Georges Affaki

Independent Arbitrator; Avocat à la Cour, France; Council Member, ICC Institute of World Business Law.

Georges Affaki is admitted to practice before the Court of Appeal of Paris. He chairs the Legal Committee of the ICC Banking Commission and is is President-elect of ICC France Banking Commission. He also serves as Governor of the UNIDROIT Foundation.

He has served as chairman, panel and sole arbitrator under the rules of the leading arbitral institutions. He has also served as tribunal or party-appointed expert on international banking and finance, economic sanctions and comparative Arab laws.

Mr Affaki is Associate Professor of law at the University of Paris II 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 or editor of several books, including The Guide to ICC Uniform Rules for Demand Guarantees (with Sir Roy Goode, ICC Publ. No. 702), Increasing Access to Credit — Reforming Secured Transaction Law (ITC Publishing), Cross-border insolvency and conflict of jurisdictions, Bruylant, Trade Finance (ITC Publishing) (awarded the European Prize on Interdisciplinary Research); A User’s Handbook to ICC Uniform Rules for Demand Guarantees (ICC Publ. No. 631); and over 60 articles and case notes on international banking and arbitration.

Mr Affaki currently chairs a working group on the revision of the Documentary Instrument Dispute Resolution by Expertise (DOCDEX) and a working group on arbitration and banking organized under the aegis of the French Arbitration Committee. He also co-chairs the Task Force on Financial Institutions and International Arbitration organized under the aegis of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR. He has chaired a Paris Europlace working group on Islamic Finance whose recommendations were presented in June 2009 in a report titled and Dispute Resolution in Islamic Finance — A French Courts’ Perspective.

Marie-Elodie Ancel

Professor of Law, University Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne (UPEC), France

Marie-Elodie Ancel is a Professor at the Faculty of Law at the University Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne (UPEC), where she teaches private international law (including litigation) and arbitration law, especially in the program “Contentieux international des affaires” created in 2007 with Professor Emmanuel Gaillard.

Co-writer of a book on international contracts, to be published in 2015, Marie-Elodie Ancel is also the co-founder and scientific director of Lynxlex, an online legal database (in progress) dedicated to the private international law instruments of the European Union. Adjunct Secretary General of the Comité français de droit international privé, Marie-Elodie Ancel is a member of the International Law Association, a member of the Comité français de l’arbitrage and a member of the Board of Directors and Selection Committee of the Arbitration Academy.

Diego P. Fernández Arroyo

Professor, Sciences Po Law School, France

Diego Fernández Arroyo is a Professor at the School of Law of Sciences Po in Paris since 2010, on leave from the Complutense University of Madrid. He teaches subjects related to international dispute resolution, arbitration and conflict of laws. He is co-director of the Global Governance Studies Program and co-director of the Research Project Private International Law as Global Governance (PILAGG).

Mr Fernández Arroyo is a member of the Curatorium of the Hague Academy of International Law, a former President of the American Association of Private International Law, ASADIP (2007/2010) and a member of a number of academic institutions (International Academy of Comparative Law, International Academy of Commercial and Consumer Law, International Law Association, International Arbitration Institute, etc.).

He is a former Professor of the University of Salamanca and Visiting Professor of the Universities Paris II, Lyon III, Paris III, Fribourg, Federal of Santa Catarina, Federal of Rio Grande do Sul, Federal of Espirito Santo, Ottawa, California (Davis), Iberoamericana (Mexico City), La Habana, Kansai (Osaka), Waseda (Tokyo), Central of Venezuela, National of Buenos Aires, National of Cordoba, Montevideo, Medellin, etc.

He is also a member of Argentinean Delegations before UNCITRAL (Working Group on Arbitration) and CIDIP ( Organization of American States). He has represented ASADIP before the Hague Conference of Private International Law as well.

Mr Fernández Arroyo is actively involved in the practice of international arbitration as an arbitrator and a consultant. He has developed several projects in the field of arbitration and international business law for the European Union, the Andean Community, the MERCOSUR, and the Latin-American Integration Association. He has published several books and a number of articles and notes on international business law, arbitration, private international law, EU law and comparative law in publications of more than 20 countries. He is co-editor of the Globalization Law Library.

