Georges Affaki

Vice-Chair, ICC Banking Commission; Council Member, ICC Institute of World Business Law

Dr. Georges Affaki is managing director in a global bank. He chaired the drafting group for the revision of the ICC Uniform Rules for Demand Guarantees (URDG 758) and currently chairs the revision group for the ICC Trade Finance Dispute Resolution by Expertise Group (DOCDEX). He is a member of the Governing Council of the UNIDROIT Foundation.

Dr Affaki is Associate Professor of law at the University of Paris II, guest fellow at the University of Oxford and visiting lecturer at Queen Mary, University of London, and at University Paris Dauphine. He represents ICC at the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Working Group VI - Secured Transactions.

He is the author of several books, including "A User's Handbook to ICC Uniform Rules for Demand Guarantees", ICC Publ. No. 631; "Trade Finance", ITC Publishing (awarded the European Prize on Interdisciplinary Research); "Cross-border insolvency and conflict of jurisdictions", Bruylant, "Increasing Access to Credit - Reforming Secured Transaction Law", ITC Publishing, "The Guide to ICC Uniform Rules for Demand Guarantees" (with Sir Roy Goode), ICC Publ. No. 702, and over 60 articles and case notes on international banking, secured lending and arbitration.

He chairs a working group on arbitration and banking organized under the aegis of the French Arbitration Committee and has chaired a Paris Europlace working group on Islamic Finance whose recommendations were presented in June 2009 in a report titled Applicable Law and Dispute Resolution in Islamic Finance - A French Courts' Perspective.

Christopher Bogart

Chief Executive Officer, Burford Capital

Christopher Bogart co-founded Burford and serves as Chief Executive Officer and a director of Burford Capital LLC. Burford is the world's largest provider of investment capital and risk solutions for litigation and arbitration, and is publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange.

Mr. Bogart's background includes a wide variety of legal, executive management and investment experience. In recent years, he has served as Chief Executive Officer of Churchill Ventures Limited, a publicly traded investment vehicle; Managing Director of Glenavy Capital LLC, a global media and technology investment firm; and General Partner of the Glenavy Arbitration Investment Fund LP, a dispute financing firm.

Previously, Mr. Bogart held a number of senior executive positions with Time Warner Inc. He served as Executive Vice President & General Counsel of Time Warner Inc., managing one of the largest legal functions in the world with more than 350 lawyers. He also served as Chief Executive Officer of Time Warner Cable Ventures and one of four senior executives operating Time Warner Cable, Time Warner's largest business, with $9 billion in revenue and 30,000 employees.

In the course of his work with Time Warner, Mr. Bogart played a significant role in a number of major transactions and litigation matters:

• $350 billion merger with America Online

• Acquisition of Turner Broadcasting, including CNN and its other media properties

• Antitrust litigation with News Corporation

• Attempted acquisitin of EMI Music

• Joint venture with Microsoft and Compaq to create a major national broadband business

• Constitutional challenge of the federal Cable Act

• $550 million litigation over the Six Flags theme park

Mr. Bogart came to Time Warner from the New York law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore where he was a trial lawyer representing companies such as IBM, GE and Time Warner. He was the gold medalist and graduated with distinction from the Faculty of Law of the University of Western Ontario, and served as a law clerk to the Chief Justice of Ontario.

Régis Bonnan

Associate, Lévy Kaufmann-Kohler

Mr. Bonnan is an associate at Lévy Kaufmann-Kohler in Geneva since September 2010 and specializes in international commercial arbitration.

Mr. Bonnan is a Swiss, French and British citizen. He graduated from the Universities of London, Paris and Geneva. He completed an LL.M. at Duke University on an academic merit scholarship. He is admitted to the New York Bar and is fluent in English and French.

Bernardo Cremades

B. Cremades & Asociados

Profile Mr Cremades is a partner of B. Cremades & Asociados, specialized in Business law, M&A and dispute resolution related to international issues. Founded in 1969, the firm has become one of the best known names in Spanish legal circles.

B. Cremades & Asociados is a member of TAGLaw, a network of prominent, high-quality law firms in more than 50 countries.

Born: Zaragoza, Spain, 1943.

Admitted: 1969, Madrid; 1986, Paris, France.

Education: University of Seville (Law Degree, 1965; Ph.D., 1968); University of Cologne (Ph.D. 1967); Fulbright Scholar, 1972; Professor of Law, Universidad de Madrid.

Member: International Council of Commercial Arbitration; International Chamber of Commerce's Institute of World Business Law; ICSID Panel of Arbitrators and Conciliators by appointment of the Kingdom of Spain; Member of the Board of Trustees of the Cairo Regional Center - CRCICA; Honorary Professor, Universidad de Lima; CIETAC; SIAC; Chamber of Commerce of Hungary, the Czech Republic; Poland; Moldova; Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration - KLRCA; Chamber of Commerce of Milan; American Arbitration Association; Chamber of Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration of Sao Paulo - CIESP/FIESP; Chamber of Commerce Brazil / Canada - CCBC.

