Doak Bishop

Partner, King & Spalding, Houston, Unites States

Doak Bishop is Partner in King & Spalding's Houston office and Co-Chair of the firm's International Arbitration Practice Group. He holds a B.A. degree with high honours and departmental distinction from Southern Methodist University (1973), and a J.D. degree with honours from the University of Texas Law School (1976).

Mr Bishop has over 35 years of legal experience, with a focus on international arbitration and foreign investment disputes. He is member of the Board Certified in Civil Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, the Board of Directors of the American Arbitration Association, and the Board of Trustees of the Center for American and International Law. He is Vice-Chair of the Institute of Transnational Arbitration, a member of the U.S. delegation to the NAFTA Advisory Committee on Private Commercial Disputes, and advisor to the American Law Institute's Restatement of the Law (3rd) of International Commercial Arbitration. He was formerly Adjunct Professor, SMU Law School (1999) (International Commercial Arbitration) and University of Houston Law School (2002) (Foreign Investment Disputes), Co-Chair of the International Litigation Committee of ABA's Litigation Section (1998-2000) and Chair of the Litigation Section of the State Bar of Texas (1998- 1999). He specializes in international arbitration, international energy disputes, investment and infrastructure disputes, construction disputes, and environment issues. He has registered more than 30 ICSID arbitrations and represented investors in about 40 investment arbitrations against foreign governments. He has been an arbitrator in about 70 arbitrations, including NAFTA and BIT arbitrations under the UNCITRAL Rules. He is editor of The Art of Advocacy in International Arbitration (2nd ed., Juris Publishing 2010), co-author with Professor James Crawford and Professor Michael Reisman of Foreign Investment Disputes: Cases, Materials and Commentaries (Kluwer, 2005), editor of Enforcement of Arbitral Awards Against Sovereigns (Juris 2009) and research editor of the Texas Law Review.

Karl-Heinz Bckstiegel

Arbitrator; Chairman, Dis, Germany;Council Member, ICC

Institute of World Business Law

Karl-Heinz Böckstiegel was Chair of International Business Law and Director of the Institute of Air and Space Law, University of Cologne until 2001. He was President of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) (1993-1997), Panel Chairman of the United Nations Compensation Commission (1994- 1996), and President of the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal (1984-1988). Since 2001 he is an independent arbitrator and

Professor Emeritus of the Law Faculty of the University of Cologne. Other functions include Chairman of the Board of the German Institution of Arbitration (DIS), Member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration, Patron of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and President of the International Law Association (ILA) (2004-2006).

Dr Böckstiegel has experience as party counsel, a mediator, an arbitrator and as president of the arbitration tribunal in many national and international arbitrations. He has authored 12 books and more than 300 articles and is the editor of 35 books.

Teresa Y.W. Cheng

Senior Counsel, Des Voeux Chambers, Hong Kong

Teresa Cheng GBS SC JP FICE FCIArb is a Senior Counsel, Chartered Engineer, Chartered Arbitrator and Accredited Mediator. She is Vice-President of the ICC International Court of Arbitration, appointed in 2009, as well as Vice-President of the International Council of Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) and Vice-Chairperson of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC). She is a member of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment

Disputes (ICSID) Panel of Arbitrators, designated by the Chairman of the ICSID Administrative Council. She is a past President of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) and a past Chairman of its East Asia Branch. She is also Council Member of the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Committee (CIETAC), a member of the Asia Pacific Users' Council of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) and a panel arbitrator of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). She also sits as a Deputy Judge in the Court of First Instance of the High Court of Hong Kong.

Ms Cheng is a Fellow of King's College, London, Visiting Professor at the School of Law of Tsinghua University, Beijing, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She has co-authored numerous books and articles in journals and has presented papers at many seminars. Some of her recent publications include Construction Law and Practice in Hong Kong and Arbitration in Hong Kong: A Practical Guide, published by Sweet & Maxwell, as well as papers in the "International Council for Commercial Arbitration Congress Series", published by Kluwer Law International.

Yves Derains

Founding partner, Derains Gharavi, France; Former Secretary General, ICC International Court of Arbitration; 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 specialized in international arbitration and acts both as an arbitrator and counsel for parties in arbitration proceedings.

Mr Derains is a former Chairman of the Comité Français de l'Arbitrage and 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 member of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) and a member of various other organizations specialized in international arbitration and international business law. He is an 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 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 (2nd ed., , with E. Schwartz) (Kluwer Law International, 2005).