Anton Asoskov

Lecturer, Lomonosov Moscow State University; Professor, Russian School of Private Law; Independent Arbitrator, Russian Federation

Anton Asoskov is a Lecturer at the Department of Civil Law of the Law Faculty of the Lomonosov Moscow State University starting from 2001, and a Professor at the Department of International Private Law of the Russian School of Private Law starting from 2008. In 2011-2013, he was a Consultant of the Arbitration & Litigation Practice at the Moscow office of Debevoise & Plimpton. In 2009-2010 he ran an Alexander von Humboldt scholarship at the Max-Planck Institute of Foreign and International Private Law (Hamburg, Germany). From 2000 till 2009 he worked as Head of Legal Department of one of the major Russian oil&gas service companies.

Mr Asoskov took part in more than 60 international arbitration proceedings, including arbitrations under the Arbitration Rules of the International Commercial Arbitration Court at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation (MKAS), International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC) and UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules.

He is a Member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration at the Russian National ICC Committee and a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCIArb). He is a Member of the Working Group at the Russian Council for Codification of the Civil Legislation responsible for preparing amendments to the Russian Civil Code and a Member of Editorial Board of the leading Russian journal International Commercial Arbitration Review.

Mr Asoskov is an author of 4 monographs and more than 60 articles in law journals on different aspects of civil, comparative and international private law.

Marie Berard

Partner, Clifford Chance LLP, United Kingdom

Marie Berard joined Clifford Chance in 2000, and became a Partner in the International Arbitration Group in 2012. She represents multinational corporations, governments and individuals as counsel and advocate before international arbitral tribunals.

In 2013, Ms Berard successfully represented a large French bank in LCIA arbitration against a Russian oligarch’s company. She is also active in the oil & gas sector, currently representing clients in ICC arbitrations relating to a coal-fired power plant projects in North Africa, and power process plants in Saudi Arabia.

In 2013, Ms Berard and her team conducted a survey of the validity of unilateral option clauses in over 40 jurisdictions.

For the past 10 years, she has been overseeing the pro bono partnership between Clifford Chance and the National Autistic Society.

Ms Berard is a graduate from King’s College, London and Université Paris I-Sorbonne. She is French-English bilingual.

Carlos Alberto Carmona

Partner, Marques Rosado Toledo Cesar & Carmona Advogados, Brazil; Professor of Civil Procedure Law, São Paulo University

Carlos Alberto Carmona is a Professor of Civil Procedural Law at the São Paulo University School of Law (USP) since 1986, teaching Civil Procedure and Arbitration in both undergraduate and graduate courses. He is a practicing attorney at law and a partner at the law firm Marques Rosado, Toledo Cesar & Carmona Advogados. His practice is dedicated to litigation in general and to domestic and international arbitration, acting as an arbitrator, counsel and consultant.

Mr Carmona is the author of several books and articles on Brazilian Civil Procedure and Arbitration: author of “Arbitration and Procedure: Comments on Law 9.307/96” (Arbitragem e Processo: um comentário à Lei nº 9.307/96); co-author of the books “Arbitration: studies in honor of Professor Guido Fernando da Silva Soares” (Arbitragem: estudos em homenagem ao Prof. Guido Fernando da Silva Soares) and “Interpreted Code of Civil Procedure” (Código de Processo Civil Interpretado); and coordinator of the book “Reflections on the Reform of the Code of Civil Procedure” (Reflexões sobre a Reforma do Código de Processo Civil), among others.

Mr Carmona is the General Secretary of the Brazilian Institute of Procedural Law (IBDP), member of the Ibero-American Institute of Procedural Law, of the International Association of Procedural Law and of the International Law Association and was also a member of the commission responsible for the drafting of the Brazilian Arbitration Law.

