Rusty is Professor of Law at Boston University, where he lectures on tax and banking. After Yale and Columbia, he practised in Paris until returning home to teach and to direct his university’s Center for Banking and Financial Law.  He has held visiting academic appointments at Cambridge, Université de Dijon, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and University of Hong Kong. Rusty’s books include "International Chamber of Commerce Arbitration" (with Craig and Paulsson), "International Forum Selection", "International Commercial Arbitration" (with Reisman, Craig and Paulsson), "Income Tax Treaty Arbitration" (with Tillinghast) and "Arbitration of International Business Disputes". Rusty has served on the NAFTA Financial Services Roster, the Appeals Tribunal for the Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims, and the Claims Resolution Tribunal for Dormant Accounts in Switzerland. He recently retired as Co-Chair of the ABA Committee on International Commercial Dispute Resolution, has just succeeded Johnny Veeder as General Editor of Arbitration International.

José is a founding partner of Astigarraga Davis, Miami, an Officer of the LCIA Latin American Users' Council and Vice President of the National Law Center for Interamerican Free Trade and is Vice Chair of the IBA International Arbitration Committee.

Teresa has been a partner at Lalive, in Geneva, since 1992. She is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) (Fellow, Examination Board Member, EurBr Vice-Chair); an Officer of the International Bar Association (IBA) Art, Cultural Institutions and Heritage Law Committee; a Council Institute Member of the ICC Institute of World Business Law; a Swiss Alternate Member of the International Law Association (ILA); and a member of the Advisory Board of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA). She is the author of a number of publications in the field of international arbitration and a speaker at numerous international conferences (CIArb, IBA, ICC, ICDR, ITA, etc.). She has been involved in ad hoc and institutional arbitration proceedings, both as counsel and as arbitrator. Teresa is on the panel of arbitrators of the following institutions: AAA, ASA, ICC-Swiss National Committee, Cairo Regional Centre for International Arbitration (CRCICA) and ICHEIC.

Zia qualified in law at Cambridge University in 1978. She was also enrolled as an Advocate with the Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa in 1978 and subsequently completed an LLM at Harvard. She was admitted as a member of the New York State Bar in 1980. Between 1979 and 1983, Zia practised as an Associate at Baker & McKenzie, in New York, before setting up her own practice. In 2002 she founded CZB & Partners, which, in 2004, merged with Ajay Bahl & Associates, to become AZB & Partners; a firm now with more than 120 lawyers.

The American Lawyer has recognised Zia as one of India’s leading stars and she has been nominated one of the world’s leading practitioners by The International Who’s Who of Private Funds Lawyers.

Zia is a Member of the Committee on Capital Markets of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and a Member of the CII National Council on Corporate Governance and Regulatory Framework. In 2007, she was appointed for a five-year term as a member of the World Bank Administrative Tribunal.

Klaus is partner in the German law firm CMS Hasche Sigle. He has considerable experience as sole arbitrator/co-arbitrator and chairman in domestic and international commercial arbitration cases, with special emphasis on corporate and finance matters, joint ventures, M&A, industrial co-operation and infrastructure projects. He is also member of the Board of the German Arbitration Institution and co-editor of the German Arbitration Journal.

Jernej, a Slovenian national based in Vienna, is an independent arbitrator and consultant in projects for the modernisation of laws and rules on arbitration and mediation. From 2001 to 2008, he was Secretary of UNCITRAL and Director of the International Trade Law Division of the UN Office of Legal Affairs.

Prior to that, he worked as a member of the UNCITRAL Secretariat for the intergovernmental working groups that negotiated legislative and non-legislative texts on matters such as arbitration, conciliation or mediation, electronic commerce, international sales contracts, countertrade transactions, transport law, contracts for the construction of industrial works, international payments, cross-border insolvency, public procurement, secured transactions, commercial fraud.

