Career Highlights
- Scholarship winner and holder of undergraduate and postgraduate degrees from Oxford University, 1962-1966.
- Partner, Allen & Gledhill, Singapore for over 30 years.
- Admitted to practise in Singapore, England and Wales, West Malaysia and Victoria, Australia.
- Judicial Commissioner, Supreme Court of Singapore, 1991-1992
- Senior Counsel, Supreme Court of Singapore since 1997
- United Nations Compensation Commissioner (Geneva), 2000 – 2002
- Deputy Chief Justice, Dubai International Financial Centre since 2005.
- President, Law Society of Singapore, 2008-2009.
- Singapore’s Non-Resident Ambassador to Switzerland since 2003.
- Vice Chairman, International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (Paris) since 2006-2009
- Vice President, International Council of Commercial Arbitration since 2006
- Vice Chairman, International Bar Association, Arbitration Committee D, 2001 - 2003
- Member, Permanent Court of Arbitration (The Hague) since 1995
- Member, ICSID Panel of Arbitrators (Washington DC) since 2000
- Member, HKIAC Court of Arbitration since 2001
- Council Member, International Council of Arbitration for Sports since 2007.
- Trustee, Dubai International Arbitration Centre since 2007
- Council Member, Singapore Institute of Arbitrators 2005-2007
- Member, Executive Committee of the lnstitute of Transnational Arbitration, (Dallas) 2002-2008
- Member, IBA Working Party on “Guidelines on Conflicts of lnterest in International Arbitration” 2001-2004
Qualifications as arbitrator
- Accredited Arbitrator of 17 International and national arbitration centres.
- Chartered Arbitrator
- Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
- Fellow, Singapore Institute of Arbitrators
Qualifications as mediator
- Mediator and Evaluator, Singapore Mediation Centre
Academic and Editorial Appointments
- Adjunct Professor, National University of Singapore since 2005
- Member, Advisory Board of the Faculty of Law, Singapore Management University since 2007
- Member, Advisory Board of the Journal of Intemational Arbitration since 2006
- Editorial Adviser to the Chinese Arbitration Association Journal of Arbitration, Taipei since 2001
- Associate Editor, online arbitration joumal “Transnational Dispute Management” since 2005
- Member, Editorial Board of “Global Arbitration Review” since 2005
- Singapore Correspondent, Kluwer Arbitration Website since 2002
- Member, Advisory Committee of the Journal of Arab Arbitration.
- Guest Lecturer for:
- Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Entry, Fast Track and Diploma courses in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta and Hong Kong (2000 – 2007)
- National University of Singapore – King’s College London MSc in Construction and Arbitration Law (2004 – present)
- Singapore International Arbitration Centre – Panel of Arbitrators Training Course (2005)
- ICC Course on ICC arbitration, Bangkok (2005)
- Sophia University, Tokyo (2005)
- Course Director, Singapore Institute of Arbitrators Fellowship course (2006 – 2007)
- King’s College London-Dubai International Arbitration Centre – Advanced Course in International Arbitration Dubai (2006-2008)
- International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) Symposium, Singapore (2007)
- University of Lucerne, Switzerland (2008)
Commendations
- Listed in “The International Who’s Who of Commercial Arbitration (2005)” as “Singapore’s leading lawyer for commercial arbitration expertise”.
- Listed in "Global Arbitration Review" (2006) as Asia's top arbitrator.
- Named in “PLC Which Lawyer?” (Yearbook 2008) as “Sole practitioner Michael Hwang is another pre-eminent expert, especially in arbitration, where he competes with some of the best-known local and international firms for instructions” and ranks him as one of the four leading dispute resolution practitioners in Singapore.
- Named in “Who’s Who Legal 2008” (Commercial Arbitration) as “the most highly nominated individual in (the Directory’s Singapore) research” a “quite outstanding lawyer having received multiple nominations from within Singapore and overseas” and an “illustrious figure in the local market” who “has a practical sense and a wealth of knowledge”.
- Named in “Chambers Asia 2008” as “a world – class arbitrator” who is “brilliant, popular, prominent, incisive and decisive” and “always one of the first names to be mentioned … in regional arbitration”
- Named in “Who’s Who Legal 2008” (Commercial Litigation) as one of 7 recommended litigators for Singapore.
- Named in “PLC Cross-Border Dispute Resolution Handbook 2008/9” as one of the 3 top dispute resolution practitioners in Singapore
- Described in “Asia Pacific Legal 500 2008/9 as “in terms of diversity of cases and sheer academics prowess, there is no finer Senior Counsel working in Singapore today”
- Listed in “The Best of the Best 2009” as one of the top 38 international commercial arbitration practitioners in the world.
- “Guide to the World’s Leading Commercial Arbitration Experts” (8th Ed, 2009) describes him as having received personal nominations for inclusion placing him in the world’s top 15 in this field.
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