Speaker bios - 2021 Tokyo Forum on Dispute Resolution
DAY 2：Wednesday ,8 December[Session 3] 16:30 – 19:00 JST / 7:30 – 10:00 GMT
Stocktaking of developments in dispute resolution in the digitaleconomy(Part II)
SessionSpeaker

Arbitration
Osamu Kaneko/mediation and (Director-General,engagement of of Justice, Japan)
courtsBio
Mr. Osamu Kaneko is Director-General of theMinistry Civil Affairs Bureau of the Ministry of Justiceof Japan. As part of his responsibilities with
the Ministry of Justice, he has engaged indrafting
theNon-Contentious
Case
Procedures Act, the Domestic Relations Case
Procedure Act and the Act for Implementationof the Convention on the Civil Aspects ofInternational Child Abduction. Originally hestarted his career as Judge and served atvarious courts such as Tokyo, Osaka andSapporo. He holds an LL.M. degree fromCornell University in the U.S. He also served
as Professor of the Research and Training
Institute for Family Court Probation Officers.

Mr. Takashi Takashima has been Senior Attorney
Takashi Takashima(Senior Attorney, Ministry of of the Litigation Bureau and the Minister’s
Secretariat International Affairs Division of theJustice, Japan)

Ministry of Justice since January 2019. His primary
responsibilities are to engage in the formulation of
the Japanese Government’s strategies oninternational disputes and to represent meetingsand coordinate policy on legal issues in multilateral
forums with a special focus on UNCITRAL andICSID.
Alongside his extensive experience in disputesettlement, having served as Judge of various
domestic courts in Japan, he has diplomatic
experience as second secretary of the Permanent
Mission of Japan to the United Nations.
Mr. Takashima functioned as coordinator for theprocess on the enlargement of UNCITRAL
membership and successfully led the negotiations
to a consensual adoption of a resolution increasing
UNCITRAL membership from the current sixty toseventy at the United Nations Sixth Committee inNovember 2021. He also served as Rapporteur for
the UNCITRAL WGII project on the expedited
arbitration rules.

Online hearings Jae Sung Leeandwitness (Legal Officer, UNCITRAL)
examination inarbitration

Jae Sung Lee is a legal officer at theInternational Trade Law Division (ITLD) of theUnited Nations Office of Legal Affairs, whichfunctions as the substantive secretariat for theUnited Nations Commission on International
Trade Law (UNCITRAL). He currently functions
as the Secretary of the Working Group on
Dispute Settlement (II), which prepared theExpedited Arbitration Rules and will look into
issues relating to dispute resolution in the digital
economy. He further services the Working
Group on Investor-State Dispute Settlement
Reform (III) and has previously functioned as
the Secretary of the Working Groups on
Secured Transactions (VI) preparing thePractice Guide to the Model Law on Secured
Transactions and on Electronic Commerce (IV)preparing the Model Law on Electronic
Transferable Records. Before joining the United
Nations in 2007, Jae Sung served in the Korean
Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Lisa Bingham(Deputy Executive Director,ICCA)

Lisa Bingham is Deputy Executive Director of theInternational Council for Commercial Arbitration(ICCA) and Legal Counsel at the Permanent Courtof Arbitration (PCA).
At ICCA, her role includes responsibility for manyof ICCA’s projects, such as the Right to a PhysicalHearing research project, the ICCA-ASIL Task
Force on Damages in International Arbitration, theICCA Task Force on Standards of Practice and theCross-Institutional Task Force on Gender Diversity
in Arbitral Appointments and Proceedings. Lisa
represents ICCA as an Observer at UNCITRAL
Working Groups II and III.
Prior to joining ICCA and the PCA, Lisa worked asa disputes lawyer in international law firms in Parisand Melbourne, and at a boutique arbitration
practice in Brussels. She was also a Legal Officer
at the United Nations Compensation Commissionin Geneva. Lisa is an Australian/UK/Belgian
national and received her LL.B(Hons)/BA from the
University of Melbourne and her LL.M (HarlanFiske Stone Scholar) from Columbia Law School.

