Editorial Board

Assistant Editors

Case Report Contributors

Editor in Chief

Ian A Laird BA (McGill), LLB (Windsor), LLM (Cantab), is Counsel in the Washington, DC office of Crowell & Moring LLP. He is licensed to practice as a Barrister & Solicitor in Ontario, Canada, and as a Special Legal Consultant in the District of Columbia. Laird’s practice as counsel and arbitrator is focused in the field of international investment law and arbitration. Listed in Who’s Who in Commercial Arbitration, he has spoken extensively and published numerous articles on international investment arbitration. With Todd Weiler, he co-edited Investment Treaty Arbitration and International Law, vol. 2 (Juris Publishing, 2009), and, with Andrea Bjorklund and Sergey Ripinsky, he co-edited Investment Treaty Law: Current Issues III (BIICL, 2009). Laird has been counsel in some of the leading investment arbitrations submitted under the NAFTA Chapter 11 investor-state provisions in matters related to the Canada-US softwood lumber dispute, the export of PCBs to the United States, the express courier service industry and the export of water. He has experience advising clients on issues related to bilateral and multilateral international agreements, such as the WTO Agreement, the NAFTA and Bilateral Investment Treaties. Laird has also served at several levels of government in Canada - most recently, he was appointed Chief of Staff to the Federal Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, 2003-2004, and acted as a senior ministerial assistant to the Ontario Minister of Energy and Minister of Citizenship, 1988-1990.

Senior Editorial Adviser

A Member of the Law Society of Upper Canada, Todd Weiler's practice focuses exclusively on investor-state arbitration. He has served as arbitrator, consulting expert and co-counsel in over two dozen investment treaty disputes. In 2006 he was named by the Global Arbitration Review as one of its '45 Under 45' in the field of international arbitration and his name has appeared on the Who's Who Legal list of international arbitrators since 2007. He is regularly consulted by the media for his expertise on the North American Free Trade Agreement and bilateral investment treaty arbitration.

In 1999 Todd Weiler founded one of the field's leading web sites: NAFTAClaims.com. In 2006 he cofounded Investmentclaims.com, which is now operated by Oxford University Press. He is the author of over two dozen academic articles and chapters on international investment law and arbitration and he has organized or spoken at dozens of conferences and seminars on the subject. Between 1990 and 1996, Todd Weiler held regulatory policy positions with four departments of the Government of Canada. He also clerked for Mr. Justice Wetston at the Federal Court of Canada in 1998.

Assistant Editor

Andrea Ernst is an international arbitration law clerk at Crowell & Moring in Washington DC. Prior to that she worked as a law clerk at the German Ministry of Economics in the Department of International Investment, World Bank and Debt Rescheduling. She studied law and economics in Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom and holds a British and a German law degree as well as a degree in economics. As a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law she focuses in her work on WTO law and international investment law. As well as writing her PhD thesis at the University of Heidelberg in international investment law she teaches at the Heidelberg Center for Latin America in Santiago de Chile.

Alan S Alexandroff is a Research Director at the Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto and a Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI). At CIGI he launched the Global Institutional Reform (GIR) Workshop, a project designed to evaluate the adequacy of institutional reform proposals for the international system. From this Workshop a series of books entitled 'Can the World be Governed?' is being created. In addition, he has acted as outside counsel for a number of law firms where he has focused on international investment law cases. He also has served on the International Law Association's Committee on the International Law on Foreign Investment. This Committee recently published 'The Oxford Handbook of International Investment Law'. With Ian Laird he prepared the chapter on 'Compliance and Enforcement'.

Stanimir Alexandrov focuses his practice on international dispute resolution, including investor-state arbitration, international commercial arbitration, and trade disputes before the WTO. He has represented private parties and governments in arbitration before the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), and in ICC, UNCITRAL, and AAA international arbitrations, as well as governments in WTO disputes. He has been appointed to the ICSID's Panel of Arbitrators and Panel of Conciliators and serves as an arbitrator in a number of cases. He has authored several books and a number of articles on public international law and international arbitration topics.

Hannah Ambrose is an associate in the Arbitration Group in the London office of Allen & Overy LLP. She has advised on a number of commercial matters, including advising a large pharmaceutical company in two arbitrations against its excess liability insurers, advising in relation to injunction proceedings to prevent an insurer from challenging an arbitral award in the United States (C v. D reported at [2007] EWHC 1541 (Comm)), and advising on and recovering from insurers a full indemnity for property damage and business interruption losses following an explosion at a gas fired power station. Hannah also advises on issues of investor-state arbitration, most recently Biwater Gauff (Tanzania) Limited v. United Republic of Tanzania.

Angélica André holds master degrees of the University of Cologne, the Sorbonne in Paris and Queen Mary, University of London, where she specialised in international arbitration. She is currently completing her legal training at the Paris Bar School through secondments at different firms in Paris, London and Singapore, practising both commercial and investment arbitration.

Aurélia Antonietti is currently a consultant with the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), where she also served as Counsel from 2003 to 2006. Ms Antonietti also worked as an associate with the law firm of Lévy Kaufmann-Kohler in Geneva from 2006 to 2008, and with the law firm of Gide Loyrette Nouel in Paris prior to 2003. She qualified as an Avocat with the Paris Bar and as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales.

Yas Banifatemi is a partner in Shearman & Sterling's International Arbitration Group and heads the firm's Public International Law practice. She has acted as Counsel in over 50 international arbitration cases, with a focus on international investment, oil & gas, mergers & acquisitions, and general commercial matters. She has also acted as arbitrator. She regularly advises and represents companies and governments on public international law issues. Yas Banifatemi holds a PhD in Public International Law from the University of Panthéon-Assas and an LLM from Harvard Law School. She teaches Public International Law and International Investment Law at the University of Panthéon-Sorbonne. She has authored numerous publications on international arbitration and public international law, in French and in English.

