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Annex 1 Annexe 1

MEMBERS OF THE PERMANENT COURT OF ARBITRATION

LISTE DES MEMBRES DE LA COUR PERMANENTE D’ARBITRAGE

Current List Liste actuelle Date of appointment

Date de la

nomination

Date of latest renewal

Date du dernier renouvellement

Albania Albanie Mr. QIRJAKO QIRKO, Ambassador, Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Albania; July 2012-October 2013 Director of International Organizations in MFA; September 2006–June 2012 Head of Minorities Department in Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Albania; May 2001–June 2006 Ambassador of Republic of Albania in the Kingdom of The Netherlands; January 1999–May 2001 Secretary General, Council of Ministers of Republic of Albania; September 1997–January 1999 Director of Legal and Consular Affairs Department Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Republic of Albania; October 1996–September 1997 Attorney at Law; September 1991–October 1996 Director of Legal and Consular Affairs Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Republic of Albania; October 1986–September 1991 Public Prosecutor, The Attorneys Office of the District of Tirana. Other activities: Lecturer International Organizations (Master Program) in “Mesdhetar” University– from 2012 to present; Lecturer of Human Rights in the University of Law “Luarasi”, Tirana – from 2006–2011; Representative of the Republic of Albania in OPCW – 2001–2006; Deputy President of the Committee for checking the background of high officials – 1999–2001; Representative of the Republic of Albania in OPCW – from 2001 to present; Head of Albanian Delegation in: Conference on the gold looted by the German Nazis during the Second World War – London, December 1997; Member of Delegation of the Rome Conference for the adoption of the statute for the creation of International Criminal Court – Rome, 1998; Representative of Republic of Albania in the Meeting of Legal Advisors of countries member of ONU – New York, 1995; Representative of Republic of Albania in the annual meetings of legal advisors of Ministries of Foreign Affairs in the Council of Europe (Strasbourg) – during the period 1992–1996; Head of Delegation of the Republic of Albania for the inventory of all the agreements between Albania and Soviet Union – Moscow, 1998; Head of Delegation of the Republic of Albania for the discussion on propriety issues between Greece and Albania – 1994; Head of Delegation of the Republic of Albania on the preparation of Consular Treaties with: Russia, Rumania – 1993 and 1994; Head of Delegation of the Republic of Albania on the preparation of Friendship Treaties between Albania and: Greece, Turkey, Italy, France, Rumania, Bulgaria, Russia – during the period 1992–1996.

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Ms. SUELA JANINA, October 2014 – Ambassador, Head of Mission of Albania to the European Union; October 2015 – Ambassador of Albania to Belgium and Luxembourg; January–October 2014 General Director, Multilateral Relations Directorate, MFA; June 2012–Jan. 2014 Director, Treaties and International Law Department, MFA; Feb. 2007–Jan. 2012 Legal Adviser, Treaties and International Law Department, MFA; Jan. 2004–Jan. 2007 Counsel, General Consulate of the Republic of Albania to Milan, Italy; Aug. 1999–Jan. 2004 Legal Expert, International Law Department, MFA; Sept. 1998–July 1999 Assistant professor, Faculty of Law, University “Aleksandër Xhuvani” Elbasan. International experience: May 2011–2014 United Nation Committee on Enforced Disappearances, Vice Chair; June 2015 Re-elected for the second mandate as CED member; June 2012–January 2014 Member of CAHDI, Committee of Legal Advisers on Public International Law of the Council of Europe; May 2013 Alternate Arbitrator, OSCE Court of Conciliation and Arbitration. Avenue Franklin Roosevelt, 123, 1000 Brussels, Belgium; tel: +3226443329; fax: +3226403177; e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected].

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Mr. ARMAND SKAPI, Director of the Treaties and International Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Albania; May–December 2013, Director of NATO Department; June 2012-Apri1 2013, Chief of Cabinet of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Albania; February 2012–June 2012, Adviser to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Albania; February 2011–February

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2012, Minister Counselor, Embassy of Albania, Rome, Italy; January 2009–February 2011, Director of Middle East and Africa Department; September 2006-December 2008, Head of Unit, Asia and Africa Department; July 2005-August 2006, Director of Press and Public Diplomacy Department; January 2001-June 2005, Director of UN and International Organizations Department; March 1999-December 2000, Desk officer at the UN and International Organizations Department; January 1997-March 1999, Desk Officer at the Legal and Consular Department. Other activities: May 2013 Arbitrator, OSCE Court of Conciliation and Arbitration; 2002–2005 Head of Governmental Expert Group for the Drafting of Albanian National Reports to the UN Treaty Bodies for Human Rights; 2003–2005, Member of the Albanian Commission for Refugees. 2009–2011, Guest lecturer of International Law, Tirana European University. Bui. Gjergj Fishta, No. 6, Tirana, Albania; e-mail: [email protected]. Dr. GENTIAN ZYBERI, Associate Professor, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights; 2012-ongoing Associate professor, Faculty of Law/ Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo/ Norway; 2012 2012 Assistant professor, Faculty of Law/ Amsterdam Centre for International Law, University of Amsterdam/ The Netherlands; 2008- Legal Counsel (pro bono), International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, The Hague, The Netherlands.; 2009 Legal advisor and coordinator of the Albanian legal team in the Kosovo Declaration of Independence case before the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Special Advisor to the Albanian Minister of Foreign Affairs on Kosovo, Tirana, Albania; 2008-2011 Assistant professor, Faculty of Law/ Netherlands Institute for Human Rights, University of Utrecht/ the Netherlands; 2004-2012 Legal Assistant and Interpreter, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, The Hague, The Netherlands; 2003-2007 PhD Candidate, Faculty of Law/ Netherlands Institute for Human Rights, University of Utrecht/ the Netherlands. Other National and International Professional Involvements: Member of the International Law Association (ILA) International Committee on International Human Rights Law; Member of the ILA Study Group on ‘The Conduct of Hostilities under International Humanitarian Law - Challenges of 21st Century Warfare’; Member of the European Society of International Law (member of several interest groups); Member of the Norwegian Association of International Law (Norwegian branch of the ILA); Member of the Norsk militræjuridisk forening (Norwegian National Group of the International Society for Military Law and the Law of War).

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Argentina Argentine Ms. SUSANA MYRTA RUIZ CERUTTI, Lawyer and career diplomat; Member of the Panel of Conciliators and Arbitrators of ICSID; former Ambassador to Switzerland; Agent of Argentina to the International Arbitral Tribunal dealing with a border dispute between Argentina and Chile; former member or head of delegations to several arbitral proceedings; twice Legal Adviser of the Argentine Foreign Ministry; former Vice-Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs; former Ambassador to Canada; Agent of Argentina to the International Court of Justice and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. Avda. Libertador Gral. San Martín 4408, Piso 13°, Buenos Aires (1424), Argentina; [email protected].

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Dr. RAÚL EMILIO VINUESA, Law degree from the University of Buenos Aires, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Harvard Law School, University of Cambridge, University of Amsterdam; Professor of International Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Buenos Aires, and at the Argentine Foreign Service Institute; Arbitrator at MERCOSUR, ICSID, CAR, ICC, SIECA; Judge ad hoc at the International Court of Justice; Member of the Institut de Droit International. Alsina 2360, San Isidro (B1642FOV), Argentina; tel.:/fax: +54(11)4723-6664/6780; [email protected], [email protected].

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Mr. MARIO J. A. OYARZÁBAL, Law degree from the University of La Plata, LL.M. Harvard University; The Legal Adviser of the Argentine Foreign Ministry; Member of the Panel of Conciliators and Arbitrators of ICSID; Professor of International Law at the University of Law Plata; Arbitrator and Conciliator under Art. 2 of Annexes V and VII of UNCLOS; Member of the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission; Agent of Argentina to the International Court of Justice. Arenales 1212 Of. 1501, Buenos Aires (C1007ABR), Argentina; tel.: +54(11)4819-8008; [email protected], [email protected].

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Prof. DIEGO P. FERNÁNDEZ ARROYO, Professor at Sciences Po Law School in Paris; 10 – 09 - 2019



Director of the Sciences Po LLM in Transnational Arbitration & Dispute Settlement; Member of the Panel of Conciliators and Arbitrators of ICSID; Arbitrator under UNCITRAL, ICSID, ICC, ICSID, Milan Arbitration Chamber, Bogota Chamber of Commerce, Brazilian Center of Mediation and Arbitration, etc.; Member of the Curatorium of the Hague Academy of International Law, Associé of the Institut de Droit International. Sciences Po – École de Droit, 13, rue de l’Université, 75007 Paris, France; tel.: +33(0)1 4549 5339; [email protected], [email protected].

Australia Australie Prof. HILARY CHARLESWORTH AM, Professor of International Law and Human Rights at the Australian National University since 1998; Professor and Director of the Centre for International Governance and Justice in the Regulatory Institutions Network; Australian Research Council Federation Fellow; educated at the University of Melbourne and Harvard Law School; President of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law from 1997 to 2001; appointed judge ad hoc of the International Court of Justice in 2011 for the Whaling in the Antarctic case. Specializations: public international law, international human rights law, use of force, law of armed conflict, peace building and post-conflict legal regimes. College of Law, The Australian National University, ACT 0200, Acton, Australia; email: [email protected]; fax: +61 26125 1507.

