Andrew Lee is widely regarded for his cross-cultural commercial dispute resolution skills on issues involving Chinese and western parties. 

Born in Australia of Chinese ethnicity, Mr. Lee has been mediating and consulting to clients for 20 years on cross-border commercial matters with a Chinese party. Sectors include high technology, e-commerce and travel, multi-national agri-business, mining and real estate. 

At the conclusion of 2020, he co-mediated with Jed Melnick and successfully settled a cross-border commercial case in the tech sector involving American and Chinese parties.

Mr. Lee has been based in Shanghai as the Chief China Representative for JAMS, responsible for operations across Greater China. In this role, he was the bridge between western attorneys, parties and executives and their Chinese counterparts. He worked closely with leading Chinese legal and ADR institutions such as the Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration (SCIA), the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC) and the Shanghai Commercial Mediation Center (SCMC). In 2019, he organized the JAMS meeting at the Supreme People’s Court of China. 

In 2011, Mr. Lee was appointed a World Bank mediator for Asia. In 2012, he was awarded  a JAMS Foundation Weinstein Fellowship for his ADR work in China. In 2020, he was appointed Mediator of the Global Mediation Panel at the Office of the Ombudsman for UN Funds and Programs. 

Mr. Lee has taught on commercial mediation and negotiations at Mainland China’s top law and business schools including Peking University and Tsinghua University. His literature on Chinese-relevant ADR has been published in the United States and Mainland China. He has presented on cross-cultural mediation and negotiation at business and law schools in  the United States, Switzerland, Austria, the Netherlands, Italy and Turkey. He has been a guest lecturer across Asia in Singapore, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong. 

Relocating back to Australia in 2019, Mr. Lee now focuses on commercial mediations with Chinese-Western parties and consulting on commercial negotiations with China. 

Mr. Lee is proficient in conducting virtual mediations via online platforms.

Mr. Lee holds first class honours degrees in Law from the University of Sydney and in Psychology from the University of Adelaide. He has a Masters in Chinese Law from Peking University and a Certificate in International Law from the Hague Academy of International Law.  He is a Fellow of Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation and Stanford Law School’s Gould Center for Conflict Resolution. He speaks English and Mandarin.