Walid Ben Hamida is a Law Professor at the University of Evry Val d'Essonne, France. He holds a 'Maîtrise en Droit' from the University of Tunis and a PhD on investment arbitration form the University of Panthéon-Assas (Paris II). Dr. Ben Hamida authored numerous publications on investment law and regularly appeared as speaker and lecturer on international economic law issues in many countries. He also served as expert and expert-counsel to States and investors. His practice focuses on Arab laws, international law, investor-state dispute settlement, and arbitration.

Luc Bigel is a French-Canadian jurist with a degree in private and European law from the Université Paris XII (France). He holds an LLM from Johannes Gutenberg University (Mainz, Germany) with a focus on international & European law as well as German contract law. He acquired his Master in business law from Université Paris-Dauphine. His interests lie in the fields of competition, contracts and the international resolution of disputes.

Doak Bishop has over 30 years of legal practice, focusing on international arbitration and litigation of oil and gas, energy, construction, and environmental disputes. He is board Certified in Civil Trials. He served as sole, chair, party-appointed, and institution-appointed arbitrator in ICC, AAA, IACAC, and UNCITRAL arbitrations. Bishop is editor and contributor of, The Art of Advocacy in International Arbitration (Juris Publishing 2004); co-author with Professor James Crawford and Professor Michael Reisman of, Foreign Investment Disputes: Cases, Materials and Commentaries (Kluwers, 2005); Bishop, International Arbitration of Petroleum Disputes: The Development of a Lex Petrolea; 23 Y.B. Com. Arb. 1131 (1998); Bishop & Reed, Practical Guidelines for Interviewing, Selecting and Challenging Party-Appointed Arbitrators in International Commercial Arbitration, 14 Arb. Int'l 395 (1998); Bishop & Russell, Survey of Arbitration Awards Under Chapter 11 of the North American Free Trade Agreement, 19 J. Int'l Arb. 505 (2002); Bishop, Dimitroff & Miles, Strategic Options Available When Catastrophe Strikes the Major International Energy Project, 36(4) Tex. Int'l L.J. 635 (2001). He lectures on international arbitration to various international groups.

Andrea K Bjorklund teaches courses in international arbitration and litigation, international trade, international investment, conflict of laws, and contracts. Her primary research focus is investor-State arbitration, and she has written extensively on the subject. She is co-author of Chapter 11 in Investment Disputes under NAFTA: An Annotated Guide to NAFTA. Among her other works are articles in the Hastings Law Journal and the Virginia Journal of International Law and a chapter in the Oxford Handbook of International Investment Law. Prior to entering the academy, Professor Bjorklund worked for the U.S. Department of State defending the U.S. government in investor-State arbitrations brought under the NAFTA. She is a graduate of Yale Law School.

Caroline Blay trained as a lawyer in the Netherlands, started off her career at the Dutch Ministry of Justice and ended up working in the international humanitarian field for respectively the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). During a sabbatical in 2004, she obtained an LL.M degree in Comparative and International Dispute Resolution at the University College London and has maintained her interest in investment claims ever since, despite working in an entirely different professional area. Her present occupation focuses on gender rights and Caroline is currently deployed as advisor on gender issues to the United Nations at large.

Gabriel Bottini leads the Department of International Affairs of the Attorney General's Office of the Republic of Argentina. The Attorney General's Office defends Argentina before international arbitral tribunals and other international courts. Mr. Bottini has extensive experience in ICSID and UNCITRAL arbitrations, as well as in arbitrations under ICC rules. He teaches international public law at the University of Buenos Aires and at the University of Palermo in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has lectured at many universities and international institutions around the world on issues of investment litigation and international law, and has published extensively on such matters. He has been awarded scholarships by the Fulbright Commission and other international institutions. Mr. Bottini holds a law degree from the University of Buenos Aires and an LLM from New York University School of Law.

Chester Brown is Assistant Legal Adviser at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. He was formerly a Senior Associate in the International Law and International Arbitration Group at Clifford Chance LLP, London. Dr Brown completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Melbourne (BA (French and German) (Hons), LLB (Hons)), and also holds a BCL (Distinction) from the University of Oxford, and a PhD in public international law from the University of Cambridge. He is the author of A Common Law of International Adjudication, which was published by Oxford University Press in 2007. The views expressed by Dr Brown in head notes and comments are strictly personal, and not necessarily those of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office or any other department of Her Majesty's Government.

Markus Burgstaller is an associate in the International Arbitration Group of Lovells in London. He holds a master's degree in both law and legal philosophy from the University of Vienna, a master's degree in law from New York University and a PhD summa cum laude in public international law from the University of Vienna. Before joining Lovells, Markus worked for four years as International Legal Advisor to the Austrian Chancellor. Further professional experience includes positions at the University of Vienna's Institute of Public International Law as well as at international law firms, where he specialised in investment treaty arbitration. He is author of numerous publications on international and European law. Markus is a German native speaker and fluent in English.

Lara Clarke is a Solicitor Advocate (All Higher Courts) who qualified in January 2005. She is part of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP's International Dispute Resolution Group and her practice specialises in international arbitration. Lara recently obtained a post graduate diploma from Queen Mary University London in association with the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in 'International & Comparative Commercial Arbitration and Trade and Investment Dispute Settlement'. She has authored and co-authored a number of articles including 'Ascertaining the Contents of the Applicable Law in International Commercial Arbitration' (International Law Association); 'Mediation in the post Halsey Era' (IBA Mediation Newsletter) and 'Why does Mediation Work (where negotiations have failed)?' (Lloyds List).

Jeffery P Commission is an associate in the London office of Freshfields and is a member of the International Arbitration Group. He has experience representing domestic and foreign clients in matters of general commercial litigation, international arbitration, internal investigations and regulatory actions. He has particular expertise in matters of international dispute settlement, including land and maritime boundary disputes, and international investment disputes arising out of bilateral investment treaties. He has common law and civil law degrees from McGill University, and an LLM from the University of London in international dispute settlement. He is a member of the New York bar.

