ANDREW W.A. BERKELEY, FCIARB.,

is a Barrister and Arbitrator, Member of the Energy and Utilities Panel of the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution, New York and First Vice President of the ICC Institute. He was the first Chairman of the International Arbitration Club of London. He has practised as an international commercial arbitrator for ten years, having previously headed three legal departments in major British enterprises in the chemical, oil and gas, and telecommunications industries. He is also a consultant to the Multinationals Group, ICC (UK) and in that capacity has represented British Industry in the negotiation of international trade and investment conventions, including the OECD Convention for Combating the Bribery of Foreign Government Officials.

ROBERT BRINER

is Chairman of the ICC International Court of Arbitration, Paris, and Attorney, Counsel of law, at the law firm Lenz & Staehelin in Geneva. He is Panel Chairman of the United Nations Compensation Commission, Former Member of the Claims Resolution Tribunal for Dormant Accounts in Switzerland and Former President of the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal in The Hague. He is also former Chair of the Section on Business Law of the International Bar Association (IBA) and Member of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA), the International Council of Arbitration for Sport and the Executive Board of the Swiss Arbitration Association. He has written numerous publications, particularly on the subject of arbitration.

BERNARDO CREMADES

is the senior partner of the law firm B. Cremades y Asociados in Madrid, specializing in international commercial arbitration and commercial law. He is President of the Spanish Court of Arbitration, Council Member of the ICC Institute, Chairman of the Global Center for Dispute Resolution Research, and a Member of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration.

ANTONIO CRIVELLARO

is a Council Member of the ICC Institute, Professor of International Trade Law at Padua University, and partner in the law firm Bonelli Erede Pappalardo, Milan office, where he heads the "International Litigation Department". He has extensive experience in international commercial arbitration, especially in the field of construction and investment disputes, either as party's counsel or arbitrator. He has acted and is acting before ICC, ICSID, LCIA, SCC, Cairo Centre of International Commercial Arbitration, Bangkok Arbitration Office, and Milan Chamber of Arbitration.

ARTHUR HARVERD

is a Chartered Accountant and Chartered Arbitrator and is a consultant to Carter Backer Winter, London. As the former head of a panel of independent accountants which assists Scotland Yard's Metropolitan Fraud Squad, he has undertaken many fraud and money laundering investigations and has acted as an expert accountant in several high-profile trials. He now mainly practices as an arbitrator. He is a past Chairman of The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and is on the Board of Directors of the LCIA and the International Dispute Resolution Centre, London.

ALAN JENKINS

is a partner and head of International at Eversheds, an international law firm. Before his appointment to that position he was a partner in the commercial litigation group. He has extensive experience of trans-national litigation and arbitration, involving complex fraud across-borders. His most recent case was the criminal trial involving those accused of the Lockerbie bombing. He is the author of the chapter on investigations in International Commercial Fraud, published by Sweet & Maxwell.

KRISTINE KARSTEN

is a partner of Eversheds Frere Cholmeley, Paris, France, and Council Member of the ICC Institute of World Business Law. She has had broad experience in various fields of corporate law, but is more particularly specialized in banking and financial law, as well as real estate law, in an international environment. In this context, she has acquired a certain familiarity with the techniques used in money laundering operations and commercial fraud and is often called upon to assist banks and businesses in developing and implementing procedures aimed at reducing their exposure to these crimes. A frequent speaker at conferences on the subject, Ms Karsten has also been an active speaker at conferences on other topics organized by ICC.

SERGE LAZAREFF

is a Member of the Paris Bar, partner of Lazareff & Associés. He is Doctor of Law of the University of Paris and holds an LL.M. from Harvard. He is Chairman of the ICC Institute and Chairman of the French Arbitration Commission of ICC, France. He was formerly General Counsel for International Operations and Vice-President Asia-Pacific of Pechiney, one of the leading French industrial groups.

ALLAN PHILIP

is senior partner, Philip & Partners, Copenhagen, Denmark. He is former Professor at the University of Copenhagen and Dean of the Law School, Member of the Institut de Droit International and of the Curatorium of the Hague Academy of International Law, Chairman of the Panel on Oil Sector Claims in the United Nations' Compensation Commission for the Gulf War, Delegate of Denmark to a number of diplomatic conferences on private international law and maritime law, as well as Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the International Arbitration Club of London.

MARK PIETH

is Professor of Criminal Law and Criminology at the University of Basel, Switzerland. He is former Head of Section on Economic and Organised Crime in the Swiss Federal Office of Justice (Ministry of Justice and Police). As an official and later as a consultant to governments, he has acquired extensive experience in international fora, most notably as a Member of the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF), the Chemical Action Task Force on Precursor Chemicals, as Chairman of an Intergovernmental Expert Group of the UN to determine the extent of illicit trafficking in drugs and as the Chair of the OECD Working Group on Bribery in International Business Transactions.

GIORGIO SACERDOTI

is an attorney, professor of international law at Bocconi University, Milan, Member of the Appellate Body of the WTO, Geneva, and formerly Vice-Chairman of the OECD Working Group on Bribery in International Business Transactions. He is an expert on international trade and investment law and on the law of international contracts and arbitration. He was a member of the OECD Working Group since its establishment in 1989 until 2001 as a delegate and expert for Italy. He chaired the Group of Experts that prepared the draft of the OECD Convention against Bribery in 1996-97 and was active in the negotiation of the Convention's text.