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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.
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Alejandro Escobar is a partner at Baker Botts LLP, London. He practices public international law and international arbitration. He has extensive experience in advising on investment treaty disputes, on the international legal protection available for investment structuring, and on other areas of public international law, including boundary disputes, the Law of the Sea, and international trade agreements. He has handled numerous complex matters involving multiple jurisdictions and overlapping treaty obligations. He also advises on international commercial arbitration and has served as an arbitrator under the LCIA Rules. He has previously been senior counsel at the ICSID. He is also a visiting professor at University College London where he teaches the International Law of Foreign Investment.
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Andrea J. Menaker is
a partner at White & Case in Washington, DC. She serves as counsel
in complex international arbitration cases involving political issues.
She has extensive experience in matters involving treaty-based claims,
international investment protections, public international law,
sovereign immunity, and the enforcement of foreign arbitral awards.
Andrea has represented both claimant investors and respondent States in
arbitrations before the ICSID and its Additional Facility, the ICC and
other arbitral institutions, as well as in ad hoc arbitration under the
UNCITRAL. She has served as an adjunct professor at Georgetown
University Law Centre, where she taught international commercial
arbitration. Prior to joining White & Case, Andrea was Chief of the
NAFTA Arbitration Division for the US State Department where she
represented the US in investor-State arbitrations, and participated in
the drafting of invetment dispute resolution provisions in United
States' bilateral investment treaties and investment chapters of free
trade agreements.
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Anthea Roberts is a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and a Lecturer at the London School of Economics. Her field of expertise is public international law with a particular focus on international dispute resolution and investment treaty arbitration. She is a triple qualified lawyer (New York, England & Wales and Australia) and spent five years at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP in New York and London where she was counsel in both investment and commercial arbitrations for corporations and governments. She has published widely on international law issues and has twice been awarded the American Society of International Law’s Francis Deak Prize, including for her recent article on the interpretation of investment treaties: 'Power and Persuasion in Investment Treaty Interpretation: The Dual Role of States' 104 AJIL 179 (2010).
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Anthony Sinclair, a dual qualified lawyer (New
Zealand/ England & Wales) is a partner at Allen & Overy's Global
Arbitration Group. He is an international arbitration specialist with a
focus on energy, mining, utilities and infrastructure sectors. He is
counsel to both corporations and governments in arbitrations under the rules of
ICSID, ICC, LCIA and UNCITRAL. He has substantial expertise in handling
disputes between States and foreign investors under bilateral investment
treaties and the Energy Charter Treaty, as well as more general international
law matters. He is widely published, co-author of the leading
practitioner text on ICSID arbitration, The ICSID Convention: A Commentary (2nd
edn), and a frequent speaker at international arbitration conferences.
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Audley Sheppard
is a partner of Clifford Chance LLP and Global Head of its International
Arbitration and International Law groups. He specializes in the resolution of
disputes arising out of major infrastructure projects and international
contracts, as counsel and arbitrator. He
is highly regarded for his expertise in investment treaty law. He is a visiting
professor at the School of International Arbitration, Queen Mary, London. He is
on the Court of the ICC and the LCIA. He has been Co-Chair of the International
Bar Association arbitration committee and Rapporteur of the International Law
Association arbitration committee. He is also a Fellow of the Chartered
Institute of Arbitration.
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Bart Legum
is a partner at Salans and head of the firm's investment treaty arbitration
practice. His practice focuses on international arbitration and litigation in
general and arbitration under investment treaties in particular. Bart served as Chief of the NAFTA Arbitration
Division in the Office of the Legal Adviser, United States Department of State.
He has acted as lead counsel for the United States Government under the
investment chapter of NAFTA. Bart is a member of the Executive Committee, the
Council and the Administration Committee of the American Bar Association's
Section of International Law. He is also an officer of the Mediation Committee
of the International Bar Association.
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Charles Nairac is
a partner of White & Case in Paris. His
practice concentrates on international arbitration, with a focus on the
construction and energy industries. He has been involved in international
commercial and investment arbitrations, under most of the major institutional
rules as well as in ad hoc
arbitrations, in English and in French.
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Edward Gutrip is
a lecturer in Commercial Law at the University of East Anglia where he teaches
international investment law. He has previously taught public international law
and international commercial arbitration at Brunel University and has practised
as a qualified solicitor in Australia and London specialising in dispute
resolution. Edward completed an LLM at the University of Cambridge focusing on
public international law. His current research considers the potential role of
human rights obligations in foreign direct investment disputes.
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Dr Federico Ortino, a qualified attorney in Italy and the State of
New York, is a Reader in International Economic Law at King's College
London. He is a member of the ILA Committee on International Trade and
co-rapporteur to the ILA Committee on the Law of Foreign Investment; founding
Committee Member of the Society of International Economic Law; consultative
member of the Investment Treaty Forum; editorial board of member of the Journal
of International Economic Law; Yearbook on International Investment Law and
Policy, InvestmentClaims.com, Transnational Dispute Forum, BIICL; Adjunct Professor at the Universities of
Florence and Trento; Emile Noel Fellow and Fulbright Scholar at the NYU Jean
Monnet Centre in New York; Legal Officer at UNCTAD, Division on Investment and Enterprises.
