Sundra Rajoo is the Director of the Asian International Arbitration Centre for the second time and also, the President of the Asian Institute of Alternative Dispute Resolution. He is a Certified International ADR Practitioner (AIADR) and Chartered Arbitrator. He was the Director of the Asian International Arbitration Centre (AIAC) from 2010 to 2018.

He played an active role in transforming AIAC into a sought-after arbitration centre in the Asian region with AIAC caseload grew massively from a mere 22 arbitration cases in 2010 to an accumulative total of 2761 arbitration, adjudication and mediation cases in 2019.

Eric is Deputy Secretary-General at HKIAC.

Prior to joining the HKIAC, Eric worked for several years as a barrister-at-law in Hong Kong focusing primarily on international commercial and construction arbitrations, as well as general commercial litigation in Hong Kong, and has worked as counsel as well as tribunal secretary for several major international commercial, construction, and financial arbitrations around the world.

In addition to his work as a barrister, Eric was previously Adjunct Professor at the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing, lecturing in advocacy and investor-state arbitration. He has also lectured at Tsinghua University and Peking University. Eric has also published on issues of international dispute resolution and investor-state arbitration.

Eric holds a BCL from Oxford University, PCLL and JD from City University of Hong Kong, MSc E-commerce from the University of Hong Kong, as well as a BS in Business Administration and Information Systems from Babson College in the USA. He is admitted to practice law in Hong Kong.

Prof. Dr. Harald Sippel is an Austrian qualified lawyer and Foreign Lawyer admitted to the Malaysian Bar who heads the firm’s European Desk and Northeast Asian Desk. He has spent over ten years in Asia. He is a native German speaker and is also fluent in English, French, Italian and Korean.

He is an experienced counsel in international arbitrations who has represented clients in complex commercial and investment disputes. Harald is also regularly appointed as an arbitrator (chair, sole, party-nominated) under the rules of various arbitral institutions and in ad hoc proceedings. In total, Harald has acted in over 80 arbitrations since 2008, from which he has gained immeasurable experience in arbitral practice and procedure under both the civil and common law systems.