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Biography

Nguyen Manh Dzung, MCIArb is the Managing Partner of Dzungsrt & Associates LLC, a boutique ADR law firm in Vietnam. He obtained his first degree in law from Hanoi University of Law in 1990 and then got his LL.M specialised in International Dispute Resolution, mainly focus on Comparative and International Commercial Arbitration from Queen Mary, University of London. Mr. Dzung is also an internationally recognised specialist in all areas of maritime law, commercial litigation and international arbitration in Vietnam. He was a Vice President of the Pacific International Arbitration Center (the “PIAC”) in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and is now served as a member of the Research Council of the Vietnam International Arbitration Center (the “VIAC”). He is also a graded member of Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb), IBA Arbitration Committee and International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA). He has just been elected as the first Vietnamese Member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration and ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR since 1st July 2017. Mr. Nguyen Manh Dzung was a key contributing editorial member of the Drafting Committee of Arbitration Legislation of Vietnam. He has been appointed by UNDP, IFC of the World Bank Group and GIG to act as Local Consultant in a number of international sponsored projects to assist the Supreme People’s Court of Vietnam in promoting court annexed mediation, enforcement of foreign arbitral awards and commercial mediation. He has extensively presented and lectured on ADR and international commercial arbitration at the Judicial Academy of the Ministry of Justice of Vietnam and the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam. Mr. Dzung has acted as expert witness and legal counsel in both domestic and international arbitrations conducted under various arbitration rules, such as those of the ICC, SIAC, JCAA and VIAC. He has also assisted international clients in pursuing enforcement proceedings of a large number of arbitral awards rendered by the ICC, ICA, GAFTA, JCAA, LMAA and SIAC in Vietnam. His profile can be found at: http://dzungsrt.com/our_people/1/