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The Hon. SUSAN KIEFEL AC, Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia since 30 January 2017; formerly justice of the High Court of Australia (2007-2017); formerly a Judge of the Federal Court of Australia and the Supreme Court of N0rfolk Island since 1994; and the Supreme Court of Queensland (1993-94). Formerly part-time Commissioner of the Australian Law Reform Commission (2003-2007). Admitted to the Queensland Bar (1975); appointed Queen's Counsel (1987). Educated at Cambridge University. Appointed a Companion in the General Division of the Order of Australia (2011). Elected a titular member of the International Academy of Comparative Law (2013). Elected an Honorary Bencher of the Honourable Society of Gray's Inn (2014). High Court of Australia, P.O. Box 6309, Kingston, ACT, 2604; fax: +61 (0)2 6270 6947.

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Dr. STEPHEN DONAGHUE QC, Solicitor General of the Commonwealth of Australia since 2017. Former Barrister at the Victorian Bar (2001); appointed Senior Counsel (2011); appointed Queen's Counsel (2014). Former Chair of the Public Law Section of the Commercial Bar Association; former member of the Constitutional Law Committee of the Law Council of Australia. Educated at the University of Melbourne and the University of Oxford. Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne Law School. Attorney-General's Department, 3-5 National Circuit, Barton, ACT, 2600, Australia; fax: +61 2 6141 4149; email: [email protected].

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Mr. HENRY BURMESTER AO QC, Honorary Professor in the Australian National University College of Law (2016). Formerly Consultant Counsel at the Australian Government Solicitor (2009-2017). Formerly Chief General Counsel at the Australian Government Solicitor (1995-2009). Appeared as counsel before the International Court of Justice and other tribunals, served as arbitrator under Law of the Sea Convention. Formerly head of the Office of International Law in the Attorney-General's Department (1990-1995). Educated at the Australian National University and University of Virginia. Formerly member of the Australian National University College of Law (1981-1985). Barrister at the New South Wales Bar and the Australian Capital Territory Bar. Appointed Queen's Counsel (1998). E-mail: [email protected].

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Austria Autriche Prof. Dr. GERHARD HAFNER, Professor at the Vienna Law Faculty since 1990; former Director of the Department of European, International and Comparative Law (University of Vienna); former Lecturer at the Austrian Diplomatic Academy Vienna, M.A.I.S.; University of Krems; former Deputy Chairman of the German Society of International Law; former Chairman of the Austrian Branch of the International Law Association; former Member of the Governing Board of the European Studies Institute in Moscow, former Deputy Chairman of German Society of International Law; Visiting Professor in Stanford (1996), Bratislava since 1992, Visiting Professor at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Internationales of the University Paris 2 (1997), Member of the International Law Commission (1997-2001) - First Vice-president of the ILC during the 2001 session; Conciliator at the OSCE Court and former Member of its Bureau; Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration; Legal Consultant to the Austrian Ministry for Foreign Affairs; Member or Chairman of numerous

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Austrian delegations to international Conferences; Arbitrators in the MOX case (Ireland v. United Kingdom), arbitrator in the Abyei Case, arbitrator in the case Faroe Islands v European Union, Counsel for Liechtenstein in the case Certain Property (Liechtenstein v. Germany) before the International Court of Justice; counsel on behalf of Argentina in the case ARA Libertad (2012; ITLOS). Memberships: Member of the Institute of International Law (IIL); former President, Austrian Branch, International Law Association; Chairman, ILA-Committee on Succession of States; former Member of the Council of the German Society for International Law; Member of the Academic Commission of the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna; Member, American Society of International Law; Member, Société française pour le droit international; Member, Austrian Society for European Law; Member of the Committee of Publishers, Austrian Review of International and European Law; former Member of the International Law Commission of the United Nations (ILC); Member of the Governing Board and of the Executive Committee of the European Studies Institute (Moscow). Fields of specific expertise: International Law for the prevention of transboundary damage and liability; Peaceful settlement of disputes; Codification of International Law; European Law; Law of Neutrality; Territorial aspects of International Law; Succession of States; International Criminal Law, Law of the Sea, State Immunity, Use of Force. Braungasse 38, A-1170 Wien (Austria); E-mail: [email protected]. Prof. MMag Dr. AUGUST REINISCH LL.M., Head of the Section of International Law and International Relations, University of Vienna; Deputy Head of the Department of European, International and Comparative Law at the University of Vienna; Professor of International and European Law at the University of Vienna (since 1998); Member of the International Law Commission of the United Nations for the quinquennium 2017-2021; Member of the Panels of Conciliators and of Arbitrators maintained by the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID); Adjunct Professor at the Bologna Center of The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies/Johns Hopkins University in Bologna, Italy (1999 to 2010); Visiting Professorships among others at the University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne (2018); the Institut des Hautes Etudes Internationales at the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas, France (2008); University of Bologna in Bologna/Italy (2016); the University of Sydney, Australia (2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015). Memberships: Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS); American Bar Association (ABA); American Society of International Law (ASIL); Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationales Recht (German Society of International Law), member of the Governing Council since 2005, of the Executive Board (2013-2019), President (2017-2019); European Communities Studies Association (ECSA); European Society of International Law (ESIL), member of the Executive Board (2008-2014); Member of the Institute of International Law (IIL); International Law Association (ILA, member of the former Committees on Accountability of International Organizations and on International Law on Foreign Investment, member of the Study Group on State Insolvency und Rapporteur of the Study Group on the Role of Soft-Law Instruments in International Investment Law), President of the Austrian Branch since 2008; O ̈sterreichischer Vo ̈lkerrechtstag (Austrian International Lawyers’ Association); State of Connecticut Bar, State of New York Bar; Member of the Austrian delegation to the Sixth Committee (Legal) of the General Assembly of the United Nations (2012-2016); Arbitrator on the In Rem Restitution Panel according to the Austrian General Settlement Fund Law, Vienna (since 2001). Fields of specific expertise: Investment Law (indirect expropriation, fair and equitable treatment and other standards of investment protection); International Economic Law (Extraterritoriality, economic sanctions, WTO dispute settlement); The Law of International Organizations (Responsibility of International Organizations); State Responsibility (State of Necessity); Arbitration (Investment Arbitration); European Law (External Trade, EC and WTO); International Economic Law; The Law of International Organizations; State Responsibility; Arbitration. Department of European, International and Comparative Law; Section of International Law and International Relations, University of Vienna, Schottenbastei 10-16, A-1010 Wien (Austria), Tel.: +43 1 4277 35307, Fax: +43 1 4277/9353; E-mail: [email protected].

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Prof. Dr. DDr. h.c. WOLFGANG BENEDEK, Professor for International Law and International Relations at the University of Graz (1990- 2017); 2000-2016 (Co-)Director of the European Training and Research Centre for Human Rights and Democracy of University of Graz (UNI-ETC); long-time Lecturer at Diplomatic Academy Vienna and at the European MA Programme on Human Rights and Democratization in Venice and Sarajevo; 1989-92 Advisor to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights in Banjul, Gambia; since 1993 Chair (of Board) of World University Service (WUS) Austria with large programmes for the reconstruction of universities and the establishment of

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human rights centres at universities in the Balkans. Leader of several research and cooperation projects in the field of internet governance, human security, migration and human rights. Expert services for Council of Europe, European Union and OSCE. Memberships: 2000-2012, Member of the Human Rights Advisory Board of the Austrian Federal Ministry of the Interior; since 2007 Chair/Member of the Human Rights Advisory Board of the city of Graz (Austria); Chair of Media Appeals Board of Independent Media Commission of Kosovo (2005-2011); Member of the Enforcement Panel of Communication Regulation Agency in Sarajevo (1999-2004). Member of the Council of the German Society of International Law. Fields of specific expertise: International and regional human rights, women and human rights, terrorism and human rights, globalisation and human rights, human rights education, international economic organisations and global governance, human security, asylum and migration, information society and human rights. Department of International Law, University of Graz, Universitätsstraße 15 A/4, A-8010 Graz (Austria), Tel.: +43 316 380 – 3418; E-mail: [email protected]. Prof. Dr. URSULA KRIEBAUM, Professor of International Law at the University of Vienna (since 2011); Professorial Lecturer at the Loyola University New Orleans College of Law Summer Legal Studies Program (since 2008); Lecturer at the Sommerhochschule of the University of Vienna in Strobl (International Investment Law and Arbitration); Visiting Professor at the University Paris II Panthe ́on-Assas in Paris (« Le droit de l’investissement contemporain. ») (2017); Legal expert in various investment arbitrations and human rights cases; Alternate Member of the Court of Conciliation and Arbitration within the OSCE (since 2013); Consultant of the National Fund for Victims of National Socialism of the Republic of Austria (since 2001); Member of the Austrian Human Rights Advisory Board nominated by Amnesty International (July 1999 – June 2002); Legal Advisor’s Office at the Austrian Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs (2000 – 2001); Member of the team of the Special envoy for restitution issues for the Austrian Holocaust Restitution Negotiations 2000/2001; Austrian Delegate to the Preparatory Commission for the International Criminal Court (July 2002 Session). Memberships: Member, International Law Association (ILA, former Secretary and Treasurer of the Austrian Branch, member of the Committee on the Rule of Law and International Investment Law, member of the executive board of the Austrian Branch since 2007); Member, European Society of International Law; Member, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationales Recht (German Society of International Law) Member, O ̈ sterreichischer Vo ̈lkerrechtstag (Austrian International Lawyers’ Association); Austrian Arbitration Association. Fields of specific expertise: international protection of human rights; international investment law (expropriation, standards of investment protection, human rights and foreign investments); Arbitration (Investment Arbitration, business and human rights arbitration); expropriation in international law; restitution of property dispossessed during the Nazi-Regime; implementation of international human rights obligations in domestic law. Department of European Law, International and Comparative Law, Section of International Law and International Relations, University of Vienna, Schottenbastei 10-16, A-1010 Wien (Austria), Tel.: +43 1 4277 35308, Fax: +43 1 4277 835308, E-mail: [email protected].