Bernardo M Cremades is senior partner of the Spanish law firm B. Cremades y Asociados and Catedrático of the Universidad de Madrid. His practice is focused on international commercial arbitration and transnational investment disputes. He has acted as counsel, party-appointed arbitrator and president of arbitral tribunals in more than 200 arbitrations. His professional experience in the field of arbitration includes acting in proceedings under the auspices of all major international arbitration institutions.

Bernardo M Cremades is the leading Spanish international arbitration practitioner ('number one practitioner in Spain for commercial arbitration legal expertise' and 'one of the top names in the industry', Who's Who legal, July 2005).

Claire Crépet Daigremont is member of an annual chronicle on investment cases directed by Professors Charles Leben and Ibrahim Fadlallah: "Investissements internationaux et arbitrage", in Les cahiers de l'arbitrage, La Gazette du Palais, Paris, since November 2003. She has participated at the Research Centre of the Hague Academy of International Law 2004, on 'New Aspects of International Investment Law', directed by Philippe Kahn and Thomas W. Wälde. She has also intervened at a conference about new developments of transnational investment disputes (Paris, May 2004): 'Traitement national et traitement de la nation la plus favorisée dans la jurisprudence arbitrale récente', (published in Le contentieux arbitral transnational relatif à l'investissement - Nouveaux développements, Charles LEBEN (dir.), Anthémis-LGDJ, 2006, 396 p., pp. 107-162).

Domenico Di Pietro is a member of the International Law and International Arbitration Group at Chiomenti Studio Legale, Rome. He is admitted to practice in Italy (Avvocato) and in England and Wales (Solicitor). Domenico has acted as counsel in several commercial and investment arbitrations, both ad hoc and administered. He has served as sole arbitrator and party-appointed arbitrator in several domestic and international disputes. Domenico has also experience in sport arbitration. Domenico has authored numerous articles on international commercial arbitration and investment arbitration. His publications include a volume entitled Enforcement of International Arbitration Awards, the New York Convention of 1958 (Cameron May, 2001, co-author). He is also co-editor of Recognition and Enforcement of Arbitration Agreements and Foreign Arbitral Awards - The New York Convention in Practice (2008).

Alexandre de Gramont is a Partner in the International Dispute Resolution Practice at Crowell & Moring LLP. He has represented both investors and governments in investor-state arbitration at ICSID and in ad hoc proceedings under UNCITRAL rules. The matters he has handled arise from the Energy Charter Treaty, NAFTA, and CAFTA-DR, as well as from numerous bilateral investment treaties and domestic investment laws. In addition to investor-state arbitration, Mr. de Gramont has also handled commercial arbitration in many of the world's leading international arbitration fora (e.g., the ICC, LCIA, SCC and AAA/ICDR). A frequent speaker and writer on international arbitration issues, Mr. de Gramont is also an Advisory Board Member of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration and an Associate Editor of Transnational Dispute Management.

Rudolf Dolzer received his legal education in Germany (Heidelberg University) and in the United States (Harvard Law School). From 1992 to 1996 he was Director General of the Federal Chancellor in Bonn. He has written extensively on foreign investment law and in 1995 he published, together with Margrete Stevens, the treaties on 'Bilateral Investment Treaties'. In 2008 he published, together with Christoph Schreuer, a book on 'Principles of International Investment Treaties'. He is a member of various boards of German and international institutions.

Maarten Draye was admitted to the Brussels bar in 2007, where he works as an associate at Hanotiau & van den Berg. His practice focuses on both domestic and international commercial litigation and arbitration. He obtained a Law Degree (Lic.) at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in 2004 and a Master in Economic Policy in 2005. In 2006, he read for an LL.M in International Business Law at Queen Mary University of London, where he was part of the team that won the 1st prize overall in the 13th Willem C. Vis Moot in International Commercial Arbitration. Being a Dutch native speaker, he is fluent in English and French and has a knowledge of German.

Okechukwu Chima Ejims is currently undertaking the PHD at Leeds University after studying for an LLM in corporate and commercial law at the Centre for Commercial law Studies Queen Mary University of London. Okechukwu also practiced civil and commercial litigation in Manuchim Chambers Portharcourt Nigeria from 2003 to 2004. During his time in private practice, Okechukwu specialised in acting as counsel for private clients in civil and commercial matters. A native of Nigeria, Okechukwu has studied at University of Nigeria, is a qualified Barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria and speaks fluent English.

Obianuju Ezejiofor is a Consultant with the Conflict Resolution System at the World Bank in Washington DC. Previously, Ms. Ezejiofor was a Legal Research Officer at the International Monetary Fund, a Legal Intern at the United Nations in New York and the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL). She also has work experience in the legal sector both in Nigeria and England, and in the Nigerian banking sector. She received her basic law degree from the University of Nigeria, an LLM from the London School of Economics and Political Science where she was awarded the Graduate Merit Award for excellent writing skills. Miss Ezejiofor is a PhD candidate at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London. Her PhD thesis focuses on the role and relevancy of domestic courts in international investment arbitration. She is licensed to practice law both in Nigeria and in New York.

Alison FitzGerald practices in the areas of international trade and customs law, international arbitration, administrative law, government contracting, and commercial litigation, including constitutional law disputes. She has served as both counsel and tribunal secretary in the course of her work in the field of arbitration, having been involved in both investor-state and international commercial arbitrations, as well as a sports anti-doping arbitration. Prior to obtaining her joint LLB/BCL at McGill University, Ms. FitzGerald worked as a special trade assistant for a Washington-based law firm focussing on trade remedy matters, customs classification matters, and a WTO challenge. She is a member of the Ontario Bar (2006) and the New York Bar (2007).