Before joining UNCITRAL, he was Law Professor at the University of Maribor, Slovenia, and Head of the Commercial Law Institute of the Faculty of Economy and Commerce at Maribor. He also worked as part time Judge of the Commercial Chamber of the Court of Appeal Maribor and as an arbitrator at the Agricultural Products Exchange in Novi Sad. He is currently a member of the Advisory Board of the Geneva University Masters programme in International Dispute Settlement, and of the Advisory Board of the Center on Law and Globalization founded by the American Bar Foundation and University of Illinois College of Law, and of the Advisory Board of the Heidelberg Center for International Dispute resolution. Until 2008, he was a member of the Curatorium of the Xiamen (China) Academy of International Law.

Johnny was previously appointed to the LCIA Court in 1989, where, until 2003, he also served as a Vice President. He was appointed to the LCIA Board of Directors also in 1989, and served as Chairman of the Board from January 1999 until December 2002. He has practised at the English Bar since 1972, specialising in commercial law and international trade, including foreign investment, banking, financial services, commodity transactions, competition law, entertainment law, insurance, reinsurance, international commercial arbitration, international trade and transport, labour law, oil and gas, maritime law, sports law - as advocate before the English courts in London and overseas in Hong Kong, Bermuda and Luxembourg; as advocate or arbitrator in arbitration proceedings principally in London, The Hague, Paris, Brussels, Switzerland, Stockholm, Singapore, Hong Kong and the USA (ICC, LCIA, SCC, ICSID, NAFTA, UNCITRAL, BIT, ad hoc etc); and is Chairman of the Independent Inquiry into Capital Market Activities of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham.

Karl-Heinz is a past President of the LCIA; President of the International Law Association (ILA); Chairman of the German Institution of Arbitration (DIS) and past President of the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal, The Hague.  After holding the Chair for International Business Law of Cologne University until 2001, he now works as an independent arbitrator and currently serves as Chairman or party-appointed arbitrator on international arbitral tribunals constituted under the rules of LCIA, ICC, ICSID, AAA, DIS, Swiss Rules, UNCITRAL, as well as ad hoc panels.

Yves is a former President of the LCIA Court (1998-2001). He is Senior Partner and Chairman of Ogilvy Renault, a Canadian based law firm. He currently serves as Chairman or party-appointed arbitrator on international arbitral tribunals constituted under the rules of LCIA, ICC, ICSID, CAS, UNCITRAL, as well as ad hoc panels. He also serves as personal representative of the UN Secretary General and as an ad hoc Judge of the International Court of Justice.

Gerold is known throughout the world of arbitration, both from his time as Secretary of UNCITRAL, in which role he served from 1991 to 2001, and having previously been Secretary of the UNCITRAL working group, which prepared the draft model law on international commercial arbitration.  Gerold served as President of the LCIA Court from May 2001 until May 2004 and is now an Honorary Vice President of the Court.  Gerold is currently President of ICCA (International Council for Commercial Arbitration). He is Honorary Professor of the University of Vienna.

Jan is co-head of Freshfields’ international arbitration and public international law groups. He holds degrees from Harvard, Yale and the University of Paris. He has acted as counsel or arbitrator in hundreds of international arbitrations. He has conducted cases under many arbitration rules, as well as before the International Court of Justice. Jan is the President of the World Bank Administrative Tribunal, and the EBRD Administrative Tribunal. He is the author of numerous publications, in particular co-author of the standard reference work ICC Arbitration (3rd edn 2000). Jan is a Visiting Professor at, among others, the London School of Economics.

Makhdoom was the Attorney General of Pakistan from 2001 to 2007, during which time, he advised the Government of Pakistan on all the international arbitrations in which it was involved, including ICC and ICSID cases. He is the author of the Recognition and Enforcement (Arbitration Agreements and Foreign Arbitral Awards) Ordinance, 2005, by which the New York Convention was incorporated into the laws of Pakistan. He also authored the Arbitration (International Investment Disputes) Ordinance, 2007, to implement the ICSID Convention. Makhdoom headed a sub-committee on adopting and adapting the UNCITRAL Model Law, with emphasis on adequate safeguards against inappropriate judicial intervention. He is a former member of the Law Reforms Commission of Pakistan.