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Bahrain Bahreïn Prof. JAN PAULSSON, Partner, Three Crowns LLC 07 – 07 - 2008 10 – 05 - 2017

Prof. NASSIB G. ZIADÉ is the Chief Executive Officer of the Bahrain Chamber for Dispute Resolution (BCDR-AAA) and the General Editor of the BCDR International Arbitration Review. Previously, he served as Director of the Dubai International Arbitration Centre (DIAC), as Deputy Secretary-General (and Acting Secretary-General) of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and Editor-in-Chief of the ICSID Review – Foreign Investment Law Journal, and as Executive Secretary of the World Bank Administrative Tribunal. He has also acted as co-arbitrator or chair in numerous ad hoc and institutional arbitrations in commercial, construction and investment matters. He is a Vice-Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (CRCICA), a member of the International Advisory Committee of the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR/AAA), and a former member of the Court of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA). He is a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA), a member of the Panels of Arbitrators and Conciliators of ICSID, and a Council member of the International Federation of Commercial Arbitration Institutions (IFCAI). He has published extensively in the fields of international law and arbitration law and is a frequent speaker at international conferences on a wide range of legal topics. He has taught at the University of Miami School of Law, at

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the Law Faculty of the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, at the Law Faculty of the Saint-Joseph University in Lebanon and Dubai, at the Hague Academy of International Law, and at the Paris Academy for International Law. He is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge, a member of the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law, and a member of the editorial advisory committees of several law journals.

Mr. DEVASHISH KRISHAN, Legal Advisor, Court of HRH Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Crown Prince, Deputy Commander of the Bahrain Defense Forces and First Deputy Prime Minister.

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Ms. NAJAH ALI RASHID, Counselor, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kingdom of Bahrain. 10 – 05 - 2017

Bangladesh Bangladesh Justice MD. TOFAZZAL ISLAM is a former Chief Justice of Bangladesh. While a Judge of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh, Justice Islam also held the Office of Chairman of the Enrolment Committee of the Bangladesh Bar Council from 2004 to 2008 responsible for selecting the lawyers entitled to practice in the District Courts and then in the Supreme Court. He then held the Office of the Chairman of the Bangladesh Judicial Service Commission from 2008 to 2009 responsible for selecting the Assistant Judges and the Judicial Magistrates for the District Courts. Justice Islam was the principal author of several landmark judgements laying the foundations for the development of Constitutional Laws and setting significant precedents, which includes the judgments on repeal of the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution of Bangladesh, enlarging the powers of the Supreme Court under the Companies Act 1994 in protecting the interests of minority shareholders, and reversing the decision of the High Court Division of the Supreme Court in allowing the construction of markets in violation of the provisions of environmental laws. Justice Islam did his Bachelor of Arts (Honours) and Master of Arts in History from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh and also completed L.L.B there. He then went to the UK for further education and was called to the Bar of England and Wales from the Hon’ble Society of Lincoln’s Inn in 1967. Justice Islam was then enrolled as an advocate of the High Court of the then East Pakistan (presently Bangladesh) in 1969 and in 1980, he became an advocate in the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh. During that period, Justice Islam had been actively associated with the teaching profession and was an Adjunct Faculty in the City Law College, Dhaka teaching Transfer of Property Act and Equity & Trust, and he also taught Corporate Laws at the Institute of Business Administration, University of Dhaka and an Examiner of Law in the University of Dhaka and as a Member of the Corporate Laws Commission of Bangladesh, he actively participated in the drafting of the Bank Companies Act 1991 and the Companies Act 1994. Justice Islam attended SAARC Law Conference in Bengaluru, India and also in Colombo, Sri Lanka. He also attended Common Law Judiciary Conference in Sydney, Common Law Conference in Melbourne, Anti-Terrorism Conference in Malta and Conference of Heads of Judiciary in Tehran, Iran. Contact: +88-02-55033515; +88-01552349062; [email protected].

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Justice MD. AWLAD ALI is a former Justice of the High Court Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh. He was appointed as a Judge to the High Court Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh on 23 February 1997. He retired from the High Court Division on 24 January 2008. Presently, he serves as Chairman of Arbitral Tribunal and member of several Tribunals. Mr. Md. Awlad Ali was enrolled as a pleader under the High Court of Judicature of the then East Pakistan (presently Bangladesh) in 1965. He became a member of Dhaka District Bar Association in January 1966. He was enrolled as an Advocate of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh and became member of the Supreme Court Bar Association in March 1973. He was enrolled as a Senior Advocate of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh in December 1994 (certificate of granted in January 1995). Mr. Md. Awlad Ali started dealing with the arbitration cases since 1969. During his professional career, Mr. Md. Awlad Ali conducted good number of commercial arbitration cases as a lawyer of the contesting parties including an arbitration case of a London-based shipping company Alam Maritime. He was a sole Arbitrator in the arbitration cases of the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh. After retirement from the High Court Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh in January 2008, Justice Md. Awlad Ali again entered into the arbitration jurisdiction both in international and domestic commercial arbitration and disposed of many cases being the Chairman of the Arbitral Tribunal. He also served as a member of the Tribunal in some other cases. In the recent past, some of the international commercial arbitration cases disposed of by the Arbitral Tribunal of which he was the

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Chairman. The list of the cases include Young Sung Co. Ltd., a company of the Republic of Korea VS. Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCCI); Crystal Inc., a company of the Republic of Korea VS. BCCI; Autoen Company Ltd., a company of the Republic of Korea VS. BCCI; HRBC (a Chinese company) INTRACO (BD) Joint Venture VS. Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh represented by Chief Engineer, Roads & Highways Department, Ministry of Road Transport and Bridges; Jamuna Builders Ltd. (Jamuna Future Park) VS. Dunhum Bush Industries SDN. Bhd., a Malaysian company (as a member of the Tribunal). Justice Md. Awlad Ali completed his matriculation in 1957 and obtained Bachelor of Arts degree in 1962 from Rajshahi University of Bangladesh. He obtained L.L.B. in 1965 and Master of Arts in Political Science in 1966 from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Justice Md. Awlad Ali was born on 27 January 1941. Contact: +88-02-9331116; +8801552330553; [email protected]

Prof. Dr. PAYAM AKHAVAN LL.M., S.J.D. (Harvard), Professor of International Law, McGill University, Montreal, Canada; member of the Law Society of Upper Canada; member of the New York State Bar; member of the American Society of International Law; member of the Honourary Council of the International Law Students Association; counsel and advocate before the International Court of Justice, the Permanent Court of Arbitration, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, the International Criminal Court, the European Court of Human Rights, the Supreme Court of Canada, and the Supreme Court of the USA. Academic appointments: Associate Professor, McGill University, 2006-present; Visiting Fellow, Oxford University, 2014-16; Visiting Professor, Universite ́ de Paris Ouest (Nanterre la De ́fense), 2015; Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow, European University Institute, 2013-14; Visiting Professor, Institut d’études politiques de Paris, 2012; Boulton Senior Fellow, McGill University, 2005-2006; Senior Fellow, Yale Law School, 2003-2005; Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Toronto, 2002; Senior Fellow, Leiden University, 2000-2001; Visiting Lecturer, Yale Law School, 1998. Professional Appointments: Associate, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, New York, 2001-2002; Legal Advisor, Office of the Prosecutor, International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, The Hague, 1994-2000; Human Rights Officer, UN Centre for Human Rights, Geneva, 1993-1994. Contact details: McGill University, Faculty of Law, New Chancellor Day Hall, 3644 Peel Street, Room 614, Montreal Quebec; Canada H3A 1W9; Tel: +1-514-398-8232; e-mail: [email protected]

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Justice MOHAMMAD ABDUR RASHID. Enrolled at the Mymensingh District Bar in 1969 and then in 1976 at the Supreme Court Bar Association, Bangladesh; Former Judge of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh (1999-2009); Former Chairman of the Bangladesh Law Commission (2009-October 2010); Former Chairman, the Disciplinary Panel, Bangladesh Cricket Board (2013-2018). Conducted many arbitrations since. Author of various publications. Tel.: +8802 9359071; +8801711 529307; e-mail: [email protected].

