Executive Vice President of the Shanghai Arbitration Commission (SHAC)

Dr. Fan serves as the Executive Vice President of the Shanghai Arbitration Commission (SHAC).    He has extensive knowledge of the Asia-Pacific region and is an experienced arbitrator.  Over 200 arbitration proceedings have been conducted with him as presiding arbitrator, sole arbitrator or co-arbitrator under the rules of UNCITRAL, CAS, SIAC, HKIAC, KCAB, CIETAC, etc. 

On top of commercial arbitration, Dr. Fan’s appointments and tenures witness his extensive experiences in the niche disciplines of sports and international investment arbitration.  

Dr. Fan is a panel arbitrator of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), and a Council Member of the China Court of Arbitration for Sport (CCAS).  He chaired the Arbitration Commission of the Chinese Football Association between 2019 and 2023 and served on the ad hoc panel of the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou in 2023 as well as the 9th Asian Winter Games in Harbin.

Dr. Fan is one of the four ICSID arbitrators by the PRC government to the ICSID panel as well as a Fellow of Roma Tre-UNIDROIT "Center for Transnational Commercial Law and Investment Arbitration”.

Before joining SHAC, Dr. Fan served as Director of Arbitration and ADR for North Asia of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) between 2016 and 2021 and as a law professor for 13 years at the Shanghai University of Political Science and Law, one of the leading law schools in Shanghai, PR China, during which he was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Duke University, the United States. He received Ph. D from the East China University of Political Science and Law in PR China and LLM from the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom.