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Co-opted Member of Public Private Partnership Projects Committee
Mr. Daniel Lam is an expert in property development and construction, specialized in urban renewal and developments above railway stations, depots and hospitals, and is a practicing arbitrator. He was previously the founding Chief Executive Officer of eBRAM International Online Dispute Resolution Centre Limited.
Daniel’s experience extends beyond Hong Kong. For a considerable period of time he had also been responsible for projects in major overseas cities and countries including London, Tokyo, New York, Paris, Frankfurt, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia. Daniel started his work at the Hongkong Land Group, then Hong Kong Government, the Hongkong Bank (HSBC) Group, the Sime Darby Group and China Light & Power Group, before setting up his own practice, DCL Consultants Ltd. in 1993, until 2000 when he soft and left.
Owing to Daniel’s involvement with the World Bank and as the Executive Director of Tian An China Investment Company Limited (1993 to 1996), he is familiar with project development issues in Mainland China. In 1997 to 2015 Daniel was appointed an independent non-executive director to the Hong Kong publicly listed Minmetals Land Limited of China’s Minmetals Group. He is also the overseas consultant to the Shanghai City Development Law Firm.
In 2000, Daniel joined the Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation as its Director, Property to plan and direct all property development projects, as well as operating a sizeable leasing, licensing, advertising and property management portfolio. The total gross development value of projects then is HK$190 Billion (US$24.4 Billion)*, and the total value of the managed investments is HK$11.3 Billion (US$1.45 Billion)* as at the end of May 2007. He left the Corporation in December 2007.
In 2008 to 2015, he was appointed an Independent Non-Executive Director of the Hong Kong Urban Renewal Authority. In 2015 to 2016 he was appointed the Managing Director, responsible for a portfolio of an asset value of $30 Billion plus an ambitious program of urban renewal projects.
Daniel was the President of the Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors in 1986 to 1987. Because of Daniel’s professional knowledge and interest in arbitration, he has been appointed as arbitrator in a number of cases. He was a Council member of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (1993 to 2016), Chairman of its Mediators Accreditation Committee (2002 to 2006); and the Founding Chairman of the Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators (1997 to 2000). He is a Chartered Arbitrator and listed on the London Panel of Arbitrators of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He is also listed on similar panels in Hong Kong, Vancouver and is appointed as Arbitrator to the China International Economic Trade Arbitration Commission, the Beijing Arbitration Commission (1998 to 2012) and the South China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (2012 to present). He is also a member of the International Council of Commercial Arbitration in Hague. In 2016 he was also appointed as arbitrator by the One Belt One Road (China) Arbitration Court.
Daniel’s professional and public service include serving as member of the Land & Building Advisory Committee (1986 to 1990), Hong Kong Housing Authority (1993 to 2001) and Chairman of its Building Committee (1996 to 2001), and member of the Construction Industry Review Committee. During 1991 to 1993, he was appointed as a consultant to the World Bank, Washington DC, and contributed to a report on China’s urban land policy. Since 2016, he was appointed a member of the Board of the Hospital Authority. In 1995 Daniel was appointed as Non-Official Justice of Peace, in 2001 awarded the Bronze Bauhinia Star, and in 2016 awarded the Silver Bauhinia Star.
He was Chairman of the Surveying Department’s Advisory Committee of the University of Hong Kong (HKU) from 1986 to 1991, External Examiner of HKU’s Real Estate & Construction Department from 1995 to 1998, and appointed as its Honorary Professor for the terms of 2006 to 2011. In July 2003, the HKU School of Professional and Continuing Education appointed Daniel as Adjunct Professor. He was appointed as member of the Department of Building and Construction Advisory Committee, City University of Hong Kong, in 1994 and as the Chairman during 1997 to 1998.
