Professor Lucy Reed, Director of the Centre for International Law and Professor on the Law Faculty, National University of Singapore
Lucy joined the NUS Law Faculty in 2016 after retiring from the international firm Freshfields, where she led the international arbitration and public international law groups. She is active as an arbitrator, and is a Vice-President of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre and of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration. Lucy formerly served as a Vice-President of the ICC Court of Arbitration and the Institute for Transnational Arbitration.
Among other positions, Lucy served as a Commissioner on the Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission and Co-Director of the Claims Resolution Tribunal for Dormant Accounts in Switzerland. While with the US State Department’s Office of the Legal Adviser, she was the US Agent to the Iran-US Claims Tribunal. She later became the General Counsel of the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (an International Organization based in New York), in which capacity she led negotiations on nuclear issues with North Korea.
Lucy is a former President of the American Society of International Law and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She received her BA from Brown University in 1974 and her JD from the University of Chicago in 1977.