1 Philippe Billiet

Partner, Billiet & Co, Belgium; Director, AIA; Lecturer, Brussels VUB University

Philippe Billiet works as a lawyer for the Brussels law firm Billiet & Co, where he focuses on alternative dispute resolution and commercial law. He is frequently involved in matters with a diplomatic nature (involving sovereigns) and is member of the Advisory Board to the Brussels Diplomatic Academy (BDA). He lectures arbitration and mediation at the Brussels VUB University and at various training centres. He also holds a directorship mandate at the Association for International Arbitration.

As an arbitrator, Mr Billiet is registered with the Cour Belge d’Arbitrage pour le Sport (Belgium), CEDIRES (Belgium), the Raad voor Arbitrage (Belgium), the Institute of Arbitration (Belgium), the Vienna International Arbitral Centre (Austria), the Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration (Malaysia), the Commission de Litiges Voyages (Belgium), the Lagos Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (Nigeria), the Commercial Arbitration Centre in Harare (Zimbabwe), the Chambre Régionale d’Arbitrage Aix-en- Provence (France) and the BANI Arbitration center (Indonesia).

As a mediator, he obtained EMTPJ cross-border mediator certification, specializing in commercial matters. He speaks Dutch, French, German and English.

2 Christian Borris

Partner, Borris Hennecke Kneisel, Germany

Christian Borris has over 25 years of experience in the resolution of commercial disputes. After studying law at the Universities of Cologne and Miami/USA and qualifying for the office of a judge in the German state courts, he started his professional career in 1987 as Legal Assistant to Karl-Heinz Böckstiegel, then the President of the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal in The Hague (Netherlands).

In 1989, Mr Borris joined Deringer Tessin Herrmann & Sedemund in Cologne. When Deringer Tessin Herrmann & Sedemund merged with international law firm Freshfields in 2000 to form Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, he became a partner in Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s Dispute Resolution practice group and International Arbitration Group, based in Cologne.

In 2014, Mr Borris founded an independent dispute resolution boutique Borris Hennecke Kneisel in Cologne. His practice encompasses the entire scope of international commercial disputes, with a particular focus on post-M&A, joint venture, corporate, and energy disputes, expert determination proceedings, as well as disputes in the areas of construction, investment protection, banking & finance, (re-)insurance, distribution, licensing and cross-border sales transactions.

He has acted as counsel and arbitrator in more than 110 arbitrations under a wide variety of institutional rules and in ad hoc arbitrations. He also represents clients in proceedings before the German state courts. He speaks German, English and French.

3 Luca Radicati di Brozolo

Partner, Arblit-Radicati di Brozolo Sabatini Benedettelli, Italy; Professor, Catholic University of Milan; Fountain Court Chambers, London; Member, LCIA Court

Professor Luca G. Radicati di Brozolo holds the chair of Private International Law at the Catholic University of Milan, where he also teaches international arbitration law and transnational commercial law.

His current practice focuses primarily on international arbitration as counsel, presiding, party-appointed and sole arbitrator and expert. He has significant experience in investor-State arbitration, having acted as counsel in several high-profile cases (including the ICSID cases Saipem v Bangladesh and Ambiente Ufficio v Argentina and Giovanni Alpi v Argentina) and in several UNICTRAL cases against the Czech Republic under the Energy Charter Treaty and several BITs). He also acts in court litigation and as an advisor, and appears as an expert, on matters of conflicts of laws and jurisdiction, and in the areas of law in which he practiced in the earlier part of his career as partner in two major Italian firms, European law and competition law, and particularly in private antitrust litigation.

He is the author of five books and over 150 scholarly articles on different topics on arbitration, public and private international law, European Union law and antitrust law, and is a co-editor of the leading Italian commentary of the law of arbitration.

He is a former member of the International Court of Arbitration of the ICC and former Vice-Chair of the IBA Arbitration Committee, a member and a former rapporteur of the Committee on International Commercial Arbitration of the International Law Association, a member of the American Law Institute, Consultative Group on the Restatement (Third), International Commercial Arbitration, co-chair of the Joint Working Group of the Competition and Arbitration Committees of the ICC Arbitration Commission on Antitrust Follow-on Actions and appointed to the ICSID Panel of Arbitrators by the Republic of Italy.

