Secretary General of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre

Gary Soo, the Secretary General of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre as from 1 September 2008, has practised as a barrister in areas of litigation and arbitration involving commercial and construction disputes. He has acted as arbitrator in construction and international commercial cases. He is also a chartered engineer and has served as the president of the Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators. He is a listed panellist for domain name disputes of the HKIAC, the China International Economic Trade and Arbitration Commission and the Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre. He is also on the panel of arbitrators of the Macau WTO Arbitrator Center and a number of arbitration commissions in Mainland China.

Mr Soo is the author of numerous books and articles, including Construction Law and Practice in Hong Kong, the arbitration law reform chapter in Arbitration in Hong Kong: A Practical Guide, published by Sweet & Maxwell Asia, and Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy: Cases and Commentaries, published by Law Press China.

He is the adjunct professor at the University of Hong Kong, teaching engineering law subjects for undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and supervising MSc and PhD research students.