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Belarus Bélarus Mr. IGOR V. FISSENKO, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the French Republic (resident) and the Kingdom of Spain (nonresident); Director General of the Directorate General for Consular Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus (2013 – 2019), Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Belarus to the Arab Republic of Egypt (resident), the Republic of the Sudan, the Sultanate of Oman and the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria (nonresident) and Permanent Representative to the League of Arab States (2008-2013). Obtained his degree in Law from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (1993) and his Ph.D. in Law from the Belarusian State University (1996). 38, Boulevard Suchet, 75016 Paris, France, Tel.: +33 1 44 14 69 79, 44 14 69 75; E-mail: [email protected].

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Mr. MIKHAIL M. KHVOSTOV, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Belarus to the United Nations Office and other International Organizations in Geneva, former Minister for Foreign Affairs, former Ambassador to the United States of America, former Ambassador to Canada, former Representative to ICAO. Specializations: international law, international economic law, international organizations, diplomatic and consular law, treaty law. Contact details : Avenue de la Paix, 15, 1202 Geneva, Switzerland ; tel. : + 41 22 748 24 50 ; fax : +41 22 748 24 51 ; e-mail : [email protected].

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Ms. OLGA G. SERGEEVA, Judge of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Belarus (2008-2012; 2017-present), Deputy Chairperson of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Belarus (2012-2017), Head of the Legal and Governance Directorate-General of the

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Administration of the President of the Republic of Belarus (2001-2008), Deputy Minister of Justice of the Republic of Belarus (1998-2001). Specializes in international law, constitutional law and international commercial law. 4 Krasnoarmeyskaya str., 220016, Minsk, Republic of Belarus; Tel.: +375 17 327 80 12; +375 17 327 52 09; E-mail: [email protected]. Mr. YURI KOBETS, Deputy Chairperson of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Belarus (2018-present); Chairperson of Minsk Commercial Court (2015-2018); Judge (2009-2010) and Deputy Chairperson (2010-2015) of Minsk Regional Court; Chairperson of Borisov Regional Court (2007-2009); Deputy Chairperson of Borisov Regional Court (2002-2007); Judge (1997-2001) and Deputy Chairperson of Borisov Court (2001-2002). Contact details: 28 Lenina street, 220030 Minsk, Republic of Belarus; tel.: +375 17 226 12 06; +375 17 3271225; email: [email protected].

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Canada Canada Justice ANDROMACHE KARAKATSANIS was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada in October 2011. She had been appointed a judge of the Court of Appeal for Ontario in March 2010 and a judge of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in December 2002. Justice Karakatsanis is a graduate of the University of Toronto and Osgoode Hall Law School. Following her call to the Bar in 1982, Andromache Karakatsanis served as a law clerk to the Ontario Court of Appeal. In private practice, she practised criminal, civil and family litigation in Toronto for several years. She then served in the Ontario Public Service for 15 years in a number of senior positions. During her career in public service, Andromache Karakatsanis served as Chair and Chief Executive Officer of the Liquor Licence Board of Ontario (1988-95); as Assistant Deputy Attorney General and Secretary for Native Affairs (1995-97); and as Deputy Attorney General (1997-2000). Andromache Karakatsanis served as Ontario's Secretary of the Cabinet and Clerk of the Executive Council from July 2000 to November 2002. As the province's senior public servant, she provided leadership to the Ontario Public Service and to the deputy ministers. While in the public service, Justice Karakatsanis was actively involved in issues related to education and reform in the field of administrative justice. She was a recipient of the Society of Ontario Adjudicators and Regulators (SOAR) Medal in 1996 for outstanding service to Ontario's administrative justice system. Justice Karakatsanis volunteered extensively with the YMCA of Greater Toronto from 1990 to 2002 and held a number of senior positions, including that of Chair of the Board of Directors. She also served as a member of the Board of the Public Policy Forum and of Canadian Policy and Research Networks (CPRN).

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Mr. HUGH ADSETT is the Legal Adviser and Director General of the Legal Affairs Bureau of Global Affairs Canada (September 2016 - present). He was previously the Deputy Legal Adviser of the Legal Affairs Bureau (2013-16). Mr. Adsett graduated from Queen's University with an LL.B in 1993. Following his call to the Bar he worked as a human rights field officer in Cyangugu, Rwanda, with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in 1995. Upon his return to Canada, he joined the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada, where he had assignments in Ottawa in the Peacebuilding Division (1996-97), Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Division (1998 and 2000-02) , and the Environmental Law Division (2002-04). From 1998-2000, he was posted to the Embassy of Canada to Ethiopia as Second Secretary, with accreditation to Sudan, Eritrea and Djibouti. From 2004-2008, he was Counsellor (Legal, Economic and Social Affairs) at the Permanent Mission of Canada to the United Nations in New York, where his responsibilities included representing Canada on the Sixth (Legal) Committee of the United Nations, and chairing the Management Committee of the Special Court for Sierra Leone. Mr. Adsett served as Director of the Criminal, Security and Diplomatic Law Division (2008-11) and Director of the United Nations, Human Rights and Economic Law Division (2011-13). In 2011, he was elected to the International Criminal Court Committee on Budget and Finance for the 2012-14 term, and re-elected in 2013 for the 2014-17 term. He was a lecturer in Advanced International Law at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law, each Fall from 2010 to 2013, and a lecturer in International Human Rights Law at Queen's University, Faculty of Law, every June from 2009 until now. Mr. Adsett was a recipient of the Deputy Minister's Award of Excellence (2015); the Minister's Citation for Foreign Policy Excellence (2001) and the Zaire Crisis Merit Award (1996).

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Chile Chili Ambassador MARÍA TERESA INFANTE CAFFI studied at the University of Chile and at the Graduate Institute of International Studies of Geneva; has been an intern in The Hague

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Academy of International Law and taught at the External Programme of the Academy in 1991 and 2011; visiting professor at CEDIN, Belo Horizonte, Brazil; University Jaume I, Castellón; Catholic University of Lima and national University of Córdoba, Argentina; is a professor of the University of Chile and teaches at the Diplomatic Academy of Chile; has been Director of the Institute of International Studies of the University of Chile till 1995 and Director of its Graduate Program; Co-director of the Master’s Programme in International Law jointly offered by the University of Heidelberg and University of Chile; Delegate to the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea and Antarctic Consultative Meetings; Member of the Institute of International Law; Appointed Director of Frontiers and Limits of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1997; and co-agent to the International Court of Chile in the case Peru v. Chile, 2008. Dirección Nacional de Fronteras y Límites del Estado, Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, Teatinos 180, Santiago, Chile; tel.: +56 2 2827 5065, fax.: +56 2 2381 0179, e-mail: [email protected]. Ms. CAROLINA VALDIVIA TORRES holds a Law degree from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and a Master's Degree in Law and Economics from the lnstituto Ortega y Gasset - Universidad Complutense in Madrid. Before her appoint appointment as Foreign Affairs Undersecretary (2018 - ), she served as the Legal Adviser of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Previously, she served as the Executive Coordinator of the Office of the Agent of Chile before the International Court of Justice, for the case concerning Obligation to Negotiate Access to the Pacific Ocean (Bolivia v. Chile). Ms. Valdivia has had several academic works published. She is a visiting professor of Public International Law at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and a member of the Chilean Society of International Law and the American Society of International Law.

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Mr. FELIPE BULNES SERRANO holds a Law degree from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and a Master of Laws from Harvard University . He has been Agent before the International Court of Justice (2013-2015), and Chilean Ambassador to the United States (2012-2014). Previously, he was Minister of Education (2011), as well as Minister of Justice (2010 - 2011). Currently, Mr. Bulnes is an Arbitrator at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, and member of the arbitration body of the Arbitration and Mediation Centre of the Santiago Chamber of Commerce. Also, he is the Director of the Chilean Council for International Relations. Mr. Bulnes is also the recipient of a Doctor Honoris Causa from Chatham University in Pennsylvania.

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Ambassador HERNÁN SALINAS BURGOS holds a Law degree from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, and a Master's Degree in International Law from Universidad de Chile. Master of Laws from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Professor of International Law at the University of Chile and Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. Ambassador Salinas served as the Director of Legal Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chile between 2010 and 2014. Member of the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission on the 1977 Protocol I Addition to the Geneva Convention of 1949 (1997-2002). Former President of the United Nations General Assembly Sixth Committee (2011). Member of the Inter-American Juridical Committee of the Organization of American States (2014-2018) and its Former President (2017-2018). Permanent Representative of Chile to the Organization of American States (from 2018 onwards). He has been member of the defence teams of Chile before the International Court of Justice, in the cases concerning the Maritime Dispute (Peru v. Chile), and Obligation to Negotiate Access to the Pacific Ocean (Bolivia v. Chile). Member and former President of the Chilean Society of International Law.