Makhdoom read law at the Universities of Karachi, Cambridge and the LSE. He has taught commercial, constitutional and public international law in England and was a Professor of constitutional law and public international law at the University of Karachi. He is a Barrister of Lincoln’s Inn and has been an advocate of the High Courts in Pakistan since 1977. He is also a Senior Advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, appearing in a large number of landmark cases. He has practised extensively in the areas of shipping, banking, company, employment, intellectual property, industrial relations, property, public international, and taxation laws. He also appears before both domestic and international arbitral tribunals in commercial and investment disputes.

Hassan is a lawyer of 30 years' standing and the senior partner of the Bahrain law firm, Hassan Radhi & Associates, which represents leading local and international clients in banking and finance; insurance and industrial companies; and educational and social organisations. He has handled domestic and international commercial arbitrations, both as counsel and as an arbitrator.

Hassan is a member of the Institute of World Business Councils, the International Chamber of Commerce, the ICC Commission on Arbitration, now the LCIA Court, and the International Bar Association (IBA). He represents the IBA's Bahrain Chapter and is the former co-chairman of the IBA Arab Regional Forum. He is also a former member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration and ex-President of the Bahrain Bar Society.

Henri is a lawyer, arbitrator and mediator in practice as a partner of the law firm of Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Henri joined the firm of Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP after pursuing graduate studies in Geneva, Switzerland in international commercial arbitration and international law. He acts regularly as an arbitrator and also as counsel in international and domestic commercial arbitrations, including arbitrations under the auspices of several leading arbitral institutions, including the LCIA, the ICC and ICSID. Henri is a Chapter 19 Panellist under the North American Free Trade Agreement and a former member of the Advisory Committee on Private Commercial Disputes established under Article 2022 of the same Agreement. Henri has taught as an adjunct professor at the Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia from 1985 to date in the areas of international commercial arbitration and dispute resolution. Henri has published and lectured widely on the topics of international commercial arbitration and international dispute resolution.

Pierre is a senior partner of the Canadian law firm Ogilvy Renault LLP, where he practises in international commercial arbitration, corporate and commercial litigation and constitutional law. He has acted as counsel in many international arbitrations, both ad hoc and institutional, in relation to disputes in the fields of telecommunications, aeronautics, international distribution and joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, foreign investment disputes, as well as in court proceedings to enforce or to set aside foreign arbitral awards. Pierre also serves as chairman or co-arbitrator in a number of international arbitrations under the arbitration rules of leading institutions.

Pierre is a former co-chair of the IBA’s Arbitration Committee and currently serves as co-chair of its North American Forum. He serves on the Executive Committee of the ICC Canadian National Committee and on the NAFTA’s 2022 Committee. A fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, Pierre was awarded the distinction Advocatus Emeritus by the Bar of Quebec in 2008.

Pierre is chair of Ogilvy Renault’s Executive Committee, of which he has been a member since 2001, and he was National Managing Partner from 2005 to 2009. He is co-chair of the firm's international arbitration practice and is fluent in English and French.

James is Senior Counsel in the Paris office of LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, where his practice focuses on international commercial arbitration. Previously, he spent five years as a member of the International Arbitration Group at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, based in that firm’s Vienna office. James has advised and represented clients in a variety of institutional and ad hoc arbitrations. He has also served, since 2001, as a member of the US delegation to UNCITRAL’s Arbitration Working Group.

In 1995, following several years at Shearman & Sterling, James left private practice for nearly six years to serve in senior legal positions in the Clinton Administration. His positions included Deputy Counsel to the President, at the White House, and Associate Deputy Attorney General in the Justice Department, where his portfolio encompassed such international issues as immigration and human rights.

