Sarah Green

Professor of the Law of Obligations at the University of Oxford, having been a lecturer at the University of Birmingham from 2001 – 2010.  Before embarking on her academic career, she was a software consultant at Accenture.  Professor Green has written books and articles on a variety of issues including virtual currencies, blockchain issues surrounding intermediated securities, smart contracts, sale of goods law as applicable to digitised assets, negligence and wage theft.

Briony Eales

Briony Eales works with ADB’s award-winning Law and Policy Reform program. Briony has dedicated 2 years to researching climate change litigation, law, and policy in Asia and the Pacific. She is now writing working papers on climate change litigation, law, and policy based on that research. Apart from being an absorbing read (for lawyers at least), the papers will support practitioners working on climate and sustainable development law in Asia and the Pacific. Briony understands the legal challenges of large-scale infrastructure development.

Marina Timoteo

Marina Timoteo is a comparative law scholar, with specific expertise in Chinese modern and contemporary law. She has been involved in several research and legal cooperation projects between Europe and China. Since 2008, she is a Member of the General Assembly of the China-Europe School of Law established at the China University of Political Sciences and Law of Beijing, representing the University of Bologna.

Saima Amin Khawaja

Saima did her LLM from Kings College London. Her initial experience was in corporate and constitutional litigation, which subsequently expanded to transactional work and consultancy relating to legal reforms and development. She has received special training in Environment laws from M.C Metha Foundation Rishikesh, India. She is an Accredited Mediator and a Master Trainer (CEDR) the UK. She has taught various subjects at TILS, UCL, LUMS, Civil Services Academy, and the Judicial Academy.

Daniel Meltz

Daniel Meltz has a broad-based commercial practice covering a variety of different specialist areas. He acts regularly for corporate clients in all sectors across a broad range of courts and tribunals. He also acts for governments and government-related organizations in litigation and international arbitration.
He has been appointed Counsel Assisting on various Commissions of Inquiry. A graduate of the University of Sydney, Mr Meltz commenced his career as a litigator at a major Australian firm before taking an appointment to the Claims Resolution Tribunal for Dormant Accounts

Michael Ewing-Chow

Michael Ewing-Chow is an Associate Professor and the WTO Chair at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore (NUS). He has a First Class Honours degree in law from NUS and a Master's from Harvard Law School. Michael worked in Allen & Gledhill before joining NUS where he started the first World Trade Law course in Singapore and was involved in the negotiations for some of Singapore’s early FTAs. He has been a consultant to the Singapore Government, the ADB, ASEAN, UNCTAD, the World Bank, and the WTO.

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