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People’s Republic République populaire of China de Chine

Madam XUE HANQIN, member of the International Court of Justice (2010); former member of the International Law Commission (2002 2010); former Legal Adviser of the Chinese Foreign Ministry; former Ambassador of the People's Republic of China to ASEAN, former Ambassador of the People's Republic of China to the Netherlands, former Permanent Representative of the People's Republic of China to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons; former President of the Asian Society of International Law; associate member, member of Institute de Droit International (2005, 2009). Peace Palace, Carnegieplein 2, 2517 KJ The Hague, The Netherlands; fax: +31 70 3022409; e mail: h.xue@icj cij.org.

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Mr. LIU ZHENMIN, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs; former Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the People’s Republic of China to the United Nations Office at Geneva and other International Organizations in Switzerland; Associate Member of Institute de Droit International; Consultant to Chinese Society of International Law; Arbitrator of China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission; Council Member of Environmental Law Institute of China Law Society; Council Member of China Ocean Mineral Resources R&D Association; Council Member of Chinese Society of the Law of the Sea; Member of China Council for the Promotion of International Trade. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 2 Chao Yang Men Nan Da Jie, Beijing 100701, People’s Republic of China; fax: +86 10 65963209.

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Mr. LIU DAQUN, Judge in the Appeals Chamber of the International Tribunals for former Yugoslavia and Rwanda; Judge of the United Nations Residual Mechanism of International Tribunals; former Ambassador of People’s Republic of China to Jamaica; Member of the Institute de Droit International; Executive Member of Chinese Society of International Law; Executive Member of Chinese Society of Environmental Law; former Vice President of Asian Society of International Law. Churchillplein 1, 2517 JW, P.O.Box 13888, EW, The Hague, The Netherlands; tel: 0031 70 512 5089; fax: +31 70 512 5252.

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Mr. HUANG JIN, Professor of International Law and President of the China University of Political Science and Law. He also serves as Vice President of the China Law Society, President of the China Society of Private International Law, Vice President of the Chinese Society of International Law, Vice President of the China Academy of Arbitration Law and Vice President of the Chinese Judicial Studies Association. His academic specialties include private international law, international commercial arbitration, state immunity, international commercial law, inter-regional conflict of laws, Chinese law and comparative law. Professor Huang is Editor-in-Chief of The Chinese Yearbook of Private International Lmv and Comparative Law and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of The Chinese Journal of International Law (Oxford). He is also a member of the Advisory Board of The Yearbook of Private International Law (sellier.elp). In addition, he has served as Guest Professor at Universitat des Saarlandes in Germany in 2000, Visiting Fulbright Scholar at Yale Law School in 1993-94, Visiting Scholar at the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, Lausanne, in 1986-87, an attendee at The Hague Academy of International Law in 1986, an arbitrator of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), the ICSID and the CIETAC. Address: China University of Political Science and Law, 27 Fuxue Road, Changping District, Beijing 102249, China; Tel. 0086-10-89709011; Fax: 0086-10-89709830; e-mail: [email protected]

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Colombia Colombie Mr. RICARDO ABELLO GALVIS, International Law Professor at the Universidad del Rosario, as well as at some other universities in Colombia and overseas, in areas such as Public International law, Theory of International Law, the Law and Practice of the International Court of Justice, among others. Agent for Colombia before the Inter-American Court of Human Rig*mandhts. Law Degree from Universidad del Rosario Bogota and Master on International Law and International Relations from the Institute de Hautes Etudes Internationales, Geneva. Cra. 19 A No. 86 A-61 apto. 705; Bogotá, DC, Colombia. Tel: +57 310 871 2079; E-mail: [email protected].

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Mr. GUILLERMO FERNÁNDEZ DE SOTO, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Colombia to the United Nations and President of the United Nations Peace-Building Commission. Former Minister of Foreign Affairs; Acting President of Colombia on several occasions; former President of the Chamber of Commerce of Bogotá and member of the Board of the Paris Chamber of Commerce; former Secretary-General of the Andean Community of Nations (CAN); former member and President of the Inter-American Juridical Committee; former Ambassador to the Netherlands and Co-Agent of Colombia before the International Court of Justice; former Representative for Europe of the Development Bank of Latin America. Doctor in juridical and economic sciences, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogotá). 140 East 57th Street, New York, N.Y. 10022; Tel.: +1 212 355 7776; E-mail: [email protected].

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Mr. EDUARDO SILVA ROMERO, Counsel and arbitrator, currently Co-chair of international arbitration practice at Dechert LLP. Lecturer on international contract law and investment arbitration at the Institute of Political Studies in Paris (Sciences Po) and professor on national and international arbitration at the University of Paris/Dauphine

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(Paris IX). Lecturer at the Hague Academy of International Law (Legal fictions in the language of international arbitration, 2019). Emeritus professor at the Universidad del Rosario (Bogotá). Specialist in international private law and comparative law and Doctor in Philosophy of the Law from the University of Panteon Assas (Paris II). 32 rue de Monceau; 75008 Paris, France. Tel.: +33 1 57 57 80 14; +33 6 09 71 77 72; E-mail: [email protected].

Costa Rica Costa Rica Dr. RODOLFO PIZA ROCAFORT holds a PhD and a Specialist Degree in Human Rights by the Universidad Complutense of Madrid, and a Diploma in International Politics by the Society of International Studies of Madrid, as well as a Specialty in Labor Law by the Universidad de Salamanca Foundation (Spain), after obtaining his degree as Licensed Attorney by the University of Costa Rica. He has been a member of the Costa Rican Bar Association since 1983 and was also a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration between 2002 and 2010. He was Vice President of the Ibero-American Center of Human Rights in Madrid and a member of the Institute Hispano Luso Americano de Derecho Internacional as well as the Academia de Centroamérica (for Economic Studies). Besides practicing his profession as Lawyer and consultant, he has served as Professor of International Human Rights, Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Jurisprudence and Labor Law, and held the position of Chancellor and Director of Graduate Studies at the Universidad Autónoma de Centroamérica. He also was Professor of Constitutional Law (Master) at the Universidad Estatal a Distancia. Other relevant posts include Deputy Chief of Mission of Costa Rica before the Organization of the United Nations; Director of the Government Reform Program at Costa Rica's Ministry of Planning and Development; Executive President of the Costa Rican Social Security Institute; Coordinator of the Presidential Commission for Political Reform; Deputy Magistrate of the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice in Costa Rica, and Minister of the Presidency (member of the Cabinet) during Costa Rica's current Administration. At present he holds the post of Coordinator of Observatory of Democracy at the Organization of American States (OAS). Contact details: Inigo's Crossing, 5405 Tuckerman Lane, Apt A-556, North Bethesda, MD 20852, United States; Tel.: +1 (202) 812-3058 /+506 8881-5016; E-mail: [email protected].

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Amb. MONSERRAT SOLANO CARBONI, Costa Rican Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Costa Rica to the Organization of American States (OAS). She has a long and varied career in international human rights law and international criminal law. She holds an LLM in International Human Rights Law from the University of Essex. Former Head of the National Human Rights Institution of Costa Rica (Defensoría de los Habitantes de la República), she was named Secretary of the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI). She previously worked for different international organizations such as the Inter-American Institute for Human Rights and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Former analyst at the International Criminal Court, she also worked at the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala. She has served at different NGOs such as the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), Due Process of Law Foundation (DPLF), Instituto de Prensa y Libertad de expression (IPLEX) and Reporters without borders (RSF). As a journalist, she worked for La Nación, the main Costa Rican newspaper. During the past five years, she has been recognized by Forbes as one of the most influential Central American women. In 2016 she was granted the Franco-German Prize for Human Rights and the Rule of Law. She is fluent in French, English and Spanish. Contact details: Permanent Mission of Costa Rica before the OAS, 2112 S Street NW, Washington DC, 20008, United States; Tel.: + 1 (202) 908-8920 /+ 506 2271-1664; e-mail: [email protected]

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Mr. ARNOLDO BRENES CASTRO holds a degree as Licensed Attorney from the University of Costa Rica (1991) and an M.A in Theory and Practice of Human Rights from the University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom (1994). He has also undertaken an ‘Advanced Program on Human Rights’ by the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of the University of Lund, Sweden (1996); a ‘Training for Civilians on Defense Policy’ by the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico and the Torcuato di Tella University of Argentina (1999); seminars on ‘Defense Planning and Resource Management’ (2000) and ‘lnteragency Coordination and Counterterrorism’ (2004) imparted by the Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies of the National Defense University at Washington D.C..; an International Cycle on ‘Europe and Globalization’ imparted by the National Administration School from Paris, France (2005); and a course on ‘Conflict Prevention and Cooperation in Water

