Yves Derains

Partner, Derains Gharavi, France; Former secretary General, icc international court of Arbitration; incoming chairman, icc institute of World business Law

Yves Derains, former Secretary General of the ICC International Court of Arbitration and Director of the Legal Department of the ICC, is a member of the Paris Bar and a founding partner of the law firm Derains & Gharavi. He is specializes in international arbitration and is acts as both arbitrator and counsel of parties in arbitration proceedings. Mr Derains is former Chairman of the Comité Français de l'Arbitrage and Incoming

Chairman of the ICC Institute of World Business Law. He was Chairman of the Working Party on the Revision of the ICC Rules of Arbitration in 1998 and Co-Chairman of the ICC Task Force on the Reduction of Costs and Time in International Arbitration. He has been a member of the French Committee on Private International Law since 1978. He is a member of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) and member of various other organizations specialized in international arbitration and in international business law. He is honorary professor of the law faculties of San Ignacio de Loyola University and Universidad del Pacifico, Lima, Peru.

Mr Derains is also the author of many publications on International Commercial Arbitration and on International Business Law, in particular: "Evaluation of damages in international arbitration", (ICC Institute of World Business Law, 2006) and A Guide to the ICC Rules of Arbitration (Kluwer Law International, 2005, with E. Schwartz).

Antonias Dimolitsa

Partner, Antonias Dimolitsa & Associates, Greece; Vice-chairman, icc commission on Arbitration; incoming Vice-chairman, icc institute of World business Law

Antonias Dimolitsa is a graduate of the University of Athens and the University of Paris II. She is a member of the Athens Bar admitted to the Greek Supreme Court. She is senior partner in her own law firm in Athens.

She has extensive experience in arbitration. She has served as president, sole arbitrator, co-arbitrator and counsel in numerous international arbitration proceedings, under the rules of the ICC, LCIA, CEPAnI, UnCITRAL, as well as in ad hoc arbitrations. She has been president twice of ad hoc committees in ICSID annulment proceedings.

Her areas of specialization include private international law, agency and distribution, construction, energy, EC law, foreign investment, international sales of goods joint ventures.

She is the author of numerous articles on international arbitration and a frequent speaker at international conferences on international commercial contracts and arbitration.

For twelve years (1988-1999) she was a member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration. She was a member of the working party on the revision of the ICC rules of arbitration in 1998 and Vice-President of the IBA Arbitration Committee. She was also a member of the IBA Subcommittee on the Revision of the IBA Rules on the Taking of Evidence in International Arbitration (2010). She is incoming Vice-Chairman of the ICC Institute of World Business Law, Vice-President of the ICC Commission on Arbitration, Council Member of the Greek Arbitration Association, Member of the Club of Arbitrators of the Milan Chamber of national and International Arbitration and Athens Correspondent of the International Arbitration Institute (IAI).

Bernard Hanotiau

Partner and Professor, Hanotiau & van den berg, belgium; council Member, icc institute of World business Law; council Member, iccA

Bernard Hanotiau is a member of the Brussels and Paris bars. In 2001, he established in Brussels a boutique law firm concentrating on international arbitration and litigation. He is also a professor at the Law School of Louvain University where he teaches international arbitration. He has a PhD from Louvain University and an LLM from Columbia University (1973).

Since 1978, Mr Hanotiau has been actively involved in international commercial arbitration as party-appointed arbitrator, chairman, sole arbitrator, counsel and expert in various parts of the world. He is a member of ICCA, the ICC International Arbitration Commission and a Council Member of the ICC Institute. He is also Vice-President of CEPAnI and of the Institute of Transnational Arbitration (Dallas). He has written a major treatise on complex arbitrations, (Complex Arbitrations: Multiparty, Multicontract, Multi-issues and Class Actions, Kluwer Law International 2006).