Yves Fortier is Chairman and a senior partner of Ogilvy Renault LLP, and former Canadian Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations. In recent years, he has concentrated his practice in the field of international arbitration, serving as an arbitrator and chairman in over 100 arbitrations. Mr Fortier has served on both ad hoc international arbitration tribunals and tribunals constituted by different arbitral institutions, including the International Arbitration Court of the International Chamber of Commerce (Paris), the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), the American Arbitration Association (New York), the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Lausanne), the Zurich Chamber of Commerce and the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes. Among his accolades, Mr Fortier was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1991 and made a Companion of the Order in 1994, the highest level of the Order. In 2006, Mr Fortier was appointed an Officer of L'Ordre National du Quebec and on January 1, 1998, he was elected President of the LCIA, the first non-European to hold this position. He served as President until June 30, 2001, at which time he became Honorary Vice-President of the Court.

Susan D Franck is an Associate Professor at the Washington & Lee University School of Law. After receiving her J.D. at the University of Minnesota and receiving a Fulbright Grant to obtain an LLM at the University of London, she practiced international dispute resolution on both sides of the Atlantic. Professor Franck was an associate at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering where she was involved with one of the first investment treaty arbitrations against the Czech Republic and was later a senior associate at Allen & Overy in London, England, where she was involved with arbitrations involving investment treaties and underlying commercial agreements. Professor Franck writes and teaches in the area of international economic dispute resolution. She was selected as a "New Voice" by the American Society of International Law (2007) and chosen for the International Who's Who of Commercial Arbitration (2008). Professor Franck is currently a member of the Advisory Board of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration.

John Gaffney practices in the areas of domestic and international arbitration in addition to his corporate/commercial law practice. He has previously worked with the United Nations Compensation Commission in Geneva, Switzerland, and the international law firm, Skadden, Arps in London, England. John has published widely on international arbitration, including investment treaty arbitration and is an assistant editor with two leading online international arbitration law services, including Investmentclaims.com. He is also a member of various arbitration panels, including the CIETAC Panel of International Arbitrators, the WIPO Domain Name Panellists, and the Panel of Arbitrators of the Law Society of Ireland.

Norah Gallagher is Director of the Investment Treaty Forum at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. Before joining the Institute in January 2008, she worked at Herbert Smith where she advised on a wide range of issues relating to international arbitration and public international law including investment treaty arbitrations under BITs and multilateral treaties. Previously, she was a Research Fellow of the Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge working primarily in international dispute resolution, including land and maritime boundary disputes, investment disputes under NAFTA, bilateral investment treaties and the Energy Charter Treaty. Norah is also a Senior Visiting lecturer on the International Trade and Investment Dispute Settlement course at Queen Mary, University of London.

Joern Griebel, Ph.D, D.E.S (HEI, Geneva), lecturer at Cologne University, Senior research fellow at the International Investment Law Centre Cologne (IILCC) (address: University of Cologne, Faculty of Law, Albertus Magnus Platz, 50923 Cologne), various publications in the field of international economic law, international investment law and public international law, author of the first textbook on international investment law in German.

Laura Halonen is currently undertaking the BCL at Oxford University after practicing international arbitration and public international law with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Paris from 2003 to 2008. During her time in private practice, Laura specialised in acting as counsel for states in investment treaty and contractual arbitrations, while also acting in private arbitrations under various rules, as both counsel and secretary to tribunals. A native of Finland, Laura has studied at Oxford University, is a qualified solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales and speaks fluent Finnish, English and French.

Kaj Hobér is a Partner in Mannheimer Swartling, Stockholm, Sweden and Professor of East European Law at Uppsala University, where he also teaches international arbitration and international investment and trade law. He has acted as counsel and arbitrator (including chairmanships) in more than 300 international arbitrations, including representation of the claimant in the first ECT award, as well as involvement in many other investment arbitrations. He is Chair of the IBA sub-committee on Investment Treaty Arbitration. He is the author and editor of several books on arbitration and has published numerous articles on international arbitration, Russian, Soviet and East European law and international investment and trade law.

Mark Kantor is an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University Law Center and a Fellow at the Vale Columbia Center for Sustainable International Investment (a joint undertaking of Columbia Law School and the Earth Institute at Columbia University). Until he retired, he was a partner in Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy's Corporate and Project Finance Groups. Kantor is listed in Who's Who Commercial Arbitration, Chambers USA (International Arbitration), and The Best Lawyers in America (International Arbitration; Washington, D.C.). He is Vice-Chair of the DC Bar International Dispute Resolution Committee (Chair, 2004-2007). He is also a Fellow of The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and Chair of the Washington, D.C. chapter. Kantor is the author of Valuation for Arbitration, as well as numerous articles on international arbitration and business matters.

Carsten Kern is a lawyer in the International Arbitration Group of Lovells LLP in Frankfurt. He has been involved in both investor-state and international commercial arbitrations. Carsten received his legal education in Germany (Heidelberg University / Berlin Court of Appeal) and England (King's College London). He was admitted to the Bar in 2003. He is a visiting research fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, Cambridge, and a visiting fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge.

Yun-I Kim holds a law degree from Cologne University Law School and works as case assistant to Professor Dr. Karl-Heinz Böckstiegel. She has been designated Secretary to the Tribunal in several investment arbitration cases and is currently working on her Ph.D. thesis in international investment law. She also works as research assistant in international investment arbitration to Dr. Richard Happ, Luther law firm. Prior to that she worked as research assistant at the Institute of Air and Space Law and the Chair for Public International Law, European and International Economic Law, University of Cologne.

Meg Kinnear is currently Senior General Counsel and Director General of the Trade Law Bureau (JLT), a joint unit of the Departments of Justice & Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Canada. She has appeared as counsel before international trade dispute panels, participated in the negotiation of international trade and investment agreements and advised on Canada's international trade and investment obligations. Ms. Kinnear has also written various publications including: Investment Disputes Under NAFTA: An Annotated Guide to NAFTA Chapter 11, (Kluwer - June 2006) with Andrea Bjorklund and John Hannaford.

