Mr. James Ding

James Ding is a Senior Government Counsel at the Department of Justice of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China. He specializes in the area of international law and advises the government on various international legal issues. He was seconded to the Permanent Bureau of the Hague Conference on Private International Law in the Netherlands in 2001. He also attended various negotiations under the Hague Conference as a member of the Chinese delegation, including the negotiation leading to the conclusion of the Hague Securities Convention. Recently, he attended another negotiation in the Hague and was a member of the Drafting Committee for the proposed Hague Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance.

James Ding obtained his LL.B (Hons) and a Postgraduate Certificate in Laws (Distinction) from the University of Hong Kong and LL.M from the Kyushu University, Japan. He became a barrister in Hong Kong in 1997 and joined the Department of Justice in 1999. From 1998-1999, he was also appointed as a part-time lecturer by the Faculty of Law of the University of Hong Kong and a part-time tutor by the Open University of Hong Kong in a program in collaboration with the Nottingham Law School, the UK.