Professor Ida Bagus Rahmadi Supancana

Professor I.B.R. Supancana has been a pioneering legal practitioner in arbitration and ADR cases for more than 3 decades. In addition to being a certified mediator, arbitrator, and lecturer for International Dispute Settlement, he works in close cooperation as a mentor, adviser, and trainer with universities and private/public sector advocate capacity building programs that span the globe--most notably in Singapore, US, China, and Netherlands. In his home of Indonesia, he is an active arbitrator representing disputing parties in BANI and a senior trainer with PERADi (Indonesian Advocate Association) and PMN (National Mediation Center). He also has served as an expert witness and consultant for multiple cases involving cases air and outer space law, cyber law, and international business law.

Professor Steve Ngo

Professor Steve Ngo is a practitioner of international arbitration and dispute resolution. He is Chairman of Arbitration & International Dispute Resolution Practice Group of ALA, a private network of law firms each of the ASEAN countries coming together to offer a seamless delivery of legal services across a diverse cultural, geographical, and legal backdrop. He has advised public and private entities not only on post-dispute matters but also in negotiation, mediation, and dispute management. Professor Ngo has extensive experience dealing with parties from all over the world and within a myriad of sectors, bringing strong cross-cultural proficiency to international dispute resolution processes and strategizing.

Mrs. Olga Boltenko

Olga is a disputes partner at Fangda Partners in Hong Kong. She specialises in investment arbitration, investment structuring, and investment protection. She acted as legal counsel in investor-state disputes under the auspices of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, the World Bank, the ICC, and as tribunal secretary in dozens of commercial disputes. She is listed as arbitrator on the HKIAC list of arbitrators, and on the SIAC, KLRCA and CIETAC panels of arbitrators. She is an adjunct lecturer at the University of Hong Kong, and she chairs the ICC Hong Kong Commercial Law and Practice Committee.Oommen has acted as lead counsel in dispute work and in particular international arbitrations (both in Europe and Asia) for the last 20 years. He has been lauded for his incisive advocacy and client management skills. He has acted in a wide spectrum of disputes ranging from transport, media, energy (both oil and gas and renewables), infrastructure and corporate shareholding. He sits on the Strata Titles Board in Singapore, appointed by the Minister for National Development. He also teaches as an adjunct lecturer in the Sorbonne- Assas University LL.M. programme and has co-authored the leading book on arbitration practice in Singapore, Arbitration in Singapore, and another book on court rules.

Mr. Oommen Mathew

Oommen has acted as lead counsel in dispute work and in particular international arbitrations (both in Europe and Asia) for the last 20 years. He has been lauded for his incisive advocacy and client management skills. He has acted in a wide spectrum of disputes ranging from transport, media, energy (both oil and gas and renewables), infrastructure and corporate shareholding. He sits on the Strata Titles Board in Singapore, appointed by the Minister for National Development. He also teaches as an adjunct lecturer in the Sorbonne- Assas University LL.M. programme and has co-authored the leading book on arbitration practice in Singapore, Arbitration in Singapore, and another book on court rules.

Professor James Claxton

Has more than a decade of experience in international dispute resolution as advocate, academic, arbitrator, and mediator. He worked as legal counsel at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) in Washington and as attorney in the international arbitration practices of global law firms in Paris. Since 2008, he has given lectures and intensive courses in international dispute resolution at law faculties in Asia, Europe, and the United States. He is presently full professor of law in the Graduate School of Law at Kobe University in Japan. A CIArb Fellow and CEDR-accredited mediator, he currently advises emergent dispute-resolution institutions in Asia and serves on various international-dispute-settlement working groups including as a sub-committee chair of the Investor-State Mediation Task Force of the International Mediation Institute.

Mr. Anthony Cheah Nicholls

Anthony Cheah Nicholls is an Associate in the International Arbitration team of Shearman & Sterling LLP. He has acted as counsel in arbitrations under the rules of the ICC, SIAC and LMAA, with industry experience conducting arbitrations in the oil & gas, nuclear and maritime sectors. Prior to joining Shearman & Sterling, Anthony worked as a tribunal secretary for Dr. Michael Hwang S.C. on ICC, SIAC, DIAC, LCIA, HKIAC and domestic commercial arbitrations, as well as ad hoc and ICSID investment treaty arbitrations.