4 Laura Carballo

Associate Professor of Private International Law, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Laura Carballo is Associate Professor at the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain. She holds a Doctorate in Procedural Law Cum Laude, from the University of Santiago de Compostela, completed by another one in Private International Law Cum Laude from the University of Vigo.

Ms Carballo is an expert in international insolvency law as well as in international class and collective actions. Her areas of expertise are: private international law, international litigation, international commercial arbitration, enforcement of foreign judgments, contract law and international bankruptcy law.

Ms Carballo was awarded a scholarship by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2010-2012), carrying out a project on International Jurisdiction and Conflict of Laws in Maritime Labour and Employment Law, at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and Private International Law in Hamburg.

5 James Carter

Senior Counsel, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, New York, United States

James Carter is a Senior Counsel in the New York office of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP. He has more than 40 years of experience as arbitrator or counsel in more than 150 international commercial and investment arbitration cases.

Mr Carter previously was co-chair of the international arbitration and cross-border dispute resolution group at Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP. He was also co-chair of international arbitration, a position he held for more than 20 years, at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP. He has served as Chair of the Board of Directors of the American Arbitration Association, President of the American Society of International Law and a member of the London Court of International Arbitration.

Mr Carter is Chair of the Board of the New York International Arbitration Center, a member of the Court of Arbitration for Sport and a graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School. He is the co-editor of International Commercial Arbitration in New York and the author of more than 50 articles and book chapters dealing with international disputes.

6 Pierre Dalphond

Senior Counsel, Stikeman Elliott, Montreal, Canada; Member, ICC Institute of World Business Law

Pierre Dalphond is a Senior Counsel with the Montréal office’s Litigation Group, Certified Mediator, Arbitrator and a former trial and appeal judge. He provides legal and strategic advice, acts as a commercial mediator and arbitrator and teaches domestic and international arbitration law as an Invited Professor at Université de Montréal.

Before being named a judge, Mr Dalphond practised commercial law (investments in Canada, supply and construction contracts, private financing, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions). He wrote over 1500 judgments and decisions as judge and arbitrator.

Mr Dalphond is on the arbitrators’ lists of ICDR Canada/AAA, ICC Canada, Arbitration Place (Toronto) and the Montreal Bar. He is also a Vice-President of the Québec Society of Comparative Law, a director of the International Commission of Jurists-Canada, a faculty member of the Philippe Kirsch Institute (promoting international law) and a member of the ICC Institute of World Business Law, the LCIA North American Users’ Council and the International Bar Association.

7 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.

8 Christopher R. Drahozal

John M. Rounds Professor of Law, University of Kansas School of Law, United States

Christopher R. Drahozal is the John M. Rounds Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development at the University of Kansas School of Law. He is an Associate Reporter for the Restatement of the U.S. Law on International Commercial Arbitration, is serving as a Special Advisor to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and was the Chair of the Arbitration Task Force of the Searle Civil Justice Institute.

Mr Drahozal has written extensively on the law and economics of arbitration. He has authored a casebook on commercial arbitration published by Lexis Publishing (now in its third edition) and co-edited a book on empirical research on international commercial arbitration published by Kluwer Law International. His articles have appeared in the Journal of Legal Studies, the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, the Texas Law Review, the Vanderbilt Law Review, Law and Contemporary Problems, and the International Review of Law and Economics, among others. He has made presentations on arbitration law and practice throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia.

9 Bernard Hanotiau

Partner, Hanotiau & van den Berg, Belgium; Council Member, ICC Institute of World Business Law

Bernard Hanotiau is a member of the Brussels and Paris Bars and a Partner of Hanotiau & van den Berg. The firm has offices in Brussels and Singapore.

