Prof. Dr. Michael Pryles

General bio 

Mr Pryles is a full time international arbitrator with an extensive practice.  He has heard over 150 cases in Asia, Europe and North America.  These have involved commercial and investor-state disputes.  Formerly he was a partner in a leading Australian law firm where he acted for several governments, major international energy companies and local and foreign corporations.  Before that he held the Henry Bournes Higgins Chair of Law at Monash University, Australia's largest law school.  He has written 10 books and some 150 articles on international arbitration, conflict of laws and international trade law.  Mr Pryles holds 3 doctorates in law and was educated in Australia, the United States and Germany. Mr Pryles has an office in Melbourne and chambers in London.  He specializes in investment, construction, energy, commercial, technology-transfer and distribution disputes.
 

Awards, Nominations and Special roles

Mr Pryles was appointed a member in the Order of Australia.  He currently serves as President of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration.  He was the founding President of the Asia Pacific Regional Arbitration Group, an association of 27 arbitration centers and organisations in Asia and Australasia.  For over 8 years Mr Pryles served as a Commissioner with the United Nations Compensation Commission in Geneva sitting on two panels and chairing one.  He was, for several years, a member of the Australian Government delegation to the Hague Conference on Private International Law.  Mr Pryles is currently a court member of the London Court of International Arbitration and was formerly a member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration and Chairman of ICC Australia.