Sabine Stricker-Kellerer is Senior China Counsel of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP. She is advising European clients on their business activities in China. In 1985 she was the first European lawyer to set up a presence for a continental European law firm in China. She is a member of the Panel of Arbitrators of the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC), Chairwomen of the Foreign Trade Committee of the German Minister of Economics (Außenwirtschaftsbeirat) and member of the German-Chinese Dialogue Forum.