Annet van Hooft is an independent arbitrator based in Paris. After having practised for more than 20 years at major U.S. and U.K. law firms in Brussels, New York, and Paris, and having been a Counsel at the ICC Court of Arbitration, she decided to set up her own law firm, focusing on international arbitration. 

 Annet has acted in more than 100 arbitrations either as counsel or arbitrator. She has sat as arbitrator in proceedings subject to various arbitration rules (AFA, CEPANI, CMAP, DIA, DIS, HCC, ICC, NAI, SCC, SIAC, Swiss Rules, UNCITRAL, VIAC, WIPO). 

 Annet is admitted to practice in both common and civil law jurisdictions and has a broad range of experience, both as counsel and as arbitrator, handling international arbitrations under various applicable laws and in a wide variety of sectors and fields, including construction & energy, IP related disputes (e.g., pharmaceuticals, life sciences, technology, and communication) and corporate law related disputes (e.g., joint-ventures, mergers & acquisitions). 

 Annet is a former Vice-Chair of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR and a former co-chair of the Paris Bar Commission on International Arbitration. She is the co-author of ‘Arbitrating under the 2012 ICC Rules: An Introductory User’s Guide’ (published by Kluwer Law International). 

Michael has extensive experience in commercial and corporate disputes, mainly in the areas of oil & gas and energy, construction, and engineering industries. He started his career in 1985 as counsel at the ICC Court of Arbitration in Paris. From October 1988 to December 2023, Michael worked in large Anglo-Saxon law firms, doing initially both corporate and arbitration work, to eventually focus his practice on international dispute resolution through negotiation, mediation and arbitration, as well as for the purpose of injunctive relief and/or enforcement, also state court litigation. In January 2024, Michael became an independent practitioner by founding BÜHLER ARBITRATION, a law firm registered with the Paris Bar and organized as a French Selarl (LLC). His practice centers around three main activities: Providing clients strategic advice in international dispute resolution, by finding solutions to avoid and/or settle disputes efficiently and promptly; Acting as senior counsel in commercial and/or investment disputes, alongside international and/or local law firms; Acting as party-appointed or presiding arbitrator in commercial disputes, including as mock arbitrator for clients seeking to improve their real case performance, and/or as privilege master assisting arbitral tribunals with document disclosure issues. A former member of the ICC Court of International Arbitration and a former member of the ICC Commission on International Arbitration & ADR, he acted in 2016/2017 as the lead consultant of OHADA for the reform of the Ohada Uniform Arbitration Act and the Arbitration Rules of the CCJA and the adoption of a new Uniform Act on Mediation. Co-author of one of the leading books on ICC arbitration, the ICC Handbook of Arbitration, now in its 5th edition (2021). A new edition with his co-author T.H. Webster is in preparation by Sweet & Maxwell. Furthermore, the impact of Artificial Intelligence on the way arbitration is being practiced has become an area of special interest for Michael.

Nadine Debbas Achkar is a Chartered Arbitrator specializing in international arbitration. Currently, she serves primarily as arbitrator and has been appointed as Presiding Arbitrator, Sole Arbitrator or Co-Arbitrator in numerous arbitrations arising from a wide range of disputes (both institutional arbitrations as well as ad hoc proceedings under the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules). Nadine is a Member of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) International Court of Arbitration (2024-2027), a Co-Chair of the ICC Advanced Arbitration Academy – Middle East, and a Member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration & ADR and of the Working Group on Expedited Procedures. She is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb). In addition, in January 2022, Nadine was appointed by Royal Decree as a Judge on the Supreme Court of the Kingdom of Bahrain. From 2008 until 2011, Nadine served as the General Counsel and Senior Vice President of Abu Dhabi Basic Industries Corporation PJSC, an industrial investment holding company mandated by the Abu Dhabi Government to be a key contributor to Abu Dhabi’s Economic Vision 2030. Nadine holds a Juris Doctor from Columbia University School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Georgetown University. She is a member of the New York Bar and is a native speaker of Arabic, English, and French and is fluent in Spanish.

Bernd specialises in international arbitration, with extensive experience as both counsel and arbitrator in over 100 high-stakes disputes conducted under various arbitration rules and governed by civil and common law. His experience includes serving on dispute adjudication boards. Bernd advises and represents clients in complex disputes, with a focus on large-scale construction and infrastructure projects, intricate joint venture agreements, M&A transactions and sales and distribution contracts. He is committed to dispute resolution and related capacity building, in particular in Africa, to which a significant portion of his work is related. Recognised as a “leading light in the next generation of international arbitration practitioners in Switzerland”, Who’s Who Legal Global Leaders, Arbitration, 2022, Bernd also assists and represents clients in the enforcement of arbitral awards and other arbitration-related proceedings before state courts.

