——海南省人民政府聘任张月姣等11位境内外知名专家学者为海南国际仲裁院第一届理事会理事

京津冀在线讯  7月6日，海南省政府决定聘任张月姣、黄进、孙明宇、刘敬东、尹田、王琦、张晓辉、约翰·阿齐尔·埃劳（Johan Achiel Erauw）（比利时）、黄锡义（Michael Hwang）（新加坡）、本杰明·休斯（Benjamin Hughes）（美国）、范凱傑（香港）为海南国际仲裁院第一届理事会理事（聘期五年）。新聘任的11位理事，国际化程度高，专业能力突出，在国内外具有很高代表性、权威性和影响力。其中境外4人，占理事会总人数的三分之一，分别为欧美、新加坡和我国香港等世界上仲裁发达地区国际商事仲裁领域资深专业人士；省外4人，为国内国际商事仲裁领域杰出人物，其中3人为最高人民法院国际商事专家委员会首批专家委员，1人为中国国际法学科领军人物，1人被党中央、国务院授予“改革先锋”称号；省内3人，为海南省司法界、律师界和学术界的重要代表。

海南国际仲裁院是社会公益性法定机构，实行国际先进、国内领先的以理事会为主导的法人治理结构。理事长由省政府从现职公务员中任命，理事由省政府从法律界、工商界和其他相关领域的知名人士中聘任，其中境外人士不少于三分之一。理事会的成立，是海南国际仲裁院根据省委省政府决策部署和海南自贸港建设需要，以国际性、开放性、高端性、合理性为原则，参照国际国内著名仲裁机构的先进经验，高标准高质量推进理事会筹建工作取得的重要成果。

理事会组建后，作为海南国际仲裁院的决策机构，主要履行以下职责：审议和表决理事会章程、议事规则、仲裁规则、调解规则及其他形式的争议解决规则；决定海南国际仲裁院院长、副院长人选；审定专门委员会或者专业委员会的设置、变更和撤销，决定专门委员会或者专业委员会的组成人选；设立仲裁员名册，决定仲裁员及其他争议解决专家的聘任和解聘；审定年度工作报告和财务预决算报告；审定内设机构和分支机构设置、变更的方案以及用人规模；对执行管理机构的工作进行监督。

受聘担任海南国际仲裁院理事会理事的中国法学会副会长、中国国际法学会会长、中国政法大学仲裁研究院理事长黄进教授指出，商事仲裁和营商环境有特别的关系，海南自贸港的建设与商事争议的预防和解决关系非常大，建立健全商事仲裁体制机制对海南自贸港建设至关重要。他强调，仲裁改革各项工作要不忘初心、回归本源、回归常识、回归规律，要坚持仲裁的契约性、专业性、独立性、高效性、保密性、公正性和市场性。仲裁今后发展方向上，要坚持人本化、注重现代化、追求国际化、跟踪信息化和遵循法治化。他认为海南国际仲裁院法人治理结构和第一届理事会成员构成较好地体现了上述“五化”的仲裁发展方向，必将为海南自贸港建设提供优质的仲裁法律服务和有力的法治保障。

海南国际仲裁院理事长王雪林表示，海南国际仲裁院理事会的成立，得到了境内外多方面的重视和支持。作为全国改制最彻底的仲裁机构，其理事会成员由海南省政府聘任，全国首创，意义重大，表明海南省高度重视仲裁工作在海南自贸港法治化、国际化、便利化营商环境建设中的作用。海南国际仲裁院三分之一的理事为境外人士，其高度国际化、专业化的人员结构和决策、执行与监督相互制衡的法人治理机制，能使仲裁公信力得到制度保障。海南国际仲裁院将坚决贯彻习近平总书记提出的“把非诉讼纠纷解决机制挺在前面”的重要指示，认真落实《海南自由贸易港建设总体方案》提出的建立多元化商事纠纷解决机制，提供国际商事仲裁、国际商事调解等多种非诉讼纠纷解决方式的要求，努力将海南打造成为新时代仲裁改革的标杆和国际仲裁的高地，发挥仲裁在多元化解纠纷机制中独特而重要的作用，更好地服务海南自贸港法治化、国际化、便利化营商环境建设。

Establishment of the First Board of Directors of the Hainan International Arbitration Court (HIAC)

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The People's Government of Hainan Province has appointed eleven well-known experts and scholars at home and abroad including Zhang Yuejiao as directors of the first Board of Directors of the HIAC

