ICCA Governing Board

Mr Audley Sheppard KC is a an Arbitrator Member of Twenty Essex, London.
He is a former partner of Clifford Chance LLP and co-head of the firm's international arbitration group.
He is President of ICCA . He has been Chair of the LCIA Board and a Vice-President of the LCIA Court, Member of the ICC Court, Co-Chair of the IBA Arbitration Committee, and Rapporteur of the ILA Arbitration Committee.
He is also Chair of Sport Resolutions.

Samaa A. Haridi is a common and civil law trained, trilingual partner at King & Spalding. Ms. Haridi has significant experience representing clients in multi-jurisdictional international commercial and investment arbitration proceedings under the arbitration rules of all the major arbitral institutions. Ms. Haridi also frequently sits as an arbitrator in international commercial and investment disputes. Ms. Haridi is a member of the bars of New York, California, and England & Wales. She is fluent in French and Arabic and is also conversant in Spanish.

Dyalá Jiménez is a Costa Rican national and specializes in international arbitration. She is frequently appointed as arbitrator in institutional and ad hoc arbitrations, both in commercial and investor-State disputes. She is Vice President of ICCA, member of the International Council of Arbitration for Sport, as well as former member of the ICSID panel of conciliators and arbitrators for Costa Rica (2013-2024) and of the ICC International Court of Arbitration (2021-2024).

She is a Fulbright Scholar and alumnus of Georgetown University Law Center, is author of numerous publications (visit www.djarbitraje.com) and has taught in several universities.

Dyalá served as Minister of Foreign Trade of Costa Rica (2018-2020).

Karl Hennessee, FRAeS, is SVP Litigation & Investigations at Airbus, where he leads the Group’s global activities in these areas. Separately, he occasionally sits as arbitrator and serves on the board of directors of companies and nonprofits. Until July, 2019, he also served as Chairman of the Governing Body of the ICC Court of International Arbitration as well as being a member of the HKIAC Council as well as its Proceedings Committee until 2026. He also serves on the Advisory Council for the School of International Arbitration at Queen Mary University of London. As treasurer for the ICCA, Karl is a member of the Executive Board.

Mr. Stanimir Alexandrov serves as an arbitrator in numerous cases administered by the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), and the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA), as well as ad hoc arbitrations under the UNCITRAL Rules. He has been appointed to the ICSID Panel of Arbitrators and is also a member of the panel of arbitrators of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Center (HKIAC), the Dubai International Arbitration Center (DIAC), the Chinese International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC), and the Arbitration Center at the Institute of Modern Arbitration (Moscow).

Aisha is a Partner at ALN Kenya | Anjarwalla & Khanna where she heads the regional Dispute Resolution department based at Nairobi . She is dual qualified in England and Wales and Kenya. Aisha has over 26 years of experience in handling complex, high-value cross-border disputes. She was appointed to the AFSA Court in 2026 and sits on the MARC Court in Mauritius. She was the first Kenyan appointed as arbitrator on the Court of Arbitration for Sport General Panel. Aisha represented the Kenya National Chamber of Commerce on the NCIA board 2021-2025 and also served on the Delos Board of Advisors. In December 2022, Aisha was appointed to the HKIAC governing council. She is also on the LCIA Africa Users Council.

Mohamed Abdel Wahab is Professor of International Arbitration, Private International Law and English Contract Law, Cairo University; Founding Partner and Head of International Arbitration, Construction and Energy Groups at Zulficar & Partners Law Firm (Egypt); Member of the Governing Board (ICCA); and Dean of the Africa Arbitration Academy. He has served as ‘Arbitrator’, ‘Legal Expert’ and ‘Counsel’ in more than 255 cases, involving parties from the Africa, Asia, Canada, Europe, the Middle East and the United States. He received the LAW Magazine 2017 Best Legal Practitioner Award, the 2018 ASA International Arbitration Advocacy Prize, the 2019 AYA Hall-of-Fame African Arbitrator Award, the 2020 and 2021 Client Choice International Award. He is listed in Who’s Who Global Elite Thought Leaders: International Arbitration; selected among the Legal500 Africa Powerlist and the AYA’s Africa's Top 30 Powerlist. He is the coeditor (with Prof Maxi Scherer and Ms. Niuscha Bassiri) of “International Arbitration and the COVID-19 Revolution” (2020); co-editor (with Prof Ethan Katsh and Mr. Daniel Rainey) of “Online Dispute Resolution: Theory and Practice” (2021).

