Dr Chern is a Barrister practising at Crown Office Chambers, London. Additionally he is a Chartered Architect, Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Fellow of the Dispute Board Federation, Chartered Arbitrator, Accredited Mediator and Adjudicator and holds the degrees of BArch (Honours) in Architecture and Engineering and Juris Doctor. He has practised since 1972 specifically in the areas of engineering and construction disputes in the United Kingdom, the EU and internationally. As an adjudicator he is on numerous appointing bodies including the FIDIC President's List of Approved Adjudicators, The Dispute Board Federation (Geneva) Panel of Approved Dispute Board Members, and the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) Dispute Board panel. He has extensive experience in civil and structural engineering design issues, supervision of construction, contract management, construction insurance, arbitration, mediation, adjudication and other methods of dispute resolution. He has had over 580 engineering construction dispute references and has served on over 100 dispute boards in that time, acting as chairman on most occasions. He has over 40 years' experience in arbitration, mediation and adjudication and has handled complex international commercial and construction matters in over 20 countries worldwide located in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, China, and Africa. Dr Chern is a member of various panels, groups and committees both in the United Kingdom and abroad including the FIDIC Adjudicators Assessment Panel and the Dispute Board Federation Advisory Panel, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Dispute Resolution Committee, the Association Suisse de L'Arbitrage, the Civil Mediation Committee, the Society of Construction Arbitrators, and the Association of Consulting Engineers, and he is a Fellow of the Centre for International Legal Studies in Austria, Fellow of the Dispute Board Federation (Geneva) and its Secretary,  and a sustaining member of the Dispute Resolution Board Foundation in the United States.

Additionally he is a dispute board trainer for both the FIDIC, the DBF, RICS, and International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) rules and procedures. In addition to this book, Dr Chern is the author of a large number of papers and articles on dispute boards, construction disputes, and mediation and is the author of International Commercial Mediation and The Law Of Construction Disputes both published by Informa Publishing London. Additionally he is the co-author and subject editor for Emden's Construction Law: ADR and Dispute Boards published by LexisNexis Butterworths, London.