Arbitrator Listing for 28th Vis Moot

Ms Nadeen Abawi

Ms. Nadeen Abawi is an Attorney in Jordan, with Arbitration work experience.
Holds a Master degree in Commercial Arbitration from the University of Jordan.
As a student, Ms. Abawi participated as a student two times in the Vis moot and she is still closely tied with the competition as a coach.

Dr Amel Abdallah

Amel Abdallah (PhD, MCIArb), Associate professor, at College of Law - University of Bahrain - worked at FSJPST, University of Carthage -Tunisia, worked at the College of Law, Sultan Qaboos University (SQU), Oman from 2008 to 2020, where she got promoted to associate professor. She was the Assistant Dean for postgraduate studies and research at the College of Law (SQU) from 2012 to 2015. Dr Abdallah is an Accredited arbitrator in Omani Courts, and a practitioner arbitrator in GCC Arbitration Center, DIAC & CRCICA.
She has vast experience in Arab laws. She was formerly a lecturer at the Arab Academy for science, technology, and maritime transport in Egypt and at the College of Legal Science in Jendouba-Tunisia.
Her areas of specialization include: comparative law, arbitration, banking law, capital market
law, commercial companies, international contracts, and investment law. she has several
publications in Arabic and English, analyzing Arab laws and declaring the
attitudes of Arab legislators/ Courts regarding international legal developments

Professor Mohamed Abdel Wahab

Prof. Dr. Abdel Wahab is the Chair of the Private International Law Department (Cairo University); Founding Partner (Zulficar & Partners Law Firm); Dean of the Africa Arbitration Academy; Chair of the International Expert Advisory Committee of the Permanent Forum of China Construction Law ; Vice-President, ICC International Court of Arbitration; Member of the ICCA Governing Board; Vice-President of the CRCICA Advisory Committee; MIAC Advisory Board Member; LACIAC Court Member; CIMAC Court Member; PCA Court Member (Egypt); Member of the CIArb’s Board of Trustees; and Member of the ICODR Governing Board;. He served as ‘Arbitrator’, ‘Counsel’ and ‘Legal Expert’ in more than 220 cases, and features in WWL Global Elite Thought Leaders: International Arbitration (2021) and AFRICA’s 30 Arbitration Powerlist (2020). He received the 2018 ASA International Arbitration Advocacy Prize, the 2019 AYA Hall-of-Fame African Arbitrator Award, the 2020 Client Choice International Award. He is co-editor of “International Arbitration and the COVID-19 Revolution” (Kluwer, 2020). Chambers & Partners Global (2021) says, “Mohamed Abdel Wahab is an absolute star in arbitration”. WWL: Arbitration (2021) says: “He is a top-tier thought leader and in a league of his own”. The Legal500 (2019) states he is ‘one of the best in the world’.

Mr Kadi Abdurakhmanov

Kadi Abdurakhmanov works as an in-house counsel at Four Seasons Hotels and Resort in Moscow since October, 2016. After spending one year and a half in hospitality industry, Kadi knows how the sector works and what kind of business model meets high request of clients and partners the best. Moreover, with his distinguished colleagues, Kadi have assisted business owners on several real estate projects connected with deals aimed at the property development.
Concerning disputes resolution, Kadi is doing several litigation projects on construction and bank guarantee mattes as well as land disputes.
Kadi’s background as a litigator has started at the BAR association of Moscow region. He had entered the BAR at 2014 and participated in several projects on IP law matters.
His experience coupled with certain skills as a Vis Moot alumnus (2013 -2014) helped him a lot.
Kadi graduated from Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia with bachelor degree in 2015. Afterwards, he received his master degree with honor at the National Research University - Higher School of Economics. Currently, Kadi is writing his PhD thesis on topic of international commercial arbitration in UAE.

Dr Muhammad Abu Sadah

Dr. Muhammad Abu Sadah holds a PhDdegree in Private International Law from Cardiff University in the United Kingdom and a Master’s LLMdegree in International Economic Law from Warwick University UK.
Dr. Abu Sadah joined many advanced legal studies at the University of London and the Royal Institute of Public Administration in London,
He has many training courses at UK, USA and Arab Countries, mainly; UK Treasury Office; Efficiency and Effectiveness office allied to British Prime Minister; Anti-Fraud and Corruption course; UK National Audit Office; UK Civil Service College.
He also been on International visitors program organized by the U.S. State Department in the USA, where he gain professional experience and training at many U.S. core governmental organization.
Dr. Abu Sadah is currently the Associate Professor of law at the Faculty of Law and Legal practice- University of Palestine – Gaza. He had taught law in a number of universities in the Gaza Strip.
In addition; Dr. Abu Sadah is the Board Chair of Abu Sadah and Partner Law firm. He also served as legal consultant for many local Palestinian organizations. Served as legal advisor to General Control Office (GCO) in the Palestinian National Authority and theAttorney and legal advisor for Palestinian National Authority.
The most important areas of expertise of Dr. Abu Sadah are: Private International Law; International Economic Law; International Inverionmental Law and Natural Resources law; International Contracts; Corporate Governance; Commercial Arbitration; Multilateral and Bilateral treaties; International Trade Law and Foreign Investment; Transnational Corporations Law; in addition to his experience in the field of Law and Policies and sustainable development. Dr. Abu Sadah published many articles in international law journals in UK.
Dr. Abu Sadah is a member of the London court of International Arbitration- LCIA; Charter Institute of Arbitrators- (CIArb) Palestinian Bar Association; Arab Lawyers Union; a member of the International Bar Association–London, International Law Association UK, member of ICC YAF Paris; Patent Attorney Network Group USA. He is a member of board of directors of manyPalestinian civil society and NGOs.

Dr. Muhammad Abu Sadah
International lawyer,
Attorney and legal Consultant

Miss Margarita Adadurova

Bachelor of Law of the Higher School of Economics (Moscow), Master of Private Law program student at the Russian School of Private Law. Member of the Higher School of Economics (Moscow) team at 26th Vis Moot and coach of the Higher School of Economics (Moscow) team since 2019. Now I work in the leading Russian law firm focusing on corporate law.

Mr Afolabi Adekemi

Afolabi is a Ph.D. candidate at the European Institute University of Saarland Germany, where he doubles as a Research Associate at the chair for "Public Law, Public International Law, and European Law. He specializes in International Dispute Resolution, focusing on both Investor-State and International Commercial Arbitration. He currently serves as co-coach of Uni. Saarland FDI Arbitration Moot team. Afolabi also has experience as an ex - Vis Moot team member.

Mrs Dalia Adel

Professional experience:
-Legal Counsel- Engie (August 2021-present)
-Paralegal in AMEA Power - Renewable Energy sector (Sep 2020-May 2021)
-Paralegal in ACWA Power Dubai Office- Company working in water and power projects in Middle East, Northwest Asia and South Asia (Aug 2018- Sep 2020)
-Internships in Paris, France- ALTANA Law Firm (Arbitration department) and TESCA Group and Cairo, Egypt - Abdulraouf Law Firm.

Educational background and publications:
-a master degree in International Business Law - University of Toulouse 1-Capitole- France
- a master degree in European and international Business Law - University of Paris 1-Sorbonne
-a licence in Egyptian Business Law - University of Cairo-Egypt
-Thesis on "Third-Party Funding in International Arbitration: A comparative Legal and Economic Analysis in Europe and Middle-East
- article on "Third-Party Funding New Recognition in Domestic Legislation and Status" in French and English
Other:
Pleader: 23th willem c. vis moot and East moot
Arbitrator: 27th, 28th and 29th willem c. vis moot
Arbitrator: SCCA Arabic Moot 2022

Dr Nevi Agapiou

Dr. Agapiou holds a PhD, an LLM in International Commercial Law and an LLB (Hons) from the University of Leicester, UK. She also holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Professional and Legal Skills from the Inns of Court School of Law after successfully completing the Bar Vocational Course. Dr. Agapiou was called to the Bar in England and Wales (Lincoln’s Inn) and later qualified as an Advocate in Cyprus practising law before turning to academia. She is currently a Lecturer in International Commercial Law and Dispute Resolution at the School of Law, UCLan Cyprus. Her research and teaching interests lie in the areas of international commercial law, in particular international sale of goods, alternative dispute resolution methods, English Contract, Commercial and Consumer law as well as Comparative law. Dr. Agapiou is a CEDR Accredited Mediator and a member of the Executive Committee of the Cyprus Chapter of the European Court of Arbitration. She is also the Secretary of the non-profit organisation ICLAIM (Interdisciplinary Centre for Law, Alternative and Innovative Methods), through which she also leads the first notified ADR Entity in Cyprus for consumer disputes. She is also the Coach of the UCLan Cyprus Willem C. Vis team.

Mr Arjun Agarwal

Arjun Agarwal is an associate at the New Delhi office of Trilegal and is part of the Dispute Resolution practice since 2018. He primarily advises clients on international commercial arbitration as also disputes in the energy and infrastructure sector, with particular emphasis on contentious regulatory matters involving generation, transmission and distribution companies before various Indian Courts, including the Supreme Court of India, various High Courts, the Appellate Tribunal for Electricity, the National Green Tribunal, the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission and various State Electricity Regulatory Commissions. He is also engaged in certain pro bono litigation on behalf of an organisation working for the betterment of slum dwellers in New Delhi. Arjun is an alumnus of the prestigious WB National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata, India. He is a member of the Bar Council of Delhi.

Dr Adeyemi Agbelusi

Dr Adeyemi Agbelusi is Principal Partner, Berean Associates. He is a an Arbitrator, Accredited Mediator and Conciliator and Mediation Advisor involved in resolving disputes throughout Nigeria and other Jurisdictions. He has several years of experience in Alternate Dispute Resolution with a view to providing strategic solutions to clients. Adeyemi has served as a facilitator to resolve several complex cases and as been appointed Arbitrator and Tribunal Secretary in several Arbitrations. He has trained several ADR practitioners. Adeyemi is passionate about appropriate and efficient dispute resolution and seeks to promote efficient use of the ADR toolbox especially in Commercial Disputes.
He has attended several courses on Negotiation, Mediation and Arbitration and is well published in several magazines. He is a regular blogger on ADR and developments in effective Dispute Resolution.

Mr Aram Aghababyan

Armenian Lawyer currently working as a coordinator at the American University of Armenia Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Clinic and serving as an Arbitrator Intelligence regional ambassador for the MENA region from Armenia. Studying in the International Investment and Trade Law program at the University of Amsterdam. Holding an LL.M. degree from the American University of Armenia and a BS degree from the Armenian State University of Economics.

Published several articles on international arbitration and International Investment Law topics. Acted as a coach for the Armenian Law Schools' team and served as an Arbitrator in the 27th Vis Moot Pre-moot rounds.

Ms Katrina Aguila

Currently a Foreign Associate at the Vietnam International Law Firm, specialising in dispute resolution, corporate law, and mergers & acquisitions. Katrina has been participating in as an arbitrator in the Vis East and coaching the Philippine Team every year since 2015. She was also a member of the Philippine Team that placed in the Semi-final Rounds in the Vis East Pan Asian Division (2012). Prior to moving to Vietnam, Katrina worked as Court Attorney at the Supreme Court of the Philippines for three years and was a Professor of Public International Law at the Universidad de Manila, Philippines.

Mr Tauseef Ahmed

I am an attorney practicing in the areas of commercial, real estate, and intellectual property litigation as well as bankruptcy law. I represented Hofstra Law School and competed in the Vis Moot in 2016 and 2017 in Vienna, Austria.

Mrs Zana Ahmetgjekaj-Deva

Zana Ahmetgjekaj is a lawyer specialized in business, competition and regulatory law and a Certified Privacy Professional CIPP/E. She graduated with honors from the University of Prishtina with a Bachelor of Laws, and Master of Business Law degree from the Freie Universitaet Berlin, at the German Institute for International and European Business, Competition and Regulatory Law. Zana has also successfully finished an exchange bachelor semester at the Riga Graduate School of Law, mainly focusing on European policy and International public and private law. During her studies, she has interned with the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative in Kosovo, in cooperation with the Kosovo Chamber of Advocates. After obtaining her BA degree, she worked as a Legal Associate at the Effective Rule of Law Program granted by the USAID Kosovo; a program that played an integral role in the biggest judiciary reform in Kosovo. In her course of activities, Zana also participated in the 20th VIS Moot 2013 as a member of the team representing the University of Prishtina.

Ms Niyati Ahuja

Niyati Ahuja is an associate in Diamond McCarthy’s New York office. She represents international corporations in commercial and investor-state arbitration proceedings in a range of industries, including energy, oil and gas, and other commodities. Niyati received her Master of Laws from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law where she also graduated with a Certificate of Specialization in Business Law and a Distinction in Pro Bono Pledge. She received a Bachelor of Business Administration and Laws in New Delhi, India. Following her LL.M., Niyati attended the International Arbitration Academy in Paris where she was awarded the runner up prize for Laureate of the Academy.

Mr Iain Aitchison

Iain Aitchison MArch LLM DipICArb FDBF FCIArb is a Managing Director at Ankura, based in London. UK-German dual national. Registered Architect in Germany and UK. Regularly appointed as an independent expert on complex and high-value disputes and has given expert evidence in ICC Arbitration on delay and FIDIC contract administration issues. Accredited dispute board member, mediator, international arbitrator. Experience of cross examination in international arbitration. Practising arbitrator and listed on various arbitration panels. Since 2012, arbitrator/chair in international pre-moots including LCIA, CIArb, AIAC, PCA, TRAC, CRCICA, Fordham University, Edinburgh University, Asia Pacific, Munich, Moscow, Dublin, and Warsaw. Experience as presiding arbitrator in elimination rounds in Vienna and Hong Kong.