Catherine Amirfar is Co-Chair of the International Disputes Resolution and Public International Law Groups at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP and sits as a member of the Firm’s Management Committee. She is the immediate Past President of the American Society of International Law (ASIL), the pre-eminent learned society in the United States dedicated to international law. With over twenty years of experience, Ms. Amirfar is recognized as a top practitioner in international disputes globally. Her practice focuses on international commercial and treaty arbitration, international litigation and public international law. She regularly appears in U.S. courts and before international courts and arbitration tribunals, including the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Ms. Amirfar serves as a Member of the U.S. Department of State’s Advisory Committee on International Law, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Advisory Committees of the American Law Institute for the Restatement (Fourth) of Foreign Relations Law of the United States and for the Restatement of the U.S. Law of International Commercial Arbitration. She is a member of the Governing Board of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA), the leading global organization of international arbitrators and arbitration practitioners, and serves as Co-Chair of the ICCA-ASIL Task Force on Damages in International Arbitration. She is also a member of the Court of Arbitration of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre and the International Centre for Dispute Resolution of the American Arbitration Association. From 2014 to 2016, Ms. Amirfar served as Counselor on International Law to the Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of State in the Obama Administration, for which she received the State Department’s Superior Honor Award in recognition of her contributions to the Department.

Domitille Baizeau is a partner at LALIVE, based in Geneva. She has been acting as counsel and arbitrator in arbitrations governed by civil law and common law and international law for more than 25 years, with a focus on joint venture, M&A, shareholders, sales and investment disputes in the energy (oil & gas, renewables), mining, finance and pharmaceutical sectors. In 2018 she received the GAR ART award of the Best Prepared and Most Responsive Arbitrator. She has always been an active member of arbitral institutions and associations and also served as Managing Partner of LALIVE for 10 years, until 2024.

Chiann Bao, of ArbBoutique, is a Chartered arbitrator and CEDR-Accredited mediator. Tri-qualified in New York, England and Wales and Hong Kong, she has been appointed in nearly 150 arbitrations totalling several USD billions in dispute. She is a past Co-Chair of the IBA Arbitration Committee and has held institutional leadership positions including as a vice president of the ICC Court of Arbitration and as Secretary General of the HKIAC. Chiann has practiced in international law firms in New York and Hong Kong. She is one of the most highly ranked arbitrators in publications such as Who's Who Legal Arbitration's Global Elite Thought Leaders and Chambers and Partners' Most in Demand arbitrators (globally and regionally). A regular speaker and lecturer, Chiann was awarded the GAR "best lecture" for her Proskauer Rose lecture in 2022.

Julie Bédard is head of Skadden’s International Litigation and Arbitration Group for the Americas. Fluent in French, Spanish and Portuguese, Ms. Bédard practices in four languages in complex disputes and investigations. Trained in both civil and common law, she has a doctorate in conflict of laws and represents clients in connection with litigation and arbitration proceedings throughout the world, raising disputes on governing law, jurisdiction, the enforcement of arbitration agreements, extraterritoriality and international judgment enforcement. Ms. Bédard has repeatedly been recognized as a leading lawyer in a variety of legal publications, including Chambers Global, Chambers USA, Chambers Latin America, Euromoney and Latinvex.

Disputes lawyer with more than 35 years' experience in international commercial arbitration, commercial litigation, and constitutional law. Acted as counsel or served as arbitrator in international arbitrations involving disputes in energy, transportation, telecommunications, international distribution and joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, construction, pharmaceuticals, and foreign investment. A former co-chair of the IBA’s Arbitration Committee (2008-2009), he has served on the LCIA Court (2010-2015), of which he was a vice-president (2011-2015), the ICC International Court of Arbitration (2015-2021), and is currently a member of the Court of Arbitration of the Singapore International Arbitration Center (SIAC). He was appointed to ICSID’s Panel of Arbitrators in 2021 and elected to ICCA’s Governing Board in 2024.

Stavros is the Michael & Laura Hwang Professor in International Arbitration at the National University of Singapore and an arbitrator practicing at 3 Verulam Buildings (Gray’s Inn).
He has been involved in international law and arbitration for more than 20 years and is widely recognised as a leading authority in the field. He is regularly listed in Who’s Who Legal: Arbitration, Who’s Who Legal: Construction and Who’s Who Legal: Thought Leader, being included in the Legal 500 Arbitration Power List and ranked as a WWL Arbitration: Global Elite Thought Leader and one of the 25 most highly regarded arbitrators in the EMEA region.
He has been shortlisted twice for the Global Arbitration Review Best Prepared and Most Responsive Arbitrator Award and received the 2020 GAR Award for Best Public Speech.

