KEYNOTE SPEECH:

CAVINDER BULL, SC
CEO | Drew & Napier LLC | Singapore
Cavinder Bull SC is the CEO of Drew & Napier. He has an active practice as an arbitrator and as arbitration counsel. He is on the Governing Board of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA), was Deputy Chairman of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) for 7 years and is presently Vice-President of the SIAC Court of Arbitration. He was a member of the World Bank Sanctions Board from 2018 to 2023, and is a former Vice-President of the Asia Pacific Regional Arbitration Group.
As an arbitrator, Cavinder has heard cases under the auspices of the ICC, KCAB, SIAC, LCIA, PCA, NAFTA and ICSID, to name a few. In particular, he is on ICSID’s Chairman’s Panel of Arbitrators and has heard numerous ICSID arbitrations and annulment cases.
Cavinder graduated with First Class Honours in law from Oxford University and subsequently earned an LL.M. from Harvard Law School. He is called to the Bar of England & Wales, Singapore and New York. He was appointed Senior Counsel by the Chief Justice of Singapore in 2008, one of a handful to have been appointed before the age of 40.