Prof Dr Sebnem Akipek

I am graduated from Ankara University Law Faculty at the head of my class, cum laude, in 1989. I completed LL.M at London School of Economics in 1991. I finished Ph.D at Ankara University in 1998. Following that I become an assistant proffessor at Ankara University Law Faculty. In 2004 I become an associate proffessor and in 2010 I obtained proffessorship. Till then I am working as a full time proffessor at Ankara University Law Faculty.
Between the years 2006-2013 I acted as the director of the Vocational School of Justice. Also I am the chief legal advisor of Middle East Technical University for nearly 14 years. Currently besides my other duties I am also the Dean of the Law Faculty of Kadir Has University.
My main fields of study are civil law, international commercial arbirtration, law of contracts, consumer protection, energy law. I have written several books and articles on various legal subjects, especially on my main fields of interest.
In the field of international commercial arbitration I am also acting as an arbitrator, expert witness and advocate.
I am fluent in English and German. My mother tongue is Turkish.
I have attended Willem Vis many years as a coach and then as an arbitrator.

Ms Nadja Al Kanawati

Nadja Al Kanawati is a Senior Associate in WilmerHale's international arbitration group, acting as counsel in commercial and investment arbitration cases under various institutional rules. Nadja participated in the 19th Vis Moot during her studies at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland), where she also interned for Prof. Pierre Tercier and assisted him on various commercial and investment arbitration cases. She teaches a course on international commercial arbitration at the Catholic University of Lille and is the DIS40 Regional Representative in London.

Ms Karina Albers

Arbitration and expert witness for maritime disputes , commodity derivative trading and broking and commercial risk management
An accredited Expert at the Federal Court of New York and acted as expert in leading cases in London, New York and Singapore. She is a NGO representative at the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL)
Member of the Baltic Exchange, the GMAA,, SCMA , aspiring full member of the LMAA and Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, ICCA and the Expert Witness Institute.

Dr Deborah Alcici Salomao

Dr. Deborah Alcici Salomão is a qualified business lawyer specialized in Real Estate Law and Arbitration. She also works as an arbitrator in commercial cases with local arbitration institutions. Deborah holds a PhD from the Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen,Germany on the subject of construction arbitration. Her work was awarded the Juristische Studiengesellschaft Gießen e.V. Preis for the best doctoral thesis in the academic year 2018/2019. She holds a LL.M. degree from the University of Marburg,Germany, graded summa cum laude. As a law student, she was awarded the Laurea academica as the best graduate student of 2008. In addition to Portuguese, Deborah speaks English, German, Italian, Spanish and is currently learning French.
Deborah likes to share her working routine on Instagram, she hosts a Legal Podcast called Última Instância, available on several platforms, where she explains interesting cases decided by German courts in a comparative perspective and publishes not only academic papers about arbitration, but also legal posts and chronicles in diverse blogs. She has already participated in the Willem C. Vis Moot as a student and as a coach. She is honored to share her experience to help and motivate the teams during this interesting journey through international commercial arbitration.

Mr Wala Al-Daraji

Wala is an arbitrator, delay expert witness and lecturer with a wealth of construction experience in the UK and the Middle East. He currently lectures construction law and project planning, at postgraduate and undergraduate level, at the University of Westminster. He also supervises master’s degree dissertations in delay and construction claims.
His research interests include third party litigation funding, international investment arbitration and customary international law.
In addition to his involvement in academia, he acts as an arbitrator in construction and transport disputes both in the UK and internationally. Furthermore, he acts as a delay expert witness and a delay advisor to construction clients and contractors in both building and infrastructure projects. Wala is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a Registered Expert Witness/Accredited Mediator with the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.
His professional experience covers many aspects of claims and project controls; including FIDIC, JCT and NEC contracts, and delays analysis/extension of time claims. He worked in the following sectors: railways, water, the Underground, buildings, M&E, pharmaceuticals and civils.
In addition to English, Wala speaks Arabic and Italian, and understands French and Spanish. He has worked/lived in London, Cairo, Rome, Dubai, Athens and Riyadh.

Ms Dima Alexandrova

Dima is a Bulgarian qualified business lawyer and mediator specializing in Commercial Law and Dispute Resolution (Litigation, Arbitration and Mediation) currently practising in Bulgaria. She is an LLM graduate in International Business Law from King`s College London, having her fundamental training at Sofia University Bulgaria and University of Lorraine France. Previously, she has gained experience at PricewaterhouseCoopers, CMS Cameron McKenna and a leading local litigation practice Dokovska, Atanassov and Partners as well as in two in-house practices focused on energy, insurance and pharmaceuticals. In the course of the last three years she has coached for Sofia University and King`s College London for both the CDRC Negotiation competition ( based on the Vis Case) and the ICC Commercial Mediation Competition, keeping high level standards to the extent her teams are always at the finals and in the top 3 or 4. She is involved in the Vis for a third following year as an arbitrator in Vienna London White and Case, Sofia, Belgrade Pre-Moots. She authored a dissertation under the title `Multi-tier clause in International Commercial Arbitration` to reflect her interest in Mediation as an effective ADR tool.

Ms Nevin Alija

Nevin Alija is a PhD Researcher at the Research Centre for the Future of the Law, at Universidade Católica Portuguesa in Lisbon and a Researcher at the Research Center on Law and Society of the Faculty of Law (Centro de Investigação e Desenvolvimento sobre Direito e Sociedade (CEDIS)) of the NOVA School of Law. She is also one of the cofounders of the Nova Law Green Lab, which aims to promote research, information and knowledge production in the intersection between energy, environment and urbanism.
As part of her work at the Nova School of Law she is a Teaching Assistant for the subject Moot Courts part of the Master’s Degree in Arbitration and Litigation. She has been an arbitrator and memorials evaluator for several International Moot Court’s such as Vis East, FDI (Regional and Global Rounds), Middle East Moot Bahrain Chamber for Dispute Resolution BCDR-AAA. She has published in several renowned journals and law reviews and the focus of her work has frequently been on Support Schemes for Renewable Energy in the EU.
She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Legal Studies from the University of Tirana, a Masters´ Degree in Transnational Trade Law and Finance from the University of Deusto and a M2 in Bank Law and Financial Markets from the University of Strasbourg. She obtained an M2 in Economic and Regulatory European Law from the Sciences Po Strasbourg and an LLM in Business, Competition and Regulatory Law from Free University Berlin.

Mrs Elisa Aliotta

Elisa Aliotta obtained her Bachlor of Law (2013) and Master of Law degrees (2014) at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. During her studies, she competed in the 20th Annual Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot 2012/2013 as a member of the team of the University of Zurich. In 2014, she obtained an LLM from King's College, London (2014). After university, she gained experience as a legal intern at Lenz & Staehlin, one of the biggest Swiss law firms, and completed the intern program at the international arbitration group of Wilmer Hale in London. After passing the Bar Exam of the Canton of Zurich in 2017, she started working at the Zurich office of Bratschi Ltd., one of Switzerland’s leading law firms. At Bratschi she advises clients primarily in the field of intellectual property law, commercial and technology law, as well as general contract law and corporate law. She represents clients in international arbitration proceedings and has acted as counsel in proceedings under the ICC Rules and Swiss Rules, involving particularly licensing/IP, joint ventures and other contractual disputes. She is also a Swiss court litigator and regularly appears as counsel in proceedings before Swiss courts.

Dr Omar Aljazy

Omar Aljazy holds a Ph.D. in International Commercial Arbitration Law from the University of Kent, UK, an LLM in International and Comparative Business Law from London Guildhall University, and a BA in Law from University of Jordan. He is an international business lawyer enjoying extensive practical expertise in international transactions, intellectual property, construction disputes, shipping and maritime issues, competition and antitrust matters.
Dr. Aljazy participated in drafting various Jordanian laws and regulations in conformity with international conventions it has ratified. He is a member of the Jordanian Competition Committee and of the ICC Commission on Competition. He is the official correspondent for the Global Competition Review (GCR) in Jordan, and the President of the Jordanian Competition Association (JCA).
Dr. Aljazy headed the Founding Committee of Arbitration and Mediation Center for IP Disputes. Besides being a listed Partner with the UNCTAD Project on Dispute Settlement in International Trade, Investment and Intellectual Property, he is a listed arbitrator with many prominent Arbitral institutes worldwide. He has been listed as Neutral with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). He serves as the Jordanian Government’s representative to the UN Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL).

Ms Rania Alnaber

Rania is based in Jordan. During her bachelor degree at the University of Jordan, Rania has participated in both local and international moots. She has graduated from University of Bristol in 2018 by completing her LLM degree in International Commercial Law. Being highly interested in arbitration, she wrote her thesis about Emergency Arbitration, which was published in Arbitration International Journal- OUP end of 2019. Rania has recently joined the editorial board of Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA) in Review as an Assistant Editor. Rania has experience in commercial and construction arbitration. Her experience also covers drafting and reviewing contracts.

Dr Gizem Alper

I am a bilingual academic and international legal and ADR consultant, dual-qualified in New York and Turkey. With an extensive professional background spanning over two decades and across three continents, she specializes in global commercial and corporate transactions as well as dispute settlement mechanisms, with a particular emphasis on dispute prevention. I am a listed arbitrator and/or mediator with international tribunals and hold memberships in various professional organizations. Currently, I serve as the secretary for the Commercial Law and Uniform State Laws Committee at the New York City Bar. I previously held positions in Turkish universities and currently, I oversee the Pace CISG Database at the Institute of International Commercial Law.

Dr Gizem Alper

Dr. Gizem Alper attended the Bilkent University Faculty of Law. She has her master’s degree in Law and Economics and her doctorate degree in Private Law both from the Bilkent University Faculty of Law, where she was a teaching and research assistant at the Civil Law Department during her studies. She is currently rendering her post-doctoral research at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg. As of April 2020, she will continue her post-doctoral studies at the Oxford University Institute of European and Comparative Law. She the translator of Art. 66-70 (with Pınar Çağlayan Aksoy) and Art. 71-73 of the CISG Commentary edited by Ingeborg Schwenzer and Pınar Çağlayan Aksoy. Last year she was one of the team coaches of the Bilkent University team that attended the Istanbul Arbitration Center Young Arbitration Moot Court competition, which won third place. Current research interests include tort law, contract law and the boundaries of the two as well as consumer law.

Ms Ada Sofie Altobelli

Ada is a lawyer from Zurich with a keen interest in international dispute resolution.
She is currently an associate in IP & Arbitration at a leading Swiss law firm. She has previously interned at the International Court of Arbitration at the International Chamber of Commerce and participated as a Coach at the 21th Annual Willem C.Vis International Commercial Moot Arbitration Court.

She started to be an arbitrator at the 13th VIS EAST Moot in Hong Kong.

Mr Ibrahim Alturki

Ibrahim Alturki is a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge focusing on international commercial arbitration and finance. He is a founding board member and the current president of the Cambridge Arbitration Society(CUArb) and a co-coach of the Cambridge team to the Vis Moot. He has over 5 years of experience in litigation, arbitration and cross border disputes and 5 years of teaching experience.

Previously, Ibrahim was a blog editor and a managing editor at the Cambridge International Law Journal. He was also an academic lecturer in commercial law at Qassim University in Saudi Arabia where he taught corporate law, international trade law, dispute resolution, civil procedure and private international law among other courses. Prior to his teaching experience, Ibrahim received a Bachelor degree (Hons) in Islamic Law from Qassim University and an LL.M. (Dist. and Dean's list) from Georgetown University in International Business and Economic Law with a Certificate in International Arbitration and Dispute Resolution. During his LL.M., he served as a board member of the Georgetown International Arbitration Society and interned at the World Bank.

Mr Carlos Alvarado

Carlos Alvarado has dedicated his entire career to dispute resolution, particularly international arbitration and litigation. Before founding Alvarado Moreno Abogados, he worked for 10 years at Hogan Lovells in Mexico City and London (2017). Carlos was recognized as Rising Star 2021 in Arbitration by Legal 500. He has an LL.M in International and Comparative Dispute Resolution from Queen Mary University of London and a Master of Finance from EGADE Business Scholl (ITESM).

Mr Andrés Eduardo Alvarado Garzón

Andrés Eduardo Alvarado Garzón, LL.M., is a PhD Candidate at Saarland University (Germany) where he also works as research associate at the Chair for Public Law, Public International Law and European Law of Prof. Dr. Marc Bungenberg, LL.M. Previously, he studied law at the Universidad Externado de Colombia, where he also worked as an assistant at the Chair for Procedural Law. He holds an LL.M. degree in European and International Law from the Europa-Institut at Saarland University, with emphasis in Foreign Trade and Investment, and International Dispute Resolution. Mr. Alvarado Garzón is qualified to practice law in Colombia, where he has gained professional experience working for the private sector. He participated in the 25th Willem C Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot in 2018 and in the FDI International Arbitration Moot in 2019, both as a speaker for Saarland University.

Miss Nicole Alvarez Barreno

Nicole is part of the Quevedo & Ponce Law Firm (ranked in Chambers and Partners) in Guayaquil, Ecuador as an associate lawyer.

She is a qualified lawyer in Ecuador with a broad knowledge of Latin American civil law system. Furthermore, she gained proficiency in English law and common law system in her studies for an LLM in commercial and corporate Law at the University of Sheffield from 2019 to 2020. Nicole participated as a research assistant in the second edition of the Global Sales and Contract Law book (GSCL) published by Oxford University Press with Prof. Dr Ingeborg Schwenzer and Prof. Dr Edgardo Muñoz in 2020.

She graduated from the Universidad Católica Santiago de Guayaquil UCSG in 2019. During her studies, she studied a semester in the School of Law of the Universidad de Almeria UAL, in Spain in 2017.

Her practice is focused on litigation, civil procedural law, and enforcement of judgments and arbitral awards. Additionally, she specialises in corporate matters, involved in the incorporation, dissolutions, M&A and compliance. Concerning contracts and commercial agreements, she gives support to enterprises and start-ups.

Dr Irma Ambauen

Since 2015, Irma Ambauen is an associate at Kaufmann Ruedi Attorney at Law Ltd focusing on litigation and arbitration. She coached the Vis Moot Team of the University of Lucerne from 2014 to 2018. In 2016 she published her PhD thesis on the Swiss lex arbitri.