Gilles Cuniberti

Professor of Private International Law and Comparative Law, University of Luxembourg

Gilles Cuniberti is Professor of Private International Law and Comparative Law at the University of Luxembourg where he was appointed in 2008. Previously, he taught in France and practiced in the Paris office of a leading English firm. He was also a visiting faculty at various foreign universities in Europe, the United States and Asia, including Columbia law school where he was the James S. Carpentier Visiting Professor of Law in the fall 2011, and National University of Singapore, where he teaches each other year.

Mr Cuniberti’s primary teaching and research interests are international commercial law, international litigation and arbitration, comparative law and the conflict of laws. He is the author of four books and numerous articles published in French, English and Italian. His first book on extra-territorial freezing orders received the First Prize of the French Centre for Comparative Law. He is the general editor and a regular contributor to the blog conflictoflaws.net.

Mr Cuniberti holds a Doctorate in Law from Paris I Panthéon- Sorbonne University and an LL.M. degree from Yale Law School. He was also a Paris-Oxford Doctoral Program Scholar for a year at Trinity College, Oxford.

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 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

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 30 years.

Mr 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.

Mr 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.

Julian D. M. Lew, QC

Professor and Head, School of International Arbitration, Queen Mary, University of London; Barrister, 20 Essex Street Chambers, United Kingdom; 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 counsel and advised parties in all kinds of international arbitrations. He is now a full-time arbitrator and sits 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.

Mr Lew is Professor of Law and Head of the School of International Arbitration, Queen Mary, University of London. He has written and published numerous books and articles on international arbitration including Applicable Law on International Arbitration (1978) and Comparative International Commercial Arbitration (2003) (with Mistelis and Kroll). He also has lectured extensively in many countries around the world on all aspects of International Arbitration.

He is a member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration (UK). He was the Chairman of the ICC Commission Task Force on Intellectual Property and International Arbitration, and is currently joint chairman of the ICC Commission Task Force on Costs in International Arbitration.

Mr Lew has an LLB from the University of London and a Doctorate in private international law from the Catholic University of Louvain.

Eric Loquin

Professor, University of Burgundy, France; Honorary Dean, Law Faculty of Dijon

Eric Loquin is Professor of International Private Law, Company Law, Contracts and Arbitration Law at the University of Burgundy in Dijon. He is also Honorary Dean of the Law Faculty of Dijon and Former Vice President of the University of Burgundy.

His areas of specialization include arbitration, international trade, sports law, space law, contract law, corporation law and international private law.

Mr Loquin was appointed arbitrator in 50 French domestic arbitrations, including 23 as Chair of the Arbitral Tribunal. He was also appointed arbitrator in 30 international arbitrations, including 11 under ICC Rules, Counsel in 22 arbitrations (domestic and international) and Party-appointed expert in 14 arbitrations.

Mr Loquin published 8 books devoted to Arbitration Law or to International Trade Law, plus an Arbitration Treatise (co-authored with Professor Thomas Clay). He is the author of all chapters of the Jurisclasseur de procédure civile devoted to arbitration and wrote more than 220 brief notices on arbitration since 1991 in Revue trimestrielle de droit commercial et de droit économique. He also wrote 90 articles on arbitration law or international trade law in Revue de l’arbitrage and Journal de droit international. Several of his articles have been translated into English, Spanish and Portuguese.

Mr Loquin is member of several professional associations: Comité Français de l’Arbitrage (Board Member), Comité français de droit international privé, International Law Association, Association de droit spatial, Association internationale de droit économique, Association internationale de droit judiciaire.

He holds a Doctorate in Law and an Agrégation des Facultés de droit (University of Burgundy in Dijon). His working languages are French and English.

Arnaud Nuyts

Partner, Liedekerke, Belgium; Professor, University of Brussels (ULB)

Arnaud Nuyts is a Partner in the Litigation and Arbitration Practice of Liedekerke Wolters Waelbroeck Kirkpatrick. Having practiced in the United States, England and Belgium, he focuses on multi-jurisdictional arbitration and litigation. He specializes in cross-border arbitration in the oil and gas, construction and food industries, as well as the film industry and media. He has worked in various countries including Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Lebanon, Azerbaijan, New York, California, Nigeria, Switzerland, Greece, Jordan and Vietnam. He also represents Belgian, US, English and Commonwealth companies involved in litigation before the Belgian courts.