Before entering private practice, James was law clerk to Justice William J Brennan, Jr, on the US Supreme Court, to Judge Abner Mikva on the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and to Judge Howard Holtzmann, on the Iran-US Claims Tribunal at The Hague. He obtained his juris doctor degree – along with a master’s degree in economics – from the University of California, Berkeley, and received his BA in history from Yale University.

Andrew graduated from Cambridge University and became a member of the English Bar in 1982. He has been with the ExxonMobil group of companies for the last 20 years and, although he is an English national, has spent most of that time living and working in other countries including Indonesia, Singapore, Turkey, Qatar and the United States. Andrew is currently based in the UK where he manages the in-house legal group advising ExxonMobil on its Gas and Power marketing operations in Europe. Apart from his involvement with arbitrations for ExxonMobil, Andrew is also a Vice President of the LCIA European Users' Council and Vice Chairman of the new Corporate Counsel International Arbitration Group.

Paul is co-head of the White & Case International Arbitration Practice Group. He has served as lead counsel in numerous international arbitrations, principally under the rules of the International Chamber of Commerce, the American Arbitration Association, and the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes. Paul is Chair of the AAA’s Arbitration Practice Committee and a Member of the AAA’s Board of Directors. He serves on the Executive Committee of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration, the Board of Trustees and Arbitration Committee of the U.S. Council for International Business, the International Commercial Dispute Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and as the International Editor of the World Arbitration and Mediation Reporter. He is a member of the College of Commercial Arbitrators. Among his many publications in the field of international arbitration, Paul is the author of "Arbitration Clauses for International Contracts" (2000).

Mark is a litigation partner at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP based in New York and London. He is Senior Vice-Chair of the International Bar Association’s Arbitration Committee, a Vice-Chair of the International Dispute Resolution Committee of the International Section of the American Bar Association, co-rapporteur of the International Law Association’s Commercial Arbitration Committee, and a member of the editorial board of Dispute Resolution International.

Mark received his B.A. summa cum laude from the University of Massachusetts in 1988 and his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1991 where he was an Articles Editor of the Yale Law Journal.

Hamid is co-founder of the Paris Law firm Derains Gharavi & Lazareff, where he practises international arbitration and public international law. He is a member of the Paris and New York Bars. Hamid has served as arbitrator or counsel in a large number of ad hoc and institutional, commercial, private or public international law arbitrations, under civil, common and Islamic law. He holds a PhD from the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas, as well as graduate degrees from New York University School of Law and the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Hamid is the author of The International Effectiveness of the Annulment of Arbitral Awards, published by Kluwer, as well as a large number of articles. He has been appointed to the ICC Commission by Iran, to the ICSID Panel of Arbitrators and Conciliators by the Kingdom of Cambodia, and as Honorary Consul by the Republic of Seychelles. Hamid is fluent in French, English and Farsi.

Gilberto has a bachelor’s degree in Law from the University of São Paulo Law School. He has been a partner of the law firm of Pinheiro Neto, since 1993, and heads up one of that firm’s litigation and arbitration groups. In recent years, Gilberto has focused on arbitration and has actively participated, as attorney and arbitrator, in arbitrations in Brazil and abroad, having been appointed in both capacities in many domestic and international cases.

Gilberto recently chaired the British Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Brazil, and the Council of European Chambers of Commerce in São Paulo, participating in the establishment of its Mediation and Arbitration Centre. He is a Vice President of the Arbitration Committee of the International Bar Association.