Dr Ihab Amro

Dr. Jur. Ihab Amro is an Assistant Professor of Private Law and a practicing lawyer and a chartered arbitrator. He holds PhD from the Athens Law School in Greece awarded in early 2011. He has published several books on International Commercial Arbitration, including a book on the recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards under Cambridge Scholars Publishing ('C-S-P') in the UK in 2014, which has been included in the Bibliography of 1958 New York Convention Guide of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law ‘UNCITRAL’. Also, his last book on online arbitration published under C-S-P in early 2019 has been selected as the best (civil) law book in the world in 2019 by Book Authority, which identifies and rates the best books in the world as featured on CNN, Forbes, and INC, and it has been selected in the list of the best arbitration books of all time. Apart from that, a Paperback version of his book on online arbitration has been published in late 2021. In addition, he has published articles in numerous well-known international law journals, including the Hague Yearbook of International Law, the Arbitration Journal of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, The World Arbitration and Mediation Review, Journal of Legal, Ethical, and Regulatory Issues, the Vindobona Journal of International Commercial Law and Arbitration, and the Slovenian Arbitration Review. Between 2012 and 2019 he visited several international law institutions and conducted research as post-doctoral researcher, including the Max-Planck-Institute for Comparative and International Private Law ('MPI') in Hamburg; the UNCITIRAL in Vienna, the Legal Studies Department of Central European University (‘CEU’) in Budapest, and the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law ('UNIDROIT') in Rome. Dr. Amro has been invited to deliver lectures at international law institutions such as the UNIDROIT. He participated as a speaker in some international conferences on arbitration organized by international arbitration centres, including the ICC International Court of Arbitration in Paris. He is fluent in English, Greek, German and French, and he has a knowledge of both Italian and Hungarian, aside from his native language Arabic. His current research focuses mainly on international commercial arbitration, on online dispute resolution (‘ODR’), and on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Arbitration. He served as a prosecutor for few years.

Mr Toheeb Amuda

I am a qualified lawyer, an Investment Consultant and an Arbitrator in Nigeria. I am a member of the Lagos Court of Arbitration, an International Arbitration institution and an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Mediators and Conciliators (ICMC). I work closely with an international renowned arbitrator Mrs. Dorothy Udeme Ufot, SAN, a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, U.K and in this capacity, I have participated in International Commercial Arbitration with venues at the Lagos Court of Arbitration and the Lagos Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration, Nigeria (LRCICA). I have considerable experience in International Commercial Arbitration, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards, Negotiation and Documentation of Local and International Contracts and Foreign Investments.

Dr Alan Anderson

Alan M. Anderson is a nationally-recognized trial lawyer specializing in intellectual property and complex commercial litigation and international arbitration with over thirty years of dispute resolution experience. He is associated with Littleton Chambers, in London, with the international arbitration practice group. He received his doctor of law degree, magna cum laude, from Cornell University; an LL.M. from the University of London, with distinction, specializing in international dispute resolution; and his PhD in War Studies from King's College London. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and is listed on the panel of arbitrators for the World Intellectual Property Organization; the London Court of International Arbitration; the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration, and the Asian International Arbitration Centre. He has been counsel in proceedings before the International Chamber of Commerce, the London Court of International Arbitration, the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, and the American Arbitration Association. He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America in the field of intellectual property law. He has served as an arbitrator for many years at the Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot competition in Vienna and at the Foreign Direct Investment International Moot competition.

Mrs Atenas Anderson

Graduated from the University of Fribourg. Currently, PhD Candidate in the University of Fribourg. Specialization in international Arbitration.

Mr Agustin Angelomé

Lawyer in Alvarado Velloso & Asoc.

Mr Alexey Anischenko

Partner at Anischenko Laptev . Get a law degree with honours at the Belarusian State University, where he is now a senior lecturer. Practise law since 1999 and was recognised as a leading practitioner in Belarus by all major legal directories such as Chambers, Legal 500, IFLR 1000 and others, including Who’s Who Legal’s ‘Arbitration - Future Leaders - partners aged 45 or under and Arbitration Powerlist 2020 "CIS and Caucasus" by the Legal 500. Member of the VIAC International Advisory Board and ICC Advanced Arbitration Academy alumni.

Ms Ketevan Arakhamia

After graduating with honors from Tbilisi State University, international law faculty, I have continued my studies in GIPA, completed it with honors and obtained LL.M. degree in international private law. In 2019 I have been enrolled on MIDS LL.M. Program in international arbitration with full funding and have completed it successfully in 2020. While studying in GIPA, in 2018, I have participated in William C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot. In 2019 I have coached Ilia State University vis moot team. I have an experience of participating in Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition and our team has become the finalist of the national rounds. During my studies in TSU I have participated in the EU moot court competition.
As for the practical experience, I have worked for Iranian law firm for 1 year. For the next 3 years I have worked for the Ministry of Justice of Georgia, firstly as an intern and then as a legal adviser of the public international law department. I also have an experience of working in the Supreme Court of Georgia and the non-governmental organization, GYLA. Recently, I work for the Bank of Georgia.

Ms Chiara Arena

I graduated summa cum laude at the University of Pavia, faculty of Law the 1st of July 2020. My final thesis in civil procedure was entitled "Violation of the Duty of Impartiality and Corruption of Arbitrators: a Comparative Approach". In 2018 I took part to the Vis Moot for the University of Pavia in 2017/2018. From late 2018 I am one of the coaches of the University of Pavia team and I acted as arbitrator in different premoots, such as Rome, Milan, Budapest and Copenhagen. In 2019 I attended the renowned Certificate in International Commercial and Investment Arbitration in Rome, University of Roma Tre. Now i am currently an associate of the Law Firm Legance in Milan, working in the IP Practice, dealing with both litigation and arbitration proceedings.

Ms Ghada Arfaoui

Mr Alexander Arkhincheev

In-house lawyer at BIOCAD, biotechnology company
Participant in the Vis Moot Court 2014/2015 for Saint-Petersburg State University team
Bachelor (2012) and Master (2015) in Civil and Arbitration Procedure from St. Petersburg State University, LL.M (2016) in International Business Law from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge school of of law.

Mrs Carolina Arroyo

Carolina is a Senior Associate at Andrade Veloz, a firm in Quito, Ecuador. She is part of the Arbitration and Complex Litigation team, as well as of the M&A and Mining Departments. Her inter-disciplinary education (law and business administration) has enabled her to provide focused advice on commercial issues. Currently, Carolina advises clients in telecommunications, oil, gas & mining, banking, logistics, insurance and emerging technologies. Carolina acts as arbitral secretary in addition to being a Member of the Committee for Young Practitioners of the Ecuadorian Arbitration Institute and lecturer for Universidad San Francisco de Quito (Ecuador). Carolina holds an LL.M/ MLB from Bucerius Law School and Otto Beisheim School of Management.

Dr Christian Aschauer

Christian Aschauer acts primarily as arbitrator, in particular under the rules of the ICC, VIAC, Camera Arbitrale, DIS, Swiss Rules and ad hoc. Christian Aschauer also handles enforcement proceedings before state courts as well as proceedings to set aside arbitral awards.

Christian Aschauer has a distinguished academic background as a former research fellow and doctor of law. He is now professor at the University of Graz (Austria) in the field of Austrian arbitration law and international arbitration. He frequently speaks at seminars and conferences.

Christian Aschauer speaks German, English, Italian and French and has conducted arbitrations in all of these languages.

As arbitrator, Christian Aschauer’s practice areas and expertise range from the energy sector to the construction and plant engineering industries, international commercial law, M&A disputes, financial transactions, distribution agreements, joint ventures and telecommunications.

Mr Peter Ashford

Independent arbitrator as Peter Ashford Ltd. Founder and director of Conflict Check Ltd.
Peter has been appointed arbitrator by the President of the Law Society, ICC, London Chamber of Arbitration and by the LCIA both as sole and as party nominee. He prides himself as being realistic in time and cost and in promptly producing orders and awards.
Also consultant to Fox Williams LLP and co-head of international arbitration. Fellow of Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
Author of Handbook on International Commercial Arbitration 2nd edition (Juris Publishing 2014); Guide to the IBA Rules on the Taking of Evidence in International Arbitration (Cambridge University Press 2012) and Guide to the IBA Guidelines on Party Representation in International Arbitration (Cambridge University Press 2016).
Recognised in the leading guides / directories e.g. : “Peter Ashford is "a doyen of the arbitration world. At the top of the tree and highly respected within arbitration circles"; ‘exceptionally good’"; “top-notch” lawyer"; “very clever in understanding immediately what the issues are and in terms of dealing with the other side.”
Peter has run the London Pre-Moot since 2016, judged at many pre-moots and has been selected to preside over a semi-final in Vienna.

Ms Daria Astakhova

Daria Astakhova is a lawyer admitted to the Paris Bar since 2019. She works as an Associate at Audit, Duprey, Fekl, a Paris-based law firm specialized in dispute resolution. Daria Astakhova’s practice is focused on commercial and investment arbitration, international commercial litigation, recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards, international contracts. Daria Astakhova also holds a PhD in Law from the MGIMO-University in Moscow and teaches international litigation, civil procedure and comparative law in French and Russian universities.

Prof Dr Yesim M. Atamer

Yeşim M. Atamer studied law at Istanbul University Law Faculty, where she also obtained her LL.M. and PhD degrees. She currently holds the Chair for Private Law, Commercial Law, European and Comparative Law at University of Zurich, Faculty of Law. Her main areas of research are law of domestic and international sale of goods, comparative consumer law and harmonization of European contract law. As a scholar of the European Union Jean Monnet program, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Max Planck Society, Swiss Institute of Comparative Law and the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (Unidroit), she has conducted research in Basel, Cambridge (USA), Hamburg, Lausanne, Munich and Rome. In 2007 she was awarded the Distinguished Young Scientist Award of the Turkish Academy of Sciences. She is a member of the CISG Advisory Council since 2013. For further information: (https://www.ius.uzh.ch/de/staff/professorships/alphabetical/atamer.html)

Dr Dushica Atanasovska

PhD International sales contract
LLM International private law
TA in Private Law and Law of Obligations
Max Planck Institute for Private and Intarnatinal law visiting reseracher

Ms Katharina Auernig

Austrian Judge in civil matters and External Lecturer for Civil Procedure Law at the University of Vienna; previously Visiting Foreign Consultant with the International Arbitration Practice Group of WilmerHale in London; Research Assistant and Lecturer at the Department for Civil Procedure Law, University of Vienna;
PhD thesis on "Surprise Decisions" in Civil Procedure and International Arbitration;
further fields of research: European Procedure Law; European Insolvency Law; Austrian Civil Procedure Law;
Coach of the University of Vienna Vis Moot Team 2014-2015

Mr Thierry P. Augsburger

Thierry P. Augsburger is an experienced trial lawyer. He represents a broad range of clients before commercial, investment, and sports arbitral tribunals, state courts and administrative bodies. Thierry advises clients and argues or hears cases in English, French and German alike. He has particular experience in the commodities trading & finance, manufacturing / industry, technology & telecom, trade, transport & distribution, energy, construction / infrastructure, defense, luxury goods, financial services, media, hospitality and sports sectors.

Thierry is the Managing Partner of Four Knights LLC, a Geneva-based dispute resolution boutique law firm. Before co-founding Four Knights, Thierry spent 10+ years as an arbitration and litigation lawyer with leading international and national Swiss law firms , last as a Partner. Before starting his career in law, Thierry worked on the trading floor of a private bank and as a Career Officer with the Swiss Armed Forces.

Thierry graduated from the Universities of Zurich and Neuchâtel, holds an LL.M. with a "Specialisation in International Law" from the University of Cambridge, was a Max-Planck Scholar in the IMPRS on "Successful Dispute Resolution in International Law" and completed the LCIL Executive Course on Investment Law and Arbitration.

Mr Teemu Auressalmi

I work as a Counsel specialising in dispute resolution with Castrén & Snellman Attorneys. My practice covers both international and domestic arbitration and litigation as well as alternative forms of dispute resolution.

I have represented clients before tribunals and the Finnish courts in a variety of commercial and corporate disputes. These disputes have related to, among others, antitrust damages claims, construction projects, mergers and acquisitions, shareholders’ agreements, international trade, and trade secrets. I have also acted as counsel in investor-state arbitration proceedings. My industry experience includes construction, electronics, energy, the food industry and technology, among others.

In addition to a law degree, I hold a M.Sc. degree in Economics and Business Administration and have also completed court training. Prior to joining Castrén & Snellman I also worked with questions related to corporate law at an international audit firm.

I am a regular speaker in topics related to dispute resolution and an active member of the Finnish arbitration community. Currently I serve as chair of the Finnish below-40 arbitration practitioners’ association, the Young Arbitration Club Finland. I am a former mootie from the 21st Vis Moot.

Ms Bennar Aydoğdu

• Founder, BennArb Law Firm, Türkiye
• Court member, ICC Court of International Arbitration
• Co-chair, ICC Türkiye Arbitration Commission
• Member, ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR
• Chair, Istanbul Arbitration Association
• Vice-Chair, BTSO Arbitration and Mediation Center
• Lecturer on ADR, Uludag University, Institute of Social Sciences, Alternative Dispute Resolution Department, ADR Masters Programme

• She has 24 years of experience in the field of international arbitration, acts as counsel, president of the tribunal, co-arbitrator and sole arbitrator and is specialized in international arbitration, international trade, sales transactions, construction and also acts as mediator.
• She served as the chair of CIArb European Branch, committee member of the CIArb Practice and Standards Committee, first regional coordinating committee member of ICC YAF Türkiye, Middle East and Africa Section, global advisory board member of ICDR Y&I, vice-chair of the Union of Turkish Bar Associations Arbitration Center and chair of Bursa Bar Association Arbitration Commission.
• She is also a tutor on international arbitration both in Turkey and abroad.

Mrs Zehra Betul Ayranci

Robbins Fellow, Miller Fellow, and Graduate Remote Instruction Innovation Fellow at University of California Berkeley Law; Contracts Consultant to Fox Sports (Los Angeles, CA, USA); former Legal Counsel to Fox Sports (Amsterdam, NL) in charge of all sports media rights and acquisitions in Europe and Africa. The youngest awardee of Legal 500 General Counsel Powerlist (of Turkey, in 2017), passed California Bar exam (admission pending), admitted to Istanbul Bar Association and Bar Associations of Turkey, trademark agent admitted to Turkish Trademark Office and Patent Institute, Legal and Disciplinary Board member of Turkish Hockey Federation since 2012, Advisory Board Member of LawInSport, the Co-Chair of the Shared Services sub-committee of the International Bar Association’s Technology Law Committee, and judge to Willem Vis, Jessup, International Criminal Court , Native American Law Students Association, and Oxford Intellectual Property Moot Court Competitions. Holding an LL.M. degree from UC Berkeley, with Fulbright Scholarship, and B.A. in Law cum laude from Bilkent University, started legal practice at a leading law firm in Istanbul as an associate in IP department, focusing on media right contracts with arbitration clauses, and one dispute, with the arbitration seat in Los Angeles. Scholar, currently pursuing JSD, author published by American Bar Association, International Bar Association, and forthcoming by Wolters Kluwer, Cambridge U. Press, and Routledge.