Languages: Spanish, French, English and German.

Practice Areas: M&A, International Arbitration, E-Commerce and Domain-Name Dispute Resolution.

Antonio Crivellaro

Head of Arbitration, Bonelli Erede Pappalardo, Italy; Council Member, ICC Institute of World Business Law

Antonio Crivellaro is a former partner and presently Of Counsel at Bonelli Erede Pappalardo, Milan office, where he heads the International Arbitration Group.

Mr. Crivellaro is a former Professor of International Law and International Trade Law. He has extensive experience in international - both commercial and investment - arbitration as either counsel or arbitrator (ICC; ICSID; LCIA; SCA; Cairo Centre; Bangkok Centre; Milan Chamber). His principal areas of expertise include disputes arising from contracts for works, plants, gas and oil projects, supplies, industrial erections and similar international projects. In addition, is specializes in international investment law and investor-to-State arbitrations.

He is a Council Member of the ICC Institute of World Business Law and author of a number of publications in international contract and arbitration law. He is Co-Director of the Italian journal of international trade law.

He is fluent in English, Spanish and French

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 member of the Paris Bar and a founding partner of the law firm Derains & Gharavi. He is specialized in international arbitration and is acting both as arbitrator and counsel of parties in arbitration proceedings.

Mr Derains is 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 is a member of the French Committee on Private International Law since 1978. He is member of the Governing Board 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, Universidad del Pacifico and of the Universidad de 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 - "A Guide to the ICC Rules of Arbitration" (Second edition, with E. Schwartz), Kluwer Law International, 2005.

Antonias Dimolitsa

Founding Partner, Antonias Dimolitsa & Associates, Greece; Vice-Chair, ICC Institute of World Business Law

Antonias Dimolitsa 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 in 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 ICC working group on the revision (1998) of the Arbitration Rules and as Vice-President of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and member of the DSC Committee she also participated in the most recent revision of the ICC Rules (2012). She was Vice-President of the IBA Arbitration Committee and a member of the IBA Subcommittee on the revision of the IBA Rules on the Taking of Evidence in International Arbitration (2010). She is Vice-Chair of the ICC Institute of World Business Law, 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).

Eckhard Hellbeck

White & Case LLP, Washington, DC

Eckhard Hellbeck is a senior associate with White & Case LLP in its Washington, DC office. His practice focuses on international dispute resolution, in particular complex arbitration and litigation proceedings based on international treaties and contracts involving sovereign state parties. He has acted in disputes involving financial instruments; privatization of formerly State-owned industries in the financial, chemical, steel, and oil and gas sectors; infrastructure projects, including in the power generation, telecommunications, and transportation sectors; corporate transactions; real estate development; and environmental protection.

Prior to joining White & Case LLP, Mr. Hellbeck was a lawyer and diplomat with the German Foreign Service for nine years. During that time, Mr. Hellbeck participated in the negotiation of treaties between the Federal Republic of Germany and the then Soviet Union and other countries. For five years, Mr. Hellbeck represented Germany at the United Nations in New York.

Mr. Hellbeck is a frequent speaker and publishes regularly on topics of international arbitration. Mr. Hellbeck graduated from the Free University of Berlin and earned an LL.M. degree from American University-Washington College of Law. He is a member of the Bars of Frankfurt am Main, New York and the District of Columbia.

Mark Kantor

Independent Arbitrator, Washington, D.C., United States

Mark Kantor was a partner in the Corporate and Project Finance Groups of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP, until he retired from the Firm.

He currently serves as an arbitrator and mediator. He teaches as an Adjunct Professor at the Georgetown University Law Center. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Vale Columbia Center for Sustainable International Investment (a joint undertaking of Columbia Law School and the Earth Institute at Columbia University). Additionally, Mr Kantor is Editor-in-Chief of the online journal Transnational Dispute Management.

Mr Kantor is a member of the Board of Directors of the American Arbitration Association, Vice-Chair of the DC Bar International Dispute Resolution Committee and a Chartered Arbitrator of The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He is listed in Who's Who Commercial Arbitration, Chambers USA (International Arbitration), Guide to the World's Leading Commercial Arbitration Experts, and Best Lawyers in America. He was honored as Best Lawyers' 2013 Washington DC International Arbitration - Governmental «Lawyer of the Year» and as the recipient of the ArbitralWomen Honorable Man Award (2011).