Kap-You (Kevin) Kim

Partner and Head of international Litigation & Arbitration Group, bae, Kim & Lee, Korea; Member, icc international court of Arbitration; secretary General, international council for commercial Arbitration (iccA)

Kevin Kim is head of Bae, Kim & Lee LLC's Arbitration Group, the recognized leader in dispute resolution in Korea and abroad. He has recently been appointed as Secretary General of ICCA. He is a member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration and the LCIA Court, a board member of the AAA, a member of th Panel of Arbitrators of the ICSID, an Arbitration Committee Vice-Chair of the IBA and an editorial board member of the Global Arbitration Review.

He is also a senior advisor and arbitrator of the Korea Commercial Arbitration Board (KCAB), a Vice-President of the Korean Council for International Arbitration (KoCIA) and a Vice-Chair of the International Arbitration Committee of ICC Korea. He also served as the chair of the International Committee of the Korean Bar Association from 2000 to 2002.

Mr Kim has acted as counsel in over 150 commercial arbitral proceedings under the rules of ICC, LCIA, AAA, SIAC, JCAA, UnCITRAL and KCAB, in crossborder matters. He has also acted as chairman or arbitrator in numerous international arbitration proceedings.

He received his legal education at Seoul national University Law College (LL.B., LL.M.) and Harvard Law School (LL.M.). He is a part-time professor at the Judicial Research and Training Institute, the Supreme Court of Korea and the author of a number of articles and publications on litigation and international arbitration practice. He was in the "45 under 45 in International Arbitration 2006" and is also listed as a leading arbitration expert in Asia by Chambers (2005-2010), Asia-Pacific Legal 500 (2005-2010) and in Who's Who Legal (2006-2010).

Serge Lazareff

Partner, Lazareff Le bars, France; chairman, icc institute of World business Law

Serge Lazareff is a partner at Lazareff Le Bars. He holds a doctorate in Law from the University of Paris and holds an LL.M. from Harvard. He is Chairman of the ICC Institute of World Business Law 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.

Laurent Lévy

Partner, Lévy Kaufmann-Kohler, switzerland; Vice-chairman, icc international court of Arbitration; council Member, icc institute of World business Law

Laurent Lévy, admitted to the Geneva Bar in 1974, has been a partner at Lévy Kaufmann-Kohler since 1 January 2008. Previously, he was a partner in the International Arbitration Department of Schellenberg Wittmer, Geneva and Zurich. He concentrates his activities on international arbitration. He is a Doctor at Law (Paris) and was educated at the universities of Paris, Geneva and Wurzburg (Germany).

Dr Lévy is currently Vice-Chairman of the ICC International Court of Arbitration and Council Member of the ICC Institute of World Business Law. He is a former Vice-President of the LCIA Court (London). He is also Visiting Professor at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London.

Julian D.M. Lew, Qc

Barrister, 20 Essex street chambers, united Kingdom; Professor and Head, school of international Arbitration, Queen Mary, university of London; council Member, icc institute of World business Law

Julian Lew has been involved with international arbitration for well over 30 years as both as a practitioner and academic. He has acted as chairman of arbitral tribunals, sole arbitrator and co-arbitrator under all the major international arbitration systems, including ICC, ICSID, LCIA, UnCITRAL, Swiss Rules, and Stockholm Institute. Until 2005, he was a partner at Herbert Smith and head of its international arbitration practice.

He is Professor of Law and Head of the School of International Arbitration, Queen Mary, University of London. He has written and lectured extensively on all aspects of international arbitration. He is a member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration (UK). He has an LLB from the University of London and a doctorate in private international law from the Catholic University of Louvain.

Pierre Mayer

Professor of Law, university of Paris i; Partner, Dechert LLP, France; council Member, icc institute of World business Law

Pierre Mayer is a partner at the Paris office of Dechert LLP and a professor at the University of Paris-I Panthéon- Sorbonne, where he has taught private international law, arbitration law and the law of contracts since 1984. He practises arbitration, both as counsel and arbitrator, mainly in the fields of international trade, joint ventures and industrial cooperation, oil and gas, technology transfer and distribution, under the rules of ICSID, ICC and UNCITRAL.

