Fan Yang

Personal Bio

Job Title: In-house Counsel

Areas of Expertise:

Dr. Fan Yang is a legal counsel at China Harbour Engineering Company Limited.

Fan has advised on construction contracts including GCC, FIDIC and NEC contracts and reviewed claims and provided dispute resolution advisory and consultancy work focusing on ADR, adjudication and mediation strategies and effective management of parallel proceedings. Fan is a FIDIC Certified Adjudicator listed on the FIDIC President’s List of Approved Dispute Adjudicators.

Fan is a listed arbitrator at the HKIAC, KCAB, KLRCA/AIAC, THAC, SCIA, HIAC and BICAM. She is a CEDR and HKMAAL accredited mediator and an investor-state disputes mediator trained by ICSID, CEDR, Energy Charter Secretariat and IMI.

Fan is an active member of the arbitration and ADR community in Hong Kong, Macau and the Greater Bay and Greater China regions. She is the founding Director of the International Dispute Resolution Academy (IDRA).

Dr. Fan Yang obtained her LL.B. from Shanghai International Studies University. She subsequently studied law in Paris (Comparative Law Certificate), Birmingham (LL.M.) and London (PhD in Law). She was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 2005.

Before joining China Harbour, Fan was a partner of Stephenson Harwood LLP, London, and advised on the laws of England & Wales, having been one of the first Mainland Chinese called to the Bar of England and Wales.

Fan specialises in international arbitration and cross-border dispute resolution. In addition to representing clients as counsel in international arbitration and cross- border mediation, She has also acted as mediator and has been appointed as arbitrator (sole arbitrator, co-arbitrator and presiding arbitrator) under the rules of the ICC, HKIAC, AIAC, SCIA, and HIAC.

Fan was previously appointed to China National Petroleum Corporation's (CNPC) first tier legal panels for international arbitration and construction.

Fan is fluent in English, Putonghua and Cantonese.