The Delos Board of Advisors is composed of global leaders in the field of international arbitration and dispute resolution.

Experienced, diverse, pragmatic and user-focused, they advise Delos on the full range of its activities, endeavours and initiatives, and further support the institution through shared values of excellence, integrity and independence. In this manner, they also act as an ethics committee, with whom we validate our Rules and key processes.
 

From left to right and top to bottom, Delos is privileged to be advised by Piotr Bytnerowicz, Eleonora Coelho, Babatunde Fagbohunlu SAN, Yuet Min Foo, Katherine González Arrocha, Colin Johnson, Neil Kaplan CBE KC SBS (Chairman), Katriina Kuusniemi, Edwina Kwan, Toby Landau KC, Damien Nyer, Professor Maxi Scherer, Paul Werné and Roland Ziadé. Their short bios are available below.

Delos is also grateful to Professor Pierre Mayer (Honorary President of the Board) and the late Professor David D Caron (Inaugural ROAP Dedicatee), for their support as Founding Advisors.

Piotr Bytnerowicz

Piotr Bytnerowicz is a seasoned dispute resolution lawyer and the founding partner of ByArb, a boutique law firm specialising in arbitration and alternative dispute resolution, with a particular focus on the CEE region. He has extensive experience serving as an arbitrator and continues to actively practice as counsel. Before establishing ByArb, Piotr worked for nearly twenty years with leading international law firms in Warsaw and London. He has also gained valuable in-house perspective on arbitration while working in Western Australia on a multi-billion-dollar dispute concerning an LNG project. Piotr’s primary areas of specialisation include disputes related to M&A, real estate, construction, and energy projects. He is a member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and one of the founders and Vice-President of the Arbitration Association for Central and Eastern Europe (ArbCEE).

Eleonora Coelho

Eleonora Coelho is the founding partner of Eleonora Coelho Advogados. She holds a master’s degree in litigation, arbitration and alternative dispute resolution (ADR) from Université Paris II – Panthéon Assas; and a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of São Paulo Law School.She has more than 20 years of experience in domestic and international arbitrations, ADR, and court litigation, and in the definition of pre-litigation strategies. Eleonora is former president of the Centre for Arbitration and Mediation of the Brazil-Canada Chamber of Commerce (CAM-CCBC) (2019-2023). She is currently president of the Permanent Arbitration Commission of the São Paulo Lawyers Institute (IASP) (2022-2024). She also serves as vice-president of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the Asociación Latinoamericana de Arbitraje (ALARB) for the 2024-2028 term. Recently, she was appointed a member of Jus Mundi Mission Committee, composed of independent experts who oversee and steer the institution’s social and environmental objectives. Eleonora is listed in the roster of arbitrators of various arbitral institutions. She acts as counsel and arbitrator in domestic and international arbitrations of great complexity, under the rules of various institutions, as well as in ad hoc cases. She has authored various publications and is frequently invited to speak at conferences in Brazil and abroad on topics related to arbitration and dispute resolution. From 2020 to 2021, Eleonora was a Visiting Professor at the SciencesPo École de Droit de Paris, teaching a course on the “LL.M. in Transnational Arbitration & Dispute Settlement” program, and she was a Guest Lecturer at the Paris Arbitration Academy (2019). Furthermore, Eleonora was a member of the Senate’s Legal Committee that drafted the latest amendments to the Brazilian Arbitration Act. She is former vice-president of the Brazilian Arbitration Committee (CBAR) and former treasurer of the Brazilian Institute of Construction Law (IBDIC). She is currently a member of the following institutions: Brazilian Bar Association (OAB); Brazilian Arbitration Committee (CBAR); International Bar Association (IBA); Consultant Counsel of Latin America and the International Advisory Committee for the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR); Consulting Board of the Center for Arbitration and Mediation of the Chamber of Commerce Brazil-Canada (CAM-CCBC); Board of the Brazilian Institute of Construction Law (IBDIC). Eleonora is fluent in Portuguese, English and French; and speaks Italian and Spanish. Areas of Expertise: Dispute Resolution; Arbitration; Brazilian Civil Law, Civil Procedure Law, Corporate Law, Commercial Law; etc.

Babatunde Fagbohunlu SAN

Babatunde Fagbohunlu, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators UK, heads the Disputes Practice Group at ALN Nigeria-Aluko & Oyebode. He regularly acts as counsel to Nigerian as well as foreign and multinational clients in Ad Hoc and institutional arbitrations, and has served as arbitrator in several cases, including arbitrations administered by the ICC and the LCIA. Mr Fagbohunlu has also served on the Federal Government of Nigeria’s Committee on the Reform and Harmonization of Arbitration/ADR Laws. He co-authored the book “Arbitration in Africa: A Review of Key Jurisdictions” published by Sweet and Maxwell in 2016. He has served on the Court of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) and on the Board of Directors of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce International Arbitration Centre (LACIAC). He was recently appointed to the Body of Neutrals of the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission ADR Centre and as a delegate to represent the International Law Association at the 49th Session of the UNCITRAL Working Group III on Investor-State Dispute Settlement Reform.

