Sally Harpole has been appointed as arbitrator, mediator and counsel in nearly 150 international commercial cases in Asia, Europe and North America under both ad hoc and institutional rules.   She is recognized on the panels of the major arbitral institutions in the People’s Republic of China and accredited as an arbitrator by major arbitral institutions worldwide.

She has served as mediator for international commercial disputes in Hong Kong, Beijing and North America and has facilitated conciliation and settlement in dozens of multi-mode dispute procedures.  She also was a member of the Mediator Accreditation Committee of the HKIAC in Hong Kong for two years.

Ms. Harpole has held numerous leadership roles in professional organizations:

• Co-Chair, Arbitration Committee, International Bar Association, 2007 and 2008
• Council Member, Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC), 2000 to 2012
• Executive Committee, Board of Directors, American Arbitration Association (AAA), 1995 to 2011
• Chair, Asia Advisory Council, AAA/ICDR (twice recognized for outstanding service by the AAA/ICDR)
• Commission Member, CIETAC, 2011 to 2013, International Advisory Board, from 2016
• Member, Advisory Board, Japan Commercial Arbitration Association
• Member of the Court, CAA International Arbitration Centre
• Co-chair, International Arbitration Committee, College of Commercial Arbitrators
• California Supreme Court International Commercial Arbitration Working Group
• Contributor, UNCITRAL Survey on Implementation of the New York Convention
• Observer, UNCITRAL Working Group II (for review of the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules)
• Subcommittee (Financing), Revision Committee, Code of Good Arbitral Practices of the CEA, 2019 (Comisión Redactora del Código de Buenas Prácticas Arbitrales, Financiación, Club Español del Arbitraje)
• Subcommittee, IBA Rules on the Taking of Evidence in International Arbitration, 2020
• Executive Committee Member, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators North American Branch
• Council Member, International Section, American Bar Association
• Council Member, International Section, Los Angeles County Bar Association
• Chairman, Law Committee and Governor, American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong
• Board of Directors, The Advocacy Institute of Hong Kong
• Member, Mediator Accreditation Committee, HKIAC
• Council Member and Secretary, Mexican Business Association of Hong Kong
• Trustee, Yale-China Association, 2011 to 2017
• Founding Member, Arbitral Women
• President (elected position – 2 terms), American Chamber of Commerce in the People’s Republic of China

Ms. Harpole has been cited as a leading international arbitrator and lawyer in surveys based on recommendations by peers and experts, including the Global Arbitration Review “Top Arbitrators in Asia” and “Top Women in Arbitration”, Chamber’s Leading Lawyers – Asia Business & Arbitration, Asia Pacific Legal 500 and others. She was awarded Fellow and Chartered Arbitrator status by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and Fellow status by the Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators. She is a Fellow of the College of Commercial Arbitrators in the United States.

Ms. Harpole has served as an Adjunct Professor, UC College of the Law in San Francisco and a Visiting Professor, Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine University Law School. She lectures on arbitration and international law at the law faculties of numerous universities in the People’s Republic of China. She has served as a judge in the finals rounds of the William C. Vis International Commercial Moot competitions for law students in both Vienna and Hong Kong.

Ms. Harpole served on the editorial boards of the “World Arbitration and Mediation Review” and “CCH China Business Law Guide” and has published articles and book chapters on the subjects of direct investment, dispute resolution and other law topics which appeared in the following: ICC arbitration journal, the China Business Review, IBA Dispute Resolution International, the Wall Street Journal, The Asian Leading Arbitrators’ Guide to International Arbitration, the Guide to Best Practices in Commercial Arbitration, International Commercial Arbitration Practice: 21st Century Perspectives, Contemporary Asian Arbitration Journal and others.

Education:

• A.B. Degree, University of California, Berkeley, California (Phi Beta Kappa, with Honors)
• Juris Doctor Degree, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
• Chinese Law Certificate, University of East Asia, Macau
• Mediation Certificate, Harvard Law School Program for Instruction of Lawyers
• Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution Advanced Mediator Training

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