Founding President, Asian Institute of Alternate Dispute Resolution (2018 to date); Certified International ADR Practitioner (AIADR); Chartered Arbitrator (CIArb); Advocate & Solicitor; Architect and Town Planner; Director, Asian International Arbitration Centre (2010-2018); Chairman, Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre (2018); Deputy Chairman, FIFA Adjudicatory Chamber (2018); President, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (2016); President, Asian Pacific Regional Arbitration Group (APRAG)(2011); Founding President, Society of Construction Law Malaysia; Founding President, Malaysian Society of Adjudicators; Founding President, Sports Law Association of Malaysia; sometime Visiting and Adjunct Professors at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Universiti Sains Malaysia, University of Malaya. Hon LLD (Leeds Beckett). Since 1990, he has served as chairman, co-arbitrator of three-man panels and sole arbitrator in over 300 international and domestic arbitrations including ad hoc and institutional arbitrations administered by ICC, SIAC, HKIAC, KIAC, CIETEC, PCA and KLRCA.
As Director of AIAC (formerly known as KLRCA before 2018) from 2010 to 2018, he was responsible for the revival, transformation and growth of the Centre into one of the great Centres of World. It moved into Sulaiman Building in 2015 rated the best adr facility beside the Peace Palace in the Hague. During his Director, there was massive increase in case load from a mere 22 arbitration cases in 2010, 52 arbitration cases in 2011, 135 arbitration cases in 2012 (118 domestic and 17 international proceedings), 156 arbitration cases in 2013 (128 domestic and 28 international proceedings), 282 arbitration cases in 2014 (221 domestic and 61 international proceedings), 103 arbitration cases in 2015, 62 arbitration cases, 12 domain disputes including 8 international cases, 5 domestic mediations in 2016, 126 arbitration cases (109 domestic and 17 international), 6 domain disputes with 2 international cases as well as 2 administered mediations, one of which was international in 2017. The adjudication cases started in 2015 with 84 cases, 207 cases in 2016, 765 cases between 16th April 2017 to 15th April 2018, 764 cases between 16th April 2018 to 15th April 2019. The total number of persons who have attended its events and trained in its courses since 2010 is in excess of 16,000 with many speciality courses. By 2017, the Centre was organising about 50 events a year. In 2018, AIAC moved into dispute prevention by offering the first free standard form building contracts, a first for an arbitration institution.
Datuk Professor Sundra Rajoo has authored, co-authored, edited several books and contributed chapters and articles on arbitration, contract and construction law, including, UNICITRAL Model Law & Arbitration Rules: The Arbitration Act 2005 (Amended 2011 and 2018) and the AIAC Arbitration Rules 2018, 2019, Sweet & Maxwell; A Practical Guide to Statutory Adjudication in Malaysia, 4th Edition, 2018, Construction Adjudication Reports 2018, Sweet & Maxwell AIAC; Chapter on Annulment of Investment Arbitration Awards in Barton Legum, The Investment Treaty Arbitration Review, 2017, 3rd Edition, Law Business Research; Law, Practice and Procedure of Arbitration, 2nd Edition, 2016, Lexis Nexis; Arbitration in Malaysia: A Practical Guide, 2016, Sweet & Maxwell; Construction Law in Malaysia, 2012, Sweet & Maxwell; The Malaysian Arbitration Act 2005 (Amended 2011) – An Annotation, 2013, Lexis Nexis; The PAM 2006 Form, 2010, Lexis Nexis; The Arbitration Act 2005 – UNCITRAL Model Law as Applied in Malaysia, 2007, Sweet & Maxwell; The Malaysian Standard Form of Building Contract (The PAM 1998 Form), 1999, Malayan Law Journal.” He is now involved writing three books on arbitration in India, adjudication and construction law which is planned for publication in 2021.