Kevin Nash(Deputy Registrar/CentreDirector, SIAC)

As Registrar of the Singapore International
Arbitration Centre, Kevin oversees the SIAC
Secretariat in the provision of case management
services and the supervision of SIAC’smultinational Secretariat. Over the course of thepast decade, Kevin has overseen theadministration of thousands of international

cases under all versions of the SIAC Rules andthe UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules.
Kevin is a member of the Singapore delegation
at
UNCITRAL Working Group II(DisputeSettlement)
andrepresents
SIAC
at
UNCITRAL Working Group III (ISDS). He islisted by Who’s Who Legal as one of the leading
arbitration lawyers in Southeast Asia and a‘Future Leader’ in the Global Guide.
Kevin is qualified as a Barrister and Solicitor with
the Law Society of Upper Canada. He speaks
English and French.

Kevin Kim
(Senior Partner, Peter &Kim)

Kap ‐You (Kevin) Kim is a founding partner at
Peter & Kim in Seoul. He was previously a senior
partner at Bae, Kim & Lee LLC, where he worked
for the past three decades in various roles,
including as the co ‐ founder and head of theInternational Arbitration Practice and the head of
the Domestic and International Disputes Group.
Over the past 30 years, Kevin has acted ascounsel, presiding arbitrator, coarbitrator or sole
arbitrator in more than 300 cases of international
arbitrations under various arbitration rules.
Presently, he is involved in several investment andcommercial arbitrations.
Among other positions that he holds, Kevin is anAdvisory Board Member of the International
Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA), theChairman of the Korean Commercial Arbitration
Board’s(KCAB)
International
Arbitration
Committee and an adjunct professor at the Seoul
National University Law School.
In the past, Kevin has served as the Vice Presidentof the ICC International Court of Arbitration (2014– 2021), Secretary General of ICCA (2010 – 2014),
member of the LCIA Court (2007 – 2012) and Vice
Chair of the IBA Arbitration Committee (2008 –2010).

Yoshihiro Takatori(Arbitrator; F.C.I.Arb./
JAA/JIDRC)

Yoshihiro（Yoshi） Takatori
Attorney at Law, Admitted to N.Y. and Japan
F.C.I.Arb.
Kasumigaseki
InternationalLaw
Office/International
Arbitration
Chambers
Executive Director of Japan Arbitrators
Association, Co-Convener of Chartered Instituteof Arbitrators, Japan Chapter, and Advisory
Board/Chair of Web Hearing Committee. Top 10

most innovative lawyers in Asia Pacific, as the
only one Japanese lawyer, awarded byFinancial Times, 2019. Ranked as BAND 1 for
Dispute Resolution by Chambers, and Leading
Lawyer by Legal 500. Listed as Arbitrator, atSIAC, JCAA and KCAB, and as Japan expert
Mediator at SIMC.
After heading dispute resolution practice at PaulHastings
andOrrickTokyo
Office,joined/established International Arbitration
Chambers at Kasumigaseki International Law
Office, since May 2020.
Expertized in Cross-border Dispute Resolution
including, IP, PL, Anti-Trust, and Employment,Compliance, and Cyber-Security. Conducting
Training sessions for Japanese Judges
including IP High Court, Tokyo High Court andTokyo District Court, on International ADR,
including SEP dispute resolution, requested by
the Japanese Government, and various Bar
Associations, such as Singapore, Hawaii, andFrankfurt.