Ms Arpine Babayan

Arpine Babayan is a Senior Associate at GABNE.GABNYS law firm who gained almost 10 years of professional experience in the area of commercial dispute resolution. Her practice focuses on complex international and domestic commercial litigation and arbitration, as well as mediation. She has a particular interest in the areas of international civil procedure, private international law, international commercial arbitration and artificial intelligence. Arpine Babayan holds a Master of Laws from Vilnius University Faculty of Law (specialisation: International and European Union Law). Arpine defended master thesis on the topic “The challenges of artificial intelligence to human rights protection: the legal framework of the status of robots”. While writing the master thesis, Arpine participated in the 25th Annual Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot and represented a team from Vilnius University for the first time after a long break. Since 2019 Arpine actively participating in the Moot as an arbitrator.

More information here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arpine-babayan-528b78106/

Mr Thomas Baconin

Thomas Baconin is a manager with EY's Forensic & Integrity practice in Paris where he leads investigations, compliance audits and damages valuation teams. Thomas graduated from UCD Dublin, Paris II Panthéon-Assass as well as Queen Mary where he attended the LLM in Comparative and International Dispute Resolution in 2012. During the 2011-2012 Vis Moot, Thomas pleaded on the substance of the dispute. He has been an arbitrator for the Vis Moot 3 times since his last pleading and is looking forward to continue this experience. Thomas speaks French, Polish and English.

Professor Letícia Baddauy

Graduated in Business (Fundação Getúlio Vargas - 1993) and Law (Universidade de São Paulo - 1995). Master in Civil Procedure (Universidade Estadual de Londrina - 2006). Lawyer since 1996. Partner at L. Baddauy Law. Professor (Civil Procedure, Mediation and Arbitration) at Londrina State University since 1999. Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb). PhD candidate in Sociology. Member of the Brazilian Committee of Arbitration. Member of the Board of Directors - Chamber of Mediation and Arbitration of the Paraná Industries Federation. Member of the Brazilian Institute of Civil Procedure. Foreing languages: English (Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English - 2017), Italian and French.

Dr Mathias Bähr

Undergrad Law Studies in Düsseldorf, Germany (2013 - 2018). PhD and research assistance in Düsseldorf (2018 - 2022). LLM in International Law University of Cambridge (2022 - 2023). Currently clerkship Higher Regional Court Düsseldorf. Vis Moot Participation in 2015/2016. Coach of the Düsseldorf Team in 2019/2020.

Mr Bill Baker

Mr. Baker is an independent mediator and arbitrator with a website at www.bakeradr.com. He has been listed in Best Lawyers in America for International Arbitration every year since 2010. He has a subspecialty in IP matters. Before becoming a neutral, he was a patent litigator at the New York office of Alston & Bird and before that with Fish & Neave and Ropes & Gray. He has been recognized by Corporate America Legal Elite as "Best in Intellectual Property Litigation-New York." He is on the 32 person list of "the world's leading technology neutrals"promulgated by the Silicon Valley Arbitration and Mediation Association. He is a former chair of the American Bar Association's International Litigation Committee and was also an adjunct professor at Cardozo Law School for five years, teaching a course on international arbitration and mediation. He is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School.

Ms Müge Bakircioglu (Erdogmus)

Ms Bakırcıoğlu (Erdoğmuş) is a lawyer admitted to Istanbul Bar (Turkey), and Berlin Bar (Germany) as a foreign lawyer. Ms Bakırcıoğlu (Erdoğmuş) holds a Postgraduate Master of Laws, International Dispute Resolution (LL.M.), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Germany). She is a graduate of Istanbul Bilgi University, Faculty of Law (Turkey). She participated in the 20th Vis Moot as a team member and oralist of Istanbul Bilgi University. She also coached Istanbul University's Vis Moot team in the 22nd Vis Moot. She is a Salary Partner at BODENHEIMER (Berlin, Germany), and sits as both arbitrator and party's counsel in international arbitration matters.

Mrs Fatima Balfaqeeh

Fatima Balfaqeeh is a multi-disciplined professional who is an independent Arbitrator, Mediator, and a member of the Charter Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb), a Member in RICS as a chartered Facilities Management Surveyor and a Member in the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply Chain (CIPS). Fatima comes with over 16 years of experience in dispute resolution in construction-related matters, governance enforcement in contracts and procurement fields in government entities, project-related finance, payables, and banking credit facilities for cooperate clients.

Ms Ekaterina Baliuk

Ekaterina Baliuk is a case manager at the Russian Arbitration Center (RAC), where she has acted as a tribunal secretary in more than 25 domestic and international arbitrations. Ekaterina has also contributed to the improvement of practices and procedures of the RAC and led the team within a number of arbitration projects (e.g. the 2021 Moscow Vis Pre-Moot).

Prior to joining the RAC, Ekaterina was interning at the Asian International Arbitration Center (AIAC) and arbitration practice of a leading Russian law firm. She has also contributed to the 2nd edition of the Global Sales and Contract Law book supervised by Prof. Dr. Ingeborg Schwenzer.

With varied degrees of fluency, Ekaterina speaks and works in Russian, English and German.

Ms Karīna Baltiņa

Participant of 26th Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot. Currently I am lawyer at Law Firm PricewaterhouseCoopers Legal Latvia.

Mr Richard Bamforth

Richard Bamforth specialises in international commercial arbitration, commercial litigation and
alternative dispute resolution, with a focus on cross border disputes in the media,
banking, finance, insolvency, energy and telecommunications sectors. He represents clients in arbitrations conducted under all the major institutional rules
(ICC, LCIA, UNCITRAL) and other ad hoc arbitrations. He also sits as an arbitrator
(as sole arbitrator and as chair and a member of tribunals), appointed direct by parties and by
the arbitral institutions, and is accredited as a mediator by the Centre for Effective
Dispute Resolution (CEDR).

Mr Abinash Barik

Abinash is a Co-Founder & Partner at Finvest Legal (New Delhi), and a Disputes Practitioner who specializes in Mitigating Risks and Advisory on Finance, Investments, and Projects.

Abinash was a Former Senior International Case Counsel with the AIAC. He has worked in various jurisdictions such as India at Chambers of Merusagar Samantray and Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas, the United Kingdom at Essex Court Chambers, Germany at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, and Malaysia at AIAC.

His arbitration experience includes various AIAC, DIS, LCIA, ICC, PCA, LMAA & UNCITRAL related Commercial Arbitrations, and ICSID Investment Arbitrations.

Abinash holds a law degree from KIIT University, a master's degree from Queen Mary University of London. He also received a full merit scholarship from Mayor of The Hague for Private International Law course at The Hague Academy of International Law. He also attended Cologne Academies on International Commercial Arbitration. He is an advocate (India). He also received Student Achiever of the Year (Law) Award at KIIT University. Admitted to a Ph.D. programme (Law) in Germany.

An active member of DIS40, Young ICCA, YIAG, ySIAC, ICC YAF, AIAC-YPG. He has contributed to Redfern & Hunter on International Arbitration (6th ed), Oxford University Press (2015).

Mr Peter A. Barna

Counsel at the Madrid Court of Arbitration, Peter Barna is currently enrolled in the Brazilian, in the Portuguese and in the Spanish Bar Associations. He has participated in numerous proceedings in civil, commercial and consumers matters in the Brazilian Courts. Acted specially in subjects related to compliance and termination of contracts, tort and breach of contracts, aviation accidents, constructions and enforcement of judicial and extrajudicial orders.
Furthermore, collaborated in arbitration proceedings, whether ad hoc or administered by institutions such as the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the CIESP/FIESP Court of Arbitration, the Court of Arbitration of the Brazil-Canada Chamber of Commerce (CAM-CCBC), Civil and Mercantile Court of Arbitration (CIMA) and the Tribunal Arbitral de Barcelona (TAB).

Mr Saionton Basu

Saionton is currently a Director at EFG Private Bank in London in a cross border wealth structuring role at dealing with international treaties and cross border rules and protocols re banking and wealth management.

Saionton Basu was previously a Corporate Partner at Duane Morris in London. Saionton has extensive experience representing business entities, private equity funds and entrepreneurs in various business and financing transactions, including the buying and selling of companies, acquisition financings, capital raises, syndicated secured loan transactions, fund formations and equity investments.He is an experienced mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and projects lawyer and advises on international corporate and commercial activities involving a wide range of industries and jurisdictions.
He is a dual-qualified lawyer (England & Wales and India).The head of the Global South Asian team at a European private bank calls Saionton “very strong technically and a strategic thinker, resolving issues proactively. He tackles difficult scenarios admirably always giving really succinct and clear advice. In addition, his market knowledge of the Indian sub-continent is impressive and clearly a lawyer I would recommend for navigating that space.” Said a director at a major investment banking firm, “his knowledge of international transactional law is unparalleled.”

Mr David Bateson

International arbitrator with 39 Essex Chambers, based in Singapore.

Well known international arbitrator acting in over 150 cases worldwide as arbitrator under the auspices of the ICC,LCIA, AAA,HKIAC,PCA,SIAC CIETAC. or ad hoc.

Listed in Chambers Most In Demand Arbitators Asia and in the top 10.

On the panels of the HKIAC, SIAC ,KLRCA, APRAG, FACT and CIETAC.

Author of Commercial Arbitration in Hong Kong and contributor to Arbitration n Hong Kong a Practical Guide.

Mr SPYRIDON BATZIOS

My name is Spyridon Batzios and I am a Greek qualified Lawyer since 2015. After obtaining an LL.B. from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, mainly focusing on commercial and international law, I pursued master studies in International Law as well as German- and European Economic Law, with emphasis on international commercial and investment arbitration. I have also attended arbitration training courses in various European cities including Athens, Munich, Paris, Rome and the Hague.
On the back of the academic background I built during my studies, I worked as an intern at a boutique Law firm in Munich, which specializes in international arbitration and litigation. I have worked on institutional arbitrations under a variety of arbitral rules including UNCITRAL, DIS and ICC Rules. I am currently an associate at a leading law firm in Athens, where I mainly handle international commercial litigation as well as arbitration cases.

Dr Marcus Bauckmann

Lawyer, Arbitrator, Mediator and Mediation Lecturer from Germany. Mediation training e.g. at Harvard Law School‘s Program on Negotiation.
Co-Director of the IBA-VIAC CDRC Vienna - The Mediation and Negotiation Competition.

Ms Ieva Baumane

Mr Horst Becker

Horst Becker is attorney (Rechtsanwalt) in Munich (Germany) and Paris (France). His work focuses on International commercial law (in particular law of distribution, especially law of franchising) and the law of intellectual property. He teaches at the Centre d'Études Internationales de la Propriété Intellectuelle (CEIPI) of the University of Strasbourg III (Robert Schumann). Horst Becker acts both as arbitrator and as party counsel in national and international arbitration cases, primarily distribution cases. He is member of ICC Germany, DIS and IDArb (an arbitration institution for international distribution disputes).
Horst Becker authored or co-authored several publications on law of distribution and intellectual property in Germany and France and with ICC.
He is fluent in English, German and French and understands some Italian and Spanish.
Horst Becker heads ARIATHES Rechtsanwälte, a law firm with offices in Munich, Berlin and Paris, which he founded in 1991.

Dr Martin Beckmann

Mr Eric Bédard

Eric Bédard is partner at Woods LLP in Montreal, Canada, where he practices since 2010, after obtaining both civil and common law degrees from McGill University. He is a civil and commercial litigator, having appeared before the Québec courts of first instance and appeal, as well as several administrative tribunals. His expertise also extends to commercial (both domestic and international) arbitration and investor-State arbitration, in addition to litigation pertaining to arbitration issues. He has represented parties before tribunals constituted under Chapter XI of the NAFTA and served as secretary to an arbitral tribunal hearing an investor-state dispute under the auspices of the Permanent Court of Arbitration.

Eric co-authored the chapter on Canada in Enforcement of Investment Treaty Arbitration Awards – A Global Guide, 2nd edition, ed. Julien Fouret, Castaldi Mourre & Partners, Globe Law, 2020, and the Canada Chapter in the International Arbitration Review, ed. James H. Carter, 11th Edition, 2020. He also co-authored “The Contribution of Canadian Law to International Mining Arbitration”, in The Guide to Mining Arbitration, 2nd ed., eds. Jason Fry and Louis-Alexis Bret, Global Arbitration Review, 2021. He is a frequent speaker on investments under comprehensive trade agreements and the NAFTA, and has been a lecturer at McGill University on Law for Architects and Engineers.

Dr Ilka Beimel

Ilka is an associate with Noerr in Düsseldorf, Germany, and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Basel. Within her thesis she focused on independence and impartiality in international commercial arbitration.

Ilka has gained considerable experience in international commercial and investment arbitration. In 2018, Ilka was a visiting scholar at Columbia Law School in New York and worked as a research assistant for Prof. Bermann. Previously, she worked as a research and teaching assistant at the University of Basel for Prof. Schroeter and Prof. Schwenzer. Besides these academic experiences, Ilka worked as Tribunal Secretary in an arbitral proceeding under the LCIA Rules and as an intern at the Secretariat of the ICC Court of Arbitration in Paris.

Ilka finished her law studies in 2015 at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany. She has been involved in the Willem C. Vis (East) Moot Court since 2010 as participant, coach and arbitrator.

Ms Yulia Beliakova

Associate at Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners (Saint-Petersburg, Russia).
Practice areas: International Trade and Customs; Maritime, Shipping and Transport Law.
Education: Master, International Law (2015, Saint-Petersburg State University); Bachelor of Law (2012, Saint-Petersburg State University).
Member of Saint-Petersburg State University team in the 21st and 22d Vis Moot .

