ICCA Governing Board


President

Michael Klein Distinguished Scholar Chair, University of Miami School of Law; Centennial Professor of Law, London School of Economics; Judge and Past President, World Bank Administrative Tribunal; President, Administrative Tribunal, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development; Past President, London Court of International Arbitration; General Editor, ICCA Handbook

Vice Presidents

Past General Counsel, International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce; Principal Legal Counsel for the Government of Mexico for the Negotiation and Implementation of NAFTA; Visiting Scholar, Yale Law School; Partner, King & Spalding

Senior Counsel; Vice President of ICC International Court of Arbitration; Vice Chair of Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre; Past President of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators; Visiting Professor of Law School of Tsinghua University; Adjunct Professor of Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Member of the Presidium, International Commercial Arbitration Court at the Russian Federation Chamber of Commerce and Industry; Professor, Head of International Private Law Chair, Russian Academy of Foreign Trade; ICC Russia National Comm., Arbitration Commission, Honorary Chairman

Secretary General

Head of Arbitration Group, Bae, Kim & Lee LLC; Senior Advisor, Korea Commercial Arbitration Board (KCAB); President, Korean Court member, Council for International Arbitration (KOCIA); Member, ICC International Court of Arbitration; Board Member, American Arbitration Association (AAA); Panel of Arbitrators, ICSID & Beijing Arbitration Commission (BAC); Editorial Board Member of Global Arbitration Review; Part-time Professor - Judicial Training & Research Institute, Supreme Court of Korea

Members

Director, Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration; Lecturer, Institute of International Business Law (IDAI), Cairo University; Vice President, the International Federation of Commercial Arbitration Institutions (IFCAI); Member of the Board of the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC); Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Arab Arbitration.

Head of Dispute Resolution Practice Group of Zul Rafique & Partners; Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Malaysian Institute of Arbitrators, Singapore Institute of Arbitrators and Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration Limited; Member, International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Commission on Arbitration; Member, Advisory Panel of the Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration; Past President, Inter-Pacific Bar Association; Past Chairman, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Malaysia Branch; Past Vice President, Asia Pacific Regional Arbitration Group; Past Deputy President, Malaysian Institute of Arbitrators; Past Member, LCIA Court; Past Vice Chair, Committee D of the IBA.

General Editor, ICCA Yearbook; Attorney; Past President, Netherlands Arbitration Institute; Professor of Arbitration Law at the Erasmus University, Rotterdam; Visiting Professor at the University of Miami School of Law.

Past Professor of Arbitration Law at the LUISS University, Rome; President, Italian Arbitration Association; Past Vice-President, International Court of Arbitration of International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)

President of CBAr - "Comitê Brasileiro de Arbitragem" (2009-2013); Vice-president (2005-2009) and co-founding member. Member: ILA International Arbitration Committee; ICC Arbitration Commission; ICC Latin-American Arbitration Commission; ICDR/AAA Board for Latin America. Member of different commissions in other institutions - CCBC, CIESP, AMCHAM-SP. Professor at FGV/SP and CEU-IICS. Member of the editorial council of CBAr journal. Partner at LOBaptista-SVMFA.

Past President of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators; Member of the Board of Trustees of the Dubai International Arbitration Centre & Chairman of its Executive Committee; Past Member of the LCIA Board of Directors; Visiting Professor in Construction Law & Contract Administration, Trinity College, Dublin; Chartered Engineer and Chartered Registered Arbitrator

Professor, Law Faculty at Madrid University; Member of the Madrid Bar

Senior Advocate at the Supreme Court of India commanding extensive briefings in Corporate, Commercial and Arbitration related matters in the High Courts across India and before Arbitral Tribunals; Member of the Board of AAA; former member, LCIA Court; Former Vice Chair of the Arbitration Committee of the IBA; former member, National Legal Services Authority of India (NALSA)

Past Secretary General, International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC); Chairman of the ICC Institute of World Business Law; Member of the Paris Bar

President, American Society of International Law; Adjunct Professor, New York University School of Law; Alternate US Member, ICC International Court of Arbitration; former Chair, Institute for Transnational Arbitration; former Chair, U.S. National Committee, ICC International Court of Arbitration; Board of Directors, Human Rights First

Chairman, Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC); Past Secretary General, ICCA; Past Secretary General, SCC; Past President, International Federation of Commercial Arbitration Institutions (IFCAI)

Professor of Law, University of Paris XII; Chairman, International Arbitration Institute; Past Member, LCIA Court; Past Chairman, International Arbitration Committee, International Law Association

Member, Brussels and Paris Bars; Professor of International Dispute Resolution, University of Louvain; former Vice President, London Court of International Arbitration; Former Vice Chairman, Institute of Transnational Arbitration and CEPANI (Belgium).