Kate is Partner and Global Co-Chair of International Arbitration at DLA Piper, where she specializes in both international commercial and investor-State arbitration. An Australian and NY qualified attorney, resident in Mexico City; widely recognized for her experience and results handling complex, high-profile disputes, notably in the energy and infrastructure sectors. She is Vice Chair of the IBA’s Arb Committee. Member of the LCIA Courtand also acts as Co-Chair of ICCA’s Working Group on Arbitrator Liability. Outside of the arbitration world, Kate was President of (the Australia, New Zealand, Mexico Business Council. Until 2017, she was a member of the Australian Delegation to the United Nations (UNCITRAL) Working Group on Arbitration and Conciliation. She is a graduate of Harvard Law School and the University of Queensland.

Prof. Dr. Nayla Comair-Obeid is the Founding Partner of Obeid & Partners where she heads the firm’s dispute resolution practice. She is also an associate member of 3VB Chambers in London and a Professor of International Arbitration. She has been actively involved in over 170 domestic and international commercial and investment arbitrations conducted in Arabic, French and English-language whether ad hoc and or institutional (ICSID, ICC, LCIA, DIAC, CRCICA, BCDR, DIFC-LCIA, UNCITRAL, etc). Throughout her career, Professor Comair-Obeid has held and continues to hold pre-eminent positions. She has been elected the Vice Chair of the ICC Global (as of June 2022) and appointed the Chair of the Jury of the ICC Institute Prize (2023 edition). She sits, among others, as a member of the ICC Executive Board, former member of the LCIA Court, member of the CRCICA Board of Trustees, Companion of the CIArb, and member of the international commercial expert committee of China’s Supreme People’s Court. She has authored numerous publications, including the book “The Law of Business Contracts in the Middle East”, among others.

Mr Fagbohunlu is a partner and head of the Litigation, Arbitration and ADR Practice Group in Aluko & Oyebode. He regularly acts as counsel to Nigerian as well as foreign and multinational clients in Ad Hoc and institutional arbitrations, and has served as arbitrator in several cases, including arbitrations administered by the ICC and the LCIA. Mr Fagbohunlu has also served on the Federal Government of Nigeria’s Committee on the Reform and Harmonization of Arbitration/ADR Laws. He co-authored the book “Arbitration in Africa: A Review of Key Jurisdictions” published by Sweet and Maxwell in 2016.

Mr. Ning Fei has been practicing as counsel and arbitrator in the international commercial disputes arena for over 30 years. He is a co-founder and the managing partner of Hui Zhong Law Firm, the first and the leading international dispute resolution boutique based in China. During 2013 – 2019, he was a Council Member of HKIAC, and in 2024 he was newly appointed as the member of Nominations Committee of HKIAC, both titles vested to persons from mainland China for the first time in history. He led the endeavor to amend SCIA’s arbitration rules, the first of its kind that fully integrates with international standards. Mr. Fei serves as a Governing Board Member of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA).

Dr. Juan Fernandez-Armesto is a professional arbitrator and specializes in commercial, investment and construction arbitration. He has extensive experience in both Spanish domestic arbitrations as well as international arbitrations administered by bodies such as the ICC, LCIA, VIAC, DIAC and ad hoc arbitrations under the UNCITRAL Rules. He has been President of the Spanish Securities and Exchange Commission (CNMV) (1996-2000), partner of Uría Menéndez (1983-1996) and Chaired Professor of Commercial Law (1988-2009).

Responsible for the operational management and coordination of the ICC Court’s Secretariat and other DRS in Paris, Hong Kong, New York, Sao Paolo, Singapore and Abu Dhabi Global Market. He joined the Secretariat in late 2011 and held consecutive positions in three case management teams, of which two as counsel. Prior to his appointment as Secretary General, he was the Secretariat’s Managing Counsel over a three-year term. He read law at the University of Athens, Greece having specialized in international commercial transactions and conflict of laws. He practised as counsel out of Athens where he established a sole practice in 2008. He was previously an associate at an based law firm. He is admitted to the Athens Bar.

Patricia Garcia is a dual qualified lawyer (Brazil and France) with over 25 years of legal experience in the infrastructure sector. She currently serves as Legal Manager at VINCI Concessions, leading international legal teams and advising on concession contracts, construction contracts, investment protection and disputes resolution across lusophone and hispanophone jurisdictions in Europe, Latin Americas, and Africa. Her previous roles include associate at Freshfields handling major international arbitrations and legal counsel in Angola and Bolivia. She is also a board member at ANA – Aeroportos de Portugal (Portugal) and Salvador Airport (Brazil).

