Ajaib Hari Dass

Mr Ajaib Hari Dass joined the Board of Directors in 2011. He graduated from the University of London in 1974 with a Bachelor of Law (Honours) degree and was called to the English Bar at the Middle Temple in 1975. Mr Hari Dass was admitted as an Advocate & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore in 1976. Mr Hari Dass has set up Haridass Ho & Partners in 1985. As the founding partner and consultant for the firm, Mr Hari Dass is internationally accredited by Chambers & Partners as a “Senior Statesman” in the niche practice of shipping law in Singapore.

Mr Hari Dass has over 40 years of solid and extensive legal experiences. He specialized predominantly in admiralty matters, both litigious and non-litigious, from ship sale and purchase, the financing aspects of such transactions, marine insurances to general commercial and banking litigation.

Mr Hari Dass is an independent director of Sembcorp Industries Ltd and past independent director of Sembcorp Marine Ltd, both companies listed on the Mainboard of the SGX-ST. He is a principal mediator of the Singapore Mediation Centre, a member of Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) Panel of Arbitrators, a panel member of the Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration (SCMA), a member panel of Maritime Arbitrators of Asian International Centre for Arbitration (AIAC). He is also a member of the Board of Visiting Justices & Board of Inspection (Prisons Department) under the purview of the Ministry of Home Affairs, a Commissioner for Oaths, a Notary Public as well as a Justice of the Peace.