Prof. Dr. Mohamed S. Abdel Wahab

Prof. Dr. Mohamed S. Abdel Wahab is the Chair of private international law and professor of international arbitration at Cairo University (Egypt); Founding Partner and Head of International Arbitration at Zulficar & Partners (Egypt); Vice President of the ICC International Court of Arbitration; Member of the Advisory Council of Africa Arbitration; Member of the CIMAC Court of Arbitration; Member of AAA-ICDR International Advisory Committee; Member of CIArb’s Board of Trustees (MENA/Indian Subcontinent Regions); Member of the Advisory Committee of the CRCICA; Vice-Chair of the IBA Arab Regional Forum; Dean of the African Arbitration Academy; Member of the SIAC African Users Council Committee; Associate Fellow of the Centre of Private International Law at Aberdeen University (UK); Fellow of the Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution, University of Massachusetts (USA); Member of the ICODR’s Governing Board; and Member of Arbitrator Intelligence’s Board of Advisors. He is also an International Expert Member of the Permanent Forum of China Construction Law; Member of the Editorial Board of the ClArb’s Arbitration Journal; Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Enforcement of Arbitration Awards; Member of the Editorial Board of the IBA Journal of Construction Law International; and Co-Editor of Online Dispute Resolution: Theory and Practice (2012), which received the CPR Award for the Best Published Dispute Resolution Work (2013). He served as "Sole", "Presiding" and "Party Appointed" Arbitrator, "Counsel" and "Legal Expert" in more than 190 cases. He appeared in cases under the auspices of the AAA, AAABCDR, CRCICA, DIAC, DIFC-LCIA, ICC, ICSID, LCIA, LMAA, SCC, SIAC, as well as ad hoc UNCITRAL proceedings. recognized as a worldleading arbitrator and arbitration practitioner on international investment and international commercial arbitration, Arab and African Laws and Islamic Shari’a. He acted as "counsel" and served as "arbitrator" in proceedings governed by Bahraini, Egyptian, English, French, Iraqi, Jordanian, Kuwaiti, Libyan, Moroccan, New York, Omani, Pakistani, Qatari, Saudi, Spanish, Swiss, Syrian, Italian and United Arab Emirates law(s), as well as the general principles of law.

In 2018, Prof. Dr. Abdel Wahab received the Swiss Arbitration Association’s International Arbitration Global Advocacy Prize. He features in AFRICA’s 100 list of African arbitration practitioners by I-ARB (Africa) and was selected by Africa Arbitration as the African Personality of the Month (June 2018) and by the LACIAC (Lagos Chamber of Commerce International Arbitration Centre) as the Arbitration Personality in May 2019. Nominated for the GAR Award for the Best Arbitration Lecture in 2013, 2014and 2018. He is appointed as the Dean of African Arbitration Academy, London (June 2019) and was the CIArb’s Diploma Director for the International Arbitration Diploma, Oxford (September 2019).

In June 2019, Prof. Dr. Abdel Wahab received the AYA Hall of Fame Award in London for the African Arbitrator of 2019. He features in Who’s Who Legal: Arbitration; GAR Global Guide for Future Leaders in International Arbitration (2017-2018); and Who’s Who Legal Thought Leaders: International Arbitration (2017-2018). Who’s Who Legal (2017-2018) says: Mohamed Abdel Wahab is "one of the best practitioners in the world today", and in 2019 Who’s Who Legal says: Mohamed Abdel Wahab is "a leader in the space" who is "at the top of the market". He is described as "a star" who offers "practical advice and a tireless approach".

Giuditta Cordero-Moss

Dr. juris (Oslo), PhD (Moscow), is professor at the University of Oslo.

Her fields of expertise are primarily International Commercial Law, International Commercial Arbitration, Private International Law, Comparative Contract Law and Norwegian Law of Obligations.

An originally Italian lawyer, before joining the Oslo University she practiced the law of international contracts for nearly 20 years in the areas of financing, as well as commercial and industrial cooperation.

She has published numerous books and articles in Norway and internationally. A list of publications may be found here: http://folk.uio.no/giudittm/GCM_List%20of%20Publications.htm She is often invited by universities and organisations, including the Hague Academy of International Law—where she held a series of lectures on Party Autonomy in International Commercial Arbitration (2014).

Since 2002 she acts as an arbitrator in her areas of expertise in a variety of arbitral institutions: Central Chamber of Commerce of Finland, Danish Institute of Arbitration, International Arbitration Court at the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, International Chamber of Commerce, Oslo Chamber of Commerce, Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, Vienna International Arbitral Centre, as well as in ad hoc proceedings.

Since 2017 she is President of the Administrative Tribunal, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, where she has been a judge since 2007.

She holds positions in numerous organisations, among others: Member of the Curatorium of the Hague Academy of International Law (since 2019), Alternate Member of the International Court of Arbitration, International Chamber of Commerce (since 2018), member of the Norwegian Governmental Tariff Board (since 2015), Vice Chairman of the Board of the Financial Supervisory Authority of Norway (since 2014), delegate for Norway at the UNCITRAL Working Group on Arbitration (since 2007).

Teresa B. Giovannini

is a founding partner of LALIVE (since 1994) and specialises in international arbitration. She has acted as counsel or arbitrator in more than 200 international arbitrations, including setting aside proceedings before the Swiss Supreme Court, either ad hoc (e.g. under UNCITRAL Rules) or administered by institutions such as the AAA/ICDR, CAM, ICC, ICSID, LCIA and SCC.