Lindsay is an independent arbitrator with Arbitration Chambers specializing in international dispute resolution, with experience spanning private practice, institutional service, and academia. Her cases have included complex investment treaty disputes and high-stakes commercial disputes, often exceeding USD 1 billion in value, as well as cases involving individuals and SMEs. She has experience with the major institutional rules, the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules, and fully ad hoc arbitrations.  Lindsay is dual qualified in New York and England & Wales and educated in both the civil law and the common law traditions. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and an accredited mediator.  She is also recognized as a “Global Elite Though Leader” in Arbitration by Lexology’s Future Leader index, with commentators noting that she is a “great arbitrator” who is “sharp like a whip” and “knows the case inside out.” Before joining Arbitration Chambers, Lindsay represented clients in investor-State and commercial arbitrations at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in New York and London and then served as Legal Counsel at ICSID. For the last decade, Lindsay has taught arbitration and investment law as Adjunct Professor of Law at American University, Washington College of Law.  Among her many roles in the arbitration community, Lindsay is the Practice Notes Editor of the ICSID Review and rapporteur of the ICCA Judiciary Committee. She is also on the Global Steering Committee of the Equal Representation in Arbitration Pledge and co-chair of Mute Off Thursdays.

Mino Han has acted as counsel in various international arbitrations conducted under the auspices of the ICC, SIAC, HKIAC, KCAB or JCAA.

Mino specialises in construction and engineering disputes. The relevant projects underlying the disputes were each based in the Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe, Africa or Latin America and concerned the design and construction of combined cycle power plants, solar power production facilities, refineries, high-rise buildings, convention centres and infrastructure facilities. Mino has also vast experience in representing contractors in Korean court or KCAB domestic arbitration proceedings. He also regularly advises clients on issuing or defending claims arising out of standard form contracts including the FIDIC Suite of Contracts.

Mino majored in law at Seoul National University (LL.B., 2006), after which he passed the Korean Bar Exam in 2006 and qualified as Korean lawyer in 2009. He also received a Master of Laws degree in international arbitration law from Seoul National University in 2012 and a Master of Science degree for Construction Law and Dispute Resolution at King’s College London in 2018. Mino’s MSc dissertation entitled “The meaning and scope of ‘consequential loss’ exclusion clauses – A comparative law analysis between English law and Korean law” was awarded with a distinction grade. In July 2019, Mino was admitted to the roll of solicitors in England and Wales. Mino has been recognized by Who’s Who Legal as Global Elite Thought Leader in Arbitration (Under 45 - Partners). Mino serves as DIS (German Arbitration Institute) Council Member. Mino is also an ICC Commission member.

Mino also sits as arbitrator, and has served as arbitrator in ICC, SIAC, DIS, KCAB arbitrations. He is native in Korean and German and is also fluent in English.

Dyalá Jiménez is a Costa Rican national who specializes in conflict resolution. She is frequently appointed as arbitrator in international contract-based and treaty-based disputes, both under institutional rules and ad hoc procedures.  Dyalá is Vice President of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) Governing Board. She is a member of the ICSID panel of conciliators and arbitrators for Costa Rica and sits on the International Council of Arbitration for Sport (ICAS). She is a former member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration and former policy vice chair of Americas Initiative of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA). Dyalá obtained her law degree from the Universidad de Costa Rica and later became a Fulbright Scholar when she attended the Georgetown University Law Center (LLM ‘99); she has authored numerous publications in the field and has teaching experience, both in Costa Rica (Lead University, 2017) and in Chile (Universidad de Chile undergraduate and the Heidelberg/Universidad de Chile LLM Program, from 2004 to 2013).

James (Jim) Morrison is a specialist in international arbitration, acting as arbitrator and counsel, as well as having extensive experience working in multiple arbitral institutions. An Australian-qualified lawyer, Jim has worked at leading international law firms, representing leading companies in a wide variety of complex high-stakes commercial and investor-state disputes, including in the fields of construction, infrastructure, energy and resources, M&A, intellectual property, shipbuilding and joint ventures. Jim’s former roles include Counsel at the ICC International Court of Arbitration in Paris; and Counsel at the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration in Sydney, where he managed teams of lawyers responsible for the conduct of hundreds of international arbitrations taking place all over the world (but particularly in Asia). He holds a master's degree in international commercial arbitration law from the University of Stockholm. Jim has been named in WWL: Arbitration and Thought Leaders - Arbitration. He has participated in working groups to revise various institutional and ad hoc arbitration rules. He regularly speaks and lectures at arbitration conferences and universities. Jim is a former co-chair of Young ICCA, and a co-author of the first English-language textbook on Korean arbitration law; he regularly publishes articles on international dispute resolution.