Karim is the principal of HAFEZ, a Cairo based law firm specializing in international arbitration, and Visiting Professor of Law at the American University in Cairo where he teaches international dispute settlement and international investment law. Karim has represented large corporations as well as state and state-owned entities in a large number of high-value complex arbitrations spanning the commercial spectrum, with an emphasis on investment, construction, telecom, energy, M&A, and hospitality disputes. As arbitrator, he has been appointed to construction, telecommunication, joint venture, M&A, and maritime proceedings under most major institutional rules. Karim read law at Cairo, Cambridge, and Harvard. His PhD, from Cambridge University, is for a dissertation entitled ‘Complex Arbitration – The Limitations of a Neo-Liberal Institution.’ He is qualified to practice law in Egypt, and is fluent in Arabic, English and French.

Antonio is a senior partner at Cuatrecasas, Gonçalves Pereira, where he founded and led the litigation and arbitration practice for 15 years.

After starting his career as counsel for the State, he was legal adviser to the Spanish government during the negotiations on the Treaty on European Union, Maastricht 1992.

Currently, he focuses on international arbitration, where he regularly participates as an arbitrator in ad hoc and institutional arbitrations, mainly before the ICC, of whose Arbitration Commission he is a member. He is the President of the Spanish Club of Arbitration, which currently is made up of more than 430 experts in arbitration from 27 different American and European countries.

He is the author of several books. Among the most recent ones, he is director of the “Spanish Litigation and Arbitration Yearbook, 2010”, published by Wolters Kluwer; and of the book “El Arbitraje Comercial Internacional en Iberoamérica”, Wolters Kluwer /Legis, 2009. The latter is the first book on international arbitration to cover Latin American, Portuguese and Spanish rules and case law.

Kaj is a partner in Mannheimer Swartling, Stockholm, and Professor of East European Law at Uppsala University, where he also teaches international arbitration and international investment and trade law. Since 1998, Kaj has been a Commissioner at the United Nations Compensation Commission in Geneva. Kaj is the author and editor of several books on arbitration and has also published numerous articles on the subject and on Russian, Soviet and East European law and international investment and trade law.

Kaj is on the lists of arbitrators of ICSID, the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, CIETAC, HKIAC, the Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce, the International Arbitration Institute and many others. His arbitration experience includes representing Eastern and Western European, American, Russian and Chinese parties, as well as parties from developing countries. He has been involved in numerous oil and gas arbitrations, relating primarily to Northern Africa, the Middle East and the former Soviet Union. He has acted as counsel and arbitrator (having chaired more than 300 tribunals) including representation of the claimant in the first ECT award. He is Chair of the IBA sub-committee on Investment Treaty Arbitration.

Michael was educated at undergraduate and postgraduate levels at Oxford University. He was called to the Singapore Bar in 1968, when he joined Allen & Gledhill, now Singapore’s largest law firm. He became a partner in 1972 and retired from the firm at the end of 2002 after serving as Head of its Litigation and Arbitration Department for 10 years. He served as a Judicial Commissioner (Acting High Court Judge) of the Supreme Court from 1991 – 1992, and was one of the first twelve Senior Counsel of the Supreme Court of Singapore in 1997. Michael now practices as a Barrister, primarily servicing lawyers as Independent Counsel and Arbitrator. He is a Vice Chairman of the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce and a Vice President of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration. He was formerly a United Nations Compensation Commissioner and a Vice-Chair of the International Bar Association’s Arbitration Committee. He also serves as Singapore’s Non-Resident Ambassador to Switzerland and is an Adjunct Professor at the National University of Singapore. Michael has recently been appointed the Deputy Chief Justice of the Dubai International Financial Centre.

Doug is a Sydney-based partner in the Australian law firm of Clayton Utz and is a door tenant at Atkin Chambers, London.

He is currently President of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration, and Deputy President of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London (President Elect 2011). He is an Australian Government nominee on the ICSID panel of arbitrators and a foundation fellow and graded arbitrator of the Institute of Arbitrators & Mediators Australia, President, Dispute Review Board Foundation Australia, member of the ICC Australia Arbitration Committee, and a member of a number of panels of International Arbitral bodies.

