1 Mauricio Almeida Prado

Partner, L.O. Baptista, Schmidt Valois Miranda Ferreira & Agel, Brazil; Member, ICC Institute of World Business Law

Mauricio Almeida Prado is a Partner of L.O. Baptista Lawyers (Brazil). For almost 30 years, he has worked with negotiation, drafting and renegotiation of domestic and international contracts. He has participated in a great number of transactions regarding M&A and Joint Ventures, capital market (IPO’s and delistings) and other commercial contracts (supply, distribution and agency, transfer of technology and financial contracts). Furthermore, for the last 15 years he has been working with domestic and international arbitration. He has seated as an arbitrator in more than 50 cases. As counsel, he has represented parties in more than 100 cases. Mr Almeida Prado has two LLMs in International Law (University of Sao Paulo and University of Paris X) and a PhD from the University of Paris X (2001). He was also Visiting Researcher of the University of Paris II (2009-2010). He is the author of the books "Le hardship dans droit des contrats internationaux", Paris/Bruxelles, Bruylant, 2003, and "Contrato Internacional de Transferência de Tecnologia", Sao Paulo, Liv. do Advogado, 1997. He is fluent in Portuguese, English, French and Spanish.

2 Richard Appuhn

Dispute Resolution Practitioner, Richard Appuhn Consulting Services, Italy

Dick Appuhn’s experience in engineering and construction began in the United States in 1961. Moving to the international marketplace in 1968 he has worked in the Far East, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Europe and Africa. He is a certified adjudicator on the FIDIC President’s List, and serves on its Task Group for the drafting of General Conditions of Subcontract. He has BS and MS degrees in Civil Engineering and Engineering Geology from the University of California, Berkeley, and is a registered Civil Engineer and Engineering Geologist in California. Mr Appuhn is a member of the ICC ADR Standing Committee on Expertise. He also serves as President of the Dispute Resolution Board Foundation Executive Board and is the recipient of the 2009, Al Mathews Award for distinguished service in that organization. Mr Appuhn has served and is currently serving on Dispute Boards in Romania (Motorway, Infrastructure Rehabilitation and Residential Development Projects), Vietnam (Building Construction), Madagascar (Mineral Port Construction), Germany (Cogeneration), Zambia (Water Supply) and Mozambique (Airport Rehabilitation Project).|

3 Fabienne Borde

Forensic Services Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers, France

Fabienne Borde leads PwC France’s Forensic Services practice. She started her career at PwC as an external auditor and joined Forensic Services during a tour-of-duty in the United States. For more than 15 years, she has assisted clients in the context of domestic or international litigation, acting as a financial expert (preparing claims, counter-claims and rebuttals) in a variety of cases (commercial, regulatory, IP related). She has acted as a party-appointed expert, writing reports and testifying in front of tribunals, but also as independent expert appointed by both parties, mainly in post-acquisition disputes.She is fluent in French and English.

4 Andrea Carlevaris

Secretary General, ICC International Court of Arbitration; Director, ICC Dispute Resolution Services, Paris

Before joining the ICC, Andrea Carlevaris was a Partner in the Rome office of Bonelli Erede Pappalardo. His practice covered international arbitration, public international law, conflicts of law and international civil procedure. Mr Carlevaris was a member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration and of the ICC Commission on Arbitration. Prior to joining Bonelli Erede Pappalardo, Mr Carlevaris was Counsel at the Secretariat of the ICC International Court of Arbitration. Mr Carlevaris is a member of the Council of the ICC Institute of World Business La, the Steering Committee of the International Arbitration Commission of the Union international des Avocats (UIA), the Board of Directors of the Italian Association for Arbitration (AIA), the Board of Directors of the International Mediation Institute (IMI) and the Advisory Board to the European Federation for Investment Law and Arbitration (EFILA). He is one of the founders of the Italian Forum on International Arbitration and ADR (ArbIt). Mr Carlevaris is the author of numerous publications on public international law, conflicts of law and international arbitration, including a monograph on interim measures in international arbitration. He is a member of the editorial boards of several law reviews, including the ICC Dispute Resolution Bulletin, Diritto del commercio internazionale, Rivista dell’arbitrato and Giustizia civile.