Joachim Knoll is a Partner with the firm of Brown & Page in Geneva. He is admitted to the New York State Bar. Having specialized in international arbitration since 1998, he has acted as counsel and/or sole arbitrator in ad hoc proceedings and in cases under the rules of the ICC, ICSID, and the Swiss Rules, often involving States or State-owned entities, and questions of public international law. He has been counsel and secretary to arbitral tribunals in a number of bilateral investment treaty- and contract-based arbitrations under the ICSID arbitration rules, as well as in ICSID annulment proceedings. Joachim was educated in Germany and France and also holds LL.M. degrees from Boston University and King's College London. He has practiced law in Paris and Geneva and is fluent in English, German, and French.

Sabine Konrad is a German Rechtsanwältin in Dewey & LeBoeuf's Paris office. She specializes in International Dispute Resolution and in particular International Arbitration and Public International Law. She regularly advises investors and governments on matters of investment protection. Sabine was admitted to the Frankfurt Bar in 2002 and she was closely involved in setting up the Frankfurt International Arbitration Center in 2005, which serves as a cooperation facility of ICSID for investment treaty arbitrations in Germany. In 2007, she was designated by the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Panel of Arbitrators of the World Bank's International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).

Bernhard Lauterburg, Trainee with Prager Dreifuss in Bern (2008) and Python & Peter in Geneva (2007-2008); advising international and domestic clients mainly on complex antitrust matters (Swiss and EC competition law) and white collar crime. Project coordinator with the International Law Institute and research assistant to Professor Don Wallace Jr. (2006-2007). Project coordinator and assistant to the Project Management Profession Leader at IBM Switzerland (2000-2005). Law degrees from the Georgetown University Law Center (LL.M., 2006) and the University of Bern Law School (lic. iur., 2004).

Christina Loucas is an associate in the Litigation Practice Group of Dewey & LeBoeuf, specialising in international dispute resolution. She has been involved in both investor-state and international commercial arbitrations. Prior to this, she interned at the Canadian Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand and the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL). Christina Loucas received a BA in Jurisprudence from Oxford University in 2004. She also received a BSc in Government and Economics from the LSE in 2001.

Ben Love is an associate in the International Arbitration Group of King & Spalding LLP. He specializes in international arbitration and public international law. Mr. Love has worked on cases representing both government and private clients in international litigation and arbitration matters, including proceedings under the ICSID, ICC, and UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules. The disputes have arisen out of sectors as diverse as investment, energy, telecommunications, geotechnology, hotels, agriculture, and public utilities. In addition, he advises clients on investment structuring for treaty protection, as well as on the enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards. Before joining King & Spalding, Mr. Love was a clerk at the Secretariat of the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC).

Vaughan Lowe QC; Chichele Professor of Public International Law and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford University and Barrister, Essex Court Chambers, London. Vaughan Lowe has taught at the Universities of Cambridge, Manchester and Cardiff, and as a visiting Professor in China, Finland, Greece and the USA; he has also written extensively on international law. He has sat on a number of ICSID and NAFTA tribunals, and practices in international and English courts and tribunals. He is a bencher of Gray's Inn, and an associè of the Institut de droit international.

Barbara Makant Partner of Veirano Advogados and currently works out of the Rio de Janeiro office. Completed her LLM on International Business Law in 2006 at University College London - University of London, UK. Has experience in local and international commercial arbitration under different rules of arbitration, such as those of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), the Centre for Mediation and Arbitration of the Federation of Industries of São Paulo (FIESP), and the American Arbitration Association (AAA), with parties of different nationalities, and on diverse matters. Acts in joint venture, private equity, and venture capital transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate restructuring. Is a member of the Brazilian Committee of Arbitration, the Young Arbitrators' Forum (YAF) of the ICC, and the Young International Arbitration Group (YIAG) of the LCIA.

Sèbastien Manciaux teaches International Investment Law to students in Masters of Law at the University of Burgundy. He also teaches International Investment Law as visiting Professor (Tunis 2007, Marrakech 2008) and is researcher for CREDIMI, (Research Center on Investment and International Trade Law). He has written several articles dealing with International Arbitration and/or Investment Law. Mr. Manciaux's main work is his book on ICSID activity: Investissements ètrangers et arbitrage entre Etats et ressortissants d'autres Etats. 30 annèes d'activitè du Cirdi, Travaux du Credimi, vol. 24, Paris, Litec, 2004, 727 p. He also acts as counsel in several arbitration proceedings (under the aegis of ICSID and the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce), and as adviser on International law, investor-State dispute settlement and arbitration.

Loukas Mistelis is the Clive Schitthoff Professor of Transnational Law and Arbitration and Director of the School of International Arbitration, Queen Mary University of London. Educated in Greece, France, Germany and Japan, he has worked in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. He is fluent in English, German and Greek, has a working knowledge of French and basic knowledge of Spanish, Polish and Russian. He is listed in Who's Who Commercial Arbitration and acts as an arbitrator in international cases. He has published widely on international arbitration, ADR, international commercial law and comparative law and his publications include 10 books. He is also Editor of the Oxford International Arbitration Monograph Series, Arbitration International, Global Arbitration Review, and World Arbitration Reporter.

Nina P Mocheva is an investment policy and promotion specialist at the Foreign Investment Advisory Service of the World Bank Group, where she is a part of the Investment Generation Unit. Her most recent work includes a new FIAS global benchmarking initiative for measuring the ease of establishing and operating a foreign-owned business in countries across the world. As a part of this FIAS project, Nina is responsible for three surveys on currency convertibility and repatriation, expropriation, and international arbitration. Prior to joining the World Bank, she practiced with the International Arbitration and Litigation Group of White & Case LLP in Washington, DC. Ms. Mocheva holds a LL.M. in International Legal Studies from Georgetown University as a Fulbright scholar and a master's degree in law from Sofia University, Bulgaria.

