ICC Institute of World Business Law

Council of the ICC Institute of World Business Law

Eduardo Silva Romero

Chair ⎪Founding Partner, Wordstone, France

France


Mélida Hodgson

Vice-Chair ⎪Partner, International Arbitration Practice Arnold & Porter, New York

United-states


Alan Thambiayah

Vice-Chair ⎪Independent Arbitrator, Singapore

Singapore



Ex-Officio Members

Alexander G. Fessas


Secretary General and Director of ICC Dispute Resolution Services, ICC International Court of Arbitration, Paris

John Denton


Secretary General, International Chamber of Commerce, Paris

Claudia Salomon


President, ICC International Court of Arbitration, Paris

Yves Derains


Founding Partner, Derains & Gharavi, Honorary Chair, ICC Institute Of World Business Law, Paris

Halil Ercüment Erdem


Partner, Erdem & Erdem Law Office, Chair, ICC CLP Commission, Turkey

Mélanie van Leeuwen


Partner, Derains & Gheravi, Chair, ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR, Paris

Council Members

Mauricio Almeida Prado

Independent Arbitrator, Mauricio Almeida Prado

Brazil


Tolga Ayoğlu

Arbitrator,Professor, Galatasaray University, Faculty of Law

Turkey


Klaus Peter Berger

Professor of Law, University of Cologne, Center for Transnational Law (CENTRAL)

Germany


Christopher Campbell

Senior Counsel, Litigation, Baker Hughes

Italy


Zachary Douglas

Full Professor of International Law, Geneva Graduate Institute

Switzerland


Kabir Duggal

Ph.D., Arnold & Porter, Columbia Law School

United States of America


Giuliana Dunham Irving

Manager and Chief Counsel, Business Integrity Review Ethics and Business Conduct, the World Bank Group

United States of America


Lauro Gama

Partner, Lauro Gama Advogados Associados

Brazil


Jacob Grierson

Avocat à la Cour, Barrister, Asafo & Co

France


Victor Guerra

Senior Counsel Illicit Trade Prevention, Philip Morris International

Colombia


Blossom Hing

Director, Dispute Resolution and Corporate Restructuring & Workouts, Drew & Napier

Singapore


Angelika Hunnefeld

Shareholder, Board Certified in International Law, Greenberg Traurig, P.A.

United States of America


Andrea Hulbert

Founding Partner, Hulbert Volio Abogados

Costa Rica


Maria Ines Sola

In House Counsel, Pan American Energy

Argentina


Laurent Jaeger

Independent Arbitrator

France


Charles Jarrosson

Independent Arbitrator and Emeritus Professor, University of Paris II

France


José Miguel Judice

Independent arbitrator

Portugal


Lisa K. Miller

Integrity Compliance Officer, Head, Integrity Compliance Unit, The World Bank Group

United States of America


Ndanga Kamau

International Lawyer, Arbitrator, Counsel, Founder, Ndanga Kamau Law

The Netherlands


Wairimu Karanja

Chief Legal Officer, Chief Compliance Officer, Persistent Energy Capital

Kenya


Vladimir Khvalei

Senior Partner, Mansors Law Firm

Russian Federation


Joongi Kim

Professor, Yonsey University Law School

Republic of Korea


Wei Lee Lim

Partner, WongPartnership

Singapore


Winnie Ma

Resident, The Arbitration Chambers

Australia


Loretta Malintoppi

International arbitrator, 39 Essex Chambers

Singapore


Cristina Martinetti

Partner, Elexi Law Firm

Italy


Sae Youn Kim

Attorney, Kim & Chang, Senior Member, International Arbitration and Cross-Border Litigation

Republic of Korea


Cecilia Misu

Senior Adviser, CMSQUARE

Germany


José Antonio Moreno Rodriguez

Head, Altra Legal

Paraguay


Nagla Nassar

Partner, Nassar Law

Egypt


Nahendran Navaratnam

Barrister, Arbitrator, Navaratnam Chambers

Malaysia


Carmen Nuñez- Lagos

International arbitrator, Founding partner, Nuñez-Lagos Arbitration

France


Cecilia O' Neill de la Fuente

Arbitrator, Associate Professor, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Spain


Matthias Scherer

Partner, Lalive

Switzerland


Laurence Shore

Head of Arbitration Practice, Bonelli Erede Pappalardo Law Firm

Italy


Hiroyuki Tezuka

Partner, Nishimura & Asahi

Japan


Chuan Thye Tan

Senior Counsel, Supreme Court of Singapore, Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Partner, Rajah & Tann

Singapore


Habibatou Touré

Partner, Habibatou Touré Law Firm

Senegal


Galina Zukova

Partner, Zukova Legal

France


Emeritus Council Members

Antonias Dimolitsa

Founding Partner, Antonia Dimolitsa & Associates

Athens, Greece


David Brown

Partner, Clyde & Co LLP

Paris, France


Eric Schwartz

Independent Arbitrator

New York, USA


John Beechey

Independent Arbitrator

London, UK


Julian Lew

Independent Arbitrator, Professor, School of International Arbitration, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University

London, UK


Laurent Lévy

Partner, Lévy Kaufmann-Kohler

Paris, France


Teresa Giovannini

Partner, Lalive

Geneva, Switzerland


Antonio Crivellaro

Counsel, Belex

Milan, Italy


Horacio Grigera Naón

Independent Arbitrator

Washington DC, USA


Tarek Riad

Managing Partner, Tarek Riad – Legal Consultants & Attorneys at Law

Egypt


Alexis Mourre

Partner, MGC Arbitration

Paris, France


Fabio Bortolotti

Founding Partner, BBM Buffa, Bortolotti & Mathis

Turin, Italy


Bernardo M. Cremades

Partner, B. Cremades y Asociados

Madrid, Spain


Bernard Hanotiau

Arbitrator, Hanotiau & van den Berg

Brussels, Belgium


Nayla Comair-Obeid

Founding Partner, Obeid & Partners Law Firm

Lebanon


Pierre Mayer

Sole Practitioner and Avocat au Barreau de Paris

France


Dorothy Udeme Ufot San

Managing Partner, Dorothy Ufot & Co

Nigeria