Tan Swee Im is an international arbitrator member at 39 Essex Chambers, based in their Kuala Lumpur office. Her focus is on the construction, infrastructure and energy sectors with extensive experience ranging from the early procurement strategy stage, to contract drafting, advisory during the project life, through to dispute resolution. She has spent more than 30 years in these sectors in counsel and advisory roles, including having been seconded to the KL International Airport and Malaysia-Singapore Second Crossing projects, been an in-house counsel and founded a boutique legal firm in 1999. She regularly sits as Arbitrator and Adjudicator and is an Accredited Mediator. She is an Advocate & Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya, Barrister-at-Law (Middle Temple), a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Malaysian Institute of Arbitrators, Asian Institute of Alternative Dispute Resolution, Chartered Institute of Building, Malaysian Society of Adjudicators and Dispute Board Federation and holds a Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration