Council of the ICC Institute of World Business Law

Chairman

Yves Derains, France
Founding Partner, Derains & Gharavi, France; Former Secretary General, ICC International Court of Arbitration

Yves Derains, former Secretary General of the ICC International Court of Arbitration and Director of the Legal Department of the ICC, is member of the Paris Bar and a founding Partner of the law firm Derains & Gharavi. He is specialized in international arbitration and is acting both as arbitrator and counsel of parties in arbitration proceedings.

Mr Derains is former Chairman of the Comité Français de l’Arbitrage. He was Chairman of the Working Party on the Revision of the ICC Rules of Arbitration in 1998 and Co-Chairman of the ICC Task Force on the Reduction of Costs and Time in international arbitration. He is a member of the French Committee on Private International Law since 1978. He is member of various other organizations specialized in international arbitration and in international business law. He is Honorary Professor of the Law Faculties of San Ignacio de Loyola University and Universidad del Pacifico, Lima, Peru.

Vice Chairs

• Antonias Dimolitsa, Greece
  Founding Partner, Antonias Dimolitsa & Associates, Greece

Antonias Dimolitsa has extensive experience in arbitration. She has served as President, Sole Arbitrator, Co-arbitrator and Counsel in numerous international arbitration proceedings. She has been President twice of ad hoc Committees in ICSID Annulment Proceedings. Her areas of specialization include private international law, agency and distribution, construction, energy, EC law, foreign investment, international sales of goods and joint ventures.

She was member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration (1988-1999) and member of the ICC working group on the revision (1998) of the Arbitration Rules, Vice-President of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and member of the DSC Committee of the most recent revision of the ICC Rules (2012). She was Vice-President of the IBA Arbitration Committee and member of the IBA Subcommittee on the revision of the IBA Rules on the Taking of Evidence in International Arbitration (2010). She is Council Member of the Greek Arbitration Association, Member of the Club of Arbitrators of the Milan Chamber of National and International Arbitration and Athens Correspondent of the International Arbitration Institute (IAI).

• Eric A. Schwartz, USA
  Independent Arbitrator, New York-Paris-London

Eric A. Schwartz was educated at Dartmouth College (B.A.) and Yale University (J.D.) and is a member of the bars of both California and Paris. He was previously a Partner in King & Spalding’s Paris office and a member of the firm’s International Arbitration Practice Group. He was also Vice-President of the ICC International Court of Arbitration. He is currently working as an independent arbitrator, as an arbitrator member of Fountain Court Chambers in London, with an office address in Paris and principal office in New York.

Over the last 30 years, in addition to his tenure at ICC, Eric Schwartz has acted as counsel or as an arbitrator in over 100 international arbitration proceedings under all of the principal international arbitration rules and in all of the principal European arbitration venues, as well as in Africa, Asia and the U.S. He is the co-author (with Yves Derains) of A Guide to the ICC Rules of Arbitration.

Ex-Officio Members

Council Members