Federico Ortino is a Reader in International Economic Law in the School of Law at King's College London. He is a member of the ILA Committee on International Trade Law and Co-Rapporteur to the ILA Committee on the Law of Foreign Investment. Previously, Director of the Investment Treaty Forum, the British Institute of International and Comparative Law in London (2005-2007); Adjunct Professor at the Universities of Florence and Trento (2002-2007); Emile Noël Fellow and Fulbright Scholar at the NYU Jean Monnet Center in New York (2004); and Legal Officer at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (2003). He is a qualified attorney in Italy and in the state of New York. He holds: LLB, University of Florence; LLM, Georgetown University Law Center; PhD, European University Institute.

Martins Paparinskis is undertaking a D Phil at the University of Oxford, writing his thesis on customary standards in investment protection law. He is presently a Commercial Bar and AHRC Scholar and has been a Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Chevening Scholar. Before commencing his D Phil research, Martins received M Jur (Dist) (Clifford Chance Prize) and M Phil (Dist) degrees from the University of Oxford. He has written and spoken in conferences about investment protection law. A native of Latvia, Martins speaks fluent Latvian, English and Russian, and has some knowledge of French.

Christian Paquette joined Heenan Blaikie LLP as an associate in 2007, after gaining experience as a law student during a summer and after completing his articling requirements with the firm. Prior to his articles, Christian worked in the Ottawa office of the same firm where he was involved in commercial litigation files and various labour matters. He practices general litigation in English and French, with an emphasis on educational law, language rights and administrative law. Christian has collaborated on a number of files brought before Ontario's Superior Court of Justice, the Federal Court of Canada and the Supreme Court of Canada. He has also collaborated on publications from Heenan Blaikie's National Trade and Competition Group for the firm's clients and assisted the group on various matters, generally in the field of telecommunications. Christian completed a joint LL.B./MBA degree at the University of Ottawa and distinguished himself during his studies at the University's common law section and business school by his academic achievements.

Antonio R Parra is Secretary General of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration, a Consultant with the World Bank and Visiting Professor of the Faculty of Laws, University College London. From 1999 to 2005, he served as the first Deputy Secretary-General of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and from 1990 to 1999 he was Legal Adviser, (ICSID). His earlier positions include Senior Counsel, ICSID; Senior Counsel, World Bank; Counsel, World Bank; and Assistant Legal Counsel, OPEC Fund for International Development. At the World Bank and ICSID, Mr. Parra was a member of the staff teams that worked on the establishment of the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency and the preparation of the World Bank Guidelines on the Treatment of Foreign Direct Investment. He was Managing Editor of the ICSID Review - Foreign Investment Law Journal from 1987 to 2003 and Editor-in-Chief from 2004 to 2007. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, an Editorial Board member of The Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals and a Consultative Member of the Investment Treaty Forum at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law.

Georgios Petrochilos holds degrees from Athens, Strasbourg, and Oxford, and is qualified as an Avocat in France and an Advocate of the Supreme Court in Greece. He has acted as counsel and arbitrator in cases under the Rules of the ICC, UNCITRAL, LCIA, SCC, PCA, ICSID, ICSID Additional Facility and the Cairo Centre, and before the International Court of Justice. Georgios is a representative of Greece in UNCITRAL's Working Group II, member of the International Commercial Arbitration Committee of the ILA, Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and a rapporteur for the Institute for Transnational Arbitration. He has published extensively, including the monograph Procedural Law in International Arbitration (OUP, 2004) and (as co-author) the forthcoming 4th edition of Craig Park and Paulsson on ICC Arbitration (OUP, 2009).

Sergio Puig de la Parra earned a law degree at ITAM (Mexico) and attended Stanford Law School where he earned a masters degree and a doctorate degree (conferral pending), specializing in international law, international trade and dispute resolution systems. Prior to joining the World Bank/ICSID, Sergio worked as an attorney and legal consultant in Mexico and the United States in litigation, trade remedies and investment arbitration.

Paula Betina Ragonese is Italian-Argentinean and was born in 1979 at Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. She graduated with honours in 2004 at the Faculty of Law, National University Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. She has a Master in Law (LLM) session 2004/2005, from Queen Mary University of London, School of International Arbitration, on International and Comparative Dispute Resolution. She is an Advocate and a Professor of International Private Law at the National University of Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Klaus Reichert has been a barrister in practice since 1992 with extensive experience as an international arbitrator and counsel in both commercial and investment treaty matters. He served as Chair of the Host Committee for ICCA Dublin 2008, marking the 50th Anniversary of the New York Convention.

Ashley R Riveira is an associate in Crowell & Moring's International Dispute Resolution Group and focuses her practice on international arbitration and litigation. Ashley's international experience includes disputes with Libya, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Uzbekistan, Peru, and El Salvador in forums such as the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR), the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the International Arbitral Centre of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber, and various United States District and Appellate Courts.

Antoine Romanetti is an associate with LALIVE with eight years experience, specialising in arbitration, public international law, corporate and banking law. He was admitted to the Paris Bar in 2000 and has been counsel in numerous investment treaty arbitrations under ICSID arbitration rules, ICSID annulment proceedings, and international commercial arbitration proceedings. He has also been secretary to arbitral tribunals in several ICC arbitrations and to a Commission of Conciliation in a major oil case. Antoine holds LL.M. in International Commercial Arbitration of Queen Mary, University of London, and a postgraduate degree in corporate and tax law of the University of Aix-Marseille III. He is fluent in English, French and Spanish.

Noah Rubins trained in the United States and is Counsel with Freshfields' international arbitration and public international law practice groups in Paris. He frequently advises investors and states in investment arbitration cases, and also serves as arbitrator in both investment and commercial arbitration proceedings.

