Jingzhou Tao is an independent arbitrator and Avocat à la Cour de Paris. Mr. Tao is a Member of the Expert Committee of China International Commercial Court(CICC), a Member of the Board of Global Arbitration Review(GAR), a Member of Board of Trustees of Foundation International for Arbitration Advocacy (FIAA), a Member of the Advisory Committee of China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC), a Member of the International Advisory Board of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre(HKIAC), the Board of Directors of the Saudi Centre for Commercial Arbitration (SCCA), Adjunct Professor of Georgetown University Law Centre and Special-invited Professor of Tsinghua University School of Law. Over the past decade, Mr. Tao has been consistently ranked by Chambers Global and Chambers Asia-Pacific as a highly recommended lawyer in the field of dispute resolution in China and has been nominated as one of the most-in-demand arbitrators in the Asia-Pacific region. Chambers has praised Mr. Tao as "one of the top ten go-to lawyers for clients in the Chinese market" and noted that he "bridges the gap between East and West." He has acted as arbitrator or presiding arbitrator in about 300 cases administered by more than ten arbitral institutions, including ICC, LCIA, SIAC and HKIAC, and CIETAC etc. He also served as one of 12 arbitrators for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games Ad Hoc Division as well as for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games Ad Hoc Division.