Doug holds Professorial appointments at the Law schools of Melbourne and Murdoch Universities, in Australia

In January 1999 Doug was made a Member of the Order of Australia in recognition of his services to construction law and dispute resolution.

Boris graduated from Moscow’s Lomonosov State University, Faculty of Law, in 1992. Between 1993 and 2000, he worked for Salans, in its Moscow and London offices. Since May 2000, Boris has been an Assistant Professor at the Academy of National Economy of the Government of the Russian Federation, and, since 2007, Professor of Law at the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences.

Boris practises in the areas of international commercial arbitration and in the litigation of civil, corporate and labour law cases before the Russian courts. Since 2006, he has been an arbitrator at the International Commercial Arbitration Court of the Chamber of Trade and Industry of the Russian Federation and, since December 2007, a Judge of the Administrative Tribunal of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
From June 2003 until July 2007, he was General Editor of International Commercial Arbitration, a Russian quarterly journal. He is the author of four monographs (including the only Russian language Commentary on the New York Convention) and of more than 30 articles published in Russia, England, Sweden and Germany.

Gabrielle is a founding partner of Lévy Kaufmann-Kohler, as well as a Professor at Geneva University and Director of the Geneva Master in International Dispute Settlement. Previously, she was a Partner of Schellenberg Wittmer and Baker McKenzie. She acts as arbitrator under all major rules worldwide and has been involved in over 190 commercial, investment and sports disputes. Among other memberships, she is Honorary President of ASA and a member of ICCA.

Kevin is the founder and head of Bae, Kim & Lee’s International Arbitration & Litigation Practice Group. He is also a senior advisor and arbitrator of the Korea Commercial Arbitration Board; Vice President of the Korean Council for International Arbitration; and Vice Chair of the International Arbitration Committee of ICC Korea.

Kevin has acted as counsel or as an arbitrator in over 100 commercial arbitral proceedings in Asia, Europe and the US, under the rules of all major international arbitral institutions including, among others, the ICC, KCAB, LCIA, SIAC, JCAA and UNCITRAL, in particular, in the fields of construction, distributorship and post M&A, intellectual property and information technology.He received his legal education at Seoul National University Law School and at Harvard Law School. Kevin is an adjunct professor of law at Seoul National University Law School and the Judicial Training and Research Institute in Seoul and is the author of a number of articles and publications on litigation and international arbitration practice.

He is a member of the Korean and Seoul Bar Associations and New York Bar Association and, in addition to his native tongue, speaks English and Japanese.

Serge is Member of the Paris Bar and founding partner of “Lazareff Le bars”. He is Doctor of Law of the University of Paris and holds an L.L.M. from Harvard. He is Chairman of the ICC Institute of World Business Law; Chairman of the French Arbitration Commission of ICC France. After serving as Legal Adviser to the Commander-in-chief Allied Forces Central Europe (NATO), he became General Counsel for International Operations and Vice-President Asia-Pacific of Pechiney, the then leading French industrial group. He returned to private practice as a lawyer and arbitrator. He is Professor at HEC Paris. He is Commander of the Legion of Honor and holds several honorific distinctions. He is author of numerous articles on international arbitration.

Peter is the Chairman of the LCIA Board of Directors. A member of Lincoln's Inn, Peter was called to the Bar in 1967 and became Queens Counsel in 1987. He is an experienced international commercial arbitrator and, through his extensive practice at the Bar, he is experienced in banking, insurance and financial services cases, and related jurisdictional questions. He was a director of IMRO between 1994 and 2000, and a Deputy Chairman of the Regulatory Decisions Committee of the Financial Services Authority until 2005. He is a Deputy High Court Judge. Between 1997 and 1999 he took a sabbatical from the Bar and was Chief Executive of the Football Association Premier League. Peter also has extensive experience as a sports arbitrator, for example as a member of the Court of Arbitration for Sport, for which he was a member of the ad-hoc Division for the Salt Lake City Olympic Winter Games 2002 and for the Turin Olympic Winter Games 2006.

