A Masterclass in
International Conflict Resolution:
Minimising Loss and Maximising Gain When Businesses Run into Trouble
Thursday, 25 May 2017 | 5.30pm to 9.00pm | SMU Administration Building
SPEAKERS
Eunice Chua
Assistant Professor of Law
School of Law, SMU
Eunice is an Assistant Professor at the Singapore Management University (SMU) School of Law. She is also qualified as an Advocate and Solicitor in Singapore and an Associate Mediator of the Singapore Mediation Centre (SMC).
After graduating with a First Class Honours law degree from the National University of Singapore, Eunice served as a Justices’ Law Clerk to the Chief Justice and the Judges of Appeal in the Singapore Supreme Court. She subsequently obtained a Masters of Law from Harvard.
On her return, she was appointed an Assistant Registrar of the Singapore Supreme Court, a Magistrate of the Singapore State Courts and Assistant Director of the SMC. In 2014, she was appointed the first Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Singapore International Mediation Centre (SIMC) and played a key role in the establishment of a world-class mediation centre offering services specially tailored to meet the needs of users in cross-border disputes.
Eunice taught Civil Procedure and Drafting as a Teaching Fellow at the Singapore Institute of Legal Education as well as Legal Research and Writing and Legal System, Legal Method and Analysis as an adjunct faculty member of SMU before she assumed a full-time academic position. Eunice has conducted mediation training and spoken about mediation at various local and international fora. She is further actively involved in coaching students for international moot court competitions and has co-authored a monograph on Singapore Civil Procedure as well as published book chapters and articles in various academic journals.
PANELLIST
Christopher Bloch
Associate Counsel, Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC)
Christopher Bloch is an Associate Counsel in the Secretariat of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre, where he assists in the management of SIAC-administered arbitrations under various procedural rules.
Christopher received his Juris Doctor and graduated magna cum laude with a certificate in International Law from Pace University School of Law in New York. During law school, he was a member of the Editorial Board of the Pace Law Review, the President of the Student Bar Association, practiced pro bono securities arbitration at the Pace Investor Rights Clinic, and worked as a research scholar at the Institute of International Commercial Law.
Before joining SIAC, Christopher worked as an associate in the international arbitration group of a leading U.S. law firm in Singapore and in the physical oil and gas trading group at an investment bank in New York. He has also served as a tribunal secretary in the chambers of an independent arbitrator in Singapore and is a member of the Young ICCA Task Force on the Appointment and Use of Arbitral Secretaries. Christopher is a New York-qualified lawyer.
Aloysius Goh
Deputy CEO, Singapore International
Mediation Centre (SIMC)
Mr Aloysius Goh is the Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Singapore International Mediation Centre and a Certified International Mediator.
As a mediator, Aloysius has mediated more than 100 cases of various complexities and values including medical negligence, shipping, commodities trading, insurance, employment, and construction disputes.
Aloysius is a member of the International Mediation Institute (IMI)’s Qualifying Approval Committee and was a member of the Taskforces set up by the IMI to propose International Mediation Advocacy Standards and Multi-Cultural dispute resolution.
Prior to his current role, Aloysius had served as General Counsel to public and private organizations including a state university and a healthcare holding company.
Aloysius is a Public Service Commission Humanities Scholar and a National University of Singapore (NUS) Research Scholar. He has a Masters of Law and a second upper honours Law degree from the NUS, and a Masters degree in Education Leadership from Boston College.
Since 2010, Aloysius also founded the non-profit Peacemakers Conference series to educate Southeast Asian youth in non-adversarial ways of resolving disputes. He has received several awards for his conflict resolution work from the Singapore Mediation Centre, and the Singapore State Courts.
Douglas Chi
Senior Director (Special Projects), Singapore International Commercial Court (SICC)
Douglas Chi read law at the University of Cambridge, Trinity Hall and graduated with First Class Honours in 2005. He holds an LL.M. from Columbia University Law School (2012), where he was a James Kent Scholar and is admitted as an advocate and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore.
Douglas Chi began his career at the Supreme Court as a Justices’ Law Clerk in 2006, and was later appointed as Assistant Registrar. He subsequently joined a leading Singapore law firm where he had a predominantly commercial disputes practice, appearing before various courts and arbitration tribunals. Douglas Chi also spent some time with Debevoise & Plimpton LLP in New York.
Upon re-joining the Supreme Court in 2015, Douglas Chi currently holds concurrent responsibilities, serving as Legal Counsel as well as Senior Director of the Singapore International Commercial Court (SICC), overseeing its market development.
Nadja Alexander
Academic Director, SIDRA
Nadja Alexander is Academic Director of the Singapore International Dispute Resolution Academy (SIDRA) and Visiting Professor of Law at the Singapore Management University.
Prof Alexander is an internationally recognised thought leader in the field of conflict coaching, negotiation and dispute management. She has been engaged in the field of conflict resolution as intervener, advisor, trainer in more than 30 countries, and across a range of private and public sectors.
An award winning author and educator, Prof Alexander has advised on mediation policy to international corporates, organisations such as the World Bank Group, and national governments in Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa.
Prof Alexander is Vice Chair of the Mediation Committee of the International Bar Association and holds honorary university appointments in Australia and the United States.
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ASSOCIATION OF DUTCH BUSINESS PEOPLE
The Association of Dutch Business people (ADB) counts approximately 460 members (all individuals rather than companies). We organize regular networking events, ranging from lectures and company visits to more social events.
The ADB has strong ties with various government institutions and with other business associations and chambers of commerce in Singapore. In addition the ADB maintains close links with the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Singapore. Through this network, the ADB offers a true platform for the Dutch business community and has become a fundamental part of the larger Singapore business community.
The ADB constitutes a platform for Dutch businessmen to share their thoughts and experiences. ADB members represent all layers of Dutch business activities in Singapore: from director to entrepreneur, from researcher to trainee, from legal advisor to sales manager. Thus the ADB provides an easy and friendly entrance to the Singapore business community. All share a common interest in the business environment of Singapore and its surrounding countries.
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