Judge, Supreme Judicial Court France), Adjunct Professor of Law (University Panthéon-Sorbonne), Past General Counsel and Deputy-Secretary General, International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce, Hon. Bencher of Gray’s Inn (London).

Former Secretary, United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL); Honorary Professor, University of Vienna

Former Contract High Court Judge, Singapore; Advocate and Solicitor, Singapore; Former Member, Permanent Court of Arbitration; Chartered Arbitrator; Adjunct Professor, National University of Singapore; Former Vice Chair Committee D, International Bar Association; former Vice Chair, ICC International Court of Arbitration; Council Member, International Council of Arbitration for Sport (ICAS); Former Member, London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA); Chief Justice, Dubai International Financial Centre Courts; Trustee, Dubai Internatoinal Arbitration Centre; Member of Advisory Boards of Singapore International Arbitration Centre and Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre; Former President, Law Society of Singapore; Non-Resident Ambassador of Singapore to Switzerland.

Former Judge of High Court, Hong Kong; Chairman of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre 1991-2004; Past President, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators; Honorary Professor, City University of Hong Kong

Avocat à la Cour, Member of the Bars of Paris and Tunisia;; Former Chair & Member of the World Bank Group Sanctions Board; Former Member of the International Law Commission of the United Nations ; Member of the Board of Trustees of the Dubai International Arbitration Centre; Former Vice President of the London Court of International Arbitration & the ICC Commission on Arbitration; First appointed Secretary General of the Constitutional Court of the Kingdom of Bahrain (Jan. 2003 – Dec. 2005)

Professor, Geneva University Law School; Director, Geneva Master in International Dispute Settlement (MIDS); Partner, Lévy Kaufmann-Kohler; Honorary President, Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA)

Secretary-General, International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) at the World Bank; former Senior General Counsel and Director General, Trade Law Bureau of Canada; former Executive Assistant to the Deputy Minister of Justice of Canada and Counsel at the Civil Litigation Section of the Canadian Department of Justice. Ms. Kinnear has frequently spoken on and published with respect to international investment law and procedure, including as a co-author of Investment Disputes under NAFTA (Kluwer).

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Singapore, past Attorney-General of Singapore, past Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court of Singapore, past Dy Chairman of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre, former Managing Partner, Rajah & Tann LLP, former Partner, Jones Day and Head of International Litigation and Arbitration for Asia

Professor of Law, Heidelbereg University Center for Latin America and Honorary Director of the LL.M. on Investments, Trade and Arbitration offered jointly by the University of Heidelberg and the Max Planck Institute; Judge ad-hoc at the International Court of Justice; former Judge and President of the Administrative Tribunal of the World Bank; Judge of the International Monetary Fund Administrative Tribunal; former Vice President, LCIA; Member of the Latin American Committee of Arbitrators of the ICC.; Arbitrator in ICSID, PCA, UNCITRAL and other arbitration centers and rules.

Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, Arbitrator and Notary Public; Member, Association of Arbitrators of Nigeria; Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London; Member, Arbitration Committee of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce; Chartered Arbitrator; Member, Panel Membership Group (PMG), Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London; former Chairman, Education & Training Committee of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London; former Member, Board of Management of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London; Regional Representative for Promotion of Arbitration in the West African Region; Past Chairman, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Nigeria Branch; former Member, London Court of International Arbitration; Correspondent of UNIDROIT

Professor of Law, Boston University; General Editor, Arbitration International; President, London Court of International Arbitration; Past Chairman, American Bar Association Committee on International Commercial Dispute Resolution

Chairman, Singapore International Arbitration Centre; Member, Board of Trustees, Dubai International Arbitration Centre; former President, Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration; President, Asia Pacific Regional Arbitration Group; Commissioner, United Nations Compensation Commission; Court member, London International Court of Arbitration

Co-head of Freshfields global international arbitration group; Chair, Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA); Member, London Court of International Arbitration; Member, ICC Commission; Panel of Arbitrators, ICSID; former President, American Society of International Law

William Slate is an arbitrator and mediator in commercial matters, and in individually negotiated employment contracts. He is a Senior Visiting Fellow at Duke University law School, and is the immediate past President and CEO of the American Arbitration Association and ICDR. He advises governments and legal departments on arbitral processes.

