Winnie Tam SBS, SC, JP, is a barrister, international arbitrator and mediator practicing from Des Voeux Chambers in Hong Kong. Winnie was appointed “Senior Counsel” in 2006. She also holds qualifications to practice in England and Wales, Singapore and the Greater Bay Area. She is also the Senior Consultant of Sincere Partners & Attorneys (Qianhai) since February 2023. Winnie served as the Chairman of the Hong Kong Bar Association between January 2015 to January 2017 and has been serving as Chairman of the Committee on Intellectual Property since 2019. Since 2015, she has been appointed a Recorder of the Court of First Instance, High Court of the Hong Kong SAR. In 2016, she was honoured as an Overseas Bencher of the Middle Temple Society of England. She has also been serving as a member of the Law Reform Commission since 2019.Winnie is a panel arbitrator of the HKIAC’s Intellectual Property Specialist Panel, a CIETAC panel arbitrator, a member of the Domain Name Disputes Panel of the HKIAC, a member of the Expert Committee of China (Shenzhen) IP Arbitration Centre, a panel arbitrator of SCIA, SHIAC, and Qingdao Arbitration Commission, a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and a fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators. She is a WIPO panel mediator, a JAMS panel mediator, a CEDR-accredited mediator, and a panel mediator on Mainland-Hong Kong Investment Disputes under CEPA. In her capacity as a leading intellectual property barrister, Winnie has been invited to join a working group of the Department of Justice on the arbitrability of intellectual property rights and has contributed to the drafting of a bill presented to LegCo in December 2016. Between 2018 and 2020, Winnie served as a member of the Nominations Committee of the HKIAC. Since 2020-2021, she served as Co-Chair of Women in Arbitration (WIA) under HKIAC. Since May 2020, she has been appointed to the Appointments Committee of HKIAC. Winnie’s current Public Appointments in Hong Kong include the following:Hong Kong Member of the 14th CPPCC National Committee Chairman, Board of Hong Kong Palace Museum Limited Chairman, Communications Authority Member, Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority Member, Board of Governors, Hong Kong Philharmonic Society Ltd Member, Chief Executive’s Council of Advisers Member, Consultative Committee of the Qianhai Special Free Trade Zone (PRC) Winnie currently practises mainly as an independent arbitrator in international commercial arbitration, and in intellectual property litigation. She has been appointed as a presiding arbitrator and co-arbitrator under ICC, HKIAC, CIETAC and SCIA rules in cases involving cross-jurisdictional commercial and joint-venture disputes, shareholders disputes, intellectual property and licensing disputes, international gaming rights licensing disputes and sino-foreign investment disputes. She has been appointed as an arbitrator in international arbitrations to be conducted both in English and in Chinese. She has acted as leading counsel and co-counsel in international arbitrations and court actions in aid of international arbitration.Winnie has been recognized in peer-review publications as a leading Senior Counsel in IP， trademarks and a sought-after arbitrator in commercial dispute resolution, including Chambers & Partners, Legal 500 and Who’s Who Legal. She is frequently invited as a guest speaker at major local and international legal forums to share the latest developments in the field with industry experts and promote the visibility of Hong Kong's dispute resolution services globally. Contact details: winnietam@dvc.com.hk Telephone： (852) 2526 3071