Charles Ho Wang Mak is an award-winning scholar. He is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Law at Robert Gordon University, a Fellow of the Stanford-Vienna Transatlantic Technology Law Forum at Stanford Law School, a Fellow of the Centre for Chinese and Comparative Law at the City University of Hong Kong, a PhD Candidate in law at the University of Glasgow, a Leslie Wright Fellow at the Philip K.H. Wong Centre for Chinese Law at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) (2022), an Honorary Fellow of the Asian Institute of International Financial Law at the HKU, a Research Affiliate at SovereigNet at The Fletcher School, Tufts University, and a Research Associate at China, Law and Development Project at the University of Oxford. He taught Commercial Law, Corporate Law, Business Organisations, and Common Law System and Method at the University of Glasgow and the University of the West of Scotland. His research concentrates on sovereign debt restructuring, trust law, financial regulation, technology law and dispute resolution.
Charles has received legal education in the United Kingdom, Australia, Singapore, and Hong Kong. He holds degrees from the University of Sussex in England (LL.B. (Hons.)), The Chinese University of Hong Kong (LL.M. in International Economic Law), and the City University of Hong Kong (LL.M.Arb.D.R.(with Credit)). He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb), the Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators (FHKIArb), the Asian Institute of Alternative Dispute Resolution (FAIADR), the Royal Society for Public Health (FRSPH), the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (FRAS), the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (FSAScot), and the Advance HE (FHEA). He was a visiting scholar at Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals, University of Hong Kong, and City University of Hong Kong.
Charles has published extensively in reputable journals, including Trusts & Trustees and European Competition Law Review. He is the recipient of the III Prize in International Insolvency Studies 2024, the Emerging Scholar Award, and the Association of Law Teachers Stan Marsh Prize.
He is the Chairperson of the Young Members Group at the Asian Institute of Alternative Dispute Resolution and BAIAC Young Practitioner Lead at the Beihai Asia International Arbitration Centre. He earned accreditation as a tribunal secretary at the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre. In 2019, he was admitted as the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration Tribunal Secretary Panel member.
