Professor Lawrence Boo heads The Arbitration Chambers since its founding in 1996. Formerly the Deputy Chairman (2004-2009) and first Chief Executive Officer and Registrar (1991-1996) of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre, Prof Boo is well recognised as Singapore’s leading international arbitrator, having sat as arbitrator in more than 170 cases and written numerous awards. His cases included those administered by the ICC, CIETAC, SIAC, LCIA, HKIAC and ad hoc arbitrations. He has mediated over 60 disputes.

Prof Boo leads the teaching of international commercial arbitration at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore since 1994. He also supervises postgraduate research candidates in the field of ADR. He is the author of “Halsbury’s Laws of Singapore Volume 2 - Arbitration” (Lexis-Nexis 1998 and 2003 Re-issue) and the chapter on Singapore in the book “International Handbook on Commercial Arbitration” (Kluwer 1996 and 2002 Supplement). He is also a Visiting Professor of Wuhan University School of Law and an adjunct Professor of Law at Bond University, Australia.

He is on the Panel of International Arbitrators and Mediators of the American Arbitration Association (AAA) New York, the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC), China Maritime Arbitration Commission (CMAC), Beijing Arbitration Commission (BAC), Korean Commercial Arbitration Board (KCAB), the Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration (KLRCA) and the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC).

Prof Boo is a Law Reform Consultant to the Attorney-General's Chambers and led the Singapore delegation at UNCITRAL working group meetings on arbitration (2004-2009). He holds appointment as an ad hoc District Judge, Singapore.