President of the French Committee on International Private Law, he is also associate member of the Institut de droit international, a Council member of the ICC Institute of World Business Law and member of the Comité Français de l'Arbitrage. He is a former President of the Committee on International Commercial Arbitration of the International Law Association and former President of the Committee on Private International Law of the International Union of Lawyers (UIA). Mr Mayer is the author of numerous articles and several books including a treatise on private international law, "Droit international privé", (Montchrestien 1977, now in its tenth edition in collaboration with Professor Vincent Heuzé) and the 2003 General Course at the Hague Academy of International Law.

Alexis Mourre

Partner, castaldi Mourre & Partners, France; Vice-President, icc international court of Arbitration; incoming Vice-chairman, icc institute of World business Law

Alexis Mourre is a member of the Paris Bar as well as the London Law Society (Foreign Lawyer), and specializes in international arbitration and international litigation. He is a founding partner of Castaldi Mourre & Partners. He has served as counsel to party, co-arbitrator, sole arbitrator or expert in more than 90 international arbitral procedures, in commercial as well as investment cases, both ad hoc and before the most prominent arbitral institutions.

He is a Vice-President of the ICC International Court of Arbitration, incoming Vice-Chairman of the ICC Institute of World Business Law as well as a member of a large number of scientific and professional institutions dedicated to arbitration and private international law. He is an honorary professor at the University of Lima and teaches at the University of Versailles and the University of the Dominican Republic. Mr Mourre is the author of numerous books and publications in the field of international business law, private international law and arbitration law. He directs the Cahiers de l'Arbitrage, a leading French publication in the field of arbitration.

José Emilio Nunes Pinto

Founding Partner, José Emilio nunes Pinto Advogados, Brazil

José Emilio nunes Pinto is the founding partner of the law firm José Emilio nunes Pinto Advogados based in São Paulo, Brazil. His practice is dedicated primarily to domestic and international arbitration, acting as arbitrator, counsel and consultant.

William A. Park

Professor of Law, boston university, united states; General Editor, Arbitration international; President, London court of international Arbitration (LciA)

William (Rusty) Park is Professor of Law at Boston University, where he teaches international tax and finance. After Yale and Columbia, he practised in Paris before returning home to Boston to serve as Director of Boston University's Center for Banking Law Studies. He has held visiting academic appointments in Cambridge, Dijon, Hong Kong, Auckland and Geneva.

Professor Park is President of the London Court of International Arbitration and General Editor of Arbitration International. He has served on the Claims Resolution Tribunal for Dormant Swiss Accounts and the Appeals Tribunal of the International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims, and now sits on nAFTA Chapter 14 Financial Services Roster. He is a member of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) and the American Arbitration Association Board of Directors, and a Fellow of both the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the College of Commercial Arbitrators. In 2008 the United States appointed him to the Panel of Arbitrators for the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes. Professor Park's published work includes Arbitration of International Business Disputes, International Chamber of Commerce Arbitration (with Craig and Paulsson), International Commercial Arbitration (with Reisman, Craig and Paulsson), Income Tax Treaty Arbitration (with Tillinghast) and International Forum Selection.

V.V. Veeder, Qc

Essex court chambers, united Kingdom; council Member, icc institute of World business Law

V.V. Veeder practises as an advocate and arbitrator in London and abroad, specializing in commercial law and international trade, from Essex Court Chambers. He is also Visiting Professor for Investment Arbitration at King's College, University of London. He is a Council Member of ICCA and the ICC Institute of World Business Law.

He is Vice-President and Member of the London Court of International Arbitration and was Chairman of LCIA Limited from 1999 to 2003. He is a Member of the Contract Recognition Board for FIA Formula 1 World Championship (Geneva) and was Member of the TAF World Cup Division for the 2002 FIFA World Cup in Korea/Japan. He was a member of the United Kingdom's Department of Trade and Industry Advisory Committee on the Law of Arbitration from 1990 to 1996 and General Editor of "Arbitration International" from 1985 to 2006.