Prof Gary F. Bell

Associate Professor, and Director of the LL.M. in International Arbitration and Dispute Resolution at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore. Teaches courses in Arbitration, Indonesian law, International and Comparative Sale of Goods and Comparative Law.
Served as sole arbitrator, co-arbitrator and presiding arbitrator under SIAC, ICC, LCIA and KCAB rules. Acted as expert witness on civil law and on arbitration in arbitration and court cases.
Law degrees in both common law and civil law, McGill University (LL.B, B.C.L. McGill 1989); Masters from Columbia University in New York City (LL.M. Columbia 1993); Member of the Barreau du Québec (Quebec Bar) since 1991; Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators; Founding Director of the Asian Law Institute (ASLI) from 2003 to 2008 and 2010 to 2012 and 2016 to 2019; Coach of the NUS team at the Vis Moot (2001-2009) (no longer coaches).
Canadian Citizen and Singapore Permanent Resident.

Ms Holly Bell

Holly is a Lawyer at the Department of International Trade in the UK. Prior to this position, she gained experience as a litigation lawyer for local government and has rights of audience to represent in the high courts of England and Wales. She graduated with a Masters degree in Law from Northumbria University in 2013 and has since gained knowledge and experience in practice of public law, EU law, international trade law and civil litigation.

Dr Affef Ben Mansour

Dr. Ben Mansour’s practice focuses on public international law and international investment arbitration. She has taken part in the representation of clients, including sovereign States, in several investment treaty arbitrations before the ICSID, as well as other arbitration institutions.

Dr. Ben Mansour acted as sole arbitrator in ICC arbitration involving a French party against a company from the Middle East. She is also member of the CRCICA panel of arbitrators

Dr. Ben Mansour was an associate in public international law and international arbitration at Cleary Gottlieb Steen and Hamilton LLP (Paris). Prior to that, she was a teaching researcher at Paris Ouest Nanterre La Defense University. Dr. Ben Mansour completed a Doctorate in Public International Law, with honors in 2009 and a DEA in Law of International and European Economic Relations, with honors in 2000 from Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense University. In 2014, she was admitted by the French National Council of Universities (Conseil National des Universités) as qualified for the position of Adjunct Professor.

Dr. Ben Mansour is an Associate Researcher of the CEDIN (Public International Law Center of Paris Ouest Nanterre La Defense University) and a member of the French Society of International Law and the French Branch of the International Law Association. She published her thesis on The Implementation of International Judgments and Awards of International Tribunals in 2011. She also regularly publishes on public international law and gives lectures on various topics related to public international law and international arbitration.

Dr. Ben Mansour is a member of the Paris Bar. Her working languages are French (native), Arabic and English.

Ms Emna Ben Mansour

Mr Constantin BENCLINOV

Mr. Benclinov graduated in law from the University of Bucharest in 1998, when he also became a member of the Bucharest Bar Association. In 2002 he founded "Benclinov&Associates", which is a medium size law firm located in Bucharest, Romania. In 2004, Mr. Benclinov received a scholarship to the UNIDROIT Institute - Rome focuses on "Culpa in Contrahendo in International Commercial Contracts".

Mr. Benclinov was involved as counselor before the International Arbitration Court from Paris or in International Ad-Hoc Arbitration Cases in several files settled under Romanian or International Law (UNIDROIT Principles). Also, he is highly skilled in representing and advising international clients on issues concerning various economic sectors such as: financial, agriculture, green energy and real-estate.
Mr. Benclinov is included on the BIAC’s closed list of arbitrators (the Bucharest International Arbitration Court).

Starting with 2003, he is involved in Vienna Vis C. Moot as a coach and arbitrator.

Ms Tess Bens

Tess Bens is a Research Assistant at the Department of Civil Procedural Law at the University of Vienna. She holds an LL.B. in Dutch Law, an LL.B. in International and European Law, as well as an LL.M. (research) in Business and Law from Radboud University. During her studies at Radboud University, Tess participated in the 22nd Vis Moot and attended summer courses at National Taiwan University, Bucerius Law School and The Hague Academy for International Law. She also worked as a Student Trainee at NautaDutilh and as a Legal Assistant for the Arbitration Practice Group of De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, both in Amsterdam.

Tess worked as Lecturer in Private International Law at Radboud University (2018-2021) and Tilburg University (2022), as well as Research Fellow at the Department of European and Comparative Procedural Law at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg (2022-2023), before joining the University of Vienna in October 2023. She coached the Radboud University team during the 26th and 27th Vis Moot and arbitrated in the general rounds the 28th-31st Vis Moot. Tess regularly publishes on topics in the fields of private international law, international civil procedure, international commercial sales law and international arbitration.

Mr Gary Benton

Gary L. Benton is an internationally recognized Arbitrator with expertise in international business, corporate investment, technology and emerging growth matters. He has handled hundreds of cases around the world and serves on the panels of the leading international arbitral institutions in the US, Europe and Asia. In addition, he is the founder and Chairman of the Silicon Valley Arbitration and Mediation Center (SVAMC), a non-profit educational foundation based in Palo Alto, California that serves the global technology sector.

Mr. Benton is an Adjunct Professor at Santa Clara University and Pepperdine University. He was previously a partner with the international law firms Pillsbury and Coudert Brothers. He also served as General Counsel of a mobile/cloud cybersecurity company.

He is a Chartered Arbitrator and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the College of Commercial Arbitrators, an Academy Member of the National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals, and a member of the ITA Advisory Board, ICCA and many other professional associations. He was named by the National Law Journal as one of the 25 ADR Trendsetters and Visionaries in the US. He is also named to IAM 300: The World’s Leading IP Strategists.

He is qualified as a US lawyer and an English solicitor.

MR Patrick Bernard

Patrick is a junior associate at Gasee, Cohen & Youngman, a boutique litigation firm in Toronto, Canada. He was trained in both Civil Law (2015) and Common Law (2016) at the University of Ottawa, having received both diplomas magna cum laude. Patrick is in the process of obtaining his Qualified Arbitrator (Q.Arb.) designation from the ADR Institute of Canada.

Patrick participated in the 23rd Vis Moot with the University of Ottawa, where the team earned honourable mentions for team orals and for both memoranda.

Mrs Renata Berzanskiene

Law firm Ellex, associate 1992-1996; own law firm 1996-1999; Partner at law firm SORAINEN 1999-2018; General Counsel and Compliance Coordinator at AB ORLEN Lietuva from 2018; Supervisory Council member of ORLEN Latvia and ORLEN Estonia; member of ICC Court of Arbitration from 2018 (appointed for two terms); arbitrator at Vilnius Court of Commercial Arbitration from 1999 with an experience of more than 70 cases. Has been a member of the National Group of Lithuania in the Permanent Court of Arbitration since 2011 for one term. In 2007, Renata was elected as a member of the Commission on Arbitration and Mediation of the Lithuanian Business Confederation and became the chairwoman of this commission in March 2016. In 2006, the Czech Arbitration Court selected her as a panelist with the Czech Arbitration Court for .eu domain name disputes. On 20 March 2014, the National Courts Administration designated Renata as a court mediator and included her in the List of Court Mediators. From 2008 to November 2014 she was the head of the Lithuanian delegation to the Council of Bars & Law Societies of Europe (CCBE) and led the International Relations Committee at the Lithuanian Bar Association.

Mrs Elena Bezelgues

She is a fully qualified Belarussian lawyer and an authorised legal advisor in foreign law in Germany. Elena Bezelgues is an independent legal practitioner. She focuses in international commercial arbitration, corporate, construction and migration law . She served as an arbitrator at 24-27th Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Courts in 2017-2020, as well as at the Pre-Moot Foreign Direct Investment International Arbitration Moot Court in 2017, 2019-2020. She has inter alia participated in the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court 2016.

She is a current member of the LCIA, German Arbitration Institute (DIS), Young International Arbitration Group (YIAG), YAF of the ICC institutions.

Mr Shouvik Bhattacharya

Shouvik Bhattacharya maintains a broad international disputes practice, with a focus on complex and high-stakes international arbitrations. He also advises clients on issues of US federal and state law with a transnational focus.

Shouvik has extensive experience of arbitrations in the energy industry. His clients also include leading telecommunications, mining, financial services, software, luxury goods and manufacturing firms. His cases are sited in both common law and civil law jurisdictions, and he has broad familiarity with the various institutional and ad hoc rules (including AAA, HKIAC, ICC, ICDR, LCIA, SIAC, SCC, UNCITRAL).

Shouvik has represented clients before the European Court of Human Rights and has advised on cases before the Court of Justice of the European Union.

Shouvik regularly teaches and speaks about arbitration, including at Harvard Law School, the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences and the National Law University, Delhi.

Mr Simon Bianchi

Mr David Bigge

Mr. Bigge is an attorney-adviser at the U.S. Department of State. He is currently based in Washington working in the Office of UN Affairs. From 2016 to 2019, Mr. Bigge served in The Hague as the U.S. Agent to the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal and Deputy Agent in two cases before the ICJ. His portfolio also included representations of US interests at the PCA. Prior to this position, he represented the United States for six years in investor-state arbitration and advised on commercial arbitration matters. Before joining the U.S. government, Mr. Bigge spent nine years in private practice in New York, specializing in commercial arbitration and litigation for and against sovereigns. Mr. Bigge was also an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center (2013-2015), where he taught Advanced Topics in International Arbitration, and he frequently publishes articles on various international arbitration subjects. Mr. Bigge is a Vis Moot alumnus, representing Harvard as an oralist in the semi-finals in 2001. He coached the Harvard team from 2005 to 2009 and served as an adviser for the Dar Al Hekma teams in 2018 and 2019.

Ms Catalina Birsanu

Previously a mootie at Vis Moot for the team of Moldova State University during 2016-2018. LLM in International Trade and Investment Law at Maastricht University. Currently working for "Turcan Cazac" Law Firm in Moldova.

Mr Thomas James Biscomb

Thomas James Biscomb is an associate at Armesto & Asociados, a boutique of arbitrators with an international and independent profile and a good business sense, founded by Juan Fernández-Armesto. Thomas acts as secretary and assistant to arbitral tribunals in arbitration proceedings, including domestic and international arbitrations, involving both commercial and investment disputes. Most of the cases are administered by ICC, ICSID, and Spanish or Latin American arbitral institutions.

Thomas holds a Bachelor’s degree in Law from the University of Montevideo, Uruguay, obtained in 2017. In the course of his Bachelor’s degree, Thomas participated in the Willem C. Vis Moot, the FDI Moot and the Competencia Internacional de Arbitraje Comercial, obtaining the 3rd Place in the 2014 Competencia Internacional de Arbitraje, the 3rd Place in the 2017 Willem C. Vis Moot and the 2nd Place in the 2018 FDI Moot. Thomas also holds a Master’s degree in International Advocacy with distinction in dispute resolution from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, obtained in 2021, for which he was granted the Extraordinary Prize for obtaining the highest GPA in his class.

Thomas is currently acting as coach of the University of Montevideo.

Mr Jan Willem Bitter

1977 JD Leyden University, 1978-1981: IUE Florence 1983: admitted to Rotterdam bar; 1989: PhD IUE Florence; 1990: Partner Trenité Van Doorne; 1997-1999: resident partner Trenité Van Doorne in Havana, Cuba; 2001: partner Nolst Trenité; 2001: secretary Netherlands Arbitration Istitute (until 2010); 2002: partner Simmons & Simmons Trenité; 2010: of counsel Simmons & Simmons LLP Amsterdam; 2016 partner C-Legal Amsterdam. 2017 partner Jonker Abeln Advocaten Amsterdam. Languages: Dutch (mother tongue), English, French, German, Italian and Spanish (all fluent). Publications: commentary to CISG in Dutch

Ms Cătălina Bîzîc

Catalina is an international arbitration lawyer, a member of the New York bar, with both civil law and common law background. She practices international commercial and investor-state arbitration, focusing on energy disputes, and is currently based in Bucharest. Catalina has previously practiced at leading international arbitration practices in Frankfurt, London and Dubai.

Catalina serves as the Co-Chair of Young Romanian Arbitration Practitioners (YRAP) for 2023-2025. She is also speaker on international arbitration topics, including as an arbitrator and coach for the Willem C. Vis competition. She first participated in 2016 with the University of Bucharest team which she coached afterwards. Catalina coached the winning team (Penn State Law) at the 27th Willem C. Vis competition in Vienna.

Professor Andrea Bjorklund

Andrea K. Bjorklund is the L. Yves Fortier Chair in International Arbitration and International Commercial Law at McGill University Faculty of Law. She is an adviser to the American Law Institute’s project on restating the U.S. law of international commercial arbitration. She is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Investment Treaty Forum of the British Institute for International and Comparative Law She is on the panel of arbitrators of the International Center for Dispute Resolution of the American Arbitration Association. Professor Bjorklund is widely published in investment law and dispute resolution and transnational contracts.

Prior to entering the academy she was an attorney-adviser on the NAFTA arbitration team in the Office of the Legal Adviser of the U.S. Department of State. She was Senior Counsel to Commissioner Thelma J. Askey of the U.S. International Trade Commission, and was in private practice at Miller & Chevalier, Chartered, in Washington, D.C. Professor Bjorklund has a J.D. from Yale Law School, an M.A. in French Studies from New York University, and a B.A. (with High Honors) in History and French from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

Mr Jeremy Bloomenthal

Jeremy Bloomenthal, LL.M. (MIDS), FCIArb, ArbP is an independent practitioner serving as counsel, arbitrator, and tribunal secretary. He has participated in over 40 arbitrations, including domestic commercial cases, international commercial cases, and investor-State arbitrations. He has experience under most of the major sets of arbitration rules, including those of the ICC, LCIA, AAA-ICDR, Swiss Arbitration Centre, SIAC, PCA, SCC, JCAA, KCAB, and FINRA, as well as in ad hoc arbitrations under the UNCITRAL rules and under the Swiss PILA. He has practiced in New York, Tokyo, Hanoi/Singapore, and Geneva, and since 2017 has been based in the Boston area.

Mr David Böckenförde

I am an associate with Borris Hennecke Kneisel - a boutique arbitration firm based in Cologne, Germany. I participated in the 21st Vis Moot as a student. After graduating from law school, I worked as a research assistant for Prof. Klaus Peter Berger at the University of Cologne focusing on International Arbitration and International Trade Law. At the same time, I also coached the Vis Moot Team of the University of Cologne for three years.