Jean-André Diaz

Special Counsel, Total E&P, France ; Chairman, Corporate Counsel International Arbitration Group

Jean-André Diaz is presently Senior Counsel at the Legal Department of TOTAL Exploration and Production.

As Legal Director, he has led a team of lawyers for many years and is personally in charge of negotiating and enforcing contracts for both the upstream and downstream sectors of the petroleum industry in many parts of the world (Africa, the Middle East, Northern and Central Europe and the Americas).

This has given him the opportunity to be

regularly involved in international arbitrations under various rules and legal systems. He is the Chair of the Oil and Gas Committee of the International Bar Association (IBA) and the Chair of the Corporate Counsel International Arbitration Group (CCIAG).

Hamid Gharavi

Founding Partner, Derains & Gharavi, France

Hamid Gharavi, co-Founding Partner of the boutique arbitration firm Derains & Gharavi, is a member of the Paris and New York Bars.

He has acted as counsel and arbitrator in over 100 ad hoc and institutional commercial arbitrations as well as arbitrations under investment treaties.

Dr Gharavi is a Member of the LCIA Court and an appointee of the Kingdom of Cambodia to the ICSID Panel of Arbitrators.

He is the author of numerous publications on arbitration, including The International Effectiveness of the Annulment of an Award published by Kluwer.

Judith Gill, QC

Partner, Allen & Overy LLP, United Kingdom

Judith Gill has been a Partner of Allen & Overy LLP since 1992. She graduated in Jurisprudence from Worcester College, Oxford University and in 1985 qualified with Allen & Overy as a solicitor. In 1990 she obtained a Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration, with distinction, from Queen Mary College, University of London and in 1998 qualified as a Solicitor Advocate (Higher Courts - Civil). She is only the second woman solicitor-advocate to be appointed QC and the first with

an international arbitration practice. In July 2011 Judith won the award for "Best in Commercial Arbitration" at Euromoney's Women in Business Law Awards.

Ms Gill specializes in international commercial arbitration, with extensive experience in both institutional and ad hoc arbitration, including proceedings under the LCIA, ICC, ICSID, AAA and UNCITRAL rules, as well as many others. She is regularly appointed as an arbitrator and frequently appears as lead advocate in arbitration proceedings. Her arbitration practice covers a broad range of subjects including insurance, joint ventures, distributorships, projects and many other commercial dealings, and she has acted both for and against government entities.

Ms Gill holds appointments at many arbitral institutions and is currently Co-Chair of the Arbitration Committee of the International Bar Association Legal Practice Division, Vice-Chair of the International Commercial Dispute Resolution Committee of the ABA Section of International Law (ABA International), Director of the LCIA and former member of the LCIA Court, a Director of the SIAC, a Director of the AAA, Chair of the International Arbitration Club, Member of the ICC UK Arbitration Group, Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies.

Ms Gill is joint author of the last three editions of the leading textbook Russell on Arbitration and has published widely on arbitration issues.

Horacio A. Grigera Naón

Independent International Arbitrator and Consultant, Washington D.C., United States

Horacio Grigera Naón, presently an independent international arbitrator and consultant on arbitration, business and international law matters, is a former Secretary General of the ICC International Court of Arbitration and a practitioner in the field of international commercial arbitration and international business law for over 25 years.

As well as being a Distinguished Practitioner in Residence at the Washington College of Law, American University, Washington D.C. and the Director of the International Commercial Arbitration Center, he is also a member of the American Law Institute, a former Special Counsel with White & Case LLP and a former Senior Counsel with the International Finance Corporation, Washington D.C. He holds LL.M. and S.J.D degrees from Harvard Law School, LL.B and LL.D. degrees from the School of Law of the University of Buenos Aires and is a

member of the Argentine Federal, New York, District of Columbia and United States Supreme Court Bars.

He has also published widely in these areas, including a book on Choice-of-Law Problems in International Commercial Arbitration (1992), and has lectured at the Hague Academy of International Law (2001).

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 a boutique law firm concentrating on international arbitration and litigation in Brussels. 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 LL.M. from Columbia University (1973).

Since 1978, Mr Hanotiau has been actively involved in international commercial arbitration as a 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, 2006

Karl H. Hennessee

vice-president, litigation & regulatory affairs, airbus sas, france

Karl Hennessee is Vice-President and Head of Litigation & Regulatory Affairs at Airbus SAS in Toulouse, France, and with his team handles Airbus's litigation/contentious and legal regulatory matters. He also leads the EADS Group's Litigation Centre of Competence and lectures at the Toulouse Business School. Karl has previously practised law in Germany and in the United

States on behalf of institutions including the German government's Federal Cartel Office, DaimlerChrysler, White & Case, Feddersen and Vinson & Elkins.

