U.S.-Asia Law Institute at NYU School of Law

About the event: Singapore now ranks with Paris and London among the top three venues for international arbitration, despite being much newer on the scene.  Lucy Reed, president of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre Court (SIAC), a prominent arbitrator and international lawyer, will explore the reasons, which include government commitment, supportive legislation, first-rate courts, Maxwell Chambers, SIAC, and a truly international outlook.

About the speaker: 

Lucy Reed, the president of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre Court and the immediate past president of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA), is an independent arbitrator with Arbitration Chambers in New York. Lucy specializes in investor-state and complex international commercial disputes, recognized in Tier One of Chambers & Partners Most In Demand Arbitrators – Global Wide 2025. She is on the board of the Register of Damages Caused by the Aggression of the Russian Federation Against Ukraine. Before retiring in 2016, Lucy led the Freshfields global international arbitration group and then took on the role of director of the Centre for International Law at the National University of Singapore. Among other positions, Lucy has served as co-director of the Claims Resolution Tribunal for Dormant Accounts in Switzerland; general counsel of the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization, in which capacity she led negotiations with North Korea; and the U.S. Government’s agent to the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal.  

José Enrique Alvarez will be the moderator.