Mr. G. P. Selvam

G.P. Selvam graduated top of his law school at the National University of Singapore and was in private practice for about 22 years in one of Singapore's premier law firms and retired as senior partner to take up a berth in the Supreme Court. His judicial career began in 1991 when he was appointed Judicial Commissioner and was subsequently appointed Judge of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Singapore, a post he held until 2001 where he retired upon reaching constitutional retirement age. As a judge of the Supreme Court, he has 117 reported cases to his credit, many of which are landmark cases.

Mr. Selvam has since returned to the practice of law as a founding partner of Haq & Selvam where he now handles and directs the Civil Litigation and Arbitration in Haq and Selvam.

Mr. Selvam is also the Editor-in-Chief of Singapore Civil Procedure (Singapore version of English White Book) that was published in January 2003.

Mr. Whitney D. Pidot

Asia Managing Partner, Shearman & Sterling

Graduated from Harvard University, magna cum laude 1966, with a MBA from Columbia Business School and subsequently studied Law at the same school, Mr. Pidot is a member of Shearman & Sterling’s Executive Group and is the firm’s Asia Managing Partner with the responsibility of overseeing the operations of the firm’s Asian offices, including Beijing, Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo. He served as the Managing Partner for the entire Firm from 1998 to 2001 and has also served as a member of the firm’s Policy Committee. Mr. Pidot is also the Managing Partner of the Singapore office and practices in the bank and structured finance area. He has extensive experience in general corporate and private client corporate matters. Mr. Pidot joined the firm in 1970 and became a partner in 1979.

(i) Selected Present and Prior Professional and Business Activities:

Director of Oneida Ltd. (NYSE company)

Director, Secretary and Chairman of Audit Committee of NORIC Corporation (private investment company)

Director and Member of Executive Committee of North Central Oil Corporation (independent oil and gas company)

Director, Member of Executive Committee and Chairman of Audit Committee of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (bio/genetic research and educational institution)

Trustee and Vice-Chairman of Winthrop-University Hospital

Member of Advisory Board of Molecular Tool Inc. (biotech research and development firm)

Member of Advisory Board of Barclays Bank of New York

Professor Malcolm Alistair Clarke, M.A., LL.B., Ph.D. (Cambridge)

Professor of Commercial Contract Law, University of Cambridge

Fellow, St John's College, Cambridge

(i) Recent Publications:

The Law of Insurance Contracts - Informa 4th edition, London October 2002 Also, Looseleaf, London: LLP, 2002 with 2 releases a year

"Inter-Carrier Agreement, EC Legislation and the Revised Warsaw Convention" (2001) MarIus nr 283, 27-39

"Transport Documents: their transferability as documents of title; electronic documents" [2002] LMCLQ 356-369

"Good Faith and Bad Blood in Insurance Claims" (2002) 14 SA Merc LJ 64-78

"Harmonization of the Regulation of Carriage of Goods in Europe" TransportRecht 2002, 435-441

"Aggravation of risk during the insurance period" [2003] LMCLQ 109-124

"A Conflict of Conventions: the UNCITRAL/CMI Draft Transport Instrument on your Doorstep" (2003) 9 J Int Maritime Law 28-39

David Cardwell, BSc,MA,PhD,MInstP,CPhys

Professor of Superconducting Engineering

Fellow, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge

Full list of publications:

• Campbell, A. M., Loram, J. W., Hari Babu, N., Cooper, J. R. and Cardwell, D. A., The Reversible Magnetisation of a Strong Superconductor, Submitted to Phys. Rev. B., 2001.

• Cardwell, D. A. and Ginley D. S. (Editors), Handbook of Superconducting Materials, ISBN 0 7503 0898 2, IOP Publishing, Bristol, 2002.

• Reddy, E. S., Hari Babu, N., Shi, Y. H., Cardwell, D. A. and Schmitz, G. J., Processing of Single Domain Y-Ba-Cu-O with Pre-defined 3D Interconnected Porosity for Bulk Reinforcement, Supercond. Sci. Technol., 16, L40, 2003.

• Hari Babu, N., Reddy, E. S, Cardwell, D. A., Campbell, A. M., New, Chemically Stable, Nano-size Artificial Flux Pinning Centers in (RE)-Ba-Cu-O Superconductors, Supercond. Sci. Technol., 16, L44, 2003.

• Kambara, M., Hari Babu, N., Cardwell, D. A. and Campbell, A. M., Solidification Path of Y_xNd_1-x+yBa_2-yCu₃O_6+δ Superconducting Composites, Supercond. Sci. Technol., 16, 1286, 2003.

• Reddy, E. S., Hari Babu, N., Shi, Y. H., and Cardwell, D. A., The Existence of a Highly Undercooled State During the Formation of Y₂BaCuO₅ in Large Grain Y-Ba-Cu-O Fabricated by an Infiltration and Growth Technique, Supercond. Sci. Technol., 17, L1, 2003.

• Hari Babu, N., Reddy, E. S, Cardwell, D. A., Campbell, A. M., Tarrant, C. D. and Schneider, K. R., Artificial Flux Pinning Centers in Large, Single Grain (RE)BCO Superconductors, Appl. Phys. Lett., 83, 4806, 2003.

• Reddy, E. S., Hari Babu, N., Shi, Y. H., Cardwell, D. A. and Schmitz, G. J., Processing of Large Grain Y-123 Superconductors with Pre-defined Porous Structures, in press, Supercond. Sci. Technol., 16, L40, 2003.

• Mishra, A. K. Hari Babu, N., Cardwell, D. A., He, P., Ferendeci, A. M., Chaud, X., Tournier, R., Mast, D. M. and Shi, D., Surface Resistance Measurements of Single Domain YBa₂Cu₃O_x, Physica C, 402, 277, 2004.

• Nygård, K, Huotari, S., Hämäläinen, K., Manninen, S., Hari Babu, N., Kambara, M. and Car dwell, D.A., Temperature Dependent of MgB₂ Compton Profiles, Phys. Rev. B., 69, 020501(R), 2004.

Associate Professor Tijo Hans, B.A. (Cambridge), LL.M. (Harvard), Barrister (MT)

Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore

Hans has degrees from Cambridge and Harvard, and lectures in securities regulation, company law, commercial and contract law, trust and equity. He has published in international journals such as Law Quarterly Review, Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly and Journal of Business Law.

In various stints during his career, Hans has also been seconded to the Monetary Authority of Singapore and the Ministry of Law. He was a member of the Ministry of Finance’s Company Legislation and Regulatory Framework Committee, and is currently a consultant to Wong Partnership’s Banking, Finance & Corporate Practice Group.