Yuet Min Foo

Yuet Min Foo graduated with First Class Honours from the National University of Singapore in 2006. Prior to joining Drew & Napier in 2008, Yuet Min was a Justices’ Law Clerk at the Supreme Court of Singapore. Yuet Min advises clients mainly on civil disputes relating to a wide range of commercial contracts, always with the aim of achieving commercially-viable solutions for clients. She has been described by a client as “very skilled” and “extremely dedicated to the needs of the client”. Yuet Min regularly appears before the Singapore Courts as lead counsel. Besides maintaining an active litigation practice, many of Yuet Min’s matters involve international arbitrations as well as arbitration-related Court proceedings. She has particular experience and interest in dealing with multi-lingual proceedings and has conducted a bilingual (English-Chinese) international arbitration under the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules. She is also regularly appointed arbitrator and has conducted international arbitrations under expedited procedures. Yuet Min is a co-author of the Chambers and Partners Global Practice Guides – Litigation 2022 and 2024 (Singapore chapter), and also of the chapter on Arbitration in Singapore and Malaysia in the Italian edition of the Arbitration Law Treaty published by Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane (Italian Scientific Editions), 2022. Yuet Min speaks English, Mandarin, Malay and the Hokkien dialect.

Katherine González Arrocha

Katherine González Arrocha has been appointed as arbitrator in more than 30 cases. In addition, she has acted twice as a Dispute Board Member (DAB) under two FIDIC construction contracts in Central America (in the first case as Sole Member in 2012 and in the second case as Chair of the DAB in 2019). She has also acted as legal expert. She is a member of the panel of arbitrators and conciliators for Panama before the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), and several other institutions.

Colin Johnson

Colin Johnson is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal Disputes and Investigations in London. His primary areas of concentration are expert testimony services for complex disputes; the development, operation and financing of large and complex infrastructure, especially in the energy sector; and public private partnerships. He has worked on matters across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and the Americas. With more than 30 years of experience, Mr. Johnson acted as lender, equity provider, investment manager, legal and financial advisor and project developer before becoming an expert witness. He has significant experience analyzing, negotiating and managing major projects and their financing to determine full commercial impacts and their impacts upon valuation and project viability. Mr. Johnson has acted as both a quantum and financing testifying expert witness for commercial and investment treaty matters. Mr. Johnson has worked with clients across various industries, including construction, energy, infrastructure, mining, oil and gas, power, real estate, tourism, shipping and transportation, and telecommunications. He has worked on public private partnerships (PPPs), including reviewing modelling for finance-based projects and acting as an expert on matters related to the structure of project financing and the impact on financing and returns. Mr. Johnson has provided documentation for PPPs, presenting on them, leading training internally and externally, and dealing with procurement. Mr. Johnson has lived and worked for extended periods in the United States, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic and Spain and has worked on matters in over 100 countries in total. Mr. Johnson earned an MBA from the University of Warwick, a diploma in international communication (Spanish) from the Institute of Linguists and a law degree from Nottingham University. He is a Fellow Chartered Certified Accountant (FCCA), a Member of the Energy Institute, and serves as the Chair of the Energy Arbitration Club. Mr. Johnson is fluent in English and Spanish, and speaks (to different degrees) Portuguese, French and German.

Neil Kaplan CBE KC SBS _ Chairman of the Board

Neil Kaplan has been a full-time practising arbitrator since 1995.  He has been involved in several hundred arbitrations as arbitrator.  Called to the Bar of England in 1965, Mr. Kaplan has practiced as a barrister, Principal Crown Counsel at the Hong Kong Attorney General’s Chambers, and served as a Judge of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong in charge of the Arbitration List. He was Chair of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC) for 13 years and President of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) in 1999/2000. Since 2017 he has been the President of the Court of the Mauritius Chamber of Commerce and Industry Arbitration and Mediation Centre (MARC). Neil also serve as a judge on the Cassation Court in Bahrain.

Katriina Kuusniemi

Katriina Kuusniemi is Executive Director of Business Affairs and Governance at Dubai Holding. She has 20+ years of experience at global level as a lawyer, business leader and governance & compliance professional. After more than a decade in private practice, focusing predominantly on arbitration and litigation, and several years leading an in-house legal & compliance team as well as a business unit at a global company in the defence and government contracting sector, Katriina is currently leading responsible investment and governance initiatives at Dubai Holding in Dubai, UAE. Katriina is a CEDR accredited mediator, a certified board member (CBM/HHJ in Finland and Hawkamah in the UAE) and holds an executive education certification from Yale School of Management.

