Biography

Graduated from the Law Department of Peking University (LL.B. 1982), China Foreign Affairs University (LL.M. 1985) and Free University of Brussels (LL.M. 1986); Fulbright scholar at the Law School of Stanford University (1995-1996), visiting scholar at Max Planck Institute (Hamburg, 2008);

Teaching and doing research on private international law, arbitration, civil and commercial law at China Foreign Affairs University since 1985; lecturing on Arbitration in China at Geneva MIDS program since 2009; taught the course of International Commercial Arbitration at the Law Faculty of Kyushu University in 2012; lecturing on Arbitration at the IADS program at the Law School of Tsinghua University since 2013;

Admitted to practice Chinese law in 1989 and had been a part-time counsel for over 10 years;

Serving as arbitrator since 1989 and currently being listed in the roster of arbitrators of a number of international arbitral institutions; having been involved in around 500 arbitrations under the rules of CIETAC, BAC/BIAC, SCIA, HKIAC, SIAC, ICC, SCC, London Metal Exchange, ICDR, UNCITRAL and CAS as arbitrator, counsel or expert witness, covering, inter alia, trade, service, investment, joint venture, corporate matters, M&A, share-transfer, construction, hotel management, licensing, agency, distribution, intellectual property, banking, letter of credit, securities, financial derivatives, leasing, maritime transportation, sport-related dispute; ICCA Handbook reporter for China since 2009.

Selected publications:

ICCA International Handbook on Commercial Arbitration, July 2014, Kluwer Law International

"The Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Hong Kong", Yearbook of Private International Law, Vol. XV, 2013/2014, Sellier European Law Publishers

Evidence in International Commercial Arbitration (in Chinese), Beijing Arbitration Quarterly, Vol. 88, September 2014

The New CIETAC Arbitration Rules of 2012, Journal of International Arbitration (2012) 29, Kluwer Law International, September 2012

"Some Thoughts on the Characteristic Performance Test", Wuhan University International Law Review, Vol. 9, July 2009

"Award of Interest in Arbitration under Article 78 CISG", Uniform Law Review, Vol. XII, 2007-4, UNIDROIT

"How to Handle the Service Request of Anti-suit Injunctions Rendered by an English Court" (in Chinese), Guide on Foreign-related Commercial and Maritime Trial, People’s Court Press, Vol. 2, 2007