Ko-Yung Tung is Senior Counsellor in the Corporate Finance Practice Group in Morrison & Foerster’s New York office. He served as Vice President and General Counsel of the World Bank from 1999 until 2003 and as Secretary General of the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) from 2000 to 2003. He is an eminent international lawyer, practicing in both the public sector, particularly in the developing world, and in the private sector, where he has focused on large cross-border transactions. His clients are multinational corporations and financial institutions, including Goldman Sachs, Japan Airlines and the Kajima Group.

During his tenure at the World Bank, Mr. Tung was key in the Bank’s initiative to promote the rule of law, including good governance and anti-corruption, in its member states and operations. He continued to serve as chairman of the World Bank International Advisory Council on Law and Justice. As Secretary General of ICSID, he oversaw the dramatic growth of registered cases involving investment disputes between governments and foreign investors and as the premier forum for North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) cases. With 140 participating nation members, ICSID has become the premier forum for arbitration between foreign investors and host sovereign countries.

In addition to his public service at the World Bank and ICSID, Mr. Tung held a number of high-level appointments. He was appointed by President Clinton to the Commission on United States Pacific Trade and Investment Policy and by Secretaries of State James Baker and Warren Christopher to the East-West Center Board of Governors, of which he was Chairman.

As a private lawyer, Mr. Tung has represented U.S. and foreign multinational companies, including Dai-ichi Mutual Life Insurance Company in its global investments, Goldman Sachs in its trans-Pacific M&A, and Japan Airlines and the Kajima Group in their global investments and operations. Given his broad and extensive experience and contacts, Mr. Tung provides strategic advice to many clients in their critical international operations.

In addition to his legal practice, Mr. Tung currently serves as a board member of non-governmental organizations and academic centers, including Transparency International-USA; the International Development Law Organization in Rome; The Morin Center for Banking and Financial Law at Boston University Law

School; The Morin Center for Banking and Financial Law at Boston University Law School; and The London Forum of Economic Law and Development of the University of London. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Law Institute. Mr. Tung remains active in international legal education and public policy by teaching international law at Yale Law School. He was an Adjunct Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law for many years.

Mr. Tung was born in Beijing, China and raised in Tokyo, Japan. Graduating Phi Beta Kappa, Mr. Tung received his B.A., magna cum laude, from Harvard University in 1969, and his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1973 where he was editor of the International Law Journal from 1970 until 1973. He was also a Fellow at the Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo. Mr. Tung is admitted to practice law in New York and before the United States Supreme Court.

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