Edwina Kwan

Edwina Kwan is General Counsel at the Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility where she advises institutional investors on risks and opportunities regarding the energy transition and contentious climate change disputes. Edwina was formerly a Partner at King & Wood Mallesons where she was co-head of International Arbitration. Edwina is dual qualified in Hong Kong and Australia and speaks English and conversational Mandarin. She has acted as counsel and advocate in international commercial and investor-state arbitration in all the major arbitral institutions. Edwina’s work includes acting for clients in commercial disputes across a range of sectors as well as those related to business and human rights, modern slavery, greenwashing, sanctions, and carbon markets. Currently based in Sydney, Edwina has practiced in Beijing, Hong Kong and Perth. Edwina co‑founded the China Young Arbitration Group in Beijing, has lectured at Tsinghua University Master of Laws Program in International Arbitration in Beijing, and the University of NSW and the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Diploma in International Arbitration. She has also served on the board of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (ACICA). Edwina has been recognised for her expertise in Who's Who, Legal 500 and Doyle's Leading Arbitration Lawyers.

Toby Landau KC

Toby Landau KC is a barrister and arbitrator, and a member of the Bars of England & Wales, Singapore, New York, the BVI and Northern Ireland, and is registered in the DIFC. He was the first QC/KC to be admitted as a full member of the Singapore Bar, and practices from Duxton Hill Chambers in Singapore and as a Sole Practitioner in London. As Counsel, he has argued hundreds of major international commercial and investor-State arbitrations, as well as many ground-breaking arbitration cases in the Courts of England, Singapore, Pakistan and the Caribbean. As Arbitrator, he has extensive experience sitting in commercial and investor-State disputes worldwide. He is Vice President of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC); Member of the ICCA Governing Board; Member o fthe Panel of Advisors to the Attorney-General of Singapore; previous Court Member and Director of the LCIA and Board member of the SCC; Fellow of the CIArb; Vice Chairman of the Saudi Center for Commercial Arbitration (SCCA); UK delegate to the UNCITRAL Working Group on Arbitration (1994-2013); and a draftsman of the English Arbitration Act 1996; the Pakistan Arbitration (International Investment Disputes) Ordinance, 2006; the Mauritius International Arbitration Act 2008, as well as many institutional rules. He holds a first-class law degree and a first class BCL from Oxford University (Eldon Scholar), and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School (Kennedy Scholar).

Damien Nyer

Damien Nyer is an international disputes partner based in New York where he heads the Firm's Americas International Arbitration regional section. He also leads the Firm's Canada Country Practice. His practice focuses on the resolution of complex, high-stakes, multi-jurisdictional disputes on behalf of private and sovereign clients. He assists his clients in developing, implementing and coordinating dispute avoidance and dispute resolution strategies, including through the use of litigation, arbitration and other adjudicatory processes, often across multiple jurisdictions. While his industry experience is broad, he has special expertise in the natural resources, infrastructure and engineering sectors. He has received accolades for his work on behalf of mining and energy clients (Who's Who Legal – "Recommended" for mining and energy). Clients praise his "deep technical knowledge," "superb advocacy skills" and "exceptional service" (Who's Who Legal) as well as his "exceptional ability to read a situation and understand his client's needs." (Legal 500). A member of the Firm’s top-ranked international arbitration practice, Damien has acted as counsel and arbitrator in more than 60 commercial, construction and investment arbitrations under all major sets of rules (ICC, ICSID, AAA/ICDR, LCIA and SIAC), as well as in ad hoc proceedings (including UNCITRAL), subject to a variety of applicable substantive laws and involving well in excess of US$ 18 billion in dispute. A past Co-Chair of Young ICCA (International Council for Commercial Arbitration) and Secretary of the International Bar Association's Taskforce on International Arbitration Agreements, he is ranked as a leading international arbitration practitioner by Chambers & Partners (USA and Global) and the Legal 500 ("Leading Lawyer"), and has been recognized as a rising star in the field by Who's Who Legal ("Global Elite Thought Leader – under 45") and Benchmark Litigation ("40 & Under Hot List"). He also maintains an active practice as an arbitrator and was appointed to the ICSID Panel of Arbitrators in 2023. Multilingual and trained in both common and civil law, Damien has advised with respect to disputes across the world, including in Afghanistan, Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Bermuda, Bulgaria, Brazil, the BVIs, Canada, the Cayman Islands, Chile, China, Colombia, Croatia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Denmark, Ecuador, France, Georgia, Grenada, Guinea (Conakry), Haiti, Hungary, Japan, Kenya, Liberia, Macedonia, Mexico, Pakistan, Paraguay, the Philippines, Russia, South Korea, The Gambia, Turkey, Venezuela, Yemen, Zambia as well as across the United States.

