Dr Avnita Lakhani


Title                                          Dr

First Name                                Avnita

Last Name                                Lakhani

Name of the Institute                City University of Hong Kong

Position within Institute             Assistant Professor

Field of Expertise                    International Business , Public International Law, Banking and Finance,                                                           International Commercial Law


Short Biography              

Dr. Lakhani has a BA (Canada), JD/MSEL cum laude (USA), LLM (USA) and PhD (Australia). She is admitted to the Bar of the State of New York and the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States. She is an accredited mediator with HKIAC and HKMAAL and holds member status with the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCIArb). She is also currently an Honorary Fellow of the AIIFL and a Visiting Scholar at the CCLFR at the University of Reading School of Law. Dr. Lakhani has over 20 years of international professional working experience. She has published a variety of articles dealing with critical international issues in both law and conflict resolution journals. In addition to numerous professional and academic awards as

well as several academic appointments at City University of Hong Kong (CityU), Dr. Lakhani is the Associate Program Leader of the Master of Laws in Arbitration and Dispute Resolution (LLMArbDR) Program at City University of Hong Kong School of Law. Most recently, she is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Law, Technology and Public Policy(TM), an important initiative of the Law and Technology Solutions Center, a project funded through the Office of the Provost’s Idea Incubator Scheme under CityU’s Discovery-Enriched Curriculum®.