ALOYSIUS GOH – FOUNDER & CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, SAGE MEDIATION

Certified as an international mediator since 2007, Aloysius has conducted mediations  with dispute values ranging from a few hundred dollars to more than USD1bn. Fluent in English and Chinese, he subscribes to a directive approach to mediation to help clients find meaningful and sustainable solutions to their conflicts.

Aloysius’ mediation practice focuses on commercial disputes and he has successfully resolved numerous insurance, medical negligence, corporate shareholding, and employment disputes.  Amongst his mediation clients are listed companies listed as well as charities, non-government organisations, and public sector entities.

Some of Aloysius’ more notable cases include a major employment grievance dispute in a NASDAQ listed organisation, mining rights between Chinese and Southeast Asian entities, and delay claims between a European company and a government-linked entity in the Pacific Islands over a major infrastructure project.

He has been appointed as a panel consultant by Singapore’s labour union and international investment bodies to assist in the resolution of labour disputes. He has also been engaged by large corporations and governments to advise on the development of mediation protocols and to design and conduct train the trainers courses for professional mediators.

Aloysius is on the International Panel of distinguished mediation institutions such as the Japan International Mediation Centre in Kyoto (JIMC in Kyoto), and KCAB International.

He has spoken on ADR conferences around the world on the topic of hybrid dispute protocols, international mediation skills, leadership culture, and dispute resolution ethics. He works closely with leading mediation institutions such as the Straus Institute of Pepperdine University Law School, the Delhi High Court Mediation and Conciliation Centre, and the China Council for Promotion of International Trade Mediation Centre.

Aloysius currently serves as a member of the International Mediation Institute’s Appraisal Committee, the Madrid International Arbitration Centre Mediation Advisory Committee, and the National University of Singapore Research Ethics Committee.

Aloysius spent a large part of his career in public service and non-profits. In addition to having served as the Chief Executive Officer and Registrar of SIMC, he was also the General Counsel of the Singapore Institute of Technology. In 2011, he was also appointed by the Singapore Ministry of Health to establish a Healthcare and Medical Disputes Mediation Unit.

He served as a member of the Singapore Ministry of Law’s Working Committee to launch the Singapore Infrastructure Dispute-Management Protocol to encourage mediation and early neutral evaluation for mega-infrastructure disputes. He has also participated in the UNCITRAL discussions in New York on reforms to Investor-State Dispute Settlement.

Aloysius is a National University of Singapore Law School Research Scholar and a Public Service Commission Humanities Scholar. He was also amongst the final nominees for the Lee Kuan Yew Graduate Scholarship in 2014.

In addition to his first degree in law, he has a Master’s degree in Law from the NUS, and a Master’s degree in Education Leadership from Boston College Lynch Education School.

Outside mediation, Aloysius is best described as a spiritual, family-oriented, fitness fanatic. He has spent a year living in the rule of silence in a French Catholic monastery, owns a Montessori Kindergarten, and has run more than 10 full marathons.