Summary

Professional career

Independent arbitrator Present

Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (ACICA)

President 2019-2021

Member, Executive Committee 2018-present

Herbert Smith Freehills

Head of International Arbitration — Australia 2016-2021

Partner, Head of Office — Shanghai 2014-2016

Partner — Shanghai 2012-2014

New York University School of Law — Shanghai Campus

Global Adjunct Professor, 3-credit course on International Arbitration Spring 2015, Spring 2016

Global Adjunct Professor, 2-credit course on International Arbitration Spring 2014

Salans LLP

Partner and Co-Head, Global Arbitration Practice — Paris & Shanghai 2008-2012

Partner — Paris 2001-2008

Associate — Moscow & Paris 1995-2001

Steptoe & Johnson

Associate — Washington DC & Moscow 1992-1995

Qualifications

Bar Admission, Washington DC (USA); Illinois (USA) (inactive); NSW (Australia) (inactive)

Columbia University School of Law, JD, Stone Scholar Honours

Columbia University Harriman Institute of Russian Studies, Certificate in Russian Studies/Law

Moscow State University Law Faculty, Research scholar studying land privatization (Moscow)

Grinnell College, BA with honours

Languages

English, native

French, working knowledge

Russian, working knowledge

Mandarin, basic