Fan Kun is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, Chinese University of Hong Kong and now Visiting Scholar at the Harvard-Yenching Institute, Harvard University. She studied and worked in China, Singapore, U.S.A., Switzerland, France and Hong Kong. Kun obtained her PhD degree summa cum laude from the University of Geneva, and LLM degrees from New York University and Paris XII University. Her doctoral dissertation,under the supervision of Professor Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler, was awarded the Best Thesis in International Studies by the Swiss Network for International Studies Award 2011. She is author of the book Arbitration in China: A Legal and Cultural Analysis (Hart Publishing) and has published extensively in international arbitration, with pieces in publications such as Harvard Negotiation Law Review, Yearbook of Private International Law, Journal of International Arbitration, ICC Bulletin, and ASA Bulletin.
Kun has given lectures and seminars in a number of jurisdictions, including Harvard University, Cornell University, Sorbonne University, Hong Kong University, International Law Institute, Asian Development Bank, Versailles University, and Harvard-Stanford International Junior Faculty Forum. She is a former Deputy Counsel of the ICC International Court of Arbitration and now practices as a Senior Consultant for Arbitration Asia. She is called to the New York Bar, Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Accredited Mediator and Domain Names Panelist of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Center. Kun speaks Chinese, English and French.