Michael practises as an arbitrator, mediator and Counsel in international commercial and investment disputes, with a special focus on Asia. He is Chairman of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre; a VP of the Asia Pacific Regional Arbitration Group; Co-Chair of the China Arbitration Forum; and a former Vice Chair of the IBA Arbitration Committee. He is a member of the Arbitration Commission of CIETAC and of CIETAC’s Experts Group. His expertise includes foreign investment and trade, oil and gas, major projects, mergers and acquisitions, insurance and investor-state disputes. He regularly serves as arbitrator in the leading arbitration venues in Asia, Europe and North America and has extensive experience in proceedings under the rules of many of the leading institutions, as well as in ad hoc proceedings under the UNCITRAL Rules.

Michael has been resident in Asia for 30 years, dividing his time between Hong Kong and Beijing. He speaks Chinese as well as his native English. Michael holds degrees from Columbia University and Harvard and is a member of the New York Bar. He currently practises with O’Melveny & Myers LLP. He is also a lecturer at the University of Zurich and the City University of Hong Kong and is the author of many books and articles on international arbitration and Chinese legal matters and is the General Editor of the Journal of International Arbitration.

Yoshimi is a partner of the law firm of Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu in Tokyo, Japan. She focuses her practice on cross-border transactions and complex international commercial dispute resolution (both in litigation and arbitration). Yoshimi possess significant legal experience, particularly in the field of intellectual property (both in Japan and abroad). She has been a member of the Dai-ichi Tokyo Bar Association since 1992 and a member of the New York Bar Association since 1997.

Jingzhou is a partner of Jones Day Beijing. He has more than 25 year’s experience in advising Fortune 500 companies on China-related matters. His areas of practice include international mergers and acquisitions, arbitration, and corporate work. Jingzhou has represented major European, Japanese, and American companies in numerous transactions in China. He has acted as counsel, chief arbitrator, or party-nominated arbitrator in many international arbitration proceedings. Jingzhou is member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration and the Advisory Committee of China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission. He is chair of the Commission on International Commercial Arbitration of ICC China, an adjunct professor at Peking University Law School, and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He is author of several books in English and French on Chinese law, including Mergers and Acquisitions in China, Arbitration Law and Practice in China, Resolving Business Disputes in China, Droit Chinois des Affaires. Jingzhou obtained his LLB from the Law School of Peking University and DEA from the University of Paris I (Panthéon Sorbonne).

Guido is a Chair Professor of Administrative Law at the University of Buenos Aires Law School and a Senior Partner at M. & M. Bomchil in Buenos Aires, where he heads the Arbitration and Regulatory Matters practices. He is the Senior Vicechair of the IBA´s Arbitration Committee and the Chair of its Latin American Forum. He also serves as a member of ICCA, of the ITA´s Academic Council and of the ICC Latin American Arbitration Group. In his arbitration practice, Guido regularly acts as chair, party appointed arbitrator, counsel and legal expert in international arbitrations under the rules of the LCIA, ICC and ICSID.

Guido has published five books and over one hundred articles in his fields of practice. He has served as a member of the Scholars´ Committee in charge of drafting Argentina’s Uniform Code of Legislation and as member of several committees appointed in order to draft different federal regulations. He has been distinguished by the University of Buenos Aires with the Law School Award for the best doctoral dissertation and by the Buenos Aires Bar with the Alejandro E. Shaw Award for his legal contributions.

Edward is a graduate of the Universities of Edinburgh and Cambridge. Formerly a Judge of the High Court of Kenya, he is now a Professor of Law at Stellenbosch University (South Africa) and a Chartered Arbitrator.

He is a consultant for the United Nations (UNEP, UN-HABITAT (Nairobi)) and has represented the UN at Expert Group Meetings and conferences in Geneva and New York, Istanbul and the Kingdom of Cambodia.

