Bernard Audit

Professor Emeritus of the University of Panthéon-Assas (Paris 2), France

A graduate of the Sorbonne and Harvard Law School, Bernard Audit is Professor Emeritus of Law at the University of Paris 2 (Panthéon-Assas) where he taught courses on Contracts, Conflict of Laws and International Business Transactions and Litigation. He has been involved in consulting and international arbitration for the past thirty years. He served as Panel Chairman on the United Nations Compensation Commission between 1996 and 2003.

He headed the Research Center of the Hague Academy of International Law on the subject of Transnational arbitration and State contracts in 1987. He has been a Visiting professor at several American Law Schools and a member of New York University’s Global Law School (1997, 1999).

He is a member of the Board of editors of the Revue critique de droit international privé, of the Comité français de droit international privé, of the French branch of the International Law Association and a Special Member of the American Law Institute. Among his publications are Droit international privé (7th ed., 2013, a treatise on Conflict of Laws), La vente internationale de marchandises (1990, a commentary on the U.N. Convention on the International Sale of Goods), Transnational Arbitration and State Contracts (1987), and Le droit international privé en quête d’universalité (General course on Private International Law, the Hague Academy, 2001).

Professor Audit is an elected Member of the Institute of International Law.

Klaus Peter Berger

Professor of Law, University of Cologne, Germany; President, DIS (Deutsche Institution für Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit)

Klaus Peter Berger is a Professor for Domestic and International Civil and Commercial Law, Comparative and Private International Law and is the Director of the Institute for Banking Law and Center for Transnational Law (CENTRAL) at the University of Cologne in Germany.

He is the President of the German Institution of Arbitration (DIS), Member of the Board of the Arbitration Institute, Stockholm Chamber of Commerce; Member of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA); Co-Editor “Arbitration International”, edited under the auspices of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA). Professor Berger is the director of the ‘Cologne Summer Academies on ADR in International Business”.

Professor Berger’s areas of practice include: ICC, Swiss Rules, DIS, LCIA, the Vienna Chamber of Foreign Trade, UNCITRAL and Ad Hoc-arbitrations as sole arbitrator, party-appointed arbitrator and chairman; Member of the Arbitration Law Reform Commission at the German Institution of Arbitration (DIS) 1992-1996; panel of arbitrators: China International Economic Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC, Beijing, China); ICDR Roster of Neutrals; Dubai International Arbitration Centre (DIAC); International Arbitral Tribunal, Austrian Economic Chamber, Vienna.

Fabio Bortolotti

Partner, Buffa, Bortolotti & Mathis, Italy; Chairman, ICC Commission on Commercial Law and Practice; Council Member, ICC Institute of World Business Law

Fabio Bortolotti was Professor of International Commercial Law at the University of Turin until his retirement in 2005. He is founding Partner of the firm Buffa Bortolotti & Mathis (Turin-Milan) and is considered one of the leading Italian experts in the field of International contract law and arbitration.

Professor Bortolotti is founder and chair of the International Distribution Institute and chair of the ICC Commission on Commercial Law and Practice. He is a member of the Council of the ICC Institute of World Business Law. He has chaired several ICC task forces which have drafted model contracts on international agency, distributorship, trademark licenses, transfer of technology, etc..

Professor Bortolotti is author of several publications on international contracts and distribution law. In English: “Drafting and Negotiating International Contracts”, ICC Publishing, 2013.

He has acted and is presently engaged in several International and domestic arbitrations as arbitrator and as counsel.

Matthieu de Boisséson

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

Mathieu de Boisséson has many years of experience as an arbitrator and counsel in numerous arbitration cases, in various fields such as Corporate Transactions, Construction, Telecoms, Energy, Distribution and other matters. He is a Partner at Linklaters LLP where he is responsible for the development of the firm’s international arbitration practice. He is a Member of the ICC Institute of World Business Law, a Board Member of the French Arbitration Committee, and a member of numerous other associations. Mr. de Boisséson studied law at the University of Paris II, received a Ph.D. in literature from Sorbonne University Paris IV, graduated from the Institute of Public Science , and has a Master of International Business Law and Private Law (1977). He was a visiting professor at Paris X University of Law, specializing in litigation and international arbitration (1996 to 2000). Mr. de Boisséson is co-author of Le Droit Français de l’Arbitrage Interne et International, (Joly, Paris 1990), third edition to be released in 2014, and the author of and many articles on arbitration. He speaks French, English and Portuguese.

Phillip Capper

Partner, Head of International Arbitration, White & Case LLP, United Kingdom; Member, ICC Institute of World Business Law

Phillip Capper is Partner and Head of International Arbitration at White & Case in London. He has been involved in countless international disputes as arbitrator, advocate, mediator, legal assessor, or adviser. As arbitrator, he has chaired ICC, LCIA and UNCITRAL tribunals, and has served as sole arbitrator and party-appointed arbitrator in ICC and LCIA arbitrations. He is a highly regarded advocate in arbitration. As counsel, he has acted under the rules of ICC, LCIA, and the Stockholm, Madrid and Prague Chambers of Commerce, as well as ad-hoc and in contractual mediations. For the ICC in Paris he led small working groups drafting model clauses for ICC arbitration and ADR, and for use with the ICC Rules for Expertise. Formerly Chairman of the Faculty of Law at Oxford University, he is also now Nash Professor of Engineering Law at King’s College London, teaching International Arbitration and Construction Law. He directs the annual International Diploma course for the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in Oxford. Professor Capper is an Honorary Member of the Society of Construction Law, Honorary Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, and Honorary President of the Adjudication Society.