Mr Hanotiau is Professor Emeritus of the law school of Louvain University (Belgium). He is a member of the ICCA Governing Board and of the Council of the ICC Institute. He is a member of the Court of Arbitration of SIAC, of the Advisory Board of HKIAC and of the Governing Board of DIAC (Dubai) and a former Vice-President of the LCIA Court.

Since 1978, Mr Hanotiau has been actively involved in more than 400 international arbitration cases. In March 2011, he received the GAR "Arbitrator of the Year" award.

10 José Miguel Júdice

Founding Partner, PLMJ, Portugal; Member, ICC Institute of World Business Law

José Miguel Júdice is a Founding Partner of PLMJ (since 1980), a member of ICC International Court of Arbitration (since June 2009) and was Vice-President of ICC National Committee until 2012. He has acted for more than 35 years as arbitrator and counsel in national and international cases (ICC, ICSID, UNCITRAL, NAI, Brazil-Canada, Cámara de Madrid, Portuguese arbitration centres and ad hoc), is a member of ICSID Roster of Arbitrators and Conciliators, of Permanent Court of Arbitration (The Hague) and other lists of Arbitration Centres in Brazil (7), Spain, Mozambique, Angola, Korea and Portugal.

Mr Júdice has developed PLMJ arbitration practice (since 2014 considered as one of the GAR 100) and has been instrumental to the development of arbitration in Portugal (Board of the Portuguese Arbitration Association, Co-author of the draft of the Portuguese Arbitration Law, President of the Lisbon Arbitration Centre of the CCIP, a member of ICC network, and Professor of Business Law and Dispute Resolution in two Lisbon Universities).

He has been Member of the High Council of the Judiciary, President of the Portuguese Bar Association and of its Human Rights Institute. He is a Portuguese citizen, graduated in Coimbra University, and speaks also French, English and Spanish.

11 Elie Kleiman

Partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, France

Elie Kleiman is a dispute resolution Partner of Freshfields based in Paris. He specializes in international arbitration and complex litigation. He regularly acts as Counsel in arbitral and court proceedings and also sits as arbitrator and mediator.

Mr Kleiman has significant trial experience and advises and represents clients in complex international disputes involving, in particular, corporate law, securities, M&A, joint ventures, banking, distribution, risk management and damage control. His wide sector knowledge notably covers energy, chemicals, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology, aeronautics, construction, financial institutions, telecoms and media. He is the author of numerous articles and is a frequent lecturer on international arbitration and complex litigation issues.

Mr Kleiman received law degrees from the University of Paris II and Paris X. He is admitted as an Avocat in France and as a Foreign Legal Consultant of the New York Bar. He is also the managing partner of Freshfields in Paris and among other roles is an Expert member of the Club des Juristes, the leading French legal think tank.

12 Carolyn Lamm

Partner, White & Case LLP, Washington, United States; Member, ICC Institute of World Business Law

Carolyn Lamm is a Partner of White & Case LLP based in Washington, DC and Co-Chair of International Arbitration Americas. She has served as a member of the Firm’s Partnership Committee.

She regularly serves as lead counsel in high-stakes, cutting-edge cases, successfully resolving significant international arbitrations involving international corporates and sovereign clients. She also serves as lead counsel in arbitration-related litigation matters.

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

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

She was a member of the American Arbitration Association Executive Committee and Board, and is currently a member of the ICCA Governing Board, a member of the Council of the American Law Institute. She is a founding member of the American Uzbekistan Chamber of Commerce and currently serves as Chairman of the Board.

Ms Lamm is a past President of both the District of Columbia Bar and the American Bar Association. She is currently serving as the American Bar Association’s Representative to the International Bar Association. She has been recognized repeatedly for her professional expertise in international dispute resolution and leadership in the profession by numerous sources.

13 Eloïse Obadia

Partner, Derains & Gharavi, Washington D.C., United States; Former Senior Counsel and Team Leader, International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID, World Bank Group)

Eloise Obadia joined Derains & Gharavi in October 2013. She focuses her practice on international arbitration, including investor-state arbitration. She has represented private parties and governments in arbitration before ICSID and in UNCITRAL and ad hoc international arbitrations.