Mrs Mileslava Bogdanovа

Mileslava Bogdanova-Misheva graduated with honors a Master of Laws at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”. She is currently working as an associate at a law firm in Sofia, Bulgaria. She is a member of the Sofia Bar Association since 2016 and works as an associate at a Bulgarian law firm.
She is one of the pioneers who established the presence of the Willem C. Vis Commercial Arbitration Moot in Bulgaria. Mileslava was a team member of the Sofia University team consequently in the 19th and 20th edition of the competition and has been co-coaching the team since 2013. In 2015 the team from Sofia University was among those awarded "honorable mention" for Memorandum for Respondent and in 2016 the team was awarded for its Memorandum for Claimant.
She has been an arbitrator at the Belgrade Open Pre-Moot since 2014 and at the Sofia Vis Pre-Moot in Bulgaria since 2015. Mileslava has been arbitarting at the Vis Moot's general rounds in Vienna for the past three editions of the Moot and she has been also evaluating written memoranda for years now.

Mr Ievgen Boiarskyi

Ievgen Boiarskyi is a senior associate at AGA Partners Law Firm, specializing in international commercial and investment arbitration, as well as in international trade. He has been involved in more than thirty-five international arbitration proceedings as a legal counsel, and in several LCIA arbitration cases as an arbitrator’s assistant.
Ievgen holds an LL.M. degree from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and the University of Geneva. In 2016 he received PhD degree in private internationa law in Academic F. H. Burchak Scientific-Research Institute of Private Law and Entrepreneurship of National Academy of Law Sciences of Ukraine
Ievgen's moot court experience includes, among others, coaching/advising teams for Philip C. Jessup International Moot Court Competition (2012, 2016 , 2017 and 2020) and acting as an arbitrator in the Ukrainian Vis Pre-Moot (2019, 2020).

Mr Marvio Bonelli

Marvio Bonelli holds a J.D. from the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro Law School (UERJ) since 2018. He represented UERJ team at the 23rd, 24th and 25 Vis Moots and also at the 15th Vis East Moot, when Marvio receive a honarable mention for best speaker. Since 2018, Marvio is one of the coaches of the UERJ team for the VisMoot. Marvio hasa a Master degree at UERJ on Civil Law (2023). Currently, he is an associate lawyer to Schreiber Advogados.

Mr Julian Bordaçahar

Mr. Julian Bordaçahar works as Legal Counsel at the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) at The Hague and is the PCA Representative in the Argentine Republic, where he Heads the PCA Buenos Aires Office. Before joining the PCA, he worked in the International Arbitration Team of LALIVE in Geneva while he was completing his LL.M. Studies at the Geneva Masters in International Dispute Settlement (MIDS), where he graduated summa cum laude. He obtained his law degree from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) in 2013 after spending a semester as an exchange student at the Univeristy of Texas at Austin, and also conducted post-graduate studies in Oil & Gas Law at the UBA. He has represented the UBA in the VIS moot as a student on two occasions, in 2012 and 2013 where his team won a “Frederic Eisemann Award” for advancing to the elimination rounds of 32. Since then and until present, he has coached the UBA team. He was the Head Coach of the UBA in 2016 when the UBA won the Oral Rounds of the Vis Moot. He is a former associate at Baker & Mckenzie in Buenos Aires where he practiced litigation and international and domestic arbitration. Additionally, he attended the "International Academy for Arbitration Law" in Paris, in July 2014. He has also participated in other arbitration moots such as the FDI Moot in King's College, London 2011 where he was awarded a "Best Advocate Honorable Mention", and in the first edition of the the Young Arbitrators Match, having been awarded the "Best Award" prize as part of a three member tribunal along with two Argentine colleagues. In addition, he regularly publishes articles related to arbitration issues and has taught International Arbitration and International Sales of Goods as well as Protection of Foreign Investments and Investment Arbitration at the University of Buenos Aires and the Universidad del Salvador.

Ms Marta Boura

Mr Nick Boyce

Nick is a practising commercial lawyer at Clayton Utz in Sydney. He is a graduate of the University of Sydney and a coach of this year's University of Sydney Vis Team. Nick was a competitor in the 20th Vis Moot.

Prof Dr Eckart Brödermann

ECKART BRÖDERMANN (BORN 1958 IN HAMBURG, GERMANY)

Professor Dr. Eckart Brödermann, LL.M. (Harvard) is managing partner and founder of the boutique corporate law firm Brödermann Jahn which operates worldwide out of Hamburg/Germany with connections to over 40 jurisdictions in an average practice year. He has been concentrating over the last 15 years on international arbitrations, transactions and complex projects. He is expert in transnational project management. With his team of 20 lawyers, he has been involved in the past years in-depth in about 20 industries including e.g. aviation (aircraft), automotive, chemistry, construction (public procurement), cosmetics, energy (oil, gas, electricity, renewable energy), food, health care, insurance, IT & technology, logistics, pharmaceuticals, real estate, satellite, shipbuilding, sports, textile.

He is also Professor at the University of Hamburg where he teaches international contract law and arbitration including risk management.

Eckart Brödermann Certified Specialist in International Business Law (Germany) and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (London). He is Managing Director of the Chinese European Arbitration Center (CEAC), Vice Chair of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association‘s Dispute Resolution and Arbitration Committee and a Member of the Board of the Hamburg Bar. He was involved as an Official observer in the preparation of the UNCITRAL Space law protocol to the Cape Town Convention and of the latest version of the Unidroit Principles of International Commercial Contracts. Eckart Brödermann is author or co-author of numerous books and articles including, e.g. a commentary on German Civil Law (9th edition 2014) or a book on German private international law and international procedure, including international arbitration (7th edition 2014), in print.

He works in English, French, German and Italian.

Education and Professional Career:
He initially trained as a French lawyer (1977 – 1981). He holds titles from the Universities of Paris (Licencé en Droit 1980, Maître en Droit 1981).
He studied in the United States at Harvard University (LL.M. 1983) and took the New York Bar Exam (1983/84). Until today, he is a member of the New York Bar.
After a year in an international law firm in Washington D.C. (concentrating on a large international oil dispute against the state of Iran), Eckart registered as an U.S. attorney in Germany while he studied at Hamburg University (1984 – 1987).
Following the first state exam, he first clerked at the Court of Appeal in Hamburg for two and a half years and then practiced international business law in a major law firm until he was offered partnership.
In 1996, Eckart founded the BRÖDERMANN JAHN law firm as a spin-off. Shortly thereafter he was joined by his former senior partner Erhard Jahn.
In parallel, Eckart went on writing and teaching. In 1994, the University of Hamburg had awarded him the title of a Doctor Iuris.
In 2011, Eckart became a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (London).
In 2011, Eckart was awarded the life long title of a Professor. He is member of the Faculty of Law of the University of Hamburg.
He has acted in over a dozen cases as arbitrator, also as Chairman (ICC-Arbitration, CIETAC), and in numerous other cases as Counsel.

Ms Isla Brose

Isla Brose is a Counsel in the Dispute Resolution Department of CMS Hasche Sigle and is based in Hamburg. She represents clients in national and international arbitrations as well as German state court proceedings. Isla's practice focuses on international trade, shareholder claims as well as other commercial disputes.

Mr Charles Brown

Solicitor for 38 years, experienced international arbitrator and adjudicator. International construction law specialist. President of CIArb in 2015. Teacher and lecturer in arbitration, Adjudication and all forms of ADR.





Solicitor for 35 years, experienced international arbitrator and adjudicator, member of dispute adjudication boards. President of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in 2015. Member of IBA, SCL and TecSA. Previous Viz Moot Arbitrator.

Dr Jennifer Bryant

Dr Jennifer Bryant is a Partner with Noerr in Duesseldorf/Germany. Her practice focuses on corporate and commercial litigation and international arbitration. She regularly acts both as counsel and as arbitrator. Jennifer is board member of the German Arbitration Institute (DIS). She also frequently publishes and speaks in that field, and is recognized as "Rising Star" and "National Leader" in international arbitration. Participating team member of the University of Cologne in the 12th Willem C. Vis Moot Court in 2004/2005, Jennifer has acted as coach and as arbitrator in Vienna and Hong Kong and various-pre moots ever since. Jennifer is admitted in Germany and the U.S. and has worked with leading international law firms in Duesseldorf, London and New York.

Prof Dr Wolfram Buchwitz

Wolfram Buchwitz is a university professor of private law, Roman law, legal history, and civil procedure at the university of Würzburg and a judge at the appellate court of Frankfurt. He has a special interest in arbitration law and is author of a textbook on the subject. From 2013 to 2017, he was a practising lawyer with DLA Piper. He graduated from the University of Münster in 2005 and completed postgraduate studies at La Sapienza university of Rome in 2006. He speaks German, English, Italian, and Turkish.

Mr Laurențiu Bucur

I have participated as a main speaker at the 23rd Annual Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot for the Petru Maior University of Tirgu Mures and currently work in the data protection field.

Professor Petra Butler

Professor, Victoria University of Wellington; Director, Institute of Small and Micro States (ISMS); New Zealand UNCITRAL rapporteur CISG & electronic commerce; OGEMID moderator; fully qualified German and New Zealand lawyer; areas of interest & research: international commercial contracts, private international law, (international & domestic) human rights

Mr Florian Cahn

Florian Cahn currently holds the position of Vice President Legal, Patents & Insurance and General Counsel of Framatome GmbH in Erlangen. His special focus lies on advising complex infrastructure projects and high-profile legal proceedings. Immediately preceding his current post he worked in the Paris headquarters of AREVA in charge of the in-house team advising on one of the largest construction arbitrations pending at that time before an ICC tribunal. A German-qualified and registered attorney, Florian holds a university degree in law from Bonn University and a post-graduate LL.M. degree in European and International Business Law from ARU Cambridge. Florian is currently a member of the board of the. German Arbitration Institute (DIS) and the steering committee of the Corporate Counsel International Arbitration Group (CCIAG). He was also part of the consolidation commission of the German Institution of Arbitration (DIS) charged with the renewal of its Arbitration Rules. He is a regular speaker and panellist at international conferences on the topics of legal project management and dispute resolution and has published inter alia on the topic of turn-key contracts in plant construction projects.

Ms Ceren Cakir

Ceren Çakır is the Founding Partner of ECC Law based in Istanbul and ICC YAF Representative for Turkey for the term 2019–2021. Her area of expertise constitutes international and domestic arbitration involving commercial, financial, and shipbuilding contracts, as well as charter parties and insurance disputes. She represents both local and international clients in arbitration proceedings under the ICC, SCC, DIA and GAFTA, and in ad hoc proceedings under the arbitration rules/laws of the LMAA, English Arbitration Act, IAL and CPC. Her experience further extends to pre-arbitration and post-arbitration litigation, including enforcement of foreign arbitral awards and set aside proceedings.
Ceren’s experience extends to banking and finance projects, corporate matters, debt recovery, ship finance, ship sale and purchase, and registry of companies and vessels to local and foreign registries.
Her working languages are Turkish, English, and French.

Mr Christian Campbell

Director, Foreign Direct Investment International Arbitration Moot
Assistant Director, Center for International Legal Studies
Permanent Secretary, International Business Law Consortium

Mrs Maria Roseli Candido Costa

I am 56 years old and I am an arbitrator and a Lawyer with a degree in law from the Universidade Federal de Uberlândia/MG, specialist in Tax Law from PUC-SP, in Business Law by FGV – GVLaw, In Corporate Law by INSPER/SP and in Distance Learning management by the University of São Paulo, master in Consulting and Entrepreneurship by the Business School of Rotterdam – Netherlands. I am a partner at Candido Costa & Cancio Advogados and my expertise is construction law, corporate law and civil law in general. I was a senior executive in Corporate Legal Departments at major companies such as Algar Group, Tomé Group and Telefonica Group with experience encompassing Corporate Law including Contractual, Commercial, Corporate, Bank, Economic (CADE) Law and construction and infrastructure among others.

Mr Giancarlo Capurro

Associate with Gantenberg Dispute Experts.
Giancarlo is a German-qualified attorney and advises on complex litigation concerning high-volume, technical and mostly cross-border proceedings before state courts and arbitral tribunals or in pre-litigation settings. He focuses on long-term contract disputes – often relating to (renewable) energy, mechanical engineering and international trade. Giancarlo studied law at the Bucerius Law School in Hamburg, Germany and participated in the 22nd Vis Moot.

Mrs Cecilia Carrara

Cecilia Carrara is a partner of the Firm Legance Avvocati Associati and has a significant experience in the field of national and international, commercial and investment arbitration proceedings, both institutional and ad hoc, acting both as counsel and as arbitrator, and is further active more generally in the field of international commercial litigation.
Cecilia Carrara also focuses on mergers & acquisitions, extraordinary corporate transactions and commercial contracts. She is responsible of the Legance German desk, with a specific focus on German speaking countries and on East Europe.
She is pro bono partner at Legance coordinating the corporate social activities of the Firm.
Cecilia Carrara is a member of the Board of ICC Italy, of the ICC International Court of Arbitration, of the ICC Commission, of the ICC Task Force on Emergency Arbitrator Proceedings for Italy and of the ICC Task Force on Arbitration of Climate Change Related Disputes. She is co-founder of Arbit (the Italian forum of arbitration practitioners), co-chair of the arbitration working group of ASLA (the Association of Italian Law Firms), and member of the Council of AIA (Associazione Italiana per l’Arbitrato). She is also a member of IBA (International Bar Association), LCIA (London Court of International Arbitration), DIS (Deutsche Institution für Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit) and ArbitralWomen.