Ms. Judith Gill is recognised as one of the leading practitioners in international arbitration. She was a partner in the global law firm Allen & Overy for more than 25 years and was Head of the International Arbitration Group for 11 years. She moved to Singapore in September 2015 and joined Twenty Essex Chambers in Singapore in May 2018. Since May 2022 she practices exclusively as an independent arbitrator and has extensive experience in matters involving construction, energy contracts, manufacturing, distributorship agreements and other commercial agreements. She is the immediate past President of the LCIA Court. She was the second female solicitor-advocate to be appointed KC in England.

Eduardo Damião Gonçalves is a partner with Mattos Filho and has more than 30 year of experience representing clients in complex domestic and international disputes submitted to arbitration and court litigation. He also frequently sits as arbitrator in international commercial and investment disputes. Eduardo is currently Executive Board Member of the ICC and was a VP of the of the ICC Court from 2018 thru 2024. He was a founder and former president of the Brazilian Arbitration Committee (CBAr). Eduardo is also a co-founder of the Latin American Arbitration Association (ALARB) and was vice-chair of the IBA Arbitration Committee. Eduardo is Ph.D in International Law from the University of São Paulo and has a Master of Law from the University of Paris II. Eduardo is fluent in Portuguese, English, French, Spanish and Italian.

Lara Hammoud is a globally sought-after arbitrator, recognised for her extensive expertise in international arbitration. She is a qualified French lawyer with over twenty years of experience in international arbitration. Prior to becoming a full-time arbitrator in July 2024, Lara spent a decade as in-house counsel, heading the Disputes Team at Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC). Prior to ADNOC, Lara started her career in Paris at the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) before moving to private practice with a Magic Circle law firm in Paris and Abu Dhabi. Lara co-founded the highly successful Civil Law Conference in Abu Dhabi. Lara is regularly recognised in the directories, including most recently as a Global Elite Thought Leader in the Lexology Arbitration Index 2026, and Chambers & Partners, Most In Demand Arbitrators, UAE 2025

James Hosking has been practicing in the international disputes arena for over 25 years. As co-founder of international dispute resolution boutique Chaffetz Lindsey, he leads the firm’s international arbitration team. James’ practice has seen him appear in over one hundred arbitrations as counsel, while he also sits as arbitrator in commercial and investor-state cases. He is an adjunct professor at NYU School of Law, co-author of the leading Commentary on the ICDR International Rules, and a Fellow of the Arbitrators and Mediators Institute of New Zealand. James was previously a partner in a leading international firm and also practiced in New Zealand.

Mr. Andrés Jana is litigation and arbitration partner at the Chilean law firm of Bofill Mir & Alvarez Jana and a Professor at Universidad de Chile. He has wide experience in international disputes, as a lawyer, arbitrator and expert. These disputes involved international arbitration as well as international public law issues and have been carried out, among others, before the ICJ, ICSID, ICC, LCIA, AAA, SCC. He is the Chilean delegate before UNCITRAL, and has been elected to Chair the WGII work on Expedited Proceedings in International Arbitration. He is on the Chilean List of Arbitrators for ICSID, is a former member of the LCIA, fomer Vice-Chair of the IBA Arbitration Committee, and former Chair of the ITA Americas Initiative.

Ndanga is an independent arbitrator. She has considerable expertise and experience in disputes related to Africa, and is proficient in issues related to compensation, damages, taxation, interest, and costs. Ndanga speaks, teaches, and writes on topics related to her areas of specialisation. She is a member of the ICCA Governing Board; council member of the ICC Institute of World Business Law; trustee and honorary senior fellow of BIICL; PRIME Finance expert in dispute resolution; and member of the advisory board of the UCT ADR Unit. Ndanga was vice president of the ICC Court from 2018-2024. She was called to the Bar of England and Wales by the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple.

Swee Yen is the Head of International Arbitration of WongPartnership. Regarded as a global leader in litigation and international arbitration, the go-to lawyer for cross-border asset recovery, fraud, commercial disputes, enforcement and setting aside proceedings, she has been involved in numerous landmark and ground-breaking decisions in these fields. She is ranked as one of the best advocates in dispute resolution by various legal publications, including Chambers Global, Chambers Asia-Pacific, The Legal 500, Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific and Lexology Index.

