Speakers

Thematic Session
Legal Risk Management: Key to International Trade and Investment

Mrs Cecilia Wong
Senior Solicitor, Arbitrator and Mediator, Council Member, The Law Society of Hong Kong

Mrs Cecilia Wong has been serving as a Council member of the Law Society of Hong Kong since 2000. She is the Chairlady of the Standing Committee on Member Services, Risk Management Education Committee and Mediation Committee of the Law Society. Her other public services include as the Chairlady of the Duty Lawyer Service Council, Chairlady of Hong Kong Mediation Accreditation Association Limited, Chairlady of the Appeal Tribunal Panel, Building Ordinance (Cap.123) and non-executive Director of the Urban Renewal Authority etc.

Mrs Wong is a partner of Kevin Ng & Co., and has experience of over 20 years as a solicitor in private practice and is competent in matrimonial law, criminal and civil litigation, alternative dispute resolution, probate, commercial and corporate law. She is a fellow Arbitrator of Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators, and Arbitrator on the Law Society of Hong Kong Panel.

She actively participates in promoting the use of mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution in Hong Kong and has enormous experience in mediation and arbitration on various matters.

She was appointed as a member of the Chief Justice’s Working Party on mediation, member of Secretary for Justice’s Steering Committee on Mediation, and had been appointed as a mediator in the Shenzhen Qianhai Cooperation Zone People’s Court. She took part in drafting of the Mediation Ordinance in Hong Kong.