Mr Bernardo Cartoni

Bernardo is a triple qualified lawyer admitted to the Bar of Italy and Poland as well as a Solicitor in E&W, currently Co-Head of the Arbitration Practice at Mezzle, a Law Firm based in England and the UAE .
He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and is in the SHIAC Panel of Arbitrators. Bernardo is also a member of the Swiss Chinese Law Association. He is listed among persons to be considered as potential arbitrators in LCIA (London Court of International Arbitration) and other arbitral institutions.
Bernardo has written about 40 papers, especially in the matter of tax law and criminal tax law, but also in arbitration-related matters. Among his articles are: "Small claims and institutional arbitration: an overview", "Is the CISG applicable to the Hong Kong-related disputes?", "Interim measures abroad and international commercial arbitration: brief remarks on a recent case", "A Rising Star: The Emergency Arbitrator", "The Expedited Procedure in Maritime Arbitration: an Overview" and "Third Party Funding; Gambler's Nirvana or Useful Tool? Recent developments in Hong Kong and Singapore", "Arbitrator's bias between Halliburton and Sun Yang" and "The Emergency Arbitrator under CIETAC rules 2015".
Languages spoken: Italian, English, Polish, Chinese and French.

Mr Carlos Carvalho

Carlos Carvalho is a consultant at Tribe Arbitration, a Lead Teaching fellow at the School of International Arbitration (Queen Mary University of London - QMUL) and a Unit Lead at London barristers' chambers 3 Verulam Buildings (International Advisory and Dispute Resolution Unit).

He is a Member of the Chartered Institute of International Arbitrators (MCIArb), is qualified in three jurisdictions (Brazil, England and Wales and Portugal), and has an L.L.M in Comparative and International Dispute Resolution at QMUL and Post Graduate Diploma in Civil Procedure at Fundação Getulio Vargas (Brazil), besides Arbitration Specialization Course at C.E.U. Law School.

Carlos has more than 20 years of experience in law and business management. He worked in law firms, companies, and the public sector in various fields, including commercial disputes, property, construction, and corporate.
Carlos has vast international experience working with global law firms, barristers, and arbitrators in international disputes, both as counsel and tribunal secretary. He teaches international arbitration modules, international construction disputes, negotiation and strategic decision making for lawyers at QMUL.

Mrs Lucila Carvalho

Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb). LL.M, University of California. Master of Laws in Corporate Law, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. LL.B, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Arbitrator/lawyer.

Mr J. Brian Casey

Founding member of Bay Street Chambers and full time arbitrator; Former partner with Baker & McKenzie International; Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto Law School; Member of the Advisory Council of the American Arbitration Association.; Chair of the ICDR Canadian Advisory Committee.; Author of Arbitration Law of Canada:Practice and Procedure.

Dr Maria Casoria

Dr. Maria Casoria holds a Ph.D. in Markets Law from the University of Siena, Italy. She is an Italian licensed Attorney and a licensed Mediator in Civil and Commercial Disputes.
Over the past 6 years, D.r Casoria worked as the University General Counsel and Assistant Professor of Commercial Law at the Royal University for Women (RUW) in Bahrain where she has also been a coach in the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot for the RUW College of Law team and the faculty responsible for all activities related to the organization of the Annual Middle East Vis Pre-Moot Training and Competition. Currently, she is a freelance legal advisor for companies in Bahrain in addition to serving as the Executive Director for Overseas Operations at West Virginia University - USA and coaching the Vis Moot team at Middlesex University Dubai.

Her scholarship includes papers and book chapters on several topics in the fields of Commercial Law, Competition Law and Privacy in the Digital Markets, and ADR. Dr. Casoria is also a researcher on antitrust profiles in a Jean Monnet Project led by the University of Siena on the topic ‘European Legal Strategies for Payment Systems in the Open Banking Age’.

Mr Vitor Castro

Vitor is a dual qualified lawyer (England & Wales and Brazil) with a vast counseling multinational companies in the areas of food, drugs, energy, IT and telecommunication. He has worked for a leading law firm in Brazil for more than 15 years. and is currently practicing in London (UK). His professional experience includes his work as trial lawyer representing a major tobacco company in addition to domestic and international arbitration disputes representing corporations from different sectors. Moreover, he has expertise representing a variety of companies in product liability cases related to health injuries.
Vitor holds a master degree from King's College London, where he researched under the supervision of Professor Martin Hunter and was awarded the prize for best dissertation.

Mr Andrea Catasti

Andrea Catasti is an International Tax and Business Lawyer, Member of the Paris and Rome Bar Associations.
Andrea is the founder of AClegal - International Tax and Business Law, boutique law firm based in Paris that specializes in assisting and counselling clients in the fields of International Tax, French and Italian Tax Law, Contract Law and Commercial Litigation.
AClegal stands out for being able to provide legal advice and assistance in English, French, Italian and Spanish, for dealing with client's cases in a transparent and customized way and for having a strong business-oriented mindset where credibility, loyalty and pragmatism are the main cornerstones.
AClegal boasts a worldwide network of excellent and vetted professionals ready to assist with the client's needs in many, different countries.
AClegal aspires to be a reference for Small and Medium entreprises wishing to use Arbitration and Mediation as alternative dispute resolution methods.

Ms Carolina Cavalcante Assumpção

L.L.B from Mackenzie Presbyterian University Law School (2019) with an exchange semester at Università degli Studi di Ferrara (2016). Specialization in Corporate Law from São Paulo School of Law of Fundação Getulio Vargas (2021).
Associate at Marques Rosado Toledo Cesar & Carmona Advogados placed in São Paulo, Brazil, with experience in domestic and international arbitrations, with a particular focus on corporate law and complex civil litigation.
Former participant of the Vis Moot and the Brazilian Corporate Arbitration Competition.
Head-coach of the arbitration related study groups at Mackenzie Presbyterian University Law School.

Dr Octavian Cazac

Name partner Octavian Cazac, Ph.D., is with Turcan Cazac Law Firm for 20 years. Recognized expert in Moldovan project finance and syndicated finance, cross-border M&A and PPPs. He is recommended as a Band 1 lawyer by Chambers Global. He is also cited as a leading lawyer in the IFRL1000 and Legal500 editorials.
Holds a doctoral degree in Private Law from the Moldova State University (2013), his LL.M. degreed having been obtained from the same university in 2005. He is an Associate professor of Civil Law at the Moldova State University, Faculty of Law, where he started teaching from 2004. Since 2018 he runs a course on Commercial and Investment Arbitration in the university's LL.M. programme. In 2014-2018 he was extensively involved in reforming Moldova's private laws and in particular the Moldovan Civil Code.
He acts as arbitrator in arbitral tribunals under, inter alia, the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules and various institutional rules.

Mr Ondrej Cech

Ondrej Cech is a Senior Associate with Vienna and Prague office of ZEILER specializing in international commercial and investment arbitration. Before joining ZEILER, Ondrej worked as an associate in Prague office of a global law firm. In addition to his counsel work, Ondrej is frequently appointed as an arbitrator and tribunal secretary. He is also active in the academic field as a teacher at the Charles University in Prague. Ondrej is an active member of the Czech legal community and one of the co-founders of YCAP (Young Czech Arbitration Professionals). In this capacity, Ondrej is the spokesperson of the initiative supporting implementation of the UNCITRAL Model Law in the Czech Republic. He graduated from Charles University in Prague and Columbia University in New York with honors.

Ms Ece Melisa Celebican

Ece Melisa Celebican is an International Trade Counsel at the Ottawa Office of Cassidy Levy Kent. Ms. Celebican assists clients with trade remedies, customs, and government procurement matters before the Canadian International Trade Tribunal and the Canada Border Services Agency, as well as on judicial review matters before the Federal Courts of Canada.

Ms. Celebican holds a Juris Doctor (cum laude) degree from the University of Ottawa, with a concentration in International Law and a Master of Arts degree in European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies from Carleton University. During law school, Ms. Celebican mooted extensively, representing the university in two of the largest global competitions, the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration and the Foreign Direct Investment moots.

Ms Gülnur Ceylan

Gülnur is an associate at Göksu Law and her practice focuses on commercial litigation, international commercial arbitration as well as investment arbitration. She assists project teams advising and representing major international and Turkish companies across a range of sectors including rising technologies, construction, engineering, shipping, banking, capital markets infrastructure, and manufacturing. On the regulatory side, Gülnur advises crypto-asset funds on local and international compliance.
She was recently part of a team representing a leading steel industry company in a Paris-seated ICC mediation. She also worked on the successful defence of one of the largest claims present in employment courts.
During her LL.B. degree, she participated in the prestigious “Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot” twice, once as a member of the merits team and once the procedure team. She also participated in human rights moot court competitions. Reflecting her academic interests, she also organized panels on international commercial law.

Mr Ayush Chaddha

Ayush Chaddha is an India-qualified lawyer and is presently pursuing Master of Laws in International Arbitration and Dispute Resolution from the National University of Singapore (NUS). Prior to joining NUS, he was practicing with the dispute resolution team of AZB & Partners, Mumbai where his practice was primarily focused on corporate litigation and commercial arbitration (domestic and international). His experience spans a broad range of fields, including energy, corporate joint-ventures, financial services and private equity sector. He regularly advises and represents clients in commercial disputes before courts and institutional (including under SIAC, ICC and LCIA Rules) and ad-hoc arbitrations

Ms Beatriz Chagas

Beatriz Uchôas Chagas is a Brazilian lawyer. As a student, she has participated in the USP Team for the UC3M Madrid Moot, in which she received a Honourable Mention for the Eric E. Bergsten Award for Individual Oralists and represented the USP Team in the Final Panel for the procedural issues. Afterwards, she has taken part in an exchange program in Paris II - Panthéon Assas. Ms. Chagas currently works as an arbitrator's assistant in São Paulo, predominantly in disputes regarding contractual law. She is also assistant to the Leadership of the ICC Brazil Arbitration and Mediation Commission (2021-2022).

Mr Panagiotis Chalkias

Panagiotis Chalkias is an Associate in the international trade and arbitration practice of White & Case in Geneva. Prior to joining White & Case, Panagiotis worked as an associate at an international arbitration boutique in Brussels and as legal consultant at the World Intellectual Property Organization Arbitration and Mediation Center in Geneva. Panagiotis is currently co-chair of Young ICCA (International Council for Commercial Arbitration). He has been recognized by Who’s Who Legal: Arbitration – Future Leaders 2021.

Mr Sayantan Chanda

Advocate/Judicial Law Clerk at the Supreme Court of India. Formerly an Associate at P&A Law Offices, working on International Commercial and Investment Arbitrations, representing the Indian Government and private parties based in India, against foreign investors\entities. Undergraduate Law Degree from Jindal Global Law School, Delhi, India.

Participated at the 24th edition of the Vis Vienna Moot in 2017. Was a Finalist and finished Runner-Up (2nd out of 300+ teams). Additionally, received an Honourable Mention for Best Speaker.

Mr Panagiotis-Loizos Chatzistratis

Panos is a qualified EU lawyer and currently an LLM candidate at the Institute of Law and Finance of the Goethe University of Frankfurt, focusing on banking, corporate and securities law. He also holds an LLB from the University of Athens and a Minor in Finance from the American College of Greece. During his studies, he had been active in various projects concerning International Commercial Arbitration, International Economic Law and Mediation. He has participated as a Team Member in the 24th Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot and in the 18th International INADR Mediation Tournament and as a Team Coach in the 27th edition of the Moot. Moreover, he has attended the Summer Program on International Business Law of the Bucerius Law School in Hamburg.

Ms Aastha Chawla

Aastha Chawla is a dispute resolution practitioner skilled in international commercial arbitration, civil and commercial litigation. She is an Advocate with over four years of practice before the Supreme Court of India, the High Court of Delhi and other judicial and quasi-judicial forums. She often represents as a Counsel before Arbitral Tribunals.

Currently she is pursuing her master degree in International Commercial Arbitration Law at Stockholm University. Before starting her master degree, she was working as an Associate with Shardul Amarchand Magaldas & Co., a full service law firm based out of India.

Mr Avineet Singh Chawla

Avineet is an Assistant Lecturer at Jindal Global Law School, India. Avineet completed his LL.M from Queen Mary University of London with a specialization in Comparative and International Dispute Resolution. His dissertation was titled ‘A Pragmatic analysis of criticisms against Investor-State Dispute Settlement System’. He has a strong inclination and keen interest in the field of Alternate Dispute Resolution. He has been handling significant research and seminar assignments in this field. Avineet is a member of Commonwealth Youth Human Rights & Democracy Network, London. He worked closely with the network and has been a part of significant events pertaining to human rights and climate change issues at the UK Parliament and Commonwealth Secretariat in the presence of dignitaries such as the Duke of Sussex, the Lord of Wimbledon and the Secretary-General of The Commonwealth.

Associate Professor Siyuan Chen

Siyuan obtained his LLB (First Class) from the National University of Singapore and LLM from Harvard. He is an Associate Professor with the Singapore Management University School of Law. His teaching and research interests lie in evidence law and appellate litigation.

Miss Grace Cheng

Grace is a barrister in London, a qualified Hong Kong solicitor, and has been granted rights of audience before the AIFC Court in Kazakhstan. She can advise on both English law and Hong Kong law. In addition to speaking fluent English, Cantonese Chinese and Mandarin Chinese, Grace has a working knowledge of French and Spanish, and previously assisted at the WTO ministerial conference.

Grace is on various panels, registries and databases of arbitrators including BAIAC (Singapore); CACM (Mozambique); DIFC-LCIA (Dubai); FINRA (US/Puerto Rico); ICC (UK); LCIA (London); LMAA (London); PIAC (Vietnam); Sport Resolutions (International); and SCC (Stockholm). She is on various panels of adjudicators, including HK Adjudicators; UK Adjudicators; and TECBAR.

Grace obtained a First Class Honours degree in law from the LSE and the BCL postgraduate degree from Oxford. She previously worked at magic circle law firm Slaughter and May. Grace was judicial assistant to the Honourable Mr Justice Blair when he was the Judge in Charge of the Commercial Court, and assisted Professor Ewan McKendrick with Goode and McKendrick on Commercial Law. She has taught law at Oxford, KCL, Warwick, and the National Chengchi University, and has been a Visiting Professor at the National Taiwan University since 2018.

Ms Nana Chigoga

Nana Chigoga, Graduate of Ilia State University School of Law in 2019, vis moot alumni of the same year. Currently, DPO at Raizomat LLC. Driven by a passion for technology, paired with her love of jurisprudence Nana strives to make technological advancements from her company accessible to the world.

