Biography
José Tam leads our Civil Litigation & Arbitration, and Asian Investment Desk areas.
He specializes in sponsoring Civil and Commercial Litigation and National and
International Arbitration.
He is president of the Peruvian chapter of the Spanish Arbitration Club, president
since 2012 of the Peruvian-Chinese Chamber of Commerce and president of the
legal committee of the association Peruanos Unidos por la Comida y la
Alimentación (PUCA), a non-governmental organization promoting Peruvian
cuisine. He is a member of the Advisory Council of the Center for China and Asia
Pacific Studies of the Universidad del Pacífico and member of the Advisory
Committee of the International Commercial Dispute Prevention and Settlement
Organization (ICDPASO), a non-governmental organization based in Beijing,
China, created to promote various dispute resolution mechanisms between
parties around the world.
He is also a member of the lists of arbitrators of institutions such as the
Arbitration Center of the Lima Chamber of Commerce, the Center for Analysis and
Conflict Resolution of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and the
International Arbitration Center of the American Chamber of Commerce of Peru
(AMCHAM).
Since 2019, he has been working with the Private Competitiveness Council in the
preparation of the Competitiveness Report, as a member of the Board on the
Justice System.
He is a professor at the Law School of Universidad de Lima and has also been a
professor at Universidad del Pacífico and Universidad Peruana de Ciencias
Aplicadas. He is a lecturer and author of articles and papers on his specialty. He
is the author of the book "Proceso, poder jurisdiccional y tutela procesal efectiva"
(ARA Editores, 2009).