Borzu Sabahi (SJD, LLM, Georgetown University Law Center; MA, LL.B. University of Tehran). Mr. Sabahi is an international counsel at the Washington, D.C. office of Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. He specializes in investor-State arbitration and has been involved in a number of arbitrations under the ICSID, UNCITRAL, LCIA, and ICC rules. Mr. Sabahi is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center where he co-teaches a seminar on investor State dispute resolution. He regularly speaks on conferences and has widely published on various aspects of international investment law, including a comprehensive casebook entitled "Investor State Arbitration" (co-author, Oxford 2008). (Mr. Sabahi is only admitted to practice in New York).

Sajed A Sami is a Commercial Litigation and International Arbitration lawyer. He is currently conducting a World Bank/IFC research project on the impact of International Arbitration on Investment Climate in Bangladesh. Prior to relocating to Dhaka, Sajed completed his clerkship at the ICC's International Court of Arbitration in Paris, a highly coveted and prestigious role. Sajed has had some excellent international arbitration experience, most recently obtained in Washington DC. He has been involved in number of high profile international arbitration cases, providing legal advice in both strategic and analytic capacity. Sajed holds a Master of Laws (with Distinction) degree in International Legal Studies from Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC. He is qualified in the US, UK and Bangladesh, and has practiced law in all these jurisdictions.

Christoph H Schreuer is Professor of Law at the University of Vienna. He is a graduate of the Universities of Vienna, Cambridge and Yale. He is a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration and a member of the ICSID Panel of Conciliators and Arbitrators. He is an arbitrator in ICSID and UNCITRAL arbitrations. He was the chairman of the ILA Committee on the Law of Foreign Investment. Over an academic career spanning forty years, he has published numerous articles and several books in the field of international law. Since 1992, he has focused on international investment law. The main product of this activity is a 1500 page commentary on the Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes between States and Nationals of Other States under the title "The ICSID Convention: A Commentary" (2001). A second edition is due to appear in 2009. He has written expert opinions in numerous ICSID cases.

Kristofer Schwarzrock is currently at Snyder Kearney, LLC, in Columbia, Maryland where he works primarily in securities and investment law. He received his undergraduate degree in Political Science from Illinois Wesleyan in 2002, and then went on to receive his JD from Hamline University School of Law in 2005, and his LLM from Queen Mary, University of London in 2006.

Wenhua Shan holds PhD degrees from the University of Cambridge (Trinity College), UK and Xiamen University, China, respectively. His recent publications include Chinese Investment Treaties: Policy and Practice (co-author, Oxford University Press, forthcoming), The Legal Framework of EU-China Investment Relations - A Critical Appraisal (Hart Publishing 2005), Redefining Sovereignty in International Economic Law (chief editor, Hart Publishing 2008), and numerous articles in journals such as American Journal of Comparative Law, Journal of World Trade and the Journal of World Investment and Trade. He is a member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, Vice-President of the Chinese Society of European Laws, Standing Director of the Chinese Society of International Economic Law and Editor-in-General of the China and International Economic Law Series (Hart Publishing). He is a qualified and licensed Chinese Lawyer (Barrister and Solicitor) since 1994 and currently serves as Senior Consultant at Haoliwen PRC Attorneys, Shanghai and an Arbitrator at various arbitration authorities.

Rajeev Sharma is corporate counsel at the Canadian head office of Bayer Inc. Rajeev formerly practiced in Heenan Blaikie LLP's Business Law Group and was a member of the firm's International Trade and Competition and International Business Law Groups. Mr. Sharma is on the Executive of the Ontario Bar Association's International Section and an active member of the Canada-Indian Business Council. Mr Sharma is an adjunct Professor of Law & Economics at Glendon College, York University and a former adjunct Professor of international commercial arbitration at the Faculty of Law at Queen's University in Kingston (Ontario).

Anthony Sinclair is an associate in the International Arbitration Group of Allen & Overy LLP. He has been counsel and adviser in several bilateral investment treaty and Energy Charter Treaty arbitrations under ICSID and UNCITRAL arbitration rules, twice in ICSID annulment proceedings, and regularly in international commercial arbitration matters. Anthony advises both corporate clients and States on issues of public international law focusing on the substantive and procedural issues of investor-state arbitration under bilateral investment treaties and the Energy Charter Treaty as well as the practice and procedure of ICSID arbitrations and commercial arbitration generally. Anthony is the author of several published articles and chapters on commercial and investment treaty arbitration and related issues of public international law. He is a co-author of the second edition of The ICSID Convention: A Commentary (with Christoph Schreuer, Loretta Malintoppi, and August Reinisch).

Abby Cohen Smutny is recognized as a leading international arbitration expert whose practice focuses on international arbitration of investment disputes. She has served as counsel in dozens of investment arbitrations, representing both claimants and respondents, in cases before ICSID and its Additional Facility, the ICC, the Vienna International Arbitral Centre, the LCIA, as well as in ad hoc arbitration, such as under the UNCITRAL Rules. Ms. Smutny is the chair of the Investment Treaty subcommittee of the Arbitration Committee of the IBA, formerly a member of the Executive Council and the Executive Committee of the American Society of International Law, formerly Chair of the International Law Section of the Bar Association of the District of Columbia, a Member of the Board of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration, and a member of the Investment Treaty Forum of the British Institute for Comparative and International Law.

Frédéric Gilles Sourgens practices international arbitration in Milbank's Washington D.C. office and has worked as counsel in ICSID, UNCITRAL, ICC and LCIA arbitrations. He currently represents both states and investors in international investment disputes. He publishes regularly on questions of public international law, international investment law and international arbitration. Frédéric's current research focuses on the interplay between the practice of international investment law and the law of treaties.

