Sir Anthony Evans

Position: Chairman, Dubai World Tribunal

Biography: Sir Anthony Evans is chairman of Dubai World Tribunal, established in December 2009 in Dubai to settle disputes related to the finances of Dubai World and its subsidiaries.

He was the inaugural chief justice of the Dubai International Financial Centre Courts from 2005 to 2010, and previously served as a High Court judge in the UK from 1984 to 1992, then as a member of the Court of Appeal until 2000.

He practised as a barrister from 1959 until 1984, mostly in the Commercial Court in London but also in Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia, where he became a member of the Victorian Bar in 1976. Since retiring from the Court of Appeal in 2000, he has practised as an international commercial arbitrator in several jurisdictions, including India and the US. He became a member of the Court of Appeal in Bermuda in 2003. He graduated in 1958 from St John’s College at Cambridge University in the UK.

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