On November 14, Australian counsel Wang Jun from Dacheng’s Shanghai office was admitted to Fellowship of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. Wang is entitled to use the designation "FCIArb" after his name, which stands for “Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators”.
The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (“CIArb”), founded in 1915 and headquartered in London, is a leading non-government professional membership organization representing the interests of alternative dispute practitioners worldwide and offering three different grades of membership (Associate, Member, and Fellow) and the best education and training for arbitrators, mediators and adjudicators. It has over 13,000 members located in more than 120 countries and an international network of 37 branches in five continents globally (with the East Asia branch in HKSAR).
As FCIArbs is the highest level of fellowship representing the best quality standards of arbitrators in international dispute resolution, applicants are required to finish special, systemic courses equivalent to post-graduate international arbitration programs and pass all related exams and the standardized international arbitral award writing test uniformly organized by the London headquarters for members worldwide, have sufficient international ADR experience recognized by CIArb Fellowship Approval Committee and pass four rounds of peer interviews where existing fellows act as interviewers. The applicants must also reach the age of 35.
The diamond standard represented by the FCIArb designation and extremely strict threshold for entry and time-consuming application process make it a paramount professional recognition and pursuit for partners long engaged in international arbitration in top US/UK-based international law firms as well as professors doing research in this field.
Wang graduated summa cum laude with a master’s diploma after finishing post-graduate international commercial arbitration programs at the Center for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London and became Member of CIArb. With the past five years’ experience and hard work, Wang passed all the above assessments in October and was admitted to the CIArb fellowship. It is known that Wang is the third ethnic Chinese born and brought up in China to win such an honor.