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 As Deputy Chairman of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre, Professor Boo oversees the daily operations of SIAC.
He was the first Chief Executive Officer and Registrar of SIAC. In 1996, he left to set up The Arbitration Chambers. Before his return to SIAC in May 2004, Professor Boo, a chartered arbitrator, sat as professional arbitrator in more than 150 cases and as mediator in more than 50 disputes.
Professor Boo is also active in the academic circle. He leads the teaching of international commercial arbitration at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore since 1994 and is the Course Director for the Graduate Certificate in International Arbitration. He also supervises postgraduate research candidates in the field of ADR. He is a Visiting Professor of Wuhan University School of Law, China and is also on the adjunct faculty of Bond University, Australia. He is the author of the "Arbitration" title of Halsbury's Laws of Singapore (1998 and 2003 re-issue) and the chapter on Singapore in the book International Handbook of Commercial Arbitration (1996 and 2002 Re-issue).
Professor Boo is a law reform consultant to the Attorney-General's Chambers and Singapore's Representative to UNCITRAL Working Group (Arbitration and Conciliation) and Singapore’ s National Correspondent to UNCITRAL's Case Law on UNCITRAL Text (CLOUT).
Professor Boo was appointed as a District Judge on 2 April 2007.
By way of relaxation, Professor Boo enjoys golf.
email: Lawrence Boo
 As Registrar, Minn heads the legal team and overseas the daily case administration of all cases filed with SIAC. He is also the statutory authority for the assessment of costs incurred under the International Arbitration Act.
Minn graduated from the National University of Singapore in 1996 with an LLB (2nd Class Upper Honours). He obtained his LLM from Columbia University in 2001 as a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. He was called to Singapore Bar in 1997 and admitted to the New York Bar in 2004.
Minn started his legal career with Drew & Napier in 1997. He later joined Rajah & Tann where he was mainly engaged in commercial litigation and arbitration practice, specialising in shipping and admiralty matters. He was seconded by Rajah & Tann to the Singapore Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) in 2002, and in 2004, decided to take up full employment with MTI, rising quickly to head the Ministry’s WTO and International Trade Negotiations Division. During his stint at MTI, Minn was closely involved in the formulation of Singapore’s trade policy, the WTO Doha Round negotiations, as well as several FTAs, including with the United States, Australia and the recently concluded China-Singapore FTA.
Minn has written and spoken at many events on international trade, including on investment issues.
email: Minn Naing Oo
 Ge Huangbin is Head of China Desk with the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC). His primary role is to engage with the Chinese Community (including Government, government-related and judicial bodies) and Chinese commercial entities both in China and abroad as well as foreign companies/multinationals doing business in China and/or with the Chinese in managing and resolving disputes by way of Alternative Dispute Resolution including arbitration and mediation.
He is a Mediator with several Mediation Centres under the China Council for Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) and a Panel Arbitrator of various Arbitration Commissions in China.
Ge Huangbin is also an Adjunct Professor with the Business School of Guangxi University, as well as a Visiting Professor with the Hebei Civil and Commercial Law Academy.
Ge Huangbin holds a Masters Degree in Engineering (Mechanical) from Guangxi University and is a Ph.D candidate in International Law with Wuhan University. He has worked as a Mechanical Engineer and is well experienced in R&D in mechanical manufacturing and Information Technology. Prior to joining the SIAC, he was the Regional Chief Representative in China with various MNCs including an IT giant and an Oil Major (where he had worked his way up from Sales Engineer to Chief Representative of the Regional Office).
email: Ge HuangBin
 As Assistant Counsel with the Singapore International Arbitration Centre, Licel assists in case administration and undertakes comparative research on laws of arbitration in Asia and the use of UNCITRAL Model Law in international commercial arbitration within ASEAN.
She obtained her law degree (Juris Doctor, with honours) in 1997 from the Ateneo de Manila University School of Law, Philippines, and was admitted to the Philippine Bar in May 1998. She received her Master of Laws degree, with honours, from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, in June 2002. She also participated and completed a postgraduate course in International Trade Law, a joint program of the Instituto Universitario di Studi Europei and the International Labour Organisation Training Centre, in Turin, Italy in 2004.
Licel was a Court Attorney at the Supreme Court of the Philippines from 1998-2001. Before joining the SIAC, she was an intern at the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center in Geneva, Switzerland from 2005 – 2006.
Licel enjoys traveling, playing badminton and dancing.
email: Licel Lopez
 As Assistant Counsel with the Singapore International Arbitration Centre, Ajay assists in case administration and in the activities of the India desk. Ajay read law at the Goa University from where he graduated with a First Class. He was admitted as an Advocate of the Bar Council of Maharashtra & Goa in 2002. After doing his practical training in the litigation department of a Solicitor firm in Mumbai, he practiced at the Bombay High Court as a junior counsel at a leading maritime law Chambers. In 2007, Ajay obtained his LLM from the National University of Singapore where he read Admiralty and Maritime Law, Marine Insurance and International Commercial Arbitration.
Ajay is passionate about motor biking and has travelled extensively around India on his motorbike.
email: Ajay Thomas
 As Assistant Counsel with the Singapore International Arbitration Centre, Joe assists in case administration and in the promotion of SIAC’s work in China.
Joe graduated from Wuhan University School of Law with a law degree in 2006 and went on to pursue post-graduate studies obtaining LLMs from the London School of Economics and Political Science (2007) and New York University School of Law (2008).
Joe received the Public Interest Law Foundation Scholarship while at NYU in recognition for his commitment to public interest work which includes working at the Center for Constitutional Rights, the International Environmental Law Clinic and the US Military Commissions project. As a student in Wuhan, China, Joe was an active Fellow in the Center for Protection of Rights of Disadvantaged Citizens. He had also spent some time as an intern at the Shenzhen People's Intermediate Court and at several law firms.
Joe speaks English, Mandarin and Cantonese. He likes traveling and meeting people with different cultural backgrounds.
email: Joe (Qiao) Liu
 Brooks is a Luce Scholar on secondment through the Henry Luce Foundation and the Asia Foundation to serve as an Assistant Counsel in SIAC.
Brooks graduated summa cum laude from Washington & Lee University, in Virginia, majoring in Politics and Russian Studies in 2002, and went on to the University of Cambridge (King’s College), where he obtained his M.Phil in Social and Political Sciences in 2003. He received his law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law.
While in law school, Brooks served on the editorial board of the Virginia Journal of International Law and was the President of the J. B. Moore Society of International Law. He also volunteered his services to Russian-speaking refugees in their dealings with the US immigration authorities. He spent short stints with the law firms of Weil, Gotshal & Manges (New York) and Baker Botts L.L.P. (Washington, DC).
Brooks speaks and writes English, Russian and French. In his free time, his hobbies include taking Mandarin lessons, playing ultimate frisbee and reading.
email: Brooks Hickman |
