Law, Practice and Procedure of Arbitration

Datuk Professor Sundra Rajoo is the Director of the Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration (KLRCA) and the President of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) 2016. Sundra’s roll of honour includes being Founding President of the Society of Construction Law, Malaysia and the Past President of the Asia Pacific Regional Arbitration Grouping (APRAG), which is a federation of nearly 40 arbitral institutions in the Asia Pacific region. Sundra is a Chartered Arbitrator with extensive arbitration experience that includes over 200 appointments locally and internationally. He serves on the panel of numerous international arbitral institutions and organisations. Sundra is also an Advocate & Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya (non-practising), a Professional Architect and a Registered Town Planner. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and Malaysian Institute of Architects. He is a visiting professor at the Faculty of Built Environment, University of Technology Malaysia and a past visiting professor at the Faculty of Law, National University of Malaysia. He was the principal draftsperson of the PAM 1998 Standard Form of Building Contract which was widely used in the construction industry in Malaysia. He has authored and co-authored a number of authoritative books on construction law and arbitration. In July 2015, Sundra was conferred an Honorary Doctorate in Laws from the Leeds Beckett University in England.