Ho Wang Mak

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Job Title: Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Law at Robert Gordon University

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Charles Ho Wang Mak is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Law at Robert Gordon University, a PhD Candidate in law at the University of Glasgow, a Fellow at the Stanford-Vienna Transatlantic Technology Law Forum, a Fellow of the Centre for Chinese and Comparative Law at the City University of Hong Kong, a Leslie Wright Fellow at the Philip K.H. Wong Centre for Chinese Law at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) (2022), an Honorary Fellow of the Asian Institute of International Financial Law at the HKU, a Research Affiliate at SovereigNet at The Fletcher School, Tufts University, and a Research Associate at China, Law and Development Project at the University of Oxford. He taught Commercial Law, Corporate Law, Business Organisations, and Common Law System and Method at the University of Glasgow and the University of the West of Scotland. His research concentrates on sovereign debt restructuring, technology law and dispute resolution.

Charles holds degrees from the University of Sussex in England (LL.B. (Hons.)), The Chinese University of Hong Kong (LL.M. in International Economic Law), and the City University of Hong Kong (LL.M.Arb.D.R.(with Credit)). He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb), the Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators (FHKIArb), the Arbitrators and Mediators Institute of New Zealand (FAMINZ (Arb/Med)), the Asian Institute of Alternative Dispute Resolution (FAIADR), and the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (FRAS). Also, he is an Associate Fellow of the Advance HE (AFHEA).

Charles has published extensively in reputable journals, including Trusts & Trustees and the Asian Journal of International Law. He also has extensive experience in editing. He is the Managing Editor of the King's Student Law Review. Also, he served as one of the editors for the 2020 and 2019 editions of the Yearbook on International Investment Law and Policy (published by the Oxford University Press).

He is the Chairperson of the Young Members Group at the Asian Institute of Alternative Dispute Resolution, BAIAC Young Practitioner Lead at the Beihai Asia International Arbitration Centre, and the Asia-Pacific Regional Sub-Committee Member for the Campaign for Greener Arbitrations: The Green Pledge. He earned accreditation as a tribunal secretary at the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre. In 2019, he was admitted as the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration Tribunal Secretary Panel member.