Emmanuelle Ta(CEO, eBRAM Centre)

Ms Ta is currently the Chief Executive Officer ofeBRAM International Online Dispute Resolution
Centre Limited.
With over 15 years of experience in international
arbitration and case management, she has
supervised hundreds of international arbitration
cases in a wide range of jurisdictions andeconomic sectors.
As Counsel of the Secretariat of the International
Court of Arbitration of the ICC, Asia Office in HongKong (2016-2021), she was responsible formanaging the Hong Kong team, including
administration of Asia-related arbitration cases.
She was appointed as Vice-President of the Asia
Pacific Regional Arbitration Group (APRAG) from2016 to 2019.
Prior to that, she worked as Deputy Counsel of theSecretariat of the ICC Court in Paris and was oneof the founding members of the ICC Court
Secretariat’s first overseas case management
team based in Hong Kong (2008).
She holds a Masters degree in International
Business Law from the University Paris I
Panthéon-Sorbonne, and a postgraduate degreein International Relations from the University ofMarne-la-Vallee (France). She is qualified topractice at the Paris bar.

Online mediation James Claxton(Professor of Law, Waseda
University)

James has 15 years of experience ininternational dispute resolution as arbitrator,mediator, and attorney. Apart from practice,James is Professor of Law at Waseda
University in Japan. His recent publications
appear in the Asian Journal on Mediation, TheJournal of World Trade, and the Pepperdine
Dispute Resolution Law Journal. James
began his career as an attorney with law firms
in Paris and as legal counsel at theInternational Centre for Settlement ofInvestment Disputes (ICSID) of the WorldBank in Washington.

Anne-Karin Grill(Principal, AKGADVISORY)

Anne-Karin Grill specializes in international
dispute prevention and resolution. She has aproven track-record as counsel in both commercialand investment arbitration settings. She also
disposes of first-hand experience in hybrid ADR
process design. As an IMI certified mediation
advocate, Anne-Karin accompanies clients innegotiation and solution-generating processes,
managing party dynamics and assisting in theformulation of legally sustainable solutions. As aCEDR accredited mediator, she acts as neutral inmulti-jurisdictional commercial disputes and is also
active in investor-state mediation. Her arbitrator
work focuses on multi-jurisdictional commercialdisputes. Anne-Karin is a member of the ICSID
Panel of Conciliators, a member of theInternational Court of Arbitration of theInternational Chamber of Commerce (ICC), theBoard of the Austrian Arbitration Association(Arb|Aut), and the Mediation Advisory Board of theVienna International Arbitral Centre (VIAC).

Chuan Wee Meng
(CEO, SIMC)

Wee Meng is an experienced lawyer of morethan 30 years, working out of Beijing, HongKong, Sydney and Singapore. Prior to joining
SIMC, he served as General Counsel of IBM
Greater China and Nortel Networks Asia
Pacific for about 20 years. He has advised
senior leadership of MNCs as lead counsel on
legal and regulatory issues arising out of
doing business in Greater China, India,
Japan, Korea, ASEAN, Australia and New
Zealand. Wee Meng graduated with a law
degree from the National University ofSingapore and holds a Master of Laws fromthe University of Hong Kong. He is called tothe Singapore Bar and Hong Kong’s Roll ofSolicitors.

Nadja Alexander(SIDRA)

Nadja Alexander specialises in cross-cultural
disputes
involvingcorporations
andcommunities. Three decades of dispute
resolution engagement has taken her todiverse corporate and development settings
in more than 40 jurisdictions. Described as apractical thinker and a thinking practitioner,
Nadja is internationally regarded for her deep
knowledge and inclusive communicationstyle. Professor Alexander sits on theInternational Advisory Board of the UN Global
Mediation Panel and is director of SIDRA at
Singapore Management University.

William Wood QC(Brick Court Chambers,
Maxwell Mediators)

Bill Wood is a leading international mediator
based in London. He was the 2018 Mediation
Lawyer of the Year and is the ADR
representative on the Civil Justice Council ofEngland and Wales. Bill was educated at
Oxford and Harvard before going to theLondon Bar in 1980. He became a QC in 1998
and spent over 25 years as a commercial
litigator. He is based at leading London set
Brick Court Chambers. He began to mediatein 1999 and now practises as a full-timecommercial mediator handling some 80 cases
each year, many of them prior to lockdown inoverseas jurisdictions.