Dr Mingchao Fan (FCIArb)

Prof. Mingchao Fan is an experienced full time arbitrator in the Asia-Pacific region, who has extensive experience in a broad range of commercial disputes. Among his most frequent arbitration appointments are those relating to international trade, cross-border financing, foreign direct investment (FDI) and joint ventures, entertainment and sports, cross-border insolvency and restructuring, and energy, oil and gas disputes.

Prof. Fan has been appointed in over 200 commercial arbitrations as presiding, sole or co-arbitrator under the rules which have included UNCITRAL, CAS, SIAC, HKIAC, KCAB, CIETAC and ad-hoc arbitrations.

Prof. Fan is Co-Chair of the Sports Arbitration Subcommittee of the IBA Arbitration Committee, a panel arbitrator of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), Council Member of the China Court of Arbitration for Sport (CCAS) and is regularly appointed presiding, sole or co-arbitrator in sports-related disputes. Between 2019 and 2023, Prof. Fan served as Chairman of the Arbitration Commission of the Chinese Football
Association, where he scrutinized hundreds of arbitration awards related to football disputes. In 2023 and 2025, Prof. Fan was appointed by CAS to serve on the ad hoc panels of the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou and the 9 Asian Winter Games in Harbin respectively.

Prof. Fan is one of the four ICSID arbitrators designated by the PRC government to the ICSID panel as well as a Fellow of Roma Tre-UNIDROIT "Center for Transnational Commercial Law and Investment
Arbitration”. As the Founding Editor-in-Chief, he is leading the preparation of Chinese edition of ICSID Review in China, the inaugural issue of which is expected in 2027.

In addition to being an arbitrator, Prof. Fan is on the Advisory Board of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research and holding professorship at the Koguan School of Law of Shanghai Jiaotong
University, where he leads programs and courses on International Arbitration, Private International Law, ADR and International Governance.

Prior to becoming a full time arbitrator, Prof. Fan served as Executive Vice President of Shanghai Arbitration Commission (SHAC), Director of Arbitration and ADR for North Asia of the International Chamber of
Commerce (ICC) between 2016 and 2021 and as a law professor at the Shanghai University of Political Science and Law, and a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Duke University, the United States. Prof. Fan continues to be a visiting professor at Shanghai Jiaotong University.

Prof. Fan received Ph. D from the East China University of Political Science and Law in PR China and LLM from the University of Manchester in the UK.