5 Antonio Crivellaro

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

Antonio Crivellaro is a former Professor of International Organization and International Trade Law (Padua University). He is a former partner and currently Of Counsel at Bonelli Erede, Milan office, where he heads the International Arbitration Group. He has extensive experience in international — commercial and investment — arbitration as either counsel or arbitrator in several arbitral institutions (ICC; ICSID; LCIA; SCA; Cairo Centre; Bangkok Centre; Milan Chamber, Dubai-DIAC Arbitration Centre) and ad hoc proceedings. His area of expertise includes 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. He 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 the Managing Director of Diritto del Commercio Internazionale - The Law of International Trade.

6 Filip De Ly

Professor of Law, Erasmus University, The Netherlands; Council Member, ICC Institute of World Business Law

Filip De Ly teaches private international law, arbitration law and international business law and is doing research on international business law and international commercial arbitration. He is the Director of the Post-Graduate LL.M. Program Arbitration & Business Law at Erasmus School of Law. He is frequently retained as counsel, expert witness or arbitrator in international commercial arbitrations and often gives legal opinions with regard to international business law problems. He acted in more than one hundred and ninety arbitrations in the capacity of expert witness, sole arbitrator, co-arbitrator or chairman of the arbitral tribunal. In 1992, he succeeded Professor Fontaine as Chairman of the International Contracts Working Group ("Groupe de Travail Contrats Internationaux") which since 1975, has published sixteen reports on the practice of international contracts regarding different contract clauses (including force majeure clauses, hardship provisions, assignment of contracts, termination clauses, interpretation clauses, divorce clauses in international joint ventures). An up-date of these reports was published in 2003 in book format, an English edition was published early 2006 and Italian and Spanish editions appeared in 2008 respectively in 2013. In 2002, Mr De Ly was appointed Chairman of the International Commercial Arbitration Committee of the International Law Association and reports and recommendations on res judicata, lis pendens, ascertaining the contents of the applicable law, confidentiality and inherent powers of arbitrators were published by ILA as a result of the activities of the Committee under his chairmanship. Mr De Ly studied at Ghent Law School (Belgium) and obtained a LL.M. degree from Harvard Law School in 1983. He has worked for the US-law firm Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in Brussels (1983-1986) and as an Associate Professor at Utrecht Law School (The Netherlands) before becoming a professor at the Law Faculty of Erasmus University in 1992. He is a Belgian citizen who has been working and living in The Netherlands for the past twenty eight years.

7 Pauline Ernste

Associate, NautaDutilh N.V., The Netherlands

Pauline Ernste practises litigation and arbitration, with a focus on both national and international arbitration. She is also involved in arbitration related court proceedings in The Netherlands. Ms Ernste graduated from Radboud University Nijmegen in 2006. She holds a Masters’ degree in Dutch Private Law and Dutch Criminal Law. In 2012, Ms Ernste obtained her Doctorate at Radboud University Nijmegen with a thesis on binding third-party ruling ("bindend advies"). Alongside her legal practice, Ms Ernste is fellow at the Business & Law Research Center of the Radboud University Nijmegen. She frequently publishes on topics in the field of litigation and alternative dispute resolution. Ms Ernste is editor of TCR (Tijdschrift Civiele Rechtspleging), which is the Netherlands leading journal on litigation. In addition, Ms Ernste regularly lectures to fellow legal practitioners and university students. Ms Ernste is admitted to the Rotterdam Bar (2015) and is a member of the Netherlands Arbitration Institute association for Young Arbitration Practitioners ("NAI Jong Oranje") and the Dutch Association for Procedural Law ("Nederlandse Vereniging voor Procesrecht").

8 Clive Freedman FCIArb, FBCS

Barrister, Arbitrator, Mediator. 3 Verulam Buildings, London

Clive Freedman is a Barrister practising at 3 Verulam Buildings, Gray’s Inn, London. His practice covers commercial disputes generally, including information technology, arbitration and expert determination, construction, professional negligence, banking and commercial fraud. His main area of specialisation is IT law, particularly contractual dispute s arising from IT projects, and he is also a specialist in electronic disclosure. He has acted as Counsel in many arbitrations, and has also served as Arbitrator, Expert and Mediator. He is a TECBAR approved Adjudicator.He is co-author of Kendall on Expert Determination (Sweet & Maxwell), and has contributed to Banking Litigation (Hewetson & Elliott, Sweet & Maxwell), Bullen & Leake & Jacob’s Precedents of Pleadings (chapter on IT Disputes), and Electronic Evidence (2013, chapter on electronic disclosure). He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and a Fellow of the British Computer Society and former Chair of its Disciplinary Panel. He is a Trustee of the Society for Computers & Law. He is fluent in French, and has a good working knowledge of German.