Kevin C Stemp (LL.M. London; J.D. Columbia) practices in the Arbitration, Antitrust and Competition, International Trade, and Securities Enforcement groups of WilmerHale. Also, he counsel's clients in Asia, Europe and the United States on a wide range of issues. In addition to being admitted to the bars of New York and Washington DC, Mr. Stemp is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), Professional Risk Manager (PRM), and a Certified Public Accountant (CPA). He has also spent time at the International Court of Arbitration in Paris, and the Court of First Instance of the European Communities in Luxembourg.

Jeff Sullivan is a Senior Associate in the International Arbitration Group of Allen & Overy LLP in London. He specialises in public international law and international arbitration. He has been counsel in numerous investment treaty arbitrations under ICSID and the UNCITRAL arbitration rules, as well as in numerous international commercial arbitration proceedings under the ICC and LCIA rules. He has also advised States on the negotiation and drafting of bilateral and multilateral trade and investment treaties. Mr Sullivan is a US qualified and trained lawyer. He spent 5 years practicing litigation and arbitration in Washington DC prior to joining Allen & Overy. He is also the author of several articles on investment law and international arbitration.

Sylvia T Tonova is an associate in the Washington DC office of White & Case and practices with the International Arbitration and Litigation Groups. She has experience in representing sovereigns, intergovernmental institutions and companies in international arbitration and litigation matters. Ms Tonova's recent experience includes representation of Bulgaria in Plama Consortium Limited v. Republic of Bulgaria (ICSID Case No. ARB/03/24) and Romania in EDF (Services) Ltd v. Romania (ICSID Case No. ARB/05/13) and S&T Oil Equipment & Machinery v. Romania (ICSID Case No. ARB/07/13). Ms Tonova also represented a company before the International Arbitral Centre of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber in a dispute relating to a joint venture in Uzbekistan. Ms Tonova graduated in 2005 with a Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center.

Dierk Ullrich is a lawyer in the Vancouver (Canada) office of Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP. In addition to his involvement in institutional and ad hoc arbitrations, his practice focuses on commercial matters involving privately held business enterprises. He has also represented clients from the telecommunications, transportation, technology and education sectors in litigation involving class actions, commercial and competition law, real estate, business practices, administrative and constitutional law. Born and raised in Germany, Dierk came to Canada in 1998 after completing his legal studies at the Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms Universitaet in Bonn, Germany. He holds an LLB and LLM from the University of British Columbia.

Baiju S Vasani, a Counsel with Crowell & Moring's International Dispute Resolution Group resident in the firm's Washington D.C. and London offices, focuses his practice exclusively on international investment and commercial arbitration covering various sectors and industries across the globe. Born in London, England, Baiju has earned four law degrees (LLB, LLM, BCL and JD) from the U.K. (London and Oxford) and the U.S. (Northwestern), and has been awarded an Exhibition Scholarship, two Barlow, Lyde & Gilbert Awards and the Law Society Prize. He was admitted as a Harmsworth Scholar to the Middle Temple in 1999, where he was called to the Bar. Baiju is currently admitted to practice in Texas, the District of Columbia and as a Solicitor in England & Wales.

Robert Volterra is Co-Chair of the Latham & Watkins International Dispute Resolution Practice and head of the firm's Public International Law Group. He is also a Visiting Professor at University College, University of London (UCL). He represents governments, international organizations and companies on a wide range of public international law and international dispute resolution issues, including: international investment agreements; international arbitration and litigation; diplomatic and consular law; boundaries and territorial integrity; State responsibility; treaty interpretation; ICSID; NAFTA; the Energy Charter Treaty; trans-boundary resources and pipelines; joint-development zones and straddling resource regimes. He has acted as counsel and advocate before the International Court of Justice and ad hoc international arbitration tribunals, including under the Permanent Court of Arbitration, ICSID, ICC, SCC, LCIA, UNCITRAL, WTO and UNCLOS rules. He regularly sits as an arbitrator on international arbitral tribunals.

André von Walter is a lecturer at the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and an Academic Counsel at the International Investment Law Centre Cologne (IILCC). Since 2007, he has been a lecturer for international economic law at the University of Chile. He is also a former Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Public International Law, University of Bonn and former consultant at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). He studied at the Universities of Cologne, Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) and the Ecole Nationale d'Administration (ENA). He has publications in the fields of public international law, international economic law and international investment arbitration.

Joseph Romesh Weeramantry is an Assistant Professor at the City University of Hong Kong. He is currently completing his PhD thesis on the interpretation of investment treaties at the Queen Mary School of International Arbitration, University of London. His professional experience has included work in international arbitration, dispute resolution and public international law at the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal (The Hague), the United Nations Compensation Commission (Geneva) and at a leading Swiss law firm. Additionally, as an independent consultant he has provided several legal opinions on public international law. He has published in a variety of law journals, including the American Journal of International Law. He has been a Special Associate at the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration and was also a founding Chairperson of the Australasian Forum for International Arbitration.

Matthew Weiniger is partner in Herbert Smith LLP's international arbitration group and Head of its public international law practice. He is a solicitor advocate with substantial experience of advising and representing clients in investment disputes. Matthew is co-author of Investment Treaty Arbitration - Substantive Principles (OUP, 2007) and is also a Visiting Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, University of London.

Thomas Yates' practice includes international commercial arbitration, general commercial litigation and public law and property litigation. He has acted for a number of multinational corporations in arbitral proceedings and has appeared before the High Court in applications under the Arbitration Act 1996, including the reported decision of Leibinger v. Stryker Trauma in which a challenge to an arbitral partial award was successfully struck out on the grounds of issue estoppel, time-bar and exclusion under s.73. Outside of arbitration, he acted for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in a successful appeal before the House of Lords relating to the Kingdom's entitlement to state immunity on behalf of itself and its officers (Jones v. Ministry of Interior Al-Mamlaka Al-Arabiya AS Saudiya). Thomas has a postgraduate diploma in international commercial arbitration and has passed the CIArb arbitration award writing exam. He has contributed a number of articles to publications including Mealey's International Arbitration Report and Transnational Dispute Management.