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Dr Dini Sejko is  Associate Professor and Director of the Sovereign Wealth Funds Research Center at Sun Yat-sen University. His academic research focuses on international economic law and the transnational governance of sovereign investors. His teaching portfolio includes Public International Law, International Arbitration, Investment Arbitration, Transnational Legal Issues, World Trade Law, and the Transnational Law of Sovereign Investors.

 Dr Sejko acts as an arbitrator, mediator, and tribunal secretary. He is listed on the ICSID Panels of Arbitrators and Conciliators at the World Bank and on the rosters of several other institutions. He has advised governmental bodies, multinational corporations, and non-profit organisations on matters of dispute resolution and legislative drafting. Dr Sejko has worked on complex Chinese investment projects within the energy, infrastructure, and technology sectors across Southeast Asia and the European Union, with a focus on investment screening mechanisms and sanctions.

Dr Sejko has also been a Visiting Professor at the Peking University School of Transnational Law. In the Greater Bay Area, Dr Sejko has been involved in professional training activities for legal professionals accredited by the Hong Kong Law Society and the Asian Academy of International Law. He also conducts regular training for public officials at the Albanian School of Public Administration. Dr Sejko has taught at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Previously, he has held visiting research positions at the University of Melbourne, University College London, King’s College London, and the University of Leeds.

His scholarly work has been published in books, journal articles, and policy reports. His research has been recognised with awards and funding from prominent institutions, and he has been invited to speak at conferences organised by leading organisations such as Oxford University, University College London, Peking University, and the Society of International Economic Law.

 

PUBLICATIONS (selected) 

 

Books 

 

  • Regulation of State-Controlled Enterprises: An Interdisciplinary and Comparative Examination, edited with Julien Chaisse and Jędrzej Górski) Springer 2022.

     

Articles 

 

  • Sovereign Investors as ICSID Claimants: Lessons from the Drafting Documents and the Case Law, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, 56(3), 2023. 
  • Challenging UN Security Council- and International Criminal Court-Requested Asset Freezes in Domestic Courts: Views from the United Kingdom and Italy (with Daley J. Birkett) Israel Law Review, 2022. 
  • A Comparative Review of Special Economic Zones: Demystifying Myths and Controversies, (with Kehinde Olaoye), LST Review, 48(328), 2021. 
  • Holes in the Silk: Investor Protection under China’s Belt and Road Initiative (with Bryan Mercurio), Global Trade and Customs Journal, 14 (5), 2019. 
  • When United Nations Sanctions Impact International Financial Governance: Lessons from the Libyan Sovereign Wealth Fund, (with Daley J. Birkett), American University International Law Review, 34(2), 2018. 

  • Case note- United States – Section 211 Omnibus Appropriations Act of 1998, Panel Report, WT/DS176/R, ITLD077 (WTOPR2001) 6 August 2001, Oxford University Press, Oxford Reports on International Law, Trade Module. 

     

Book Chapters 

 

  • The Protection of Foreign Investment in China Constitutional Law: An Evolving Constant (with Ma Ji) in Ngoc Son Bui, Stuart Hargreaves, Ryan Mitchell (eds) Routledge Handbook of Constitutional Law in Greater China, Routledge 2022. 
  • Confronting the Challenges of State Capitalism: Trends, Rules, and Debates, in Julien Chaisse, Jedrzej Górski & Dini Sejko (eds), Regulation of State-Controlled Enterprises: An Interdisciplinary and Comparative Examination, Springer 2022. 
  • Vietnam's Reform of State-Owned Entities: Domestic and External Drivers (with Viet Hoang) in Julien Chaisse, Jedrzej Górski & Dini Sejko (eds), Regulation of State-Controlled Enterprises: An Interdisciplinary and Comparative Examination, Springer 2022. 
  • Hybrid Models of Arbitration and Mediation, UNCITRAL Working Group III on ISDS Reform Virtual Pre-Intersessional Meeting on the Use of Mediation in ISDS Background Paper for Session 3, AAIL 2020. 
  • The Latest on the Best? Reflections on Trade Defences Regulation in EU–Vietnam FTA (with Prof. Julien Chaisse), in Marc Bungenberg, Markus Krajewski, Christian Tams, Jörg Philipp Terhechte, Andreas R. Ziegler (Eds.) European Yearbook of International Economic Law, Springer 2018. 

  • Investor-State Arbitration Distorted – When the Claimant Is a State (with Prof. Julien Chaisse), in Leïla Choukroune (ed.), Judging the State in International Trade and Investment Law: Modern Sovereignty, the Law and the Economics (International Law and the Global South: Perspectives from the Rest of the World), Springer 2016. 

     

Business Reports 

 

  • Belt and Road in Southeast Asia – Regional Report 2020 – UOB/HKUST IEMS. 
  • Belt and Road in Southeast Asia – Philippines Report 2020 – UOB/HKUST IEMS. 
  • Belt and Road in Southeast Asia – Thailand Report 2020 – UOB/HKUST IEMS. 

  • Belt and Road in Southeast Asia – Vietnam Report 2020 – UOB/HKUST IEMS. 

     

Professional Memberships 

 

  • ICSID Panel of Arbitrators 
  • ICSID Panel of Conciliators
  • Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration
  • Thailand Arbitration Center – Panel of Arbitrators
  • South China International Arbitration Centre
  • International Law Association - Committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution in International Law
  • Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, MCIArb 

  • Society of International Economic Law 

     

Research Interests/Areas

 

  • International Economic Law
  • Arbitration and Dispute Resolution
  • Economic Security and Investment Screening 
  • Commercial and Investment Contracts