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

  • Vice Chairman, International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (Paris) since 2006

  • Vice President, International Council of Commercial Arbitration since 2002

  • Vice Chairman, International Bar Association Arbitration Committee, 2001 - 2003

  • Adjunct Professor, National University of Singapore since 2005

  • Member, Permanent Court of Arbitration (The Hague) since 1995
  • Member, ICSID Panel of Arbitrators (Washington DC) since 2000
  • Accredited Arbitrator of 16 national arbitration centres.
  • Singapore’s Non-Resident Ambassador to Switzerland since 2003.
  • Deputy Chief Justice, Dubai International Financial Centre since 2005.
  • President, Law Society of Singapore, since 2008.
  • Member, International Council of Arbitration for Sports, 2007.
  • 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.