Delos is proud to announce its new Board of Advisors and updated ACC Global.
This marks the institution’s first leadership handover, another milestone as it completes its 10th anniversary year.
The Board and global Arbitration Consultative Committee (ACC Global) are composed of leaders in international arbitration and dispute resolution and recognised industry experts listed below, who are all independent of Delos. The Board advises Delos on the full range of its activities, guides on strategy and provides feedback. The ACC Global keeps under critical review the Delos Rules of Arbitration, supports the institution with the administration of arbitrations, and provides subject-matter expertise and programme leadership.
In performing their roles, the Board and ACC Global seek to maintain the independence of the institution (established as a French law association) and uphold Delos’s core values: integrity, service-oriented and user-focused, excellence and proportionality, innovation, inclusion, and elegance.
Delos is also proud to introduce its new tagline.
For its first decade, the emphasis has been on ‘Activating Arbitration’. We were conveying both a spirit and a belief in the need for arbitrators to be proactive in the conduct of their cases. As we enter our second decade, we want to direct attention more closely at users’ needs and how we can address them. Our new tagline will be ‘Proportionate Arbitration’.
New leadership
Under the Chairmanship of Neil Kaplan CBE KC SBS (independent arbitrator), working closely with Delos's President Hafez Virjee (independent arbitrator at Virjee Arbitration), we are delighted and privileged to welcome the following new and continuing Board members:
Piotr Bytnerowicz, Founder at ByArb (Warsaw)
Eleonora Coelho, Founding Partner at Eleonora Coelho Advogados (São Paulo)
Tunde Fagbohunlu SAN, Partner at ALN Nigeria–Aluko & Oyebode (Lagos)
Yuet Min Foo, Director at Drew & Napier (Singapore)
Katherine González Arrocha, Independent Arbitrator and Dispute Resolution Consultant (Panama City)
Colin Johnson, Managing Director at Alvarez & Marsal (London)
Katriina Kuusniemi, Executive Director, Business Affairs and Governance, at Dubai Holding (Dubai)
Edwina Kwan, General Counsel at Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (Sydney)
Toby Landau KC, Barrister and Arbitrator at Duxton Hill Chambers (Singapore)
Damien Nyer, Partner & Regional Head–Americas International Arbitration at White & Case (New York)
Prof. Maxi Scherer, co-Founder at ArbBoutique, and Professor in International Arbitration, Dispute Resolution and Energy Law at Queen Mary University of London (London)
Paul Werné, CEO at Corail Consultants (Paris)
Roland Ziadé, Partner and Global Co-Head of International Arbitration at Linklaters (Paris)
We are also really pleased to present our updated ACC Global:
Rahul Donde, Founder at Rahul Donde Dispute Resolution (Geneva)
Thomas Granier, Founding Partner at Anima Dispute Resolution and co-Founder of Delos (Paris)
Prof. Florian Grisel, University of Oxford / CNRS (University of Strasbourg) and co-Founder of Delos
Jonny Lim, Partner at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr (London)
Iain McKenny, Founding Partner at Profile Investment and co-Founder of Delos (Paris)
Natália Mizrahi Lamas, Partner at Ferro, Castro Neves, Daltro & Gomide (Rio de Janeiro)
Maria Poláková, Partner at Squire Patton Boggs (Prague)
Mélanie Riofrio Piché, Independent Arbitrator at Riofrio IDR (Madrid)
We take this opportunity to thank our outgoing leadership for their time, support and encouragement over the course of many years, namely for the Board: Aisha Abdallah, Jose Daniel Amado, Hassan Arab, Valeria Galíndez, Ank Santens and May Tai, and for ACC Global: Victor Bonnin Reynes and Filipa Cansado Carvalho.
Watch this space for more news and initiatives next year! with warm wishes for a wonderful end of the year and the very best for 2025,
Delos Team
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