Mr. Promod Nair is a highly esteemed Senior Advocate at the High Court of Karnataka, with over 30 years of experience in the legal profession. He is also a Solicitor-Advocate registered with the Law Society of England and Wales. After completing his Bachelor of Laws degree from Bangalore University, Mr. Nair went on to earn his Master of Laws from the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. He began his legal career in 1991, practicing in civil and commercial litigation at various courts and tribunals across India. He has extensive experience in international arbitration and has served as a member of the LCIA Court between 2013 and 2018. Currently, he is a Council Member of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre, where he serves on the Proceedings Committee. Additionally, he is a member of the Advisory Council of the Mumbai Centre for International Arbitration and a Governing Council Member of the International Arbitration and Mediation Centre, Hyderabad. Promod Nair has also served as India’s correspondent for the UNCITRAL CLOUT project and is a member of the UNCITRAL Coordination Committee for India. He also coordinates the Permanent Court of Arbitration India Committee. In addition to his legal practice, Mr. Nair is actively involved in various professional organizations. He has served as the Secretary of the Bangalore Advocates Association and is a member of the International Bar Association and the Law Society of England and Wales. He has also contributed articles to legal publications and has been a speaker at various legal seminars and conferences.

Colm Ó hOisín SC has been in practice in Dublin at the Bar of Ireland since 1988 and became a Senior Counsel in 2005. He is also a member of the Bar of England and Wales, the Bar of Northern Ireland, and an Associate Tenant with Kings Chambers (Manchester, England).

Colm has a wide-ranging practice concentrated on commercial and public law litigation and on international commercial and investment arbitration.

He has many appointments as sole arbitrator, co-arbitrator and chair in international arbitration, and these include appointments under the rules of ICC, LCIA, ICSID, ICDR and DIAC.

He is a former President of Arbitration Ireland and was a Member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration from 2015 to 2021. Colm is currently designated by Ireland to the ICSID Panel of Arbitrators. He is also a Chartered Arbitrator (CIArb).

Colm was formerly Vice-Chair of the Council of the Bar of Ireland and a Chair of its ADR and Arbitration Committee. He is also a former Leader of the European Circuit of the Bar. He was President of the Irish Maritime Law Association from 2007 to 2010 and is a titular member of the Comité Maritime International (CMI).

Professor Emilia Onyema is a Professor of International Commercial Law at SOAS University of London. She holds a PhD in international commercial arbitration from Queen Mary University of London. She is qualified to practice law in Nigeria and as a Solicitor in England & Wales; and she is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. She accepts appointment as an independent arbitrator as well as an expert witness. She has long standing experience as presiding, co and sole arbitrator in international commercial arbitration cases. Her research and teaching focus on international commercial arbitration, international investment law, law and development, with regional focus on Africa.

Dr. Michele Potestà is a partner at Lévy Kaufmann-Kohler. He specializes in international commercial and investment arbitration, as well as public international law, acting as counsel, arbitrator and expert in complex investment and commercial matters. In the last decade, Michele participated in over 50 international investment and commercial arbitrations under all major arbitral rules (including ICC, ICSID, UNCITRAL, Swiss Arbitration Center, CAM, SIAC, DIAC, Danish Institute of Arbitration and CAS), and in disputes governed by a variety of procedural and substantive laws (including Swiss, Italian, French, Spanish, U.S., Danish, Panamanian, Venezuelan, U.A.E., Kazakhstani, Greek, Singaporean, Iranian and Egyptian). He has specific experience in disputes relating to energy and natural resources (oil, gas, mining and solar energy), real estate and construction, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, international sales, banking and finance, shareholders disputes, aviation, IT and agency contracts. He frequently acts in arbitrations involving states and state entities. Michele has advised sovereign states on their investment treaty programs and currently acts as expert advisor to the Swiss Government in the inter-State negotiations on the reform of investor-state dispute settlement (“ISDS”) in UNCITRAL’s Working Group III. He is a member of the ICSID Panels of Arbitrators and Conciliators, and was appointed by the European Commission on the EU list of arbitrators and trade and sustainable development (TSD) experts in bilateral disputes under the EU’s trade agreements with third countries. He is also a member of the panels of arbitrators at VIAC, LCIA, SIAC, AIAC, KCAB International, and Delos. In 2023, Michele was recognized by Global Arbitration Review (GAR) as one of the 45 leading international arbitration specialists worldwide under the age of 45. According to his peers and clients, he is “a leader in investment arbitration and an obvious choice for complex disputes” and “one of the real experts in investment disputes of his generation”. In 2020, Michele was named the most highly regarded individual in Europe by Who’s Who Legal Arbitration: Future Leaders (Non-Partners), described as a “super smart” and “simply outstanding” lawyer, and praised for his “great breadth and depth of learning on investment treaty arbitration”. He is part of the faculty at the Geneva LLM in International Dispute Settlement (MIDS) and at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, where he teaches international investment law, investment arbitration, and damages & compensation in international economic disputes. He has authored multiple publications on arbitration and public international law. Michele, an Italian national, is qualified to practice law in Italy and is registered with the Geneva bar (foreign lawyers’ section). He holds a Ph.D., bachelor and master’s degree from the University of Milan.