FICA’s Members
Fellow
Dr Alan Anderson is an internationally recognized arbitrator, arbitration counsel, and trial lawyer. He also is a Fellow of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration and a member of the Centre’s Council. Dr Anderson is an International Accredited Professional Mediator with the Mainland-Hong Kong Joint Mediation Center (MHKJMC) and an international mediator with the Japan International Mediation Center-Kyoto (JIMC-Kyoto). His arbitration experience includes proceedings conducted under the auspices of the AAA, LCIA, SCC, ICC, as well as ad hoc arbitrations. Since 2015 he has represented FICA at sessions of UNCITRAL Working Groups II and III. He is a door tenant with Littleton Chambers in London and has offices also in the US.
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Mr Robert Ashdown is a Chartered Accountant, Registered Auditor and Chartered Tax Adviser who holds degrees in economics, law, and an MBA from INSEAD (with distinction). He has worked not only in the UK but also in Italy, France, Spain, Portugal and India.
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Mr Jeffrey Chan is presently the Senior Director of TSMP Law Corporation, Singapore. He previously spent 46 years in the Singapore Legal Service where, among other appointments, he was the Chief of Staff as well as the Deputy Solicitor-General. His practice covers a wide range of legal subjects both domestically as well as internationally. He has appeared frequently in the courts in cases involving a wide area of law, particularly public law. His considerable international experience includes chairing the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) in 2000, the UNCITRAL Working Group on Electronic Commerce (Working Group IV) from 2002 to 2005, and the UNCITRAL Working Group on Online Dispute Resolution (Working Group III) between 2014 and 2016. He is also an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Law of the National Society of Singapore and frequently conduct mediations as a Principal Mediator of the Singapore Mediation Centre. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK) as well as the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators.
Fellow
Mr Eschlböck has been with FICA since 2013. His Vienna-based firm specialises in international dispute resolution, as well as civil and criminal litigation. He is also a member of the Ethics Council of the Vienna Bar. His track record includes various appointments as an arbitrator and as party counsel in the fields of insurance, banking and M&A arbitration. In addition to being a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Mr Eschlböck is a member of the Dispute Board Federation in Geneva and is qualified as a financial analyst in Vienna. He speaks German, English and French.
Fellow
Dr Timothy Lemay served for eight years as Principal Legal Officer and Head of the Legislative Branch of the International Trade Law Division / Office of Legal Affairs, the Secretariat of UNCITRAL based in Vienna. Before joining UNCITRAL in July 2009, he was Chief of the Governance, Human Security and Rule of Law Section of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), prior to which he was Chief of UNODC’s Global Programme against Money Laundering. Dr Lemay joined the UN in 1995 following a career as a lawyer in Canada in private practice. Dr Lemay is also a trained investigator and has undertaken internal investigations on behalf of international organizations. He presently is based in Vienna and is a consultant and independent legal advisor.
Member
His Honour Hugo Luz dos Santos is a Magistrate of Public Prosecutor of Portugal with 10 years of hands-on experience on Portuguese courts. His Honour Luz dos Santos was granted a sabbatical leave on late 2016. He currently acts as an International Legal Consultant. He has written several doctrinal articles regarding the Gaming in Macau, United States of America, United Kingdom, and Canada, addressing specifically (candent) issues such as “Walking”, “Side-Betting”, “Surveillance and Privacy”, “Tip-Pooling”, “Artificial Intelligence”, and “Responsible Gambling”. He has published a few scientific articles concerning the money laundering crime in Macau, SAR, where he is currently working. He is the author of the book “The Gaming Legal Framework in Macau, SAR: an overview”, recently published in Germany and distributed worldwide. He is the co-author of a cutting-edge proposal of Law regarding corporate criminal liability in Macau, which is being currently analyzed by the Macau Government. He is the author of the book chapter “Artificial Intelligence: Are you sure? Beware of what you wish!”, Intech Open Science, Croatia/UK, 2018, which is the most viewed and downloaded of the whole book “Simulation and Gaming”.
His Honour Luz dos Santos has been recently appointed Editorial Board Member of International Journal of Law and Society of Science Publishing Group (New York, United States of America). He is a PhD Researcher of the Faculty of Law of the University of Macau.
M.Sc. ETHZ, SIA, SCCM
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Mr Matthias Neuenschwander has been practicing alternative dispute resolution since 1987, when he was a coordinator of development programs in Tchad. A trained civil engineer from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, he then worked in the USA and from Switzerland, and has experienced large infrastructure projects as a contractor, designer, supervisor, owner’s representative, expert witness, mediator, adjudicator and arbitrator. He chaired the FIDIC-ITA Task Group 10 entrusted with the preparation of the Conditions of Contract for Underground Works (“The Emerald Book”), served on the FIDIC Contracts Committee, and is currently the Animateur of the ITA Working Group 3 “Contractual Practices”. Mr Neuenschwander also serves on the steering board of the Swiss International Experts and on the committee of TG10 Tunnel Contracts Organisation. With his company, Neuenschwander Consulting Engineers, Bellinzona, Switzerland, he offers support to stakeholders in infrastructure projects as an advisor and as a dispute resolver worldwide, in English, Spanish, German, French and Italian.
Fellow
Shan Greer is an independent arbitrator who specialises in construction and engineering as well as oil and gas disputes. She has over twenty years of experience in complex and high value transactional and commercial disputes and is a leading figure in international arbitration. She has sat as neutral on large infrastructure and construction projects for state-owned enterprises, international investors, joint venture partners and regional consultants under which the parties used bespoke or FIDIC, JCT and NEC standard forms of contract. In addition to her work within the construction and infrastructure sector, Shan has also acted as tribunal chair, sole and party-appointed arbitrator in matters relating to oil and gas, hotel development and gaming, banking and finance, as well as energy and telecommunications.
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Dr Herman Verbist is an attorney at the Ghent and Brussels Bar in Belgium with Everest Attorneys. He is an accredited mediator in civil and commercial matters by the Federal Mediation Commission in Belgium. He worked as counsel at the Secretariat of the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in Paris (1988-1996). He has taught, as visitor professor, the course on international commercial arbitration at the University of Ghent (1996-2013). Since 2016, he is president of the arbitrators of the Belgian Court of Arbitration for Sport. For many years he attended the sessions of UNCITRAL Working Group II. Dr Verbist presently is a member of the Belgian delegation for UNCITRAL Working Group III.
