Alma Forgó is a German-qualified lawyer and currently Head of Commercial Litigation and Arbitration at Airbus Group in Toulouse, France. Under the lead of Karl Hennessee, SVP and Head of Litigation and Investigations, Alma heads a small team of civil and common law litigation specialists. Besides vigorously defending Airbus’ interests, she focuses on increasing awareness both for alternative dispute resolution and ODR.

Before joining Airbus in January 2017, Alma held the position of Deputy Counsel at the Secretariat of the ICC International Court of Arbitration in Paris, France for more than five years where she was overseeing hundreds of international commercial arbitration cases involving various jurisdictions, with a focus on Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Nordic countries. In 2016, Alma served also as YAF Head of Europe and Russia where she was in charge of organizing various conferences of the Young Arbitrators Forum throughout Europe and Russia. In 2016, Alma was further the project manager and driving force for the ICC to become permanent arbitration data contributor to DRD, disputeresolutiondata.com, an award-winning fairly new online research tool for dispute resolution data.

Before joining the ICC in 2011, Alma trained in the international arbitration departments of WilmerHale LLP in London, UK and of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP in Frankfurt, Germany and Paris, France.

Alma holds a licence en droit in European Law (2004) and a Master's degree in Public International Law (2008) from the University Paris II Panthéon-Assas and a German law degree from Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany (2008). Alma is admitted to the Munich Bar since 2010 (Rechtsanwältin).