Ms Giovannini is the Swiss member of the ICC Court of Arbitration and of the Council of the ICC Institute of World Business Law. She was a member and vice-president of the LCIA Court (2006–2011) and a member of the Arbitral Council of the Milan Chamber of Arbitration (CAM) (1997–2005), the Board of Directors of the American Arbitration Association (AAA), the Executive Council of the CPR European Advisory Board (2013–2019) and Panel of Distinguished Neutrals, the Club of Arbitrators of the Milan Chamber of National and International Arbitration, the Advisory Board of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA).

Teresa Giovannini is a frequent speaker and lecturer on international arbitration (including at Columbia Law School; the Fordham University School of Law and Harvard Law School; the International Chamber of Commerce; the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIarb); the University of Oxford, Queen’s College; IBA; ITA; etc.) She has been ranked for many years as a leading arbitration practitioner by Chambers Europe and Chambers Global for Dispute resolution— Arbitrators for Switzerland, and as a Thought Leader in Arbitration by Who’s Who Legal. She was listed among the Best Prepared/Most Responsive Arbitrators by Global Arbitration Review (GAR).

Anja Ipp

is legal counsel at the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC) since 2015. In that capacity, she has overseen the administration of several hundred arbitrations, and regularly contributes to the development of SCC procedures and policies. She is a board member of Young Arbitrators Sweden (YAS) and the Swedish Women in Arbitration Network (SWAN) and serves on the editorial committee of the Stockholm Arbitration Yearbook. Before joining the SCC in 2015, Anja was an associate in the global disputes practice of Jones Day in New York. She holds a JD from Columbia University, an LLM from the University of Amsterdam, and a BA from Lund University.

Charles Jarrosson

is Professor at the University of Paris II Pantheon-Assas where he teaches Arbitration and ADR and manages the post-graduate Master Litigation, Arbitration & ADR. He is also visiting professor in different foreign universities, especially in Lebanon. He is editor in chief of the Revue de l’arbitrage, and vice-president of the French National Committee of the ICC.

He has acted in more than one hundred and forty arbitration procedures, as arbitrator (Chairman of the arbitral tribunal, sole arbitrator, party-appointed arbitrator) in domestic or international arbitrations, ad hoc or ICC, or ICSID, or under the aegis of other institutions. The arbitrations have been conducted in French, English or Italian.

Numerous experiences of counsel in arbitrations. Experiences of consultant for arbitration institutions. Ex-Member of the Court of Arbitration of the Camera arbitrale nazionale e internazionale di Milano (2003–2008). He has acted in mediations, and in other ADRs.

He is a member of the Board of the Comite francais de l’arbitrage; Scientific coordinator of Ispramed. He is also a member of International Arbitration Institute (IAI); Association francaise d’arbitrage (AFA); Association suisse d’arbitrage (ASA); Comite francais de droit international prive.

Publications: La notion d’arbitrage LGDJ ed., 1987 as well as numerous papers and caselaw commentaries in different law reviews.

Luca G. Radicati di Brozolo

Partner, ARBLIT—Radicati di Brozolo Sabatini Benedettelli Torsello, Italy; Professor, Catholic University of Milan

Professor Luca G. Radicati di Brozolo is an internationally recognized academic and practitioner now predominantly active in international commercial and investor-State arbitration.

After practicing in many different areas of Iaw for many years as a partner in two of the major Italian firms, in 2013 he founded the arbitration and litigation boutique ArbLit—Radicati di Brozolo Sabatini Benedettelli Torsello (www.arblit.com). He has a very active practice as presiding, party-appointed and sole arbitrator, counsel and expert in arbitral proceedings under the main arbitration rules and in many different seats and involving a broad array of issues and applicable laws. He has significant experience in investor-State arbitration and appears in court litigation as counsel and expert witness in arbitrationrelated cases and cases raising issues of international and competition Iaw.

Luca is a door tenant at Fountain Court Chambers in London, listed on the ICSID Panel of Arbitrators appointed by ltaly, Vice-President of the Court of the London Court of International Arbitration and a member of numerous scientific and professional organizations. He is a former member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration and former Vice-Chair of the IBA Arbitration Committee, a member and former rapporteur of the Committee on International Commercial Arbitration of the International Law Association and a former co-chair of the Joint Working Group of the Competition and Arbitration Committees of the ICC Arbitration Commission on Antitrust Follow-on Actions.

As an academic, his scholarship has been devoted primarily to private international Iaw, the law of arbitration, public international law, European Union Iaw and antitrust law. He held the chair of Private International Law at the Catholic University of Milan, where he also taught Law of International Arbitration until October 2019. He is the author of five books and nearly 200 scholarly articles in major Iaw reviews and publications and is a co-editor of the leading ltalian commentary of the law of arbitration, now in its second edition, and a frequent speaker at academic and professional conferences and event. He has held positions in various foreign universities, and in 2003 held a special course on international arbitration in the private international law session at the Hague Academy of International Law where in 2018 he held the General Course in Private International Law on "The Legal Framework of International Commercial Relations".

S.I. Strong

specializes in international dispute resolution and comparative law, with a particular emphasis on international commercial arbitration and large-scale (class and collective) suits. Dr. Strong is currently an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Sydney and 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. Dr. Strong has published over 100 award-winning books and articles in Europe, Asia and the Americas and is an experienced practitioner, having acted as Counsel at Baker & McKenzie after working as a dual-qualified lawyer (US attorney and English solicitor) in the New York and London offices of Weil, Gotshal & Manges. Dr. Strong, who holds a PhD in law from the University of Cambridge, a DPhil from the University of Oxford, a JD from Duke University, an MPW from the University of Southern California and a BA from the University of California, Davis, sits as an arbitrator on a variety of international commercial and trustrelated matters.