Mr. Toby Landau KC is a barrister, advocate and arbitrator practising at Duxton Hill Chambers London and Duxton Hill Chambers (Singapore Group Practice) in Singapore. He specialises in international arbitration, and has argued hundreds of major international commercial, investor-State and inter-state arbitrations, as well as ground-breaking cases in the courts of numerous jurisdictions. As Arbitrator, he has extensive experience under most of the world’s leading ad hoc and institutional rules and is a member of various panels. He is on the Panel of Advisers to the Attorney-General of Singapore; Vice President of the SIAC Court of Arbitration; and a draftsman of arbitration legislation in a number of jurisdictions.

Ms. Loretta Malintoppi is dually-qualified (Paris and Rome Bars) and has been registered to practice as a Foreign Lawyer in Singapore since 2012. She practiced in the Paris office of Eversheds from 1991 until 2012 and thereafter in the Singapore office until 2016. Loretta joined 39 Essex Chambers in January 2017. She acts as counsel, advocate and arbitrator in international commercial and investment arbitration and has represented private companies, States and State entities in proceedings under a variety of arbitration rules, including ICSID, ICC, UNCITRAL SIAC, LCIA and DIAC.

Mr. Fernando Mantilla-Serrano is Of Counsel in the International Arbitration Practice at Latham & Watkins. He has served as both lead counsel and arbitrator under the ICC, ICSID, LCIA, SCC, ICDR, IACAC, UNCITRAL and EDF arbitration rules. Mr Mantilla-Serrano is fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb), and member of the International Law Association (ILA) . He is also member of the Governing Board of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) and member of Dispute Resolution Governing Body of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). Mr Mantilla-Serrano is admitted to the bars of Colombia, New York (USA), Paris (France) and Madrid (Spain).

Ms. Sylvia Noury is a partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer where she heads the International Arbitration Group in London. Her practice focuses on high-stakes international commercial and treaty arbitration in high-risk jurisdictions. She is a Member of the Board of the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC); the Advisory Council of Africa Arbitration; the ITA Advisory Board and a former a Member of the Arbitration Committee and Nominations Sub-Committee of the ICC UK. She is the Founder and Co-Chair of the Equal Representation in Arbitration Pledge.

John Ohaga is the Managing Partner in the law firm of TripleOKlaw LLP. He holds an LLM in International Dispute Resolution from Queen Mary University of London. He is a Senior Counsel and a Chartered Arbitrator.

Shaneen is a dual qualified lawyer (India and England and Wales), with over three decades of experience. She specialises in cross-border and international arbitration under various institutional rules and seats, including in relation to investor-state disputes. She has represented clients in some landmark decisions in India (both arbitration and commercial litigation), before High Courts and the Supreme Court.
She also sits as an arbitrator in domestic and international arbitrations.
Shaneen is consistently ranked for her arbitration practice, including as a “Thought Leader” in by Who's Who Legal (Lexology). She is Member of the Governing Board of ICCA; the Vice Chair to the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR, Council Member of the Mumbai International Arbitration Centre and former Member of the SIAC Court of Arbitration.

Mr. Constantine Partasides KC has appeared as counsel on some of the largest commercial arbitrations of the last decade, many of which relate to the energy sector. He has been named as one of the “top 20” individuals in the world of arbitration each year since 2011 in “Who’s Who” of Commercial Arbitration. He is a co-author of the fourth, fifth and sixth editions of the leading textbook on international arbitration, Redfern and Hunter on International Arbitration. He is a solicitor-advocate (Higher Courts Civil), and was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2014.

Prof. Vladimir Pavic is an independent arbitration practitioner based in Belgrade, Serbia. He regularly sits as arbitrator and has also acted as counsel in a number of investment and commercial cases. His experience includes over 60 arbitrations, both ad hoc and institutional (under the ICC, LCIA, SCC, VIAC, DIS, RAC, UNCITRAL, ICSID, ICSID Additional Facility and Swiss rules), at various seats and under a broad range of applicable laws. He is currently a full-time Professor of law at the University of Belgrade, President of the Belgrade Arbitration Center, member of the International Advisory Board of VIAC, ICC and a national CLOUT correspondent for UNCITRAL.

Maxi Scherer has over 20 years of experience in international arbitration in both civil and common law systems. She is admitted to the bar in Paris (France) and as a solicitor in England and Wales. Maxi has represented clients and served as arbitrator or legal expert in more than 150 commercial and investor-State arbitrations. Her arbitrations regularly involve States, concern multi-billion amounts in dispute and are conducted in English, French and German.‍
Regularly ranked by Who’s Who Legal, The Legal 500 etc. as a leading arbitration practitioner, she has been identified amongst the top 20 “Global Elite Thought Leaders” She has received the 2023 GAR Award for “Best Prepared Arbitrator".

