Bernard Rix

Place of birth: United Kingdom Nationality: British QUALIFICATIONS University Education at New College, Oxford and Harvard Law School Called to the Bar of England and Wales, 1970 Barrister at 3 Essex Court (now 20 Essex Street) practising principally in commercial law, including shipping, insurance, banking, private and public international law, and arbitration law, 1970-1993 Appointed Queen’s Counsel, 1981 BAR, JUDICIAL EXPERIENCE Chairman of COMBAR, 1992-1993; Judge, High Court of England and Wales (sitting predominantly in the Commercial Court), 1993 – 2000; Judge in Charge of the Commercial Court, High Court of England and Wales, 1998 – 1999; Lord Justice of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, 2000 – 2013; Treasurer of the Honour Society of the Inner Temple, 2005; Professor of International Commercial Law, Queen Mary, University of London, 2013; Appointed Justice of the Court of Appeal, Cayman Islands, 2013; Arbitrator, International Commercial Arbitration, practice primarily in London, but also in Hong Kong and Singapore; Trustee of BIICL (British Institute of International and Comparative Law), 2003 – 2012; Visiting Jones Day Professor of Commercial Law, Singapore Management University, 2015 MEMBERSHIPS Chairman, Advisory Council, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, QMUL, 2003 to date; Honorary Fellow of New College, Oxford; Honorary Fellow of Queen Mary, University of London; President of BILA (British Insurance Law Association), 2007; President of the Harvard Law School Association of the UK, 2002 to date; Director, London Philharmonic Orchestra, 1986 – 2014