Chair Statement

With the economy starting to pick up as from COVID’s time, ARIAS Asia is gaining strength from the community and members, both in terms of the growth of experienced arbitrators and mediators in our arbitration and mediation panels and our events in the Asian Community.

Since our launch of our arbitration and mediation panels as from 7 Nov 2023, we have been organizing various lectures in our Panel Lecture Series, including our first lecture from panelists on 10 Mar 2025 and many more to come in the coming months.

In the international front in Malaysia, we have signed an MoU Cooperation Signing Ceremony between Malaysia AIAC and ARIAS Asia on 28 August 2022 and our cooperation with various local and international organizations, including but not limited to China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission, Hong Kong Federation of Insurers, Malaysian Bar Council, International Chamber of Commerce, Professional Insurance Brokers Association, Hong Kong Mediation Council Limited and Inter-Pacific Bar Association.

With our revamped website and reformed committee team, we look very much forward to having more cooperation with local and Asian organizations in insurance and reinsurance industry to provide our services to parties in Asia to deal with insurance and reinsurance disputes in Asia. We would focus more our efforts to promote the use of our mediation and arbitration clauses and wordings suited to resolve insurance and reinsurance disputes for the industry.

We welcome enquiries of individuals and corporations to join our organization to promote the unique services to insurance and reinsurance industry. Please reach out to us if you want to join us as a member or in our committee, or you need our services to help resolving your insurance or reinsurance disputes.

We also look forward to working with you and seeing many of you in the upcoming events and activities organised by ARIAS Asia and other associations that we cooperate with very soon. Stay tuned on news of ARIAS Asia coming your way.

Stephen CHU
Chair of ARIAS Asia