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George Burn is a partner in Salan's London office
and Head of International Arbitration, is an experienced international
arbitration specialist, identified by Chambers and Legal 500 as being a leader
in the field. He has considerable experience of disputes in technical and
infrastructure fields, as well as experience in areas such as real estate
development, shareholder disputes, broadcast media, sports, insurance and
pharmaceuticals. He has appeared as counsel in proceedings brought under
all the major arbitration rules (ICC, LCIA, ICSID, SCC, UNCITRAL, LMAA etc),
and is experienced in both commercial arbitration and treaty arbitration.
He has particular strengths in arbitrations coming out of projects in emerging
markets, with clients from or working in relations including the CIAS, Eastern
Europe, Africa, South Asia, East Asia, the Caribbean and Western Europe.
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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
covers 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.
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Khawar Qureshi QC is a barrister at a partner at Serle Court, London. He specialises in public law, public international law and international commercial arbitration where he has acted as counsel under the rules of the ICC, LCIA and UNCITRAL. He regularly acts for and against governments. He is also a visiting professor in commercial law at the University of London and has lectured in international law at King's College, London. His experience and expertise covers a wide range of areas within the field of public international law including: state and diplomatic immunity, treaty drafting, intepretation and negotiation and bilateral investment treaty claims.
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Laurent Gouiffès, a partner at Hogan Lovells in Paris, specialises in international arbitration,
technological and energy-related disputes, notably on aerospace, oil and gas,
electricity, nuclear, telecommunications and investment arbitration, including
disputes under the Energy Charter Treaty.
He is a recognised expert on the Energy Charter Treaty. He has also acted as counsel in international
arbitration proceedings under the rules of the ICC, LCIA, ICSID, CAS and
UNCITRAL and regularly sits as arbitrator in cases before the ICC, the LCIA and
the Chamber of Milan. He publishes and
speaks regularly on arbitration, energy and public/private international law.
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Lise Bosman is Legal Counsel to the Permanent Court of
Arbitration and Executive Editor to ICCA (International Council for Commercial
Arbitration) 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.
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Luis Gonzalez Garcia is
a barrister at Matrix Chambers, London. He specialises in public
international law, including investment arbitration. He advises and
acts for governments, international organizations and corporations in
international law matters concerning, for example, treaty negotiations,
State responsibility, foreign investment and investment arbitration.
Before joining Matrix Luis was Deputy General Counsel at the Ministry of
Economy in Mexico representing Mexico in NAFTA and BIT arbitrations. He
also participated in the negotiation of international trade and
investment treaties. He has worked as a consultant to UNCTAD and
the OAS, and advised many
governments on investment arbitration matters. Luis has lectured on
international investment law at the World Trade Institute of the University of Bern in 2011.
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Mark McNeill is a partner in Shearman & Sterling's International Arbitration Group in Paris. He specialises in international investment arbitration and international commercial arbitration. He has advised corporate clients and governments in dozens of international arbitrations before the ICSID, the ICC and other arbitral institutions, as well as in ad hoc arbitrations under the UNCITRAL Rules. He spent four years (2003-2006) at the U.S. State Department where he represented the United States in investor-state arbitrations under the investment chapter of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and participated in the drafting of investment and dispute resolution provisions in United States' bilateral investment treaties and investment chapters of free trade agreements.
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Matthew Weiniger is a Partner at Herbert Smith, London. He specialises in international arbitration and public
and private international law. He regularly appears as an advocate before arbitral tribunals in
many different jurisdictions. He has experience in arbitrations under
the auspices of the ICC, LCIA, ICSID, Zurich Chamber of Commerce and ad
hoc under the UNCITRAL Rules and the English Arbitration Act. Many of
his arbitrations involve state parties. He regularly
lectures on matters connected to arbitration and public international
law. He is a Visiting Professorial Fellow in the Centre for
Commercuak and Law Studies, Queen Mary, University of London.
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Dr. Mavluda Sattorova is a lecturer in International Economic Law at the University of Liverpool. She holds a PhD and LLM from the University of Birmingham. Her research interests lie in international investment, trade and energy law. Prior to embarking on her current research and teaching, Mavluda obtained a PhD in Civil Law from the Tashkent State Institute of Law and Diploma in Jurisprudence (with Distrinction) from the Samarqand State University. She is admitted to the Uzbek bar and has experience in drafting and negotiating investment contracts and representing clients in the Supreme Economic Court and hte Constitutional Court of Uzbekistan. She is fluent in English, Russian and Uzbek.
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N. Jansen Calamita is the Senior Research Fellow in International
Investment Law and the Director of the Investment Treaty Forum at the British
Institute of International and Comparative Law. He is a lecturer in
International Law at the University of Birmingham. Jansen served in the
Office of the Legal Adviser in the United States Department of State,
representing the US before the Iran-US Claims Tribunal and in bilateral
investment matters, and as a member of the UNCITRAL Secretariat. Prior to
joining the UN, he was in private practice in New Yor, specialising in international arbitration and litigation.
