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The Incoterms® 2010 rules were drafted by a select international group of ICC member experts on the Incoterms® rules, in consultation with the broader global ICC membership through the network of ICC national committees. The wide geographical and sectoral scope of the consultative process ensures that the Incoterms® 2010 rules reflect the current realities of international trade and respond to business needs everywhere.
Charles Debattista is an active arbitrator in international trade disputes and takes appointments under ICC and other institutional rules. He is also a Registered European Lawyer with the Bar of England and Wales and accepts instructions as counsel before international arbitral tribunals.
Mr Debattista is also a professor of Commercial Law at the University of Southampton in the UK. He has written many books and articles on international sale contracts, the carriage of goods by sea and letters of credit. He is a member of ICC’s Commercial Law and Practice Commission, of the Banking Commission and of the Transport Commission. He was Chair of the Incoterms 2000 Drafting Group and Co-Chair of the Incoterms® 2010 Drafting Group.
Mr Radtke is a partner of the French law firm Lamy & Associés. He leads the firm’s international team and specializes in international trade law, agency and distribution, EC law, French and German business law, international arbitration, and international litigation. Admitted at the French and the German Bar, Mr Radtke has published articles on international contract law and arbitration and has taught at the Paris-based Institut de Droit Comparé.
In addition to his role on the Incoterms® 2010 Drafting Group, Mr Radtke is Chair of the Commercial Law and Practice Commission of ICC France, and Vice-Chair of the French-German Lawyers’ Association.
He lectures widely on the Incoterms rules and has contributed to ICC model contracts including the ICC Model Distributorship contract and the Commercial Agency Contract, as well as to the ICC Legal Handbook on Global Sourcing Contracts.
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Jens Bredow is the Secretary General of the German Institution of Arbitration in Cologne and an attorney in private practice, specializing in international trade law and arbitration. In addition, he serves as an adviser to the German Ministry of Justice as a participant in UNCITRAL’s Working Party on Arbitration and Conciliation, and is also a lecturer at Bonn University. He is also an experienced arbitrator, serving frequently as chair or sole arbitrator in a range of international proceedings.
Mr Bredow, the former Director of ICC Germany, was also a member of the Drafting Groups that revised the Incoterms® rules in 1990 and 2000. He currently sits on the Incoterms rules Panel of Experts.
Professor Johnny Herre is a Supreme Court Justice at the Supreme Court of Sweden. Prior to joining the court, he spent many years as a Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics, where he served a term as Head of the Department of Law and from which he earned a Master of Science in Economics and Business and a PhD in Law, with a focus on damages in sale of goods law.
In addition to publishing widely on issues related to the sale of goods, contracts, the law of obligations and consumer law, Professor Herre has extensive experience in arbitration, including as arbitrator and chair of tribunals in international arbitral proceedings. A member of the Study Group on a European Civil Code for many years, he is currently chair of ICC Sweden’s group on Commercial Law and Practice.
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A partner at the London office of international law firm Wragge & Co LLP, David Lowe leads the firm’s commercial contracts team. His expertise is in advising supply chain clients on the international supply of goods. In this capacity, he has advised:
Mr Lowe’s experience of advising buyers and sellers of manufactured goods (which are typically transported in containers) has shaped his contribution to Incoterms® 2010. Mr Lowe also chairs the ICC UK Commercial Law and Practice Committee.
Lauri Railas, LL.M. (Helsinki and London), LL.D. (Helsinki), is an attorney-at-law at Krogerus Attorneys in Finland. He is a member of the Finnish Bar.
Dr Railas is the former Secretary General of ICC Finland and the former Secretary of the Arbitration Institute of the Central Chamber of Commerce of Finland. His experience and practice include international trade and transport law, marine insurance and electronic commerce. Dr Railas has been involved in trade facilitation work under the auspices of the United Nations and has written books and articles on international trade law. In addition to Incoterms® 2010, Dr Railas has contributed to various ICC model contracts, including the ICC Model International Sale Contract. He is also the co-chair of the ICC Task Force on Public Procurement.
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Frank Reynolds is the President of International Projects Inc., a US-based international trading and consulting firm. Besides representing the US for the Incoterms® 2000 and Incoterms® 2010 revisions, he has written or co-authored 16 books on various international trade topics including ICC’s A to Z of International Trade dictionary. He also has written over 300 columns for such international publications as the Journal of Commerce, The Exporter and ICC’s Documentary Credit Insight.
Frank has lectured throughout the US on such trade-related topics as the Incoterms® rules, documentary credits, US free-trade agreements, export and import procedures and the Harmonized System for over 25 years. He served on the US Commerce Department’s District Export Council for 22 years, and his international projects received an E Award for Export Excellence. He also holds a customs broker licence from the US Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection.
Miroslav Subert holds a juris doctor degree from Charles University in Prague. A long-time expert on the Incoterms® rules, he worked for many years at senior management level in companies dealing with foreign trade, shipping and forwarding in the United Kingdom, Croatia, Belgium and the Czech Republic.
Dr Subert currently serves as a lecturer at a number of institutions in Prague, including the University of Economics, the Institute for Foreign Trade, Transport and Forwarding and the Perner Institute. He is the Vice-Chair of the Czech Society for Transport Law and a professional and legal adviser on foreign trade, transport and insurance to ICC Czech Republic. He has written widely on international trade issues, including books on international transport, sales and documentary credits, and is a regular contributor to professional publications and newspapers. Dr Subert wrote a guide to Incoterms® rules in 2000 and has spearheaded the translation of recent versions of the Incoterms rules into Czech.
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Emily O'Connor is the Senior Policy Manager of the ICC Commission on Commercial Law and Practice and oversaw the development of Incoterms® 2010. She joined the ICC International Secretariat in Paris in 2006, after several years at the US Council for International Business in New York, where she managed intellectual property and competition law issues.
Ms O'Connor graduated from Columbia Law School in New York, first practising in the US State Department's Office of the Legal Adviser, focusing on International Court of Justice cases on the US application of the death penalty to foreign nationals. She then practised international corporate law at Debevoise & Plimpton, working on future flow equity issuances, mergers and acquisitions and a range of media deals, before moving to the international policy arena.
Shane Daly is a graduate of the National University of Ireland, Galway and University College London, specializing in International Commercial Law with Dispute Resolution and International Public Law. He also holds a diploma from the Université de Poitiers. In addition to his work as an assistant to the Incoterms® 2010 Drafting Group, Mr Daly has contributed to other projects of the ICC Commission on Commercial Law and Practice, including model contracts on mergers and acquisitions and on subcontracting. He is to commence as a trainee solicitor in Dublin in 2011.