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Management in Latin America’ sponsored by UNESCO's International Hydrological Programme at Dominican Republic (2011), among other courses. His academic experience includes serving as Professor at the Master's Program on Human Rights and Peace Education at the United Nations University for Peace based at San José, Costa Rica (1999-2001) as well as Professor for the Center for International Sustainable Human Development/Universidad Latina for the course on ‘Human Rights in Latin America’ (2007-2013). Mr. Brenes has served as Advisor to the Ministers of Foreign Affairs since 2000, and through his work at Costa Rica's Foreign Ministry has specialized in international litigations and International Public Law, serving as Counsel and Advocate for Costa Rica in the five cases against Nicaragua heard by the International Court of Justice between 2005 and 2018: ‘Dispute regarding Navigational and Related Rights’ (Costa Rica v. Nicaragua), ‘Certain Activities Carried Out by Nicaragua in the Border Area’ (Costa Rica v. Nicaragua)’, ‘Construction of a Road in Costa Rica along the San Juan River’ (Nicaragua v. Costa Rica)’,’Maritime Delimitation in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean (Costa Rica v. Nicaragua)’, and ‘Land Boundary in the Northern Part of Isla Portillos’ (Costa Rica v. Nicaragua), as well as in the ‘Application for Permission to Intervene by Costa Rica in the case Territorial and Maritime Dispute’ (Nicaragua v. Colombia). Since 2009 he has served as Coordinator of the Commission for Extension of the External Limits of Costa Rica's Continental Shelf and also was the head of the Costa Rican delegation that negotiated the 2014 Agreement between the Republic of Costa Rica and the Republic of Ecuador on Maritime Delimitation. Mr. Brenes also participated in the maritime border negotiations with Nicaragua that took place between 2002 and 2005, as well as in several binational and multilateral negotiation meetings on different subjects. Contact details: P.O. Box 7515-1000 San José, Costa Rica; tel. +506 8872-3312; email: [email protected]. Mr. SERGIO UGALDE GODÍNEZ (M. Jur.), Adjunct Professor of International Law at the United Nations mandated University for Peace, Magister Juris in European and Comparative Law from the University of Oxford. Chair of the International Law Commission at Costa Rica's Foreign Ministry since 2002, Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) from 2006 to 2019. Appeared before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) as Counsel and Advocate for Costa Rica in ‘Dispute regarding Navigational and Related Rights’ (Costa Rica v. Nicaragua) (2005-2009), and in ‘Application for Permission to Intervene by Costa Rica in the case Territorial and Maritime Dispute’ (Nicaragua v. Colombia) (2009-2011). Also appointed Co-Agent, Counsel and Advocate by Costa Rica before the ICJ in the cases ‘Certain Activities Carried Out by Nicaragua in the Border Area’ (Costa Rica v. Nicaragua), ‘Construction of a Road in Costa Rica along the San Juan River’ (Nicaragua v. Costa Rica) (2010-2015), ‘Maritime Delimitation in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean (Costa Rica v. Nicaragua)’, and ‘Land Boundary in the Northern Part of Isla Portillos (Costa Rica v. Nicaragua)’ (2014-2018). He advised his country on the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and on the Central American Court of Justice. Representing Costa Rica, he negotiated a Host Country Agreement with the PCA, establishing the first ever facility of the PCA outside the Hague, in Costa Rica. He has served his country on over 40 occasions as SM Ambassador for legal, diplomatic, international cooperation and security affairs. He has headed several negotiations involving issues of international law. He taught at the University of Costa Rica about the Inter-American Human Rights System. He lectured at The Hague Academy of International Law summer courses program in three occasions on international litigation (2016-2017-2018) and has written several articles on international security and international law. He has also lectured about international diplomacy and about the International Criminal Court. From 2014 to 2018, Mr.Ugalde was appointed Costa Rica's Ambassador to The Kingdom of the Netherlands and Permanent Representative to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), where he served as Vice-Chair to the 20th Conference of States Parties (2015). He was also Governor at the United Nations sponsored Common Fund for Commodities, based in Amsterdam (2014-2018), and Representative to the Hague Conference on Private International Law (2014-2018). He served as Costa Rica's Representative to the Assembly of States Parties to the International Criminal Court (ICC) (2014-2018) and was appointed Vice-president of the Assembly of States Parties and Chair to The Hague Working Group on the International Criminal Court between 2016 and 2017. As acting President to the XVI Assembly of States Parties of the ICC in New York, he played a significant role in the activation of the ICC's jurisdiction over the Crime of Aggression by the consensus of 123 State Parties. He is a member of the Costa Rican Bar, an international member of the American Bar Association, and a member of the International Law Association in London. Contact details: Edificio Nexus, Blvd. Dent, 75 mts sur de AM-PM, San Pedro, San José, Costa Rica. Tel.: + 44 7485 193989, E-mail:

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[email protected].

Croatia Croatie Professor Dr. NINA VAJIĆ LLM, PhD (Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb); Diploma Program Graduate Institute of International Studies (Institut universitaire de Hautes Etudes Internationales – IUHEI), Geneva, Switzerland; Professor of Public International Law and Human Rights Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb; Chair of the Administrative Tribunal of the Council of Europe – ATCE (2018-); Member and Chair of the Council of Europe Advisory Panel of Experts on Candidates for election as Judge to the European Court of Human Rights (2013-2019); Chair of the Commission for the Control of INTERPOL’s Files – CCF (2014-2017); expert for the Council of Europe HELP (Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals) programme in Serbia (2013-2014); former Judge and Section President at the European Court of Human Rights (1998-2012). Tel.: +385 1 46 66 664.

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Ms. ANDREJA METELKO-ZGOMBIĆ is the State Secretary for European Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Republic of Croatia. Prior to assuming this position in 2017, Metelko-Zgombić held several prominent posts at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, including Chief Legal Adviser and Assistant Minister for European Law, International Law and Consular Affairs. Metelko-Zgombić served as Co-agent of the Republic of Croatia in the Border arbitration with the Republic of Slovenia; as Co-agent of the Republic of Croatia against the Republic of Serbia for genocide before the International Court of Justice; as Representative of the Government of the Republic of Croatia presenting the views in the Advisory Proceedings of the International Court of Justice on the legitimacy of the act declaring the independence of Kosovo; as Representative of the Government of the Republic of Croatia before the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg in the preliminary proceedings (authorization of notary publics in enforcement procedures) and conducted talks in a series of bilateral negotiations and expert talks related to borders (Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia). Andreja Metelko-Zgombić is also the Senior Representative of the Republic of Croatia on the Standing Joint Committee on Succession Issues and the President of the Commission of the Government of the Republic of Croatia for Borders. She holds a law degree from the University of Zagreb. Tel.: +38512569968; E-mail: [email protected].

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Professor HRVOJE SIKIRIĆ, Ph.D Professor Dr. Hrvoje Sikiric, Professor of Private International Law at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law. Head of and full professor tenure at the Department of Private International Law. Courses taught: Private International Law, European Private International Law, Settlement of Disputes through Arbitration and Mediation - at the Integrated study programme in law (in Croatian and English). Private International Law - General part/Special part, European Private International Law, European International Procedural Law International Commercial Arbitration - at the Postgraduate studies (Master and Doctoral studies) (in Croatian). UNCITRAL Chair (2012-2013) and Chair of the 45th UNCITRAL Session (2012); Delegate of the Republic of Croatia to UNCITRAL WG II - Arbitration and Conciliation/Dispute settlement and WG III - Investor-State Dispute Settlement Reform. President of the Permanent Arbitration Court at the Croatian Chamber of Economy. Member of the ICSID Panel of Arbitrators. Member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration (2014-2018); Member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR; Member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR (ICC Croatia); Member of the ICC Central and Eastern European Arbitration Group. Member of the International Advisory Board of the Vienna International Arbitration Centre. Sole Arbitrator and Co-Arbitrator in arbitrations under the Rules of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Croatian Chamber of Economy (Zagreb Rules), Vienna Rules, ICC Rules and UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules (Ad hoc). Member and former President of the Croatian Society of International Law (Croatian Branch of the International Law Association - ILA); Former member of the ILA International Commercial Arbitration Committee. Member of the Croatian Academy of Legal Sciences. Tel. +3851-4895605. E-mail: [email protected].

