Calcott Pryce Prize for Evidence. He went on to obtain an LLM from the University of Cambridge in 1993. Samuel also holds a Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration from the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and an MSc in Construction Law & Arbitration awarded jointly by King’s College, London and the National University of Singapore. Samuel was called to the English bar in 1992 and admitted as an Advocate and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore in 1994.

Samuel has an active international arbitration practice and has been lead counsel in a number of substantial international arbitrations involving complex cross-border legal and factual issues. He is a Chartered Arbitrator and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators. He has also been appointed to the arbitration panels of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre, the Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration, the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators, the Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre and the Law Society of Singapore. Samuel is the current Chairman of the Advocacy Committee and the Vice-Chairman of the ADR Committee of the Law Society. Samuel has been an advocacy trainer of the Law Society since 2004.Samuel has been awarded the NITA Master Advocate designation by The National Institute for Trial Advocacy in the United States. Samuel’s expertise in Dispute Resolution has also been recognized in numerous legal publications.