Prof. Hi-Taek Shin is a professor (emeritus) at Seoul National University School of Law. He is an independent arbitrator at Twenty Essex Chambers (practice based in Seoul, Korea). He has taught the resolution of commercial and investment disputes arising from cross-border transactions. Prior to moving to academia, he was a partner of Kim & Chang, the leading Korean law firm. He regularly sits as an arbitrator both in international investment treaty arbitrations and international commercial arbitrations.

Tom is Senior Counsel in the International Disputes Group of the ExxonMobil Law Department. He manages international investment and commercial arbitration for Exxon Mobil Corporation. Prior to joining ExxonMobil, he spent ten years at El Paso Corporation managing the company’s international arbitration and complex litigation. Tom initially practiced international arbitration of energy, construction and insurance disputes at Vinson & Elkins LLP in Houston, Texas.

Tom graduated from Harvard with an A.B. in History and Literature and from the University of Virginia School of Law with a J.D.

Abby Cohen Smutny is the former Global Head of White & Case’s International Arbitration Practice. She is widely recognized as one of the leading international arbitration practitioners globally. Abby’s leadership positions have included: ICCA Vice-President and Treasurer; Chair of the Institute of Transnational Arbitration (ITA); ASIL Vice-President and Counsellor; President of LCIA North American Users Council; AAA Advisory Board Member; IBA Arbitration Committee Vice-Chair and Chair of IBA Investment Treaty Sub-Committee; co-Chair of the ICCA Task Force on Standards of Practice in International Arbitration; and Chair International Law Section of Washington DC Bar. Abby is a member of the Board of Saudi Center for Commercial Arbitration and formerly a member of the Court of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre.

Claus von Wobeser is the Founding Partner of Von Wobeser y Sierra. He has acted in over 200 international arbitration proceedings, and has served as Vice President of the International Court of Arbitration of the ICC, Co-Chair of the IBA Arbitration Committee, President of the Arbitration Commission of ICC Mexico, Member of the Panel of Arbitrators of ICSID, Member of the London Court of International Arbitration, Member of the Board of Directors of the AAA and as a Member of the ICC Court. In 1994 he founded and since teaches on the diploma course on arbitration co-organized by the Escuela Libre de Derecho and ICC México. Also, he has served as President of ALARB and ICC Mexico. Currently,he is a member of the ICCA Governing Board. He studied law at Escuela Libre de Derecho in Mexico City and a PhD at Université de Paris 2, Sorbonne.

Stephan W. Schill is General Editor of ICCA Publications, the Yearbook Commercial Arbitration, and the ICCA Awards Series. He is Professor of International and Economic Law and Governance at the University of Amsterdam, specializing in international investment law and investor-State dispute settlement and its connections to general public international law, specialized international legal regimes, such as human rights or international environmental law, regional economic integration, as well as domestic administrative and constitutional law and international commercial arbitration. He is admitted as a Rechtsanwalt to the bar in Germany and as an Attorney-at-Law in the State of New York, is a Member of the ICSID Panel of Arbitrators, and regularly sits as arbitrator in investor-State proceedings under all major institutional and ad hoc rules. He is the General Editor of Schreuer’s Commentary on the ICSID Convention (3rd edn, CUP 2022), has served as Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of World Investment and Trade (2014-2023), and has published widely on international investment law and investment arbitration.

Lise Bosman is based at the Peace Palace in The Hague, as Executive Director of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) and Senior Legal Counsel at the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA). She is also appointed as Adjunct Professor at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, where she teaches the LLM course in Commercial Arbitration, and acts as PCA Counsellor to the Secretary-General for South Africa. Lise is the General Editor and contributing author to Arbitration in Africa: a Practitioner's Guide (Kluwer Law International, Second Edition September 2021) and the General Editor of the ICCA International Handbook on Commercial Arbitration (a seven-volume loose-leaf collection of arbitration-related legislation and commentary on over 85 jurisdictions; Kluwer Law International, published since 1984). She is a member of the Court of the AFSA and LACIAC arbitral institutes and a founding member of the Board of the African Arbitration Association. Her areas of specialization are: international commercial arbitration law and practice; the practice and development of international arbitration in Africa; international investment law; investor-State arbitration; and State-State arbitration.