Mr Nuyts has been instructed by English solicitors to appear and argue issues of international jurisdiction and human rights before the High Court and the Court of appeal in London. He also specialises in cross-border judicial assistance, including the taking of evidence in Belgium for use in US and English proceedings. He has been involved in major arbitration proceedings involving clients from civil law and common law jurisdictions.

Mr Nuyts is Professor at the University of Brussels (ULB) where he lectures on private international law, international litigation and arbitration and international contracts. He is the author of several publications and he has published around 50 articles in Belgian and international journals.

He has been commissioned by the European Commission to coordinate a study on the domestic rules of international jurisdiction in the 27 Member States of the European Union. He has recently appeared as an expert before the European Parliament on the reform of the Judgment Regulation (Brussels I).

Mr Nuyts holds a law degree and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Brussels (ULB) as well as a master of law (LL.M.) from the University of Cambridge. He has also studied at the Universities of Columbia, New York and at Harvard.

Paolo Michele Patocchi

Partner, Patocchi & Marzolini, Switzerland

Paolo Michele Patocchi is one of the founding partners of Patocchi & Marzolini, the law firm established with Paolo Marzolini on 1 January 2014. Prior this date, he has led the arbitration practice group of a national Swiss law firm (1997-2013). He has also worked in a major US law firm in London (1989-1991) and in a leading Swiss law firm in Zurich (1992-1994).

Mr Patocchi acts as counsel and sits as an arbitrator in Switzerland and a number of European jurisdictions. He is able to conduct proceedings in English, French, German and Italian without an interpreter.

He completed his graduate and post-graduate studies in Geneva (Lic. Iur. 1977; DES, 1980; Ph.D., 1983), The Hague (Academy of International Law, Diploma, Private International Law, 1982) and London (LL.M, 1987).

Mr Patocchi has been involved in more than 190 arbitrations to date (chiefly relating to joint ventures and R&D agreements, construction (power stations, roads, etc.), turnkey contracts, licensing, privatisations and State contracts, price reviews in gas supply agreements, banking and finance disputes, sports and sponsoring disputes).

He is teaching International Arbitration at Bilkent University (Ankara). He has been a lecturer at the Geneva University Law School (Introduction to the English Legal System, 1989-2006).

He is a member of the Arbitration Court of the Swiss Chambers’ Arbitration Institution. He has been a member of the arbitration committees of the Chamber of Arbitration of Milan (2005-2011), Geneva (1999-2002) and Lugano (1997-2007). He was the first president of the national arbitration committee of the Swiss Chambers of Commerce (2004-2006). He is a member of the executive board of ASA, the Swiss Arbitration Association.

Mr Patocchi has published extensively on international arbitration and litigation and is currently the general co-editor of The Swiss International Arbitration Law Reports (Juris) and The Swiss International Sports Arbitration Reports (Juris), both of which have been published since 2007.

Alan Rau

Mark G. & Judy G. Yudof Chair in Law, University of Texas at Austin School of Law, United States

Alan Scott Rau holds the Mark G. and Judy G. Yudof Chair of Law at the University of Texas at Austin. He earned his B.A. and LL.B. from Harvard University, and before going into teaching, practiced law with Coudert Frères in Paris.

He is the author of Processes of Dispute Resolution: The Role of Lawyers (4th ed. 2006), and of numerous law review articles dealing with arbitration, most recently “The Limits of Arbitral Power: Yet Another Trilogy” (American Review of Int’l Arbitration, 2012); and “Arbitrating ‘Arbitrability’” (World Arbitration and Mediation Review, 2013).

Mr Rau is an Advisor to the American Law Institute Project on the Restatement of International Commercial Arbitration; he also frequently serves as an arbitrator and is a member of the panel of the AAA and the panel of mediators of the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

He has taught as a Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law; at the China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing; at the University of Geneva Faculty of Law; and at the University of Paris I and the University of Paris II.