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Professor DAVORIN LAPAŠ, LL.M. Ph.D, Professor of Public International Law at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law. Full professor tenure at the Department of International Law. Teaching Public International Law, Diplomatic and Consular Law, Law of International Organizations, Human Rights Law, History of International Law - at the Graduate and Postgraduate Study at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb. Teaching Public International Law at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Zagreb

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(Postgraduate Study in International Relations); Public International Law at the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Republic of Croatia and the Diplomatic Academy of the Republic of Montenegro. Membership: Full member of the Croatian Academy of Legal Sciences; Member and Secretary of the Croatian Society of International Law (Croatian Branch of the International Law Association ILA): Member of the ILA Committee on the Procedure of International Courts and Tribunals; Member of the ILA Committee on International Law and Sea Level Rise; 2012-2014 President of the Croatian United Nations Association. 2013-2014 Co-agent of the Republic of Croatia before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Case Concerning Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Croatia v. Serbia). 2012-2014 Member of the Croatian legal team in the Matter of the Arbitration under the Arbitration Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Croatia and the Government of the Republic of Slovenia; 2009-2013 Croatian alternate member of the Court of Conciliation and Arbitration of the OSCE; tel. +385-1-4895624; e-mail: [email protected]

Cyprus Chypre Mr. COSTAS CLERIDES, born in Nicosia in 1952. Studied Law in London. Barrister-at-Law (Middle Temple). Practiced law in Cyprus for 10 years as a partner in the law firm “Lefkos Clerides and Sons”. He joined Bench in 1988 as District Judge and in 1996 he was promoted to Senior District Judge. In 1997 he was promoted to District Court President and served as the President of the Limassol Assize Court, Administrative President of the Larnaca-Famagusta District Court and as Administrative President of the Nicosia-Kyrenia District Court. In 2009, he was appointed Judge of the Supreme Court. In 2013 he was appointed by the President of the Republic of Cyprus to the post of the Attorney General of the Republic, where he served for almost 7 years. During his term of office, he appeared before the Supreme Court in various proceedings of vital importance on behalf of the Republic and on behalf of the President of the Republic and he represented Cyprus before the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague and before the ICSID Arbitration Court in Paris. He has also represented Cyprus in various European and International conferences. He has been awarded an honorary doctorate from Frederick University Cyprus and from UCLAN University UK. Since 2015 he is the President of Nearchos Clerides Cultural Foundation and as from September 2020 a Board Member of A. G. Leventis Foundation. 71 Agiou Meletiou str. Strovolos 2055 Nicosia, Cyprus; Tel: +357 22774996, Email: [email protected].

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Mr. JAMES DROUSHIOTIS, Ambassador a.h., career diplomat and lawyer; former Ambassador to The Netherlands and Egypt; former Permanent Representative to the United Nations and its Specialized Agencies and the WTO, Geneva; former Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, New York; Barrister at Law, Middle Temple; United Nations International Law Fellow; specialized in International law matters: Representative to UN legal committees and human rights bodies, and to UNCITRAL; Representative to UNCLOS III, co-signed the Convention, and to the Vienna Conference on the Law of Treaties (1986); involved in negotiations of EEZ delimitation agreement between Cyprus and Egypt; appeared representing Cyprus before the International Court of Justice in Kosovo Case; Chairman of the EU Legal Committee (COJUR-ICC) during Cyprus’s EU Presidency; President and founder of the non-profit organization, James Foundation, for the promotion of international law, human rights, and the rule of law. Contact details: 29B, Annis Komninis St.,1061 Nicosia, Cyprus; tel.: +357 22 760 766; fax: +357 22 760 799; mob.: +357 99 686 587; email: [email protected]

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Mr. GEORGE EROTOCRITOU, Born in Limassol in 1949. Studied law at Leeds University (LLB). Barrister-at-Law (Middle Temple). Worked for the Ministry of Justice in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), 1977-1979 and practiced law in Cyprus from 1980 until 1986. He joined the Bench in 1986 as District Judge and in 2007 he was appointed Judge of the Supreme Court. Between 2002-2007, he represented Cyprus at the Supervisory Body of Eurojust at the Hague. Co-authored three practitioners´ books “Road Negligence Cases” (1996), “Civil Wrongs” (2003) and “Injunctions” (2016). Ad hoc judge of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). Currently represents Cyprus as Substitute Member to the Venice Commission and as member of the Commonwealth Secretariat Arbitral Tribunal in London. Also represents the Supreme Court at the Association of the Councils of State and Supreme Administrative Jurisdictions of the European Union “ACA-Europe” and the European Judicial Training Network (EJTN). Address: P.O. Box 53012, 3300 Limassol,

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Cyprus. Telephones: +357 22 865 726 (office), +357 99 490 900 (mobile), fax (office): +357 22 668 460, email: [email protected] MR. GEORGE NICOLAOU, Born 16 September 1945, Cyprus. Law studies in London, 1965-1968. Barrister-at-Law, Lincoln’s Inn, London, 1968. Honorary Bencher of the Inn. Practicing advocate in Cyprus, 1973-1978. District Judge, 1978-1988. Senior District Judge, 1988-1989. President District Court, 1989-1995. Justice of the Supreme Court, 1995-2007. Judge of the European Court of Human Rights, 1 Feb. 2008 – 17 Apr. 2016. Address: 9 Konitsis Street, Larnaka 6037, Cyprus. Telephones: Cyprus mobile +357 99 515 075; French mobile +33 (0) 671705062; Cyprus home +357 24 366 491. Email: [email protected]

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Czech Republic République tchèque Prof. Dr. DALIBOR JÍLEK, Doctor of Law; Professor of Public International Law at the Faculty of Law, Pan-European University in Bratislava; Professor of Public International Law at the Faculty of Law, Palacký University, 17. listopadu 8, 711 11 Olomouc, Czech Republic, e-mail: [email protected].

31 – 08 – 1994 31 – 12 - 2019

Prof. Dr. JIŘÍ MALENOVSKÝ, Doctor of Law; Judge of the Court of Justice of the European Union (since 2004 until autumn 2020); Professor of Public International Law at the Masaryk University in Brno; former Ambassador, Permanent Representative of the Czech Republic to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg; former Chairman of the Committee of Ministers' Deputies of the Council of Europe (1995) and former Chairman of its Group of Rapporteurs for legal co-operation; former Director-General of the Legal and Consular Section in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic; former Judge of the Constitutional Courts of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic and of the Czech Republic; lecture on "The Independence of International Judges," given at The Hague Academy of International Law (2010). Court of Justice of the European Union, L-2925 Luxembourg, fax: +352 4303 3869, e-mail: [email protected], [email protected]

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Prof. Dr. PAVEL ŠTURMA, Doctor of Law; Professor and Head of the International Law Department, former Vice-Dean of the Law Faculty of the Charles University in Prague; Member of the UN International Law Commission (elected in 2011; elected Chair in 2019); Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Law of the Czech Academy of Sciences; former Member of the Legislative Council of the Government of the Czech Republic; Member of the Board of the Czech Branch of ILA and President of the Czech Society of International Law; member of ASIL, ESIL, SFDI. Charles University, Faculty of Law, nám. Curieových 7, 116 40 Prague 1, Czech Republic; fax: +420 2 21 00 53 48; e-mail: [email protected].

01 – 09 – 2000 31 – 12 - 2019

Dr. PETR VÁLEK, LL.M., Ph.D., Director of the International Law Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2012-present), Vice-Chair of the Sixth (Legal) Committee of the UNGA (2011), rapporteur of the Ad Hoc Committee established pursuant to the UNGA resolution 51/210 (2011, 2013), Vice-Chair and Chair of the Committee of Legal Advisers on Public International Law of the Council of Europe - CAHDI (2017-2020); Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, International Law Department, Loretánské nám. 5, 118 00 Prague 1, Czech Republic, Tel.: + 420 224 183 153, e-mail: [email protected].

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Denmark Danemark Mr. TYGE LEHMANN, Former Ambassador and senior legal adviser; Danish representative at the Sixth (Legal) Committee of the United Nations General Assembly 1982-2001 and Chairman of the Committee in 1995; Agent for the Government of Denmark before the International Court of Justice in the Jan Mayen Case (1988-1993) and the Great Belt Case (1991-1992) as well as in cases before the Human Rights Commission and Court in Strasbourg (1981-94); Assigned to the Permanent Mission of Denmark to the United Nations in Geneva (1974-1977); Legal advisor in the Danish delegation to the Diplomatic Conference on Humanitarian Law during Armed Conflict (1974-1977); Assistant Professor of International Law and European Community Law at the University of Copenhagen (1977-1991). Completed law studies (LL.M) at the University of Copenhagen. Tel.: +45 30259707, E-mail: [email protected].

09 – 08 – 1986 03 – 06 - 2020

Mr. THOMAS RØRDAM, President of the Danish Supreme Court; Principal at the Ministry of Justice from 1977-1985, dealing with matters of personal, family and succession law as well as preparing legislation. Posted to the Ringsted Police Service as assistant prosecutor for 18 months from 1980-1982. Also served as an assistant prosecutor to the Public Prosecutor for Zealand for two and a half years from 1982-1985. Partner in the law firm

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Advokatfirma Nyborg & Rørdam, Copenhagen, from 1985-2002. Admission to practise as a public defence counsel with the right to plead legal aid cases in 1990 and entitled to plead before the Supreme Court in 1991. Appointed justice of the Supreme Court on 1 June 2002. Member of the General Council of the Danish Bar and Law Society from 1991-1997, as well as member and chairman of several committees under the Council. Member of the Board of the National Association of Appointed Defence Attorneys in 1993 and chairman of the Association from 1997-2002. Chairman of the Danish chapter of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) from 2002-2004. Chairman of the board of Kong Christian den Tiendes Fond 2017. Board member of Thorvaldsens Museum 2017 and Board member of Illum Fondet 2017. Chairman of the Standing Committee on Criminal Law since 2019. Prins Joergens Gaard 13, DK-1218 Copenhagen K, Denmark. E-mail: [email protected] Mr. JOHAN KRISTIAN LEGARTH, Permanent Secretary of State for Justice, Danish Ministry of Justice; former General Counsel, the Danish Security and Intelligence Service, Ministry of Justice ; former Chief of Staff, the Danish Security and Intelligence Service, Ministry of Justice; former Head of Department, Ministry of Justice; former Head of Division, Ministry of Justice; former Senior Consultant, Ministry of Justice; former Secretary to the minister, Ministry of Justice; former Head of Section, the Prime Minister’s Office; former Head of Section, Ministry of Justice; Master of Laws (LL.M.) Copenhagen University, 2000. Ministry of Justice, Slotsholmsgade 10, 1216 Copenhagen K., Tel.: +45 72268400, E-mail: [email protected].