Mr Kantor is also a member of the Editorial Board of Global Arbitration Review, the Board of Editors of the Journal of World Energy Law and Business and the ADR Advisory Board of the International Law Institute. Among other publications, Mr Kantor is the author of Valuation for Arbitration: Compensation Standards, Valuation Methods and Expert Evidence (Kluwer 2008), named Best Book of 2008 in the OGEMID Awards, and "A Code of Conduct for Party- Appointed Experts in International Arbitration - "Can one be found?" 26 Arbitration International 323 (2010), named Best International Dispute Resolution Article of 2010 in the OGEMID Awards.

Charles Kaplan

Charles is a partner in the international arbitration practice at Orrick, Herrington, Sutcliffe. Previously he was the co-head of Herbert Smith Freehill's global arbitration practice. He began practising arbitration at Coudert Frères, with Laurie Craig and Jan Paulsson, where he became a partner in 1994.

An English barrister (1980) by training, Charles is also a French Avocat (1992).

He specialises in international arbitration and has been practising extensively in this area of law, for more than 25 years, under ICC, LCIA, AAA, ICSID, UNCITRAL, AFA (Association Française d'Arbitrage), Chamber of National and International Arbitration of Milan, and other rules.

He has acted in disputes concerning joint ventures, the telecommunications industry, oil production sharing agreements, mining conventions, gas sales agreements, construction and engineering projects, among others.

Charles regularly sits as arbitrator, under ICC, LCIA, Milan Chamber and other rules.

A law graduate of Cambridge University (1979) and a US citizen, Charles is bilingual in French and English. He also speaks Italian.

Charles is a board member and a member of the Arbitration Committee of the Association Française d'Arbitrage as well as an associate member of the ICC Institute of World Business Law.

He is co-editor in chief of the Paris Journal of International Arbitration / Les Cahiers de l'Arbitrage and is the author of numerous publications.

Carolyn B. Lamm

Carolyn B. Lamm is a partner of White & Case LLP based in Washington, D.C. and Co-Chair, International Arbitration Americas. Ms. Lamm previously was as a member of the Firm's Partnership Committee and currently is a member of the Firm's Strategic Global Council.

Her practice concentrates in international dispute resolution through international arbitration, litigation, and international trade remedies. She sits as an arbitrator in ICSID, ICDR and AAA arbitrations.

Ms. Lamm is a past President of the District of Columbia Bar and the American Bar Association; Chair of the Board of the American-Uzbekistan Chamber of Commerce; and a member of the Board, American-Turkish Council and American Indonesian Chamber of Commerce.

Ms. Lamm was appointed by President Clinton to the U.S. Panel and later by the Government of Uzbekistan to the Uzbek Panel of Arbitrators for ICSID arbitration.

She is a member of the American Arbitration Association Executive Committee and Board, and as a U.S. member of the NAFTA 2022 Committee; she is also a member of the American Law Institute's Council and its Advisory Committee on Restatement on International Arbitration and a Counselor on the ALI Restatement 4th on Public International Law; and, a Counselor to the Executive Board of ASIL.

Ms. Lamm is currently a Visiting Professor teaching International Investment Arbitration, University of Miami, School of Law.

She has been recognized repeatedly for her professional expertise in international dispute resolution and leadership in the profession by numerous sources including:

• 2012 Lawyer of the Americas Award, University of Miami;

• October 2011 Washingtonian Magazine "100 Most Powerful Women in Washington" and "One of 30 Top Lawyers in DC";

• 2011 National Law Journal "Most Influential Lawyers" in ADR;

• 2010 Legal Times "Visionary" and "Most Influential Women" Awards;

• The University of Miami, Edward T. Foote Alumnus of Distinction Award, 2009;

• The University of Miami School of Law, Distinguished Alumnus Award, 2009;

• "Lawyer of the Year 2008" by the Bar Association of the District of Columbia;

• National Law Journal, 50 Most Influential Women in America;

• Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America;

• National Law Journal, 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America;

• Attorney of the Year "Good Scout" Award, National Capital Area Council Boy Scouts of America, 2009;

• Woman Lawyer of the Year" Award by Women's Bar Association of Washington, DC;

• Chambers USA Award for Excellence: Outstanding Contribution to the Legal Profession, 2008;

• 2 Honorary Doctor of Laws Degrees (SUNY, Drexel).

• Named for her expertise in International Arbitration in:

• Chambers, USA-Band I;

• Best Lawyers;

• Euromoney Guide's Leading International Arbitrators;

• Who's Who Legal

Laurent Lévy

Partner, Lévy Kaufmann-Kohler, Switzerland; Vice-President, ICC International Court of Arbitration; Council Member, ICC Institute of World Business Law

Laurent Lévy, admitted to the Geneva Bar in 1974, is a partner of 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-President of the ICC International Court of Arbitration and Council Member of the ICC Institute of World Business Law. He is 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.