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Nima Elmi is a Solicitor qualified in England and Wales,
and is a member of Allen & Overy's Global Arbitration Group. She is
an international arbitration and public international law specialist that has
practised in London and Dubai. She has represented corporations and
governments in arbitrations under the ICC, LCIA and ad hoc arbitrations rules.
She joined Allen & Overy after completing an LL.M focusing on international
law at Harvard Law School, where she was a Fulbright Scholar and Research
Fellow at the Institute for Global Law and Policy.
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Noah Rubbins is a U.S.-qualified lawyer, is the head of
Freshfields' worldwide Russia/CIS Dispute Resolution subgroup. He has advised
and represented clients in arbitrations under the ICSID, ICSID Additional
Facility, LCIA, ICC, American Arbitration Association, SCC, and the UNCITRAL
rules. He specialises in disputes in the former Soviet Union and investment
treaty arbitration. In addition to advising clients, Noah has served as
arbitrator in a range of disputes. He is widely published in the field of
arbitration, and is a frequent conference speaker. He is a lecturer at the
University of Dundee, Scotland, and has also served as an adjunct professor of
law at Georgetown Law Center in Washington, DC.
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Norah Gallagher
is a public international lawyer who has specialised in investment
disputes. She was Director of the Investment Treaty Forum at the British
Institute of International and Comparative Law from December 2007 to
September 2010. Before joining the Institute, she worked in the
International Arbitration Group of Herbert Smith LLP where she advised
on a wide range of issues relating to international arbitration (under
all of the main institutional rules; ICC, LCIA, AAA ICDR, Stockholm and
ICSID). She has worked as assistant to the tribunal in both
international commercial and investment cases and now also acts as
arbitrator. She is also a part-time lecturer on the International Trade
and Investment Dispute Settlement course at Queen Mary, University of
London and a Global Associate at the Centre for International Law, NUS.
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Robert Volterra is a founding partner of Volterra Fietta. He is also
a visiting Professor of International Law at University College, University of
London. He heads the firm's Public
International Law Group. He advises and
represents governments, international organizations and private clients on public
international law and international dispute resolution issues, including:
international investment agreements and Bilateral Investment Treaties;
boundaries and territorial integrity. He
has acted as counsel and advocate before the ICJ and ad hoc international arbitration tribunals. He regularly sits as an arbitrator on international arbitral tribunals.
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Rukia Baruti is founder and Managing Director at Africa
International Legal Awareness (AILA).
Prior to founding AILA she practised law at SJ Berwin's
International Arbitration Group in London. She also holds the position
of Vice-President of
the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA)
Africa Users’ Council. Rukia benefits from experience in
the roles of Counsel, Arbitrator and
Secretary to the Tribunal in arbitrations conducted under
various arbitration rules including ICC, UNCITRAL, ICSID, SCC and the
LCIA Rules. She has a well-rounded knowledge of public
international law and international relations gained from
her
postgraduate studies. Rukia has been listed in The Lawyer 'Hot 100' in recognition of her contribution to a pro bono initiative relating to African lawyers.
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Salim Moollan
is a barrister at Essex Court Chambers, London specialising in
international and commercial law, and in particular international and
commercial arbitration. He regularly advises and appears as Counsel
before the English Courts, the Mauritian Courts, and international
arbitral tribunals in numerous jurisdictions. He also regularly acts as
arbitrator in ad hoc and institutional arbitrations. He is the current
Chairman of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law
(UNCITRAL), the current Chairman of the UNCITRAL Arbitration Working
Group, a Vice-President of the International Court of Arbitration of the
ICC, a member of the LCIA Court, a Senior Visiting Lecturer in
International Arbitration Law at King's College London, and a member of
the ICSID Panel of Arbitrators.
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Sam Wordsworth is a barrister at Essex Court Chambers, London. He specialises in public international law and international arbitration. He has been instructed by many goverments (including the UK) in international cases and has appeared before various international tribunals including the International Court of Justice and International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. He is also
a visiting Professor teaching investment arbitration at King's College, London. of International Law at University College, University of
London and is currently instructed in a number of investment treaty disputes.
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Steven Finizio is a partner in WilmerHale's Litigation/Controversy and Securities Department, and a member of the International Arbitration and Securities Litigation and Enforcement Practice Groups. His practice focuses on complex commercial and regulatory disputes, and concentrates primarily on international arbitration and alternative dispute resolution and internal investigations. He also serves as an arbitrator in international commercial arbitrations. He has advised clients on matters arising under the rules of all the major international arbitration institutions. He is also an adjunct professor at Pepperdine University Law School in London, where he teaches international commercial arbitration.
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Yas Banifatemi is a partner in Shearman & Sterling’s
International Arbitration Group and leads the firm’s Public International Law
Practice. She advises and represents States, State-owned entities and
corporations on both public international law and international arbitration
issues. She has acted as counsel and arbitrator in arbitration cases under the
ICSID, UNCITRAL, ICC, LCIA, SCC, CRICA and Swiss Arbitration Rules, with
particular focus on international investment, oil & gas and genreal commercial matters.
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