Professor A F M Maniruzzaman, LLB (Honours) (first class first), LLM (first class first) (DU), M.Int’L.Law (ANU) (distinction), PhD (Cambridge), MED/C (Harvard), MCIArb, FRSA. He is Chair Professor in International and Business Law, University of Portsmouth Law School, UK (since 2004) and a member of the Centre for Blue Governance, the Centre for European and International Studies Research, and the Centre for Innovative and Sustainable Finance (CISF). He served as the Director of Research and Postgraduate Research Degrees in Law, University of Portsmouth Business School (2004-2013). He also taught at the University of Kent, U.K. (1993-2004), and at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. He has taught over the last four decades at various highly reputable universities in three continents – Asia, Europe and North America. Professor Maniruzzaman has acted as a Tribunal Chairman / arbitrator, counsel and expert / consultant in multi-million-dollar international arbitrations (including some high-profile ICSID, ICC, and IICRA cases). He also acted as an International Legal Consultant to the Commonwealth Secretariat (HQ), London, governments, state-owned enterprises, multinational corporations and multinational law firms (including of the Magic Circle). He served as the Honorary Special Adviser (constitutional & international legal matters) to the Honourable President of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh (1996-2001). He is also a Harvard trained mediator & negotiator (Harvard Law School – Program on Negotiation), and attained mediation certificates from the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London. He is a distinguished member of the International Academic Council of the University of Asia Pacific, Dhaka, Bangladesh. He has been an Honorary Professorial Fellow at the Centre of Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy (CEPMLP), University of Dundee, Scotland (2005 to-date) and has served as an Honorary International Advisor & Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Law, Eastern University, Bangladesh. He has been a Visiting Professor of Law, School of Transnational Law, Peking University, a Guest Professor of International Law (2012 -15), Faculty of International Law, China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing and a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Western Ontario /Western University, Canada (2007-8). He has also held senior honorary visiting academic positions at the Universities of Oxford (St John’s College), Cambridge (Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law, Centre of International Studies), Kent (Kent Law School), and London (School of Law, Queen Mary). He has acted as an external assessor for professorial appointments (including promotions within the professorial bands) at many highly reputed universities from around the world and for the Association of Commonwealth Universities, London. He has successfully supervised and examined over 60 PhD theses at various universities of the United Kingdom, Australia and Malaysia.