Prior to that, she was Team Leader at ICSID. She served as Secretary of tribunals, conciliation commissions and ad hoc committees in more than 60 proceedings brought under the ICSID Convention, Additional Facility Rules and UNCITRAL Rules. She also served as Coordinator in an Expert Determination under the Indus Waters Treaty.

Before joining ICSID, Ms Obadia was an associate at Curtis, Mallet- Prevost, Colt & Mosle, Paris where she participated in the representation of private-sector companies in international arbitrations and a sovereign State in an ICSID conciliation.

Ms Obadia is adjunct Associate Professor at American University, Washington College of Law where she teaches Investment Treaty Arbitration, and guest lecturer on International Economic Litigation Law, Master 2, International Economic Law, University of Panthéon–Assas.

She is admitted to the Paris and New York Bars and is registered as Special Legal Consultant in Washington, DC. She completed a Master of Laws at Duke University. She holds degrees from the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas and the University of Paris-Dauphine. She speaks English, French, Italian and Spanish.

14 Geneviève Saumier

Peter M. Laing Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, McGill University, Canada

On faculty since 1996 and Associate Dean from 2005-08, Genevieve Saumier’s research and teaching focus on dispute resolution, including arbitration, mediation and civil litigation in international and domestic law. Her articles on private international law and on consumer arbitration have been cited by the Supreme Court of Canada.

Ms Saumier holds degrees from McGill in Management and Law and obtained her PhD in private international law from the University of Cambridge.

An elected Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law and of the American Association of Private International Law, she is also a member of the board of the Quebec Consumer Protection Office.

Ms Saumier was a member of the Working Group for the Hague Principles on Choice of Law for International Commercial Contracts from 2010-14 and chaired the Drafting Committee at the intergovernmental Special Commission in 2012. She is currently co-rapporteur for the IACL’s 2016 conference on enforcement of consumer protection.

15 Eric A. Schwartz

Partner, King & Spalding, United States and France; Former Vice-President and Secretary General, ICC International Court of Arbitration; Vice-Chair, ICC Institute of World Business Law

Eric Schwartz was educated at Dartmouth College (B.A.) and Yale University (J.D.) and is a member of the bars of both California and Paris. He is currently a Partner of King & Spalding in New York and Paris and formerly served as Secretary General (1992-1996) and as a member and Vice-President (2006-2015) of the ICC International Court of Arbitration.

Over the last 35 years, in addition to his tenure at the ICC, Mr Schwartz has acted as counsel or as an arbitrator in over 100 international arbitration proceedings under all of the principal international arbitration rules and in all of the principal European arbitration venues, as well as in Africa, Asia and the U.S.

He is the co-author (with Yves Derains) of A Guide to the ICC Rules of Arbitration as well as dozens of other publications on international arbitration law and practice.

16 S.I. Strong

Professor of Law, University of Missouri, United States

S.I. Strong specializes in international and comparative law, with a particular emphasis on international commercial arbitration and large-scale (class and collective) suits. She has taught at the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford in the United Kingdom as well as Georgetown Law Center and the University of Missouri in the United States.

Ms Strong is an experienced practitioner, having acted as Counsel at Baker & McKenzie after working as a dual-qualified lawyer (U.S. attorney and English solicitor) in the New York and London offices of Weil, Gotshal & Manges. She has published numerous award-winning books and articles in Europe and the Americas, including Class, Mass, and Collective Arbitration in National and International Law (2013) and Research and Practice in International Commercial Arbitration: Sources and Strategies (2009), both from Oxford University Press, as well as International Commercial Arbitration: A Guide for U.S. Judges (2012) from the Federal Judicial Center.

Ms Strong’s scholarly work has also been cited as authority to the U.S. Supreme Court and in ICSID awards. Ms Strong, who holds a Ph.D. in law from the University of Cambridge, a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford, a J.D. from Duke University, an M.P.W. from the University of Southern California and a B.A. from the University of California, Davis, sits as an arbitrator on a variety of complex commercial matters