About Us
Datuk Professor Sundra Rajoo
President
Datuk Professor Sundra Rajoo is the Former Director of AIAC and President of AIADR. After obtaining his first honours degree in Housing, Building and Planning from Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang in 1979, he started work with Central Bank of Malaysia. He then proceeded to Australia and obtained two professional degrees in Architecture and Town Planning.
Datuk Rajoo’s roll of honour includes being Founding President of the Society of Construction Law, Malaysia and the Past President of the Asia Pacific Regional Arbitration Grouping (APRAG), which is a federation of nearly 40 arbitral institutions in the Asia Pacific region. He is Past Worldwide President of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He is a member of the Monetary Penalty Review Committee under the Financial Services Act 2013. He is also the past President of the Asia Pacific Regional Arbitration Grouping (APRAG), which is a federation of nearly 40 arbitral institutions in the Asia Pacific region. He is an Adjunct Professor at the Law Faculty of University of Malaya, Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Built Environment, University of Technology Malaysia and past Visiting Professor at the Law Faculty, National University of Malaysia.
Datuk Rajoo has been appointed as the Chairman of the ADNDRC effective 1st January 2017 and has also been appointed as the Deputy Chairman of Adjudicatory Chamber of FIFA’s Independent Ethics Committee.
Datuk Rajoo is an Advocate & Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya. He is also a Professional Architect and Registered Town Planner. He has had numerous appointments as arbitrator either as chairman, co-arbitrator of three-man panels and sole arbitrator in international and domestic arbitrations.
Samrith Kaur
Honorary Treasurer
Samrith Kaur, is an advocate and solicitor and the Managing Partner at Messrs. Samrith Sanjiv & Partners in Kuala Lumpur. She graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in law from the University of Coventry, United Kingdom and secured her Certificate of Legal Practice at the University of Malaya. She also holds a Master degree in Law from University of Malaya where one of her areas of interest was in Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR).
She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, United Kingdom and with the Malaysian Institute of Arbitrators. She was past Vice Chairman of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Kuala Lumpur Branch (2012-2014), Past President of Sports Law Association Malaysia (SLAM) (2020-2023) and currently the Vice President of Malaysian Society of Adjudicators. She was appointed as a panel of three-member arbitrators for the first time in the history of the SEA Games during the 29th SEA Games in Kuala Lumpur in 2017.
Samrith is a Certified Mediator and is on the panel of Bar Council Malaysian Mediation Centre (MMC) and as Arbitrator, Mediator and Adjudicator on the panel of Asian Institute of Alternative Dispute Resolution (AIADR), Asian International Arbitration Centre (AIAC), SIDREC, Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC), Thai Arbitration Institute (Office of the Judiciary), Thai Arbitration Centre, Brunei Darussalam Arbitration Centre and recently a panellist with Borneo International Centre for Arbitration and Mediation (BICAM). She is also a Domain Name Dispute Resolution Panellist with AIAC and Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre in Hong Kong.
Besides actively employing her mediation skills in her legal practise, Samrith frequently delivers talks and lectures to professional bodies and at international conferences. She is also actively involved in providing training to several professional bodies on ADR. She has co-authored a handbook on Practice & Procedure of Mediation and published several articles in law journals.