Professor Maxi Scherer

Prof. Maxi Scherer is a co-founder of ArbBoutique and a Professor of Law at Queen Mary University of London, where she holds the Chair for International Arbitration, Dispute Resolution and Energy Law.  She has over 20 years of experience in international arbitration in both civil and common law systems. Maxi is admitted to the bar in Paris (France) and as a solicitor in England and Wales, and has represented clients and served as arbitrator or legal expert in more than 140 commercial and investor-State arbitrations. Her arbitrations regularly involve States, concern multi-billion amounts in dispute and are conducted in English, French and German. ‍Ranked by Who’s Who Legal, The Legal 500 etc. as a leading arbitration practitioner, she has been identified for many years amongst the top “Global Elite Thought Leaders” and described by peers as “one of the greatest and most complete arbitrators,” and “one of the very best in both commercial and investment arbitration proceedings.” She has received the 2023 GAR Award for “Best Prepared Arbitrator”. ‍Maxi is a Vice-President of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), Co-Chair of the IBA Subcommittee on Rules and Guidelines and holds many other public appointments and commissions of trust, including being a member of the panel of arbitrators of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and the Governing Board of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA).  ‍Maxi is the General Editor of the Kluwer Journal of International Arbitration and publishes extensively in the field. In 2018, Maxi received the GAR Award for Best Speech or Lecture for her keynote on artificial intelligence and the transformation of decision-making.

Paul Werné

Paul Werné is an independent business consultant focussing on business developments in Africa and the Middle East. Paul has been working as Legal or General Counsel for major international groups, mainly in the field of telecommunications. After spending many years in the Orange - France Telecom group, successively as General Counsel for its Directory and Advertising, then its Satellite Transmission and Broadcast line of business, and finally as General Counsel for the group’s non-European operations, he moved to the Middle East where he held the position of Group General Counsel of the United Arab Emirates’ national telecommunications operator, Etisalat, for 8 years, during which Etisalat substantially updated and enhanced its strategy, increased its global reach and ambitiously developed new technologies and activities. Paul has extensive experience in creating, reorganising and managing international legal teams, in mergers and acquisitions, company law, corporate governance and dispute resolution.

Roland Ziadé

Roland Ziadé is the Global Co-Head of International Arbitration at Linklaters and a member of the Paris, New York and Beirut Bars. He acts as counsel in both commercial and investment arbitration cases and has acted as arbitrator in over 50 arbitral proceedings. Roland is the current President of ICC-France committee on the selection and appointment of arbitrators and was a member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration for 9 years (2009-2018). Roland is also a member of the Board of the LCIA. In addition, he is a member of the Executive Committee of the Foundation for International Arbitration Advocacy (FIAA), the Bureau of the French Arbitration Committee (CFA), the Executive Committee of the Harvard Club of France, as well as various arbitral organizations and working groups. Roland teaches arbitration at Paris Saclay University, Paris II (Assas) University, as well as at Sciences Po. He is the author of numerous publications and articles on international arbitration. Roland holds an LLM from Harvard Law School (Fulbright Scholar), as well as postgraduate degrees from Assas and Sorbonne Universities. In 2017, GAR ranked Roland in the top three worldwide on the list of partners below 45 and in 2018 he was selected by Who’s Who Legal among the 10 leading and most highly regarded arbitration counsels and arbitrators in France. He is also since then consistently recognized as one of the most active arbitration and dispute resolution lawyers in both the Middle East and Africa (Chambers Global and Jeune Afrique), as well as a Global Elite Thought Leader for international arbitration (Who’s Who Legal 2019-2025). His working languages are English, French and Arabic.

FOUNDING ADVISORS

Professor Pierre Mayer _ Honorary President of the Board

Prof. Pierre Mayer is a founding partner of Mayer Greenberg. He acts as an independent arbitrator and occasionally as counsel. He was previously a partner at Dechert, after having spent many years as counsel at Coudert Brothers and Clifford Chance. He was formerly the President of the International Academy for Arbitration Law, the President of the French Committee on International Private Law, the President of the Committee on International Commercial Arbitration of the International Law Association (ILA) and the President of the Committee on Private International Law of the Union Internationale des Avocats (UIA). Prof. Mayer also taught arbitration, international law and contract law for close to 30 years at the University Paris-I Panthéon Sorbonne. Prof. Mayer is a Council Member of the ICC Institute of World Business Law and an Associate Member of the Institut de Droit International. Find out more here.