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Advisory Board

	Albert Jan van den Berg is a founding partner of Hanotiau & van den Berg in Brussels, an arbitrator, a Professor at Law, the Arbitration Chair at Erasmus University Rotterdam, the President of the Netherlands Arbitration Institute and is a visiting Professor at the University of Miami School of Law Center for International Arbitration. He is also former Vice-President of the London Court of International Arbitration and is a member of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration, the Commission on International Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce, LCIA Company, and the Dubai International Arbitration Centre.
	Charles Rwechungura is the Managing Partner and founder of CRB Attorneys in Dar es salaam. He is a seasoned consultant in the fields of mining, corporate, banking and financial law. He regularly advises mining exploration and extraction companies on corporate and commercial issues and has conducted multiple large-scale due diligence exercises for foreign investors looking to invest in the Tanzanian mining sector. In addition to his expertise in the mining sector, he is often appointed to act as an arbitrator on complex commercial disputes.
	Gary Born is the chair of the International Practice Group at WilmerHale and heads the firm's international arbitration group in London. He is widely regarded as the world's preeminent authority on international commercial arbitration and international litigation. He has participated in more than 550 international arbitrations, and is uniformly ranked by Euromoney, Chambers, Legal 500 and Global Counsel as one of the leading practitioners in the field. Mr Born has represented European, US, Asian and other companies in arbitrations under all leading institutional rules (ICC, LCIA, AAA, Vienna, Stockholm, ICSID) and in ad hoc arbitrations. He has particular experience in joint venture, investor-state, M&A investment banking and other financial services, project finance, energy, oil and gas, intellectual property and insurance disputes. He also sits as arbitrator and has taught law at Stanford Law School, St. Gallen University, Georgetown University Law Center, University of Virginia College of Law, University College London and University of Arizona College of Law.
	Guglielmo Verdirame is a barrister at 20 Essex Chambers, London. He has advised governments, companies and non-governmental organisations on public international law. He is also a lecturer in International Law at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law. His experience and expertise cover a wide range of areas within the field of public international law including: international institutions; international arbitration and international dispute settlement in general; use of force, arms control and laws of warfare; World Trade Organisation; human rights and refugees; international criminal law; history and philosophy of international law.
	Lise Bosman is Legal Counsel to the Permanent Court of Arbitration and Executive Editor to ICCA Publications. She is also a part-time Professor at the University of Cape Town. She specialises in international commercial and investment arbitration, she began her career at the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal in The Hague and then practised (commercial) arbitration at the Amsterdam offices of the law firms Stibbe and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. Her areas of practice have included international commercial arbitration, public international law arbitration, cross-border transactions, joint ventures and foreign investment law.
	Phillip Aliker is a Barrister at Tanfield Chambers. He specialises in international commercial contractual disputes including international commercial arbitration and commercial litigation and property litigation. He is a Chartered Arbitrator and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. Phillip is accredited as a mediator and he is admitted to the Roll of Advocates in Uganda, the Dubai International Financial Court and in the State of New York as Foreign Legal Consultant.
	Stephen Karangizi is the Director and CEO of the African Legal Support Facility at the African Development Bank (AfDB). Prior to joining the AfDB he was Assistant Secretary General of COMESA; Legal Advisor to the Attorney General of Antigua and Bermuda, West Indies; Legal Advisor to the National Assembly of Uganda and a Senior Law Officer with the Ministry of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs of Zimbabwe. During his service for COMESA he was part of the Senior Management Team contributing to many programmes including: participating in drafting the COMESA Treaty in 1993; Establishment of the COMESA Court of Justice in 1997/1998; Participation in Establishment of the COMESA Fund ; Participation in the launch of the COMESA Free Trade Area; Participation in defining the COMESA Common Investment Area; Establishment of the African Trade Insurance Agency (ATI); Launch of new COMESA Programmes particularly on Peace and Security; Procurement Reform; Migration and Labour Policies; and Institutional Strengthening of COMESA and its institutions. He was also elected as Chairman of the UNCITRAL in July 2006 for one year. He has also been a visiting Resource Person to many Regional and International Capacity Building Centres on Regional Economic Integration.
	Swithin Munyantwali is a U.S. qualified lawyer admitted to practise before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. He is also the Executive Director and Co-Founder of the International Law Institute African Centre for Legal Excellence (ILI-ACLE). He is an advisor and Board member to international entities such as UNCTAD, the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, and the ABA-UNDP Advisory Board Centre in Washington, DC. He has also served as an advisor to major US entities on strategic investments in Africa. He was appointed by the UN Habitat to a special committee to advise on special investment initiatives by UN Habitat.

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