Barrister, Irish and English Bars

Professor of Law, University of Buenos Aires School of Law; Chairman, Latin American Arbitration Association (ALARB), Former Co-Chair, IBA Arbitration Committee; Council Member, IBA Legal Practice Division; Member, London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA); Member, Institute for Transnational Arbitration Academic Council; Member, ICC Latin American Arbitrators Committee; Member, ICC Institute of World Business Law; Attorney at Law, Partner, M. & M. Bomchil

Honorary Chairman of the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce; Professor Emeritus of the Law Faculty of the University of Fribourg; former Chairman of the Swiss Antitrust Commission

Vice President, LCIA; Council Member, ICC Institute of World Business Law and of the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce; Visiting Professor on Investment Arbitration, King’s College, University of London

Attorney General of the Republic of Kenya; Former Chairman, Arbitration Tribunal of Kenya Chamber of Commerce and Industry; Arbitrator, Vienna Convention on Law of Treaties, Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes; former Vice President, LCIA-Africa Region; former Chairman, Law Society of Kenya; former Member, International Advisory Committee of WIPO Centre for Settlement of Disputes; former Commission Member, International Commission of Jurists, former Deputy Secretary General of IBA; former Secretary General, African Bar Association; former Senior Partner, Kaplan & Stratton; former President, Asian-African Legal Consultative Organisation; Member, International Law Commission (2007-2011)

Former Vice Chairman and former Secretary General, China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC); former Vice Chairman, China Maritime Arbitration Commission (CMAC); Adjunct Professor of Law, University of International Economics and Business, Beijing; Director, CBJ International LLC

Barrister; Member of New Zealand and English Bars; Chartered Arbitrator; Former Judge of the High Court of New Zealand; former Chief Justice of the Cook Islands; Justice of the Cook Islands Court of Appeal; Judge of the Court of Dubai International Financial Centre; Past President, Arbitrators and Mediators Institute of New Zealand; Former Member, London Court of International Arbitration; ICC Court of International Arbitration; Board of Directors, American Arbitration Association; Honorary Professor of Law, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Head of King & Wood' Malleson’s Cross-border Dispute Resolution Practice and a recognized expert on PRC-related dispute resolution in the Asia Pacific region. Panel arbitrator of CIETAC and the Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration. Member of SIAC Court of Arbitration.

Executive Director

Legal Counsel, Permanent Court of Arbitration; Executive Director and Executive Editor, ICCA; Adjunct Professor, University of Cape Town; Fellow, Association of Arbitrators (Southern Africa); Editorial Board, Tijdschrift voor Arbitrage; Series Editor, PCA Award Series.

Honorary Presidents

Former Secretary, United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL); Honorary Professor, University of Vienna

Honorary Vice Presidents

Adjunct Professor, New York University School of Law; former Vice President, American Society of International Law; former Chair, Institute for Transnational Arbitration; former Chair, U.S. National Committee, ICC International Court of Arbitration; Board of Directors, Human Rights First

President, International Arbitral Centre of Austrian Federal Economic Chamber, Vienna; Past Vice President, London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA)

Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, Arbitrator and Notary Public; Member, Association of Arbitrators of Nigeria; Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London; Member, Arbitration Committee of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce; Chartered Arbitrator; Member, Panel Membership Group (PMG), Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London; former Chairman, Education & Training Committee of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London; former Member, Board of Management of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London; Regional Representative for Promotion of Arbitration in the West African Region; Past Chairman, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Nigeria Branch; former Member, London Court of International Arbitration; Correspondent of UNIDROIT

Honorary Secretaries General

Past Secretary General, ICCA; Past Secretary General, Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce; Past President, International Federation of Commercial Arbitration Institutions (IFCAI)