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Kanaga Dharmananda is a Senior Counsel, practising in commercial and finance law in Australia and with Fountain Court Chambers. He began his career in 1988 at leading law firms in Australia, working in Perth and Sydney in the finance, litigation, resources, and corporate groups. Kanaga has previously been counsel to the United Nations in Geneva, counsel with Mitsubishi Corporation in Tokyo, and has worked with leading law firms in Singapore and Malaysia. In January 2006, Kanaga joined the independent bar in Australia working on commercial, corporate, resources, finance, and international arbitration matters. He was appointed Senior Counsel in 2010. He acts in international arbitrations in and outside Australia. He was educated at the University of Western Australia (B Juris (Hons), LLB (Hons)) and completed a BCL at the University of Oxford (1990), and a Master of Laws at Harvard Law School (1992). Kanaga is a Visiting Fellow at the UWA Law School where he teaches International Commercial
Arbitration. He is on the board of editors for the Australian Energy and Resources Law Journal. He has published in the areas of corporate law, contract, and arbitration, including a book on Schemes of Arrangement. He taught Construction Law at the National University of Singapore in 2000.