9 Paul-A Gélinas

Independent Arbitrator, France; Council Member, ICC Institute of World Business Law

Paul-A. Gélinas has for some twenty years concentrated his practice in the field of International Commercial Arbitration and Dispute Board, acting as Arbitrator and member of DBs, in particular as Chairman. He served on the International Court of Arbitration as the Canadian Member from 1974 through 1990. He is the past Chairman of the ICC Commission on Arbitration (1996-2001). Before devoting his full time to dispute resolution, including mediation, he advised clients involved in international joint ventures; he acted for some 20 years as negotiator and counsel to Elf, now Total. In 1985, he acted for the successful tendering French consortium for the construction of the Channel Tunnel. Mr Gélinas joined the Montreal based international law firm Phillips & Vineberg in 1968 and became in 1976 its resident partner in Paris. In 1985 he co-founded Derains Gélinas & Partners, a law firm based in Paris with an office in Nicosia; since 1994, he runs an independent practice in Paris. He obtained his law degree from McGill University in Montreal. He is a member of the Montreal and Paris Bars and active in many professional organizations.

10 Pierre Genton

Dispute Board Member and Chair, Mediator, Adjudicator and Arbitrator, PMG Ingénieurs-Economistes-Conseils, Switzerland

Pierre M. Genton, Dipl.Eng. EPFL/SIA-IMD, MSc., C.Eng. FICE, is a graduate from the "Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne" (EPFL) and the International Management Development Institute (IMD), he has an experience of over 30 years as Dispute Board member, arbitrator mediator, forensic expert and consulting engineer. He was a resident in Morocco, Iraq, Thailand and the Philippines. He has been lecturing international construction contracts and prevention of disputes for the past 8 years at the Master Business Law at the Law Faculties of the University of Geneva and Lausanne. He was also a visiting professor during 3 years at the Institute Superior Tecnico Lisboa/Portugal (IST-MIT) and also in a number of other universities such as Lausanne, Geneva, Austria and Paris2/Assas. He is the founder of PMG Engineers and Economists, in Lausanne, Switzerland, specialized in the prevention and resolution of disputes for the construction industry. In 1993, he was appointed to the Supervisory Board of the Alp Crossing Railway Project by the Swiss Federal Government Council. In 1998 he was appointed Commissioner at the United Nations Compensation Commission for the damages of the Gulf war. He also chaired the ICC Task Force in charge of drafting the Dispute Board Rules.

11 Dr. Crenguta Leaua

Crenguta Leaua is a Vice- President of the ICC International Court of Arbitration ( since 2015), after having been amember of the Court (2012-2015) and of the ICC Commission on Arbitration, as well as of the task forces on decisions as to costs and criminal law and arbitration.She is a past vice-president of the Romanian Court of International Commercial Arbitration (2008-2012).

Experienced arbitrator, in over 100 cases, Crenguta is acting frequently in arbitrations under the ICC rules, being also a listed as arbitrator by various institutions in Austria, Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova, Poland, Slovenia, Kuala Lumpur and Shanghai, as well as on the WIPO list of neutrals for intellectual property disputes.

Crenguta is a founding partner of "Leaua & Asociatii" Law firm in Bucharest, Romania (a GAR top 100 law firm). She regularly acts as counsel in commercial arbitral proceedings under the ICSID rules as well as in commercial arbitration ( ICC and other arbitral institution or under UNCITRAL rules).

Crenguta holds a Ph.D. in Law from Bucharest University and has completed an executive education program at Harvard University. She is currently an associate Professor at the Bucharest University Faculty of Law, teaching International Comparative Arbitration and Construction Arbitration and an Associate Professor of Business Law and EU Law at the Bucharest University of Economics. She was also a visiting scholar at Columbia Law School in New York. She is author of numerous publications on arbitration and a frequent speaker in arbitration conferences.