He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (England & Kenya) and a contributor on ADR for various professional journals.

Adrian is the Director General of the LCIA and a member of the LCIA Court. He fulfils the role of Chief Executive Officer, with day-to-day responsibility for all aspects of the conduct of the business of the LCIA and is the principal point of contact between the institution and its Board and Court.

He also sits on the Board of the International Dispute Resolution Centre (IDRC) in London, which provides comprehensive ADR support services. Adrian is a Vice President of the International Federation of Commercial Arbitration Institutions (IFCAI), of which he was formerly the Secretary Treasurer between 2001 and 2009.

Adrian has a BSc with first class honours from the London School of Economics, a diploma in law from Westminster University, and is an English solicitor, having been in practice at Clifford Chance before his appointment as Registrar of the LCIA in January 1997.

Nassib has been the Deputy Secretary-General of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) since 2007. He also served between April 2008 and June 2009 as Acting Secretary-General of ICSID. He is a Visiting Professor at the University of Miami School of Law where he teaches investment arbitration.

A dual Lebanese and Chilean national, Nassib has extensive experience in the administration of international legal proceedings and in the management and development of international tribunals. From 1997 to 2007, he served as the Executive Secretary of the World Bank Administrative Tribunal. In addition, in 2002, he advised the Government of Bahrain on the establishment of its Constitutional Court.

Nassib is a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration and a Council member of the International Federation of Commercial Arbitration Institutions. He is a Patron of the American Society of International Law and a member of its Executive Council. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the ICSID Review—Foreign Investment Law Journal, a member of the Editorial Advisory Committee of International Legal Materials, and a member of the Editorial Committee of the Journal of Arab Arbitration.

Nassib studied at the French University in Beirut, the American University of Beirut, Cambridge University and the Sorbonne. He is fluent in Arabic, English and French, and he has a working knowledge of Spanish.

Joe, managing partner for the Middle East, is a member of Freshfields International Arbitration group. Joe has particular experience with respect to infrastructure projects, energy projects (including energy related acquisitions and disposals), construction, and international arbitration. Joseph has recently acted as the arbitral tribunal in a Dubai ICC construction-related arbitration. Joseph also acted as Registrar for the DIFC-LCIA arbitration centre in a public relations role from February 2009 – February 2010. Joe was featured in The International Who's Who of Commercial Arbitration 2010. Joe is the author of the book ‘Understanding and Negotiating EPC and Turnkey Contracts’, published by Sweet & Maxwell. Joe is qualified to practise law in the US and France.

Darius is a Senior Counsel practicing before the Bombay High Court and the Supreme Court of India. He is currently Additional Solicitor General of India. He is qualified with an LL.B. degree from Bombay University and an LL.M. from the Harvard Law School.

His practice is primarily a litigation practice. He has been involved in a number of important commercial and corporate matters in the last few years. He has appeared in several domestic and international commercial arbitrations, as well as in proceedings in Court concerning arbitrations. His practice also extends to litigation concerning questions of constitutional, administrative and environmental law. He also appears before the Securities Appellate Tribunal, the Electricity Appellate Tribunal and the Company Law Board.

James is the Registrar and Deputy Director General of the LCIA. He heads up the Secretariat that oversees the administration of all disputes referred to the LCIA for arbitration or ADR, whether under LCIA rules or other procedures chosen by the parties. One of his principal functions is to provide the interface between the Secretariat and the LCIA Court. He also assists the Director General with the day-to-day business of the LCIA.

A graduate of St Anne’s College, Oxford University, James qualified as an English solicitor in 1990 and as an avocat at the Paris Bar in 1994. Before his appointment at the LCIA in April 2008, he practised at Holman Fenwick & Willan in London where he was a member of the firm’s Trade and Energy Group. He has lectured on aspects of arbitration and contract law at international trade conferences and arbitrators’ seminars in the UK and abroad.