Antonio Crivellaro

Of Counsel, 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.

He 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 areas of expertise include disputes arising from contracts for works and concessions, industrial plants, gas and oil projects, supplies and sales, financing and banking operations, telecommunications and post-closing M&A operations. He further specializes in international investment law and investor-to-State arbitrations.

Professor Crivellaro is a Council Member of the ICC Institute of World Business Law and author of a number of publications in international contracts 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; 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 a 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 the Universidad de Lima, Peru.

Mr. Derains is also 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 member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration. She was 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 member of the IBA Subcommittee on the revision of the IBA Rules on the Taking of Evidence in International Arbitration (2010).

Ms Dimolitsa 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).

Horacio Grigera Naón

Independent Arbitrator, United States; Former Secretary General, ICC International Court of Arbitration; Council Member, ICC Institute of World Business Law

Horacio Grigera Naón, an Argentine national, presently an independent international arbitrator and consultant on arbitration and business and international law matters, is a former Secretary General of the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce and has been a practitioner in the field of international commercial arbitration and international business law during the last thirty years. Dr Grigera Naón has also widely published in those areas, including a book on “Choice-of-Law Problems in International Commercial Arbitration” (1992) and lectures at the Hague Academy of International Law (2001) on the same topic.

Dr Grigera Naón, who is a Distinguished Practitioner in Residence and the Director of the International Commercial Arbitration Center of the Washington College of Law, American University, Washington D.C., 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.

Pierre Mayer

Partner, Dechert LLP, France; Professor Emeritus of the University of Paris I; Council Member, ICC Institute of World Business Law

Pierre Mayer, Partner at the Paris office of Dechert LLP, is an Emeritus Professor of the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, where he taught private international law and arbitration law. 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. He is an associate member of the Institut de Droit International, council member of the ICC Institute of World Business Law and member of the Board of the Comité Français de l’Arbitrage. He has been recently appointed President of the Arbitration Academy. Professor Mayer is the author of numerous articles and several books, including a treatise on Private International Law, “Droit international privé”, (Montchrestien, (first edition 1977, in its 10th edition in collaboration with Professor Vincent Heuzé, 2010) and the 2003 General course at The Hague Academy of International Law.

William Park

Professor of Law, Boston University; President, London Court of International Arbitration

William (Rusty) Park is Professor of Law at Boston University, teaching in the areas of international tax and finance. After studies at Yale and Columbia, he practised in Paris until returning home to Boston, where he has served as Director of Boston University’s Center for Banking and Financial Law. Professor Park is President of the London Court of International Arbitration and General Editor of Arbitration International. He has held visiting academic appointments in Cambridge, Dijon, Hong Kong, Auckland and Geneva. A member of the Governing Board of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration and the Board of the American Arbitration Association, he served as arbitrator on the Claims Resolution Tribunal for Dormant Swiss Bank Accounts and the International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims.

The President of the United States appointed Professor Park to the Panel of Arbitrators for the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Dispute.

His books include Arbitration of International Business Disputes, International Forum Selection, ICC Arbitration (with Craig and Paulsson), International Commercial Arbitration (with Reisman, Craig and Paulsson) and Income Tax Treaty Arbitration (with Tillinghast).

François Perret

Attorney, Switzerland; Professor Emeritus of Law, University of Geneva; Council Member, ICC Institute of World Business Law

François Perret is an Attorney and Member of the Geneva Bar. He is Professor Emeritus of the University of Geneva where he taught civil procedure, industrial property and unfair competition law and accounting for lawyers.

Professor Perret has acted as Chairman, arbitrator and counsel in about ninety international arbitration cases mostly in the field of international contracts, licence agreements, and joint venture agreements.

He is the author of over fifty publications on international law, Swiss law and international arbitration. He is a member of numerous professional associations including the ASA, LCIA, Camera Arbitrale Nazionale e Internazionale di Milano, AFA, and the Geneva Bar Association. He is a Council member of the ICC Institute of World Business Law.

He speaks French, English and Italian.

Tarek Fouad A. Riad

Managing Partner, Kosheri, Rashed & Riad, Egypt; Chairman of the Executive Committee, Dubai International Arbitration Centre; Council Member, ICC Institute of World Business Law

Tarek Riad is the Managing Partner of Kosheri, Rashed and Riad since 2001, one of the leading practitioners in commercial law and arbitration in Egypt and Prof. of Commercial Law and head of the Commercial Law Department at the German University in Cairo.

Professor Riad has an LLB from Cairo Law School in addition to an LLM and SJD from Harvard Law School. He has been a member of the Egyptian Bar since 1980 and a member of New York Bar since 1985. He speaks Arabic, English and French.

Professor Riad has acted as Counsel, Co-arbitrator, Sole Arbitrator and Chairman in numerous commercial arbitration proceedings under the rules of the ICC, UNCITRAL, DIAC , Abu Dhabi Arbitration Center and Cairo Regional Center For International Commercial Arbitration.

He is a member of the Board of Trustees and Chairman of the Executive Committee of Dubai International Arbitration Centre. He is also a Council Member of the ICC Institute of World Business Law and Alternate member of the ICC Court of Arbitration.

Professor Riad has written numerous publications including two books entitled The Applicable Law in Transnational Arbitration and Egyptian Companies Law, in addition to many articles about arbitration and the legal aspects of doing business in Egypt.

He has acted as counsel for a number of multinational corporations such as Caterpillar, Lockheed Martin, Four Seasons, Philips, and AT&T.