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Mr. MICHAEL BRAAD, Under-Secretary for Legal Affairs (the Legal Adviser) in Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark (MFA), from September 2018 to present. Former Ambassador of Denmark to Greece and Cyprus (2015-2018). Head of Department in Danish Prime Minister’s Office (Foreign Policy, Defense Policy and National Security 2013-2015). Head of Department of Public International Law, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2009-2012). Deputy Head of Department of Public International Law (2008). Counsellor at Danish Mission to the UN in Geneva (2004-2007) working with Human Rights. Head of Section, Department of Security Policy (2001-2004) concerning Danish contributions to international military operations. First Secretary at Danish Mission to the UN in New York (1998-2001). Private Secretary to the Danish Minister for Development Cooperation (1996-1998) and Head of Section, Department of Internal EU-coordination (1994-1996). Lawyer at Dragsted Law Firm, Copenhagen (1993-1994) and at Holland & Knight Law Firm, New York City (1991). Various positions as Head of Section in Danish Ministry of Justice from (1989-1993). Mr. Braad holds a Law Degree from University of Copenhagen (1989) and an LL.M from New York University School of Law (1991). Tel.: +45 3392 0095. E-mail: [email protected].

03 – 06 - 2020

Dominican Republic République Dominicaine Mr. BLAURIO ALCÁNTARA, Legal Director, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Dominican Republic; Alternate Judge of the High Electoral Court of the Dominican Republic. C/ Camila Henríquez Ureña No. 20, edificio Gini V, apartamento 602. Bella Vista. Tel. +1 809 383-7636/ +1 809 383-7636. E-mail: [email protected].

24 – 06 - 2020

Ecuador Équateur Dr. CARLOS ESTARELLAS VELÁSQUEZ, Professor of Public International Law at the Faculty of Law, Universidad Católica de Guayaquil. Cdla Bolivariana Av del Libertador E/ Delta y Manuela Sáenz Mz I Villa 6, Guayaquil, Ecuador. Email: [email protected]; Tel. +593 04-2394720.

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DR. GONZALO SALVADOR HOLGUÍN, Ambassador and Legal Advisor to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility of Ecuador. Carrión E1-76 y Av. 10 de Agosto -170526, Quito, Ecuador; Email: [email protected].

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DR. JOSÉ MARÍA PÉREZ NELSON, partner at Bredin Prat (Paris; www.bredinprat.com), is part of both the International Arbitration team and the Corporate/M&A team. Trained in Ecuador, France, Germany and the United States, fluent in Spanish, English, French and German, the work of José María Pérez as counsel and arbitrator spans a broad range of industries including distribution, telecommunications, defense, energy and natural resources (including oil and gas, mining and renewables), construction, infrastructure, banking and finance. He has acted as counsel in a number of institutional and ad hoc international arbitration proceedings, advising and representing clients in disputes in Europe, Latin America and North America, Africa, Middle East and Asia. He served as

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Ecuador’s (alternate) member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration during the 2012-2015 period. He has been appointed as arbitrator in a number of international disputes in which he has sat as chairman, sole or co-arbitrator. In addition, given his 25 year experience in corporate and mergers and acquisitions matters, José María Pérez is also well versed in matters relating to post-M&A disputes, shareholders’ disputes and other international business disputes. He lectures on international business law, cross border transactions and international arbitration at the Paris Universities Panthéon-Assas and Paris-Descartes, the Institut de Sciences Politiques (Sciences Po Paris) and the Sorbonne Abu Dhabi University. He regularly speaks at international arbitration and M&A conferences. Born in Ecuador, admitted to the Paris Bar (1998) and the Quito Bar (1996), he is a graduate of Williams College (Massachusetts) (BA, 1984), the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas (Maîtrise in French and German Business Law), the University of Paris X Nanterre (DEA in Private Law), the Catholic University of Ecuador (Doctor en Jurisprudencia, with a doctoral thesis on the treatment of foreign law in private international law) and the Washington College of Law (LL.M.). Contacts: [email protected]; [email protected]; Tel: +331.44.35.35.35; Address: 53 quai d’Orsay, 75007 Paris, France. DR. DIANA SALAZAR MÉNDEZ, Prosecutor-General of Ecuador. Juan León Mera N19-36 y Av. Patria, Edificio Fiscalía General del Estado (Quito); Email: [email protected]; Tel. +593 02 3985800.

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Egypt Égypte Dr. NABIL ELARABY; former Secretary General of the League of Arab States (2011-2016), Minister of Foreign Affairs of Egypt (2011); Director of the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (2008-2011); Judge at the International Court of Justice (2001-2006); Commissioner at the United Nations Compensation Commission in Geneva (1999-2001); Member of the International Law Commission (1994-2001); Ambassador of Egypt to the United Nations in New York and Geneva (1987-1991); Legal Adviser of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1976-1978 and 1983-1987); Ambassador to India (1981-1983). His legal activities include acting as Agent of the Egyptian Government; former Judge at the Judicial Tribunal of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries; Senior Partner at Zaki Hashem & Partners; Arbitrator in several cases at the International Chamber of Commerce International Court of Arbitration and ICSID; Member of Unidroit.

24 – 06 – 2005 14 – 08 - 2017

Dr. MOHAMED S. HELAL, Associate Professor of Law, Michael E. Moritz College of Law, The Ohio State University; Counsellor and Legal Adviser, Cabinet of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Arab Republic of Egypt; Affiliated Faculty Member, Mershon Center for International Security Studies, The Ohio State University; Visiting Associate Professor of Law, Harvard Law School (2020-2021); Lecturer-on-Law, Harvard Law School (2014-2016); Visiting Assistant Professor of Criminal Law, Ain Shams University Faculty of Law (2016); Teaching Fellow, Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government (2010-2014); Visiting Lecturer-on-Law, DePaul University International Human Rights Law Institute, Iraq Office (2010); International Fellow, DePaul University International Human Rights Law Institute, Chicago, IL. (2004-2005); Human Rights Law Lecturer, American University in Cairo; First Secretary, Office of the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Arab Republic of Egypt (2016); Legal Officer, Cabinet of the Secretary General of the League of Arab States (2002-2003); Chief Legal Officer, Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry (2011); Member, African Union Commission on International Law; Member, American Society of International Law; Co-Chair, Africa Interest Group, American Society of International Law; Author of numerous publications; Areas of expertise: public international law, jus ad bellum, law of treaties, law of the sea, law of the non-navigational uses of international watercourses, international human rights law, international criminal law. E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; Tel. +201210333733.

11 – 09 - 2020

Estonia Estonie Ms. TRllNU HIOB, mag.iur.; Attorney-at-Law, Head of Dispute Resolution at NJORD Law Firm in Tallinn; member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR; member of the ICC Task Force on Maximizing the Probative Value of Witness Evidence; served as arbitrator appointed by the ICC International Court of Arbitration; arbitrator at the Estonian Insurance Arbitration Board; conciliator of the insurance conciliation body of the Estonian Insurance Association; visiting lecturer at the University of Tartu. Contacts: NJORD Law Firm, Veerenni 24-D, 10135 Tallinn, Estonia; phone: +372 667 6440; fax: +372 667 6450; email: [email protected].

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Prof. LAURI MÄLKSOO, PhD; Professor of International Law at the University of Tartu (since 2009) and head of the Department of Public Law at the School of Law of the University of Tartu (since 2013). Member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences (since 2013) and associate member of the lnstitut de droit international (since 2015). Scientific degrees at Georgetown University (LLM, 1999) and Humboldt University Berlin (PhD, 2002); fellowships at NYU School of Law and the University of Tokyo. Practical experiences with advising the Estonian government in international law and human rights matters, as adviser of the ombudsman (Chancellor of Justice) in 2002-2012 and director of the Estonian Foreign Policy Institute, a think tank based in Tallinn (2013-). Fields of specific expertise: theory and applications of international law in Eastern Europe and Eurasia, human rights law, history and theory of international law as applied in state practice. Contacts: University of Tartu School of Law, Näituse 20, 50409 Tartu, Estonia; phone: +372 503 7171; e-mail: [email protected].

01 – 12 - 2016

Mr. TOOMAS VAHER, Attorn

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