On July 6, the People's Government of Hainan Province decided to appoint Zhang Yuejiao, Huang Jin, Sun Mingyu, Liu Jingdong, Yin Tian, Wang Qi, Zhang Xiaohui, Johan Achiel Erauw (Belgium), Michael Hwang (Singapore), Benjamin Hughes (United States of America) and Fan Hoi Kit (Hong Kong) as directors (the term for five years) of the first Board of Directors of the HIAC. The newly appointed 11 Board of Directors, with high degree of internationalization and outstanding professional ability, are highly representative, authoritative and influential at home and abroad. Four of them are from outside China, accounting for one-third of the total members of the Board of Directors, and are senior professionals in international commercial arbitration in Europe, America, Singapore, Hong Kong and other developed arbitration areas in the world. Four of them are from outside Hainan Province, and are eminent persons in the field of domestic and international commercial arbitration. Three of directors outside Hainan Province are members in the first batch of experts of the International Commercial Expert Committee of the Supreme People's Court, one is the leading figure in the field of international law in China, and one is awarded the title of "Reform Pioneer" by the CPC Central Committee and the State Council. Three are important representatives from the judicial, legal and academic field in Hainan Province.

As a legal institution for public welfare, the HIAC implements an internationally advanced and domestically leading legal person governance structure led by the Board of Directors. The Chairman shall be appointed by the Provincial Government from the current civil servants; and the directors shall be appointed by the Provincial Government from prominent figures in the legal, commercial and other related fields; directors from outside China shall comprise not less than one-third of the board members. The establishment of the Board of Directors is an important achievement made by the HIAC in promoting the establishment for its Board of Directors with high standards and quality in accordance with the decisions and deployment of the Provincial Party Committee and the needs of the construction of Hainan FTP, with the principle of international, open, high-end and rational, and in reference to the advanced experience of well-known international and domestic arbitration institutions.

After composing as the decision-making body of the HIAC, the Board of Directors shall mainly perform the following duties: deliberate and vote on the Articles of Association of the Board of Directors, the Rules of Procedure, Arbitration Rules, Mediation Rules and other forms of dispute resolution rules; decide for the president and vice president of the HIAC; examine and approve the establishment, change and dismissal of special committees or specialized committees and their personnel; set up an arbitration panel ; decide on the appointment and dismissal of arbitrators and other dispute resolution experts; examine and approve annual work reports and financial budget and final account reports; examine and approve plans for the establishment and change of internal bodies and branches as well as the scale of employment; and supervise the work of the executive management body.

Professor HUANG Jin, The Vice-President of the China Law Society, President of the Chinese Society of International Law, Chairman of the China Arbitration Institute of China University of  Political Science and Law,  appointed as the Board of Directors of the HIAC, pointed out that commercial arbitration has a special relationship with the business environment, and there is vital connection between the construction of the Hainan FTP and the prevention and settlement of commercial disputes, Establishing and improving the commercial arbitration system and mechanism is essential to the construction of the Hainan FTP. He emphasized that in the reform of arbitration, we shall remain true to our original aspiration, back to basics, return to common sense and regulation, and insist on the contract nature, professionalism, independence, efficiency, confidentiality, impartiality and market nature of arbitration.  In terms of the future development direction of arbitration, we shall adhere to five characteristics, people-oriented principle, focus on modernization, pursue internationalization, track informatization and follow the rule of law. He believes that the corporate governance structure and the composition of the first Board of Director of the HIAC reflect the direction of the above-mentioned five characteristics of arbitration, and will provide high quality arbitration legal services and strong legal protection for the construction of the Hainan FTP.

Wang Xuelin, Chairman of the HIAC, said that the establishment of the Board of Director of the HIAC has received much attention and support from home and abroad. As the most thoroughly restructured arbitration institution in China, the board members of HIAC are appointed by the People's Government of Hainan Province, which is initiated in China of great significance, demonstrating that Hainan Province attaches great importance to the role of arbitration in promoting the rule of law, internationalization and convenient business environment at the Hainan FTP.  One-third of the board members of the HIAC are foreigners, and their highly international and professional personnel structure as well as the corporate governance mechanism featuring balanced decision-making, execution and supervision can ensure that the arbitration credibility is guaranteed by systems. The HIAC will resolutely implement the important instructions of President Xi Jinping on "putting non-litigation dispute resolution mechanism at the forefront", earnestly carry out the requirements of the “Overall Plan for the Construction of Hainan FTP” for the establishment of a diversified commercial dispute resolution mechanism, and provide a variety of non-litigation dispute resolution methods. Now, HIAC strives to build into a benchmark and highland of arbitration reform in the new era, so as to better serve the construction of Hainan FTP and facilitate Hainan as a legal, convenient and international investment hub.