She is fluent in Romanian, English and French, has a good command of Italian and basic knowledge of German. E-mail: crenguta.leaua@leaua.ro

12 Aisha Nadar

Senior Consultant, Advokatfirman Runeland AB, Sweden; Member, FIDIC Executive Committee

For over 30 years, Aisha Nadar has been actively involved in all phases of the negotiation and implementation of large-scale cross-border infrastructure and defence programs.Her procurement and international contract management experience includes holding senior level positions in the US, the Middle East and Europe. Ms Nadar joined Advokatfirman Runeland as a contract and dispute resolution consultant in September 2012, where she regularly advises clients on strategic procurement planning, contract drafting, contract management and dispute resolution. She acts as arbitrator, mediator and adjudicator and is retained regularly by parties, party counsel and arbitral tribunals in matters involving international arbitration, mediation and dispute boards.She has experience of ICC, LCIA, SCC, DIAC, AAA and UNCITRAL rules.Ms Nadar has carried out assignments related to dispute resolution for organizations such as the World Bank, USAID and US DoD and is a regularly invited speaker at universities and specialized conferences on construction contracts and dispute resolution. Ms Nadar is a member of FIDIC’s Executive Committee, the Chair of FIDIC’s Procurement Policy Sub-Committee and is listed on FIDIC President’s List of Accredited Adjudicators. She is an officer of the International Construction Projects Committee of the International Bar Association and has previously served as a member of the Standing Committee of ICC International Centre for ADR. Ms Nadar | 135 INTERNATIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (ICC holds a BS Electrical Engineering from University of Nebraska, an MBA from University of Texas-Austin and an LL.M. in International Commercial Dispute Resolution from Queen Mary, University of London and attended the CIArb Diploma Course in International Commercial Arbitration, Oxford in 2005.

13 James Perry

Partner, PS Consulting, France

Jim Perry is a US trained civil engineer and lawyer (District of Columbia Bar) who has been working internationally since 1988. In 2003, Mr Perry founded PS Consulting, a Contracts and Dispute Management consulting firm based in Paris. Since founding PS Consulting, Mr Perry has served on dispute boards and Arbitration Tribunals in Central Europe, Central Asia and Latin America, and is on the FIDIC President’s list and the Syntec-Ingénierie list of adjudicators (France). Mr Perry has been involved in projects from Motorways in Azerbaijan to the Petronas Towers in Malaysia and urban development in Venezuela, power and industrial projects around the World and many more. Mr Perry is also an accredited FIDIC trainer and has lead training courses throughout the world for FIDIC, the Asian Development Bank, the Japan International Cooperation Agency, the European Union and private companies. Prior to founding PS Consulting, Jim worked as Assistant Director for contract management and disputes for Bouygues UK and in Central Europe. Mr Perry was also Managing Director of Euro Disneyland Imagineering, a firm created to run the design/build construction of Euro Disney’s themed developments including Disney Studios theme park near Paris.

14 Christopher R. Seppälä

Partner, White & Case, France; Member, ICC Institute of World Business Law, FIDIC’s Observer, ICC International Court of Arbitration; Legal Advisor, Contracts Committee, FIDIC

Chris Seppälä, who founded White & Case’s arbitration practice in Paris in 1988, has acted as counsel, arbitrator or independent expert in many international commercial arbitrations under the rules of the principal international arbitration institutions or systems (e.g. ICC, LCIA, JCAA, UNCITRAL). He specializes in international construction claims and disputes in relation to civil engineering, industrial (including nuclear) and building projects, as well as claims under contracts in the oil and gas industry. He has been Legal Advisor to the FIDIC Contracts Committee since 2000, and currently serves as FIDIC’s Observer on the ICC International Court of Arbitration.A former Vice-President Emeritus of the ICC International Court of Arbitration, he is a recipient of the Louis Prangey Award, FIDIC’s highest accolade for meritorious service.He was Legal Advisor (and Member) of FIDIC’s Update Task Group which prepared the three current FIDIC conditions of contract for major works (the "Red", "Yellow" and "Silver" Books), published in 1999.

He is also member of the New York and Paris Bars and fluent in English and French