Educated at the University of Göttingen, Germany, the London School of Economics and SMU Law School, he holds degrees in history, economics and law (with a specialty in aviation). He is Vice-Chair of the ABA Aviation Litigation Section and a member of the Leadership of the ABA Antitrust Section, as well as a Fellow of the Robert Bosch Foundation and Phi Beta Kappa. Mr Hennessee was short-listed for the 2008 ILO Individual Litigation Award and was selected as the winner of the ILO Award for Litigation "Individual of the Year" for 2009. He has published over forty articles on various legal subjects and is currently a doctoral candidate in international comparative law at the Humboldt University (Berlin).

Peter Leaver, QC

International Commercial Arbitrator, One Essex Court, United Kingdom

Peter Leaver QC is an experienced international commercial arbitrator. Through his extensive practice at the Bar, Peter Leaver is experienced in banking, insurance and financial services and related jurisdictional issues. He is also experienced in sports cases. He was appointed to silk in 1987 and is Recorder of the Crown Court and a Deputy High Court Judge.

He is Chairman of the Board of the London Court of International Arbitration and sits in arbitrations in many parts of the world under the rules of many different institutions as well as arbitrations under the UNCITRAL Rules.

He was a member of the Court of Arbitration for Sport and was appointed as a member of the ad hoc Division of the Court of Arbitration for Sport for the Salt Lake City Olympic Winter Games 2002 and for the Turin Olympic Winter Games 2006. Between 1997 and 1999 he took a sabbatical from the Bar and was Chief Executive of the FA Premier League. He is currently the President of the United Kingdom National Anti-Doping Panel.

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 in International Arbitration for well over 30 years as both a practitioner and an academic. He has acted as chairman of arbitral tribunals, sole arbitrator and coarbitrator 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 LL.B. from the University of London and a Doctorate in Private International Law from the Catholic University of Louvain.

Justin Li

Justin Li graduated in 2012 with a Double-Degree (LLB/JD) from Columbia Law School and University College London with particular interest in investment law and in international commercial arbitration. During his time at Columbia, he was the senior editor of American Review of International Arbitration. During his studies, he has internships with Hogan Lovells (Hong Kong), Des Voeux Chambers (Hong Kong), Willem's Avocat (Paris) and Jones Day (Beijing). In

summer 2011, he worked as a stagiaire for the International Arbitration Group at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Paris.

Annette Magnusson

Secretary General, Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, Sweden

Annette Magnusson is Secretary General of the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC), since 2010. She joined SCC from Mannheimer Swartling Advokatbyrå (Stockholm), where she was a member of the dispute resolution group. Before then she headed strategic planning of knowledge management at Baker McKenzie in Sweden. Mrs Magnusson was SCC Deputy Secretary General and SCC Legal Counsel from 1998 to 2005. She is the author or editor of several publications on international arbitration, a

member of the Research Panel for Arbitration Law at the Stockholm Centre for Commercial Law, and a frequent lecturer.

Annette Magnusson is Secretary General of the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC), since 2010. She joined SCC from Mannheimer Swartling Advokatbyrå (Stockholm), where she was a member of the dispute resolution group. Before then she headed strategic planning of knowledge management at Baker McKenzie in Sweden. Mrs Magnusson was SCC Deputy Secretary General and SCC Legal Counsel from 1998 to 2005. She is the author or editor of several publications on international arbitration, a member of the Research Panel for Arbitration Law at the Stockholm Centre for Commercial Law, and a frequent lecturer.

Alexis Mourre

Partner, Castaldi Mourre & Partners, France; Vice-president, ICC International Court of Arbitration; Vice-Chairman, ICC Institute of World Business Law

Alexis Mourre is a founding Partner of Castaldi Mourre & Partners, a 25-lawyer firm with offices in Paris and Milan. He heads the international arbitration and litigation department of the firm. As of September 2012, he has acted in more than 200 ad hoc or institutional commercial arbitration proceedings as counsel, expert witness, co-arbitrator, chairman or sole arbitrator.

His arbitration experience includes, in particular, mergers and acquisitions, shareholders' agreements, joint ventures, competition, investment disputes, telecommunications, air and space, construction and energy. He is author, coauthor or editor of several books, including Written Evidence and Discovery in International Arbitration (ICC Publishing, 2009), Droit judiciaire privé européen des affaires (Bruylant, 2003), Le nouveau droit communautaire de la concurrence (Bruylant, 2004), and Mondialisation, politique industrielle et droit communautaire de la concurrence (Bruylant, 2006). He is founder and past director of the Paris Journal of International Arbitration, a leading French publication on arbitration and ADR. He lectures on arbitration in several universities and regularly intervenes as a speaker in seminars and congresses on international arbitration. He has published more than 80 articles on arbitration and private international law.