Maxi Scherer

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

Maxi has extensive experience with arbitral practice and procedure both in civil and common law systems. She has represented and advised clients in over 50 international arbitrations proceedings before most major arbitral institutions and has served as arbitrator (presiding, co- and sole arbitrator) in over 20 ad hoc and institutional arbitrations.

Maxi is admitted to the Paris Bar and as solicitor (England and Wales). She has been ranked by Who’s Who Legal, The Legal 500 UK as leading arbitration practitioner. She is a member of the IBA (International Bar Association) Subcommittee on Recognition and Enforcement of Arbitral Awards, a member of the French branch of ILA (International Law Association), a co-chair of DIS40 (German Arbitration Institution) and an executive board member of ICDR Y&I.

Dr. Maxi Scherer is also a full-time tenured faculty member at the School of International Arbitration, Queen Mary, University of London. She is the Director of Queen Mary’s Paris LLM program (http://www. law.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate/llmparis/). Other academic appointments include Global Professor at New York University Law School (Paris), Visiting Professor at SciencesPo Law School (Paris), Adjunct Professor at the Georgetown Centre of Transnational Legal Studies (London), as well as visiting positions at University of Melbourne, Freie Universität Berlin, Sorbonne Law School, Université de Versailles, Université de Fribourg, Universität Würzburg, Pepperdine Law School, Universität Basel and Université de Paris X Nanterre.

Maxi publishes extensively in the field of international arbitration, and international litigation (http://ssrn.com/author=2149379), including most recently Transparency in International Investment Arbitration (A Guide to the UNCITRAL Standard on Transparency in Treaty-Based Investor-State Arbitration) (co-editor), Cambridge University Press (forthcoming), Arbitrating under the 2014 LCIA Rules (co-author), Wolters Kluwer (forthcoming), Effects of Foreign Judgments Relating to International Arbitral Awards: Is the ‘Judgment Route’ the Wrong Road?, Oxford Journal of International Dispute Settlement (JIDS), 2013, The New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards, author of sections on Articles III, IV and V(1)(b), R. Wolff (ed.), C. H. Beck München & Hart Publishing Oxford, 2012

François-Xavier Train

Professor of Law, University Paris 10, France

François-Xavier Train is the Secretary General of the French Committee on Arbitration as well as the Secretary General of the Revue de l’arbitrage.

“Agrégé des facultés de droit”, he is a tenured professor in Paris 10 Nanterre La Défense where he teaches Private International Law, International Trade Law, Arbitration Law and Comparative Law (Contracts, Arbitration). He is also Co-director of the Master 2 (LLM) on International and European Litigation and Arbitration.

After an experience in a law office from 1996 to 2003, he has served since then as an independent consultant and as co-arbitrator, chairman of the arbitral tribunal or sole arbitrator in international arbitration proceedings, either institutional (e.g. ICC, CMAP) or ad hoc.

Mr Train has published numerous articles and commentaries on domestic and international arbitration and on Private International Law. He works in French and English.

Laurence Usunier

Professor, University Paris 13, France

Laurence Usunier is a Professor of Private Law at University Paris 13. Her fields of expertise are private international law and comparative law. She holds an LLM in English and north-American business law (2001) and an LLD in comparative private international law (2006) from University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.

After having completed her legal education, she was appointed as assistant professor at the University of Luxembourg (2007-2010) and thereafter as maître de conférences at University Paris I (2010-2011). She passed the agrégation contest in 2011 and was subsequently appointed at University Paris 13.

Ms Usunier regularly publishes case notes and articles in private international law and comparative contract law and she is in charge of a chronicle (“Sources européennes et internationales”) in the Revue trimestrielle de droit civil. She is also involved in a number of research projects, e.g. with Trans Europe Experts, and she has recently carried out a long-term project on the Doing Business reports and regulatory competition (La concurrence normative, Mythes et Réalités, with R. Sefton-Green, Société de législation comparée, 2013).