Angelynn Meya

Associate, Foley Hoag, France

Angelynn Meya is a lawyer in the Paris office of Foley Hoag and a member of the firm's International Litigation and Arbitration Practice group. Ms Meya specializes in international arbitration, including commercial, investor-State and State-to-State arbitrations. She has represented a wide range of States and State entities in various arbitration fora, including before tribunals established under the procedures of the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes, the International Chamber of Commerce and in ad hoc proceedings.

Ms Meya has particular experience in the oil and gas sector and working with clients in the Middle East, Asia and Africa. She also regularly provides non-contentious advice to States, State entities and international organizations with respect to public international law. This includes advice related to maritime and land boundary delimitation, oil and gas arrangements and international treaties.

She is admitted to the Paris, New York and Connecticut bars.

Maxi Scherer

Special Counsel, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP; Senior Lecturer in International Arbitration and Energy, Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom

Dr Maxi Scherer joined Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr in London in 2005 and previously practiced as a lawyer in Paris since 2001. She has extensive experience with arbitral practice and procedure both in civil and common law systems. She has represented and advised clients in numerous international arbitrations before most major arbitral institutions and regularly serves as arbitrator, including as sole arbitrator, both in ad hoc and institutional arbitrations.

Dr Scherer is also a full-time chair and faculty member at the School of International Arbitration, Queen Mary, University of London. She is the Director of Queen Mary's Paris LLM program. Other academic appointments include Visiting Professor at SciencesPo Law School Paris, Hauser Global Research Fellow at New York University Law School and Adjunct Professor at the Georgetown Center of Transnational Legal Studies. She publishes extensively in the field of international arbitration and international litigation, including several articles on Third Party Funding.

Dr Scherer studied law at the University of Cologne, Germany, and at Paris I Panthéon- Sorbonne, where she also earned her PhD. She speaks English, French and German and is admitted to the Paris Bar and as solicitor (England and Wales).

Sandra Sherman

Sandra Sherman is Fulbrook's Intellectual Property Manager. She is also currently Director of Development at the Intellectual Property Law Institute of Fordham Law School. Previously, Sandra has been in the International Section of the Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice, in the U.S. Department of State, and was a Senior Attorney in the Department of Energy, where she practiced international and administrative law.

Sandra is the author of four books: Finance and Fictionality in the Early Eighteenth Century: Accounting for Defoe; Imagining Poverty: Quantification and the Decline of Paternalism; Fresh from the Past: Recipes and Revelations from Moll Flanders' Kitchen; and Invention of the Modern Cookbook. She has written over 60 peer-reviewed articles on literature, economics, neuroscience and the law, and culinary history, and she continues to lecture internationally.

She received a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and an LL.M. cum laude in Intellectual Property Law and Information Technology at Fordham. She also holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Pennsylvania, where she received a Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, as well as a prize for the best dissertation in English.

Sandra has been a Professor of English at the University of Arkansas and Georgia State University. She was an Adjunct Professor of English at Fordham, and an Adjunct Professor at Fordham Law School, where she designed a new course on the history and future of copyright. She was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. She was a Visiting Fellow of the Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin- Madison, and also of the Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge University. She has been a Visiting Scholar at Harvard.

Selvyn Seidel

Chairman, Fulbrook Capital Management LLC, New York, United States

Selvyn Seidel is the founder and Chairman of Fulbrook. Fulbrook, a more recent entrant into the third party finance industry, is now referred to as a leading entity in the industry. Mr. Seidel is experienced and a recognized as a leader in the field (described recently in a Report as "probably the frontrunner " in the financing industry).

Mr. Seidel previously co-founded and was Chair of the Burford Group, the investment advisor to Burford Capital, a publicly-traded fund that is now the largest institutional fund in the world for commercial claims, with over $300 million in capital.

Before Burford, Mr Seidel was in litigation for over 40 years. He was in private practice for close to 25 years with one of the leading international law firms, Latham & Watkins. There, at different times, he chaired the International Practice of the firm, the International Litigation and Arbitration practice, and the New York litigation practice; co-founded the New York office of the firm, and founded the International Litigation and Arbitration Practice group; and maintained an active practice on complex national and international disputes.

Mr. Seidel has taught and written in the fields of litigation and Third-Party Funding, including: teaching 10 years of international litigation and arbitration as an Adjunct Professor of Law at New York University School of Law; and lecturing and presenting at Linacre College, Oxford University (where he is a Linacre College lecturer), Harvard Law School, Columbia Law School, UCLA Law School, the University of California Berkeley School of Law, the RAND Institute of Civil Justice, and LEXIS NEXIS programs on Costing and Funding in litigation.

He received his B.A. in Economics from the University of Chicago, his J.D. from the Berkeley Law School (member of the Law Review), and Diploma in Law from Oxford University.