Anna K. C. Koo is barrister-at-law and founder of Luminous Chambers.  Called to the Hong Kong Bar in 2005, Koo specialises in corporate and financial law, information technology and communications law, international commercial law and international human rights law.  In addition, she is recognised for her arbitration practice, as Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and panel arbitrators at leading arbitration centres.  Koo is also a distinguished and accredited general, family and Greater Bay Area mediator, with contribution to the introduction of the Mediation Ordinance, mediator accreditation, and mediation scholarship.

Koo has extensive experience in public administration and appeal boards.  She served as Board Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Financial Dispute Resolution Centre for a two-year term from 1 April 2023.  Prior to that, she was appointed Director of the Judicial Institute at the Judiciary.  Apart from her managerial duties, Koo has determined applications as, among others, Chair of the Buildings Appeal Tribunal, Chair of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants' Disciplinary Panel, Member of the Mental Health Review Tribunal, Member of the Higher Rights Assessment Board, and Member of the University of Hong Kong's Discontinuation Committee.

Alongside her public roles, Koo has been a legal scholar.  A published author and an Adjunct Associate Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong, she has written widely and spoken globally on civil procedure, alternative dispute resolution, and legal technology.  Koo is an expert in court-based and cross-border mediation, with involvement in mediation training at the Judiciary and promoting evaluative mediation at the Department of Justice.

Koo holds a Bachelor of Laws from King’s College London, and a Master of Laws in Information Technology and Telecommunications Law from the University of Strathclyde.  She attended mediation and negotiation programmes at Harvard Law School. At present, she is reading for a Doctor of Philosophy in Law at the University of Oxford.

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