Advisors
Honorary Advisors
Robin Kemper P.E., LEED AP, F.SEI, F.ASCE, ASCE 2019 President
has diverse and extensive structural engineering experience in design, analysis, and forensics focused on buildings. Her specialties cover Project Management, Design and Analysis, Expert Witness, Evaluation of Structure/Building Failures, Litigation Support, Historic Preservation, Proposal Preparation, Green Design, Client Management, Engineering Ethics, Integrity and Commitment.
Maria Tam Wai Chu, GBM, CBE, LLD, JP
Barrister-at-Law, previously Coordinator and Deputy to the National People’s Congress of the People’s Republic of China. Extensive experience in constitution matters.
Maggie Chan MH, JP
Honorary Fellow, Chief Solicitor of CMK Lawyers, China-Appointed Attesting Officer, Arbitrator, Accredited Mediator, Founding President of the Small and Medium Law Firms Association of Hong Kong, HKSAR Deputy to the National People Congress and Exco Member of All-China Women’s Federation. Extensive involvement in community services and SME law firms in Hong Kong.
LEE Shing See FHKIE, FICE
He is an Engineer by profession, being a Fellow of both the HKIE and ICE. After his graduation from the Hong Kong University, he joined the civil service and has worked in a number of Works Departments. He was appointed as the Secretary for Works in 1999. Mr. Lee remained very active after retirement, participating in over ten public services, including the Construction Industry Council, Hong Kong Science & Technology Parks Corporation, West Kowloon Cultural District Authority,and the Hong Kong Airport Authority.
Da Hsuan Feng, Ph.D.
He is currently Chief Advisor, China Silk iValley Research Institute. He is a Fellow of the American Physics Society. His professional affiliations include being M. Russell Wehr Professor of Physics, Drexel University, Director of Theoretical Physics Program of the National Science Foundation, Vice President for Research, the University of Texas at Dallas, Senior Vice President of National Tsing Hua University and the Vice President of Science Applications International Corporation, a Fortune 500 Company. He is also an honorary professor of 13 top Chinese universities. In recent years, he has turned his interest to explore the global implications of the Belt and Road Initiative. In the last three years, he has given public lectures on this subject in United States, Canada, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, Mainland China, Malaysia, Singapore and India.
Sir Robin Jacob
He joined the UCL Faculty of Laws in May 2011 leaving the Court of Appeal of England and Wales to do so. Having read Natural Sciences at Cambridge, Sir Robin then read for the Bar (Grays Inn). He started practice at the Intellectual Property Bar in 1967. From 1976 to 1981 he was the Junior Counsel for the Comptroller of Patents and for all Government departments in intellectual property. He was made a Queen’s Counsel in 1981. His practice took him abroad often (Hong Kong, Singapore, Europe, USA, and Australia). He was appointed a High Court Judge (Chancery Division) in 1993. From 1997 to 2001 he was Supervising Chancery Judge for Birmingham, Bristol and Cardiff. He was appointed a Lord Justice of Appeal in October 2003. He was Treasurer of Grays Inn in 2007. He is an arbitrator (HKIAC, SIAC, LCIA, CIArb and mediator. He also advises on IP matters and provides expert evidence of UK and European IP and IP related law. He has written extensively on all forms of intellectual property. He often lectures, mainly but not only on IP topics, both in the UK and abroad.
Prof. Dr Jin Huang
Chinese, Doctor of Law (Wuhan University), Doctorat honoris cause(Universite de Montreal), Professor of Law, China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing. since 2009, previously at Wuhan University. Institute of International law in 1984-2009. Guest Professor at liversitat des Saarlandes in Germany in 2000, Visiting Fulbright Scholar at Yale Law School in 1993-94, Visiting Scholar at Swiss Institute of Comparative Law Lausanne in 1986-87. an attendee at The Hague Academy of International. Law in 1986. President, Chinese Society of International Law President, China Society of Private International Law: Vice President, China Law Society, Vice Chairman, China Foundation For Human Rights Development. Member, Permanent Court of Arbitration(PCA, 2017-23) Titular Member, International Academy of Comparative Law since 2013: Member, International Commercial Expert Committee of the Supreme People’s Court of China since 2018. Arbitrator, the Court of Arbitration for Sport(CAS, 2000-14) the ICSID(2004-16), The International Arbitration Chamber of Paris(CAIP). Korean Commercial Arbitration Board (KCAB) and the CIETAC Editor-in-Chief, CHINESE YEARBOOK OF PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW AND COMPARATIVE LAW(CSPIL) Deputy Editor-in-Chief, CHINESE JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW (Oxford); Member of the Advisory Board of the YEARBOOK OF PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW(Sellier and Staempfli). Academic specialties include jurisprudence of international law, private international law international arbitration, state mmunity, international commercial inter-regional conflict of law.
Honorary Legal Advisors
Maurice Lee Wai-man BBS, JP
He is the partner of Maurice W M Lee Solicitors in Hong Kong. He is a practising lawyer in Hong Kong, registered lawyer in UK, Singapore and Australia, Foreign Law Consultant of Hawaii and China-appointed Attesting Officer.
He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Hong Kong Securities Institute, Association for Conflict Resolution in USA, Accredited Mediator and Arbitrator of the Law Society of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Mediation Centre and Panel of Arbitrators of the Law Society of Hong Kong. He was also a Council Member of Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators and the ex-President of the Hong Kong Mediation Centre. He is the arbitrator and mediator of numerous Commissions in the Mainland.
He is now the Chairman of the Hong Kong Mental Health Review Tribunal, Chairman of Committee on Venue Partnership of Leisure and Cultural Services Department, Vice Chairman of Hong Kong Arts Development Council and non-official member of Independent Commission on Remuneration for the Members of the District Councils.
Formerly, he was the member of the Working Group on Manufacturing Industries, Innovative Technology, and Cultural and Creative Industries under the Economic Development Commission, Environmental Impact Assessment Appeal Board Panel, co-opted member of the Advisory Committee on Revitalization of Historic Buildings, Committee on Performing Arts of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Film Development Council, Advisory Committee on Arts Development and Create Smart Initiative Vetting Committee. He was also the board member of the Urban Renewal Authority, Social Workers Registration Board, Central Policy Unit of Hong Kong, Town Planning Board and Board of Advisors to the Radio Television Hong Kong.