Mr. Jingzhou TAO is an independent arbitrator in the Arbitration Chambers and Avocat à la Cour de Paris. He is a member of the Expert Committee for the Chinese International Commercial Court of the Chinese Supreme People’s Court, member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR, member of the Advisory Council of the Foundation for International Arbitration Advocacy, member of the Editorial Board of Global Arbitration Review, member of the International Advisory Board of the HKIAC and member of the Advisory Committee of CIETAC. He obtained LLB from Peking University Law School in 1982 and DEA from l’Université de Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) in 1984.