Alexis Mourre is Vice-President of the ICC International Court of Arbitration and Co-chair of the IBA Arbitration Committee. He is Vice-President of the ICC Institute of World Business Law, member of the court of the LCIA and member of the Arbitral Council of the Milan Chamber of Commerce. He is member of the ICC international arbitration commission as well as of the ILA arbitration commission. He is member of numerous associations, including the ASA, the LCIA, the Milan Club of arbitrators, and the Institute for Transnational Arbitration (Advisory Board).

Alexis is fluent in French, English, Spanish and Italian. He has a working knowledge of Portuguese.

Constantine Partasides

Partner, Director of International Arbitration, Freshfields, Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, France

After practising international arbitration at Freshfields' Paris office for ten years, Constantine Partasides has returned to head the Freshfields international arbitration group in London. He has acted as counsel and arbitrator in over 50 ad hoc and institutional arbitrations, including under the rules of UNCITRAL, ICC, LCIA, AAA and ICSID. He has appeared as counsel in some of the largest commercial arbitrations of the last decade in the energy,

telecommunications and satellite sectors. He has also advised and represented a variety of investors and states in disputes under various bilateral and multilateral investment treaties. Mr Partasides is a co-author of the fourth and fifth editions of the leading textbook on international arbitration Redfern and Hunter on International Arbitration. He is a solicitor-advocate (Higher Courts - Civil).

Eduardo Silva Romero

Partner, Dechert LLP, France; Associate Member, ICC Institute of World Business Law

Eduardo Silva Romero specializes in litigation and arbitration matters, particularly international disputes involving state entities, as well as Spanish and Latin American parties.

An acknowledged expert in international arbitration, he has supervised numerous proceedings before arbitration panels worldwide. Former Deputy Counsel, Counsel and Deputy Secretary General of the ICC International Court of Arbitration, Mr Silva Romero's far-reaching experience includes international sales and distribution contracts, construction, oil, M&A and electricity-related disputes. He has advised or acted as an arbitrator on arbitration matters conducted under the

auspices of ICC, ICSID, AAA and the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, as well as in ad hoc proceedings under the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules. Mr Silva Romero is the Chairman of the ICC Task Force on Arbitration involving States or State Entities. He joined Dechert LLP from Coudert Brothers' Paris office in 2005.

Recognized as one of the top 45 lawyers under the age of 45 (45 under 45) by Global Arbitration Review, Mr Silva Romero is also listed in the Legal 500, Chambers Europe, Chambers Latin America and Décideurs Stratégie Finance Droit. He is admitted to the Colombian and French Bars, is fluent in Spanish, French and English and has a working knowledge of Portuguese.

Margrete Stevens

Consultant, King & Spalding, Washington D.C., United States

Margrete Stevens joined King & Spalding's International Arbitration Group as a consultant in 2007, after working for nearly 20 years at the World Bank Group's International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), where she served as senior counsel. Ms Stevens serves as a Member of the Board of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce Arbitration Institute and is the Founding Member of the Washington, D.C. International Arbitration Club. In addition, she is a former Vice-Chair of the

International Bar Association's Mediation Committee and a member of the IBA Task Force on Counsel Ethics in International Arbitration. Ms Stevens holds a Cand. Jur. degree from the University of Copenhagen and an LL.M. from the London School of Economics.

Pierre Tercier

Emeritus Professor, University of Fribourg, Switzerland; Honorary Chairman, ICC International Court of Arbitration

Pierre Tercier is former Chairman of the ICC International Court of Arbitration. A Swiss national and emeritus professor at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, he has extensive international arbitration and dispute resolution experience, having served on numerous occasions in ICC, ICSID and other cases. He is highly respected in the international legal and business community as an arbitrator, lecturer and author. He formerly chaired the Swiss Antitrust Commission and the Swiss Insurance Law Society. He is

visiting professor of law at numerous universities, including Geneva and Paris. He graduated from the University of Fribourg summa cum laude and was admitted to the bar in 1969. In 2004, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Paris II. He is member of the ASA Board and a Council member of the ICCA.

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 from1999 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 2002 FIFA World Cup Korea/ Japan. He was 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.