Mr Gonzalo Chirinos

Dispute resolution lawyer with 7 years of experience in litigation and arbitration. LLM candidate at Sciences Po Transnational Arbitration and Dispute Settlement masters program, awarded with Sciences Po's scholarship. Associate at Rodrigo Elias & Medrano Abogados in Peru, firm considered to be the best firm in Latin America by Chambers and Partners (2018). With experience as an arbitrator and as the coach of Universidad de Lima (Peru) in 2018 and 2019 Latin American MOOT organized by University of Buenos Aires and University del Rosario. Assistant teach at Universidad de Lima and Universidad del Pacifico in Peru, in dispute settlement. Founder of Lima Very Young Arbitration Practitioners - LVYAP, part of the VYAP worldwide network.

Ms Anna Cho

Anna is a dispute resolution lawyer (qualified in New Zealand and New South Wales, Australia) with a focus on construction disputes. Anna is currently part of the Construction and Major Projects Team at Dentons Kensington Swan in Auckland, following a year of working in London in the Executive Department of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA).

Mr Rangon Choudhury

I am an Indian qualified lawyer based out of New Delhi. Post qualification, I pursued a LLM in International Commercial Arbitration from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) from where I graduated with a distinction in 2018. After QMUL, I moved back to India. In the past 4 years I have worked in the disputes/international arbitration teams of two reputed Indian law firms, Kachwaha and Partners and Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas. In July 2022, I segued into independent counsel practice with a focus on civil/commercial litigation and domestic/international arbitration. My practise is based in New Delhi but I work pan India. While being at QMUL, I represented the institution at the 25th Vis Moot in Vienna. My team placed 11th in the overall team rankings and reached the round of 16. I received an Honorable Mention in the Martin Domke Best Oralist Category. I have been coaching regularly at the VIS since 2019.

Ms Sushmita Chowdhury

Sushmita argued for Respondent-Procedure at the 26th Vis Moot in Vienna, as a part of the team representing Middlesex University Dubai. She completed her law degree with first class honours in September 2020, and is presently working in the arbitration practice of a Dubai law firm, and acting as one of the coaches to Middlesex Dubai’s team.
The Vis Moot paved the way for the beginning of Sushmita’s passion for arbitration. A few awards she came across in her research led to her undertaking an undergraduate dissertation on investor-State arbitration, which received a distinction, and is soon to be published.
Sushmita speaks fluent English, Hindi and Bengali.

Ms Hachikaru Chukwu

I am a solicitor practicing in various areas of law, such as International Commercial Arbitration, Information Technology Law, Intellectual Property Law, International Banking Law. I hold an LLB degree with an Upper Second Class from the University of Hertfordshire, UK, and an LLM degree from the University of East Anglia, UK (2017).

I currently head the Information Technology Law and Intellectual Property Law department at a top Nigerian Law firm managed by a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, and I give lectures to university students on International Oil & Gas Law and Informational Technology Law.

I participated in the 24th Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot in Vienna, representing the University of East Anglia alongside my colleagues. I am a member of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), the Young International Arbitration Group (YIAG), and the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA).

I am very passionate about arbitration and I am happy to serve as an arbitrator in the Annual Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot.

I look forward to volunteering as an arbitrator at the moot, and meeting other young people passionate about commercial arbitration.

Ms Eva Cibulkova

Eva Cibulková is a graduate of Pan-European University in Bratislava and currently works as an associate for the Bratislava office of one of the largest international law firms in the world, Squire Patton Boggs.

Eva is a member of the SPB international dispute resolution practice focusing both on investor-state disputes conducted under ICSID and UNCITRAL Rules, and on international as well as domestic commercial arbitration and litigation.

Already as a law student, Eva participated in many moot court competitions such as Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, The Annual Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot or The International ADR Mooting Competition.

Dr René Cienciala

René Cienciala is a fully-qualified Czech based dispute resolution attorney-at-law. He has a ten year working experience and currently works as a head of international arbitration at boutique law firm Urban & Hejduk. He specialises in complex commercial disputes, including domestic litigation and arbitration, international commercial arbitration (ICC, LCIA, VIAC, UNCITRAL), investor-State arbitration (ICSID), and sports arbitration/disciplinary proceedings (CAS, UEFA). Besides his practice as counsel, René also serves as arbitrator at the Czech Football Association (FACR), member and secretary of the Commission on International Arbitration of the ICC Czech Republic, and is active in various professional associations both locally and worldwide (ICC YAF, YIAG, Young ICCA). He holds the leading Geneva LL.M. in International Dispute Settlement (MIDS, 2018) and was recognized in the Legal 500 (2020) as ‘very active and a skilled lawyer with great communication skills’.

Ms Inita Cima

Inita participated in vis moot in 2016/17. She also participated in other major moot courts, as well as won 3rd place at the Frankfurt Investment Moot Court Competition in 2019 respresenting the University of Latvia team. She previously worked as assistant-lawyer at the European Court of Human Rights. She currently works as a legal advisor to the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Department of Assistance and Training at the U.S. Embassy in Riga.

Mr Robert Cimmino

Robert Cimmino is an associate in Watt Tieder’s McLean, Virginia office concentrating his practice in the areas of construction litigation, suretyship and government contracts. He joined Watt Tieder in 2023 after spending two years working as an associate at a general litigation firm in Fairfax, Virginia.

Robert received his J.D. and Master’s in Public and International Affairs from the University of Pittsburgh where he focused on alternative dispute resolution and international arbitration. He also holds an L.L.M. in International Arbitration and Business Law from the American University Washington College of Law. During law school, he worked as a judicial intern with Justice David Wecht of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. He also served as the Notes Editor on the Pittsburgh Tax Review and CFO of PLISF, a non-profit raising funds to support scholarships for law students taking unpaid summer positions in the public interest. Robert competed in the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot and continues to coach the University of Pittsburgh team.

Robert also works pro bono with the Commercial Law Development Program of the United States Department of Commerce, conducting lectures and training seminars on international arbitration and commercial law in the Middle East, North Africa, and Southeast Asia.

Mr Ivan Cisar

Mr Cisár received his master degree in law (2009), the PhD degree in International and European Law (2016) from Masaryk University Faculty of Law in Brno, Czech Republic, and the LL.M. degree in International Dispute Settlement (2019), a joint program of Geneva University and Graduate Institute. During his studies, he participated, besides other moot courts, in Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot as a participant and then as a coach of the Masaryk University team. Currently, he works as an attorney associated with Skils law office in Prague, specialising in various forms of arbitration.

Mr James Clanchy

James Clanchy, FCIArb is a full-time arbitrator in independent practice (www.jamesclanchy.com) and an Associate Member of Six Pump Court Chambers in London. He has been appointed as sole arbitrator, co-arbitrator and chair in ad hoc and institutional arbitrations seated in London, Paris, Dubai, Singapore and Copenhagen. A solicitor in England & Wales since 1990 (non-practising since 2019), he was also an avocat at the Paris bar (1994 to 2008).
James spent more than 20 years in private practice in London and Paris with Withers, Holman Fenwick Willan and Stephenson Harwood, specialising in shipping, commodities and energy. He was Registrar and Deputy Director General of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) 2008-2012 and was a Senior Legal Advisor at Thomas Miller Legal 2012-2014.
He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb) and an Aspiring Full Member, and former Honorary Secretary, of the London Maritime Arbitrators Association (LMAA). He has been a content provider for LexisNexis UK, was a co-author of 'A Commentary on the LCIA Arbitration Rules 2014' (Sweet & Maxwell 2015) and has written articles and given lectures about the LCIA, the LMAA, commodities arbitration, third-party funding, and ethics.

Dr Carson Clements

Private International law expert and practitioner, specialized in international commercial and sales law, international commercial arbitration, and international business transactions .

Mr Aécio Filipe Coelho Fraga de Oliveira

Aécio Filipe is an associate in BMA’s Litigation and Arbitration area and Secretary General at São Paulo Accueil. He worked as an international visiting attorney with the international arbitration group of Herbert Smith Freehills in Paris. He is trained in French and Brazilian law and graduated from the University of Paris I : Panthéon – Sorbonne with honours (Master’s degree in International Private Law and International Commerce, cum laude, 2018). He took part of his thesis' researches at Universität Hamburg, Germany, as a visiting researcher. He holds a bachelor's degree in Brazilian Law from Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) (LL.B., 2017). During his undergraduate studies he has spent time at Université de Lille II: Droit et Santé, France and at University of Saskatchewan, Canada. Aécio is recipient of the "Arbitration Academy 2017 Scholarship" and the "Emerging Leaders in America Program Scholarship". He is a member of the Brazilian Bar (OAB/MG: 181.046) since 2017. Aécio Filipe is a native Portuguese speaker and also works in French and English.

Ms Ana Coimbra Trigo

Ana is a Portuguese Lawyer currently practicing International Arbitration at PLMJ Law Firm, in Lisbon, Portugal.
She is a Portuguese national who grew up in Macau, China. She is fluent in English and Mandarin and pursued her law studies at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, further holding an LL.M. in European and International Law from the China-EU School of Law (China University of Political Science and Law). Ana has also attended a Post-Graduate course in Arbitration (focusing on arbitration in Portugal and Portuguese-speaking countries) at the University of Lisbon and is currently a PhD candidate at NOVA School of Law, Lisbon. Ana speaks and publishes frequently in the field.
Ana participated in the Vis East Moot, March 2015, and serves an arbitrator in Vienna since 2017.
Her interests are International Private Law, International Business Law, Arbitration and Litigation.

Mr Davide Colacino

Davide Colacino is a senior associate with Lustenberger Attorneys at law KLG based in Zurich (Switzerland). He specializes in arbitration and litigation in commercial and business disputes. He has acted as arbitrator, counsel and secretary of arbitral tribunals in numerous institutional (ICC, Swiss Arbitration Centre, CAS and DIFC-LCIA) and ad hoc arbitrations. His practice focuses, in particular, on construction disputes, international commercial law and post-M&A disputes.

Moreover, he regularly represents clients in debt enforcement and bankruptcy proceedings, recognition and enforcement proceedings, and setting aside proceedings against arbitral awards before the Swiss Federal Supreme Court. Another focus of his practice is the representation of parties in white-collar criminal proceedings.

Davide Colacino is a member of various professional organizations (AIA-ArbIt-40, ASA, ASA below 40, DIS40, ICC YAF, Young ICCA, YConstruction) and the coordinator of the Swiss chapter of AIA-ArbIT-40 (the Italian under 40 Arbitration Group).

Mr Tony Cole

Tony Cole FCIArb is an arbitrator at JAMS and Reader in Arbitration and Investment Law at Leicester Law School. He is a past Branch Chair of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He is co-author of Understanding International Arbitration (2018), as well as widely read reports on arbitration in both Europe and the Americas.  He is a member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration's Task Force on Disability Inclusion and International Arbitration.

He has more than 10 years’ experience as an arbitrator and advocate in international and complex commercial arbitrations, and has been invited to speak on arbitration at locations around the world. A dual Australian-UK national, he has been qualified in New York since 2005 and practised in White & Case’s New York office. He is on the list or panel of a range of leading arbitral institutions worldwide.

He is currently overseeing a £1 million, five-year research project into the social and psychological underpinnings of commercial arbitration in Europe.

Based in both London and New York, he serves as an arbitrator, mediator and special master in a number of practice areas, but has particular experience in commercial, transportation (aviation/maritime), construction, education and financial disputes.

Mr Miguel L. Colquicocha Martinez

Argentinian lawyer graduated from the National University of Rosario. Currently working in the prosecution unit specialized in economic crimes and teaching assistant of Commercial Law and Private International Law at the National University of Rosario.
Forthcoming degree in Economics. Backgrounds in the legal and economic field.
Former mootie, coach of the National University of Rosario team in different arbitration moots. Arbitrator in some moot courts.
Member of the winning team of the International Commercial Arbitration Moot organized by the University of Buenos Aires - University of Rosario, Bogotá (2010).
Coach and coordinator of the winning team of the Investment arbitration moot organized by the American University - Externado University, Bogotá (2017).

Mr Tudor Contaș

Tudor has been involved in proceedings before state courts and national/international arbitration tribunals and has a strong academic background in the field of international law and arbitration.

Mr Caetano Corrêa

Lawyer, International Law and Civil Procedure Law Professor at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (undergraduate and graduate), with a Ph. D degree.

Ms Valentina Cottens da Fonseca

Mr Andrew Coyne

Andrew Coyne graduated from the University of Pittsburgh Law School in 2015. Andrew practices as an attorney in the Compliance, Investigations, Trade and Enforcement group of Steptoe & Johnson LLP in Washington D.C. His practice is focused on white-collar criminal defense, internal investigations, and complex civil litigation. He represents companies in various stages of corporate and criminal matters. Currently, Andrew is actively engaged in multi-state insurance defense related to COVID-19 claims.
Andrew is a former Mootie, having participated in the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot in 2014.

Dr Viktor Előd Cserép

Viktor Cserép is an attorney-at-law (Budapest) and associate at PROVARIS Varga and Partners in Budapest specializing in international arbitration and complex commercial litigation proceeding, with experience in several industry sectors including construction (FIDIC), manufacturing and the international sale of goods. He also regularly provides ongoing legal support during large-scale international projects, primarily for enterprises from German speaking countries. He is a member of several international arbitration organizations, the past first CEE Chair of Young ITA (Institute for Transnational Arbitration, 2021-2023). Viktor prepared the official English and German translations of the 2018 Rules of Proceedings of the Arbitration Court Attached to the Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (HCCI/MKIK). His article entitled "E Pluribus Unum -Out of Many, One Common European Sales Law?" was awarded First Prize in the 2014 edition of the worldwide Clive M. Schmitthoff Essay Competition and was published in Pace International Law Review in 2017 (http://digitalcommons.pace.edu/pilr/vol29/iss1/2/) and included in the UNCITRAL bibliography on international sale of goods. Viktor holds a PhD in international arbitration from the University of Vienna (supervised by Professor Paul Oberhammer) and teaches international commercial law (covering the CISG) in the European and International Business Law LL.M. programme of Eötvös Loránd University Budapest. His working languages are English, German and Hungarian.

Ms Karolina Czarnecka

Karolina is a Polish bilingual lawyer with an international background and multidisciplinary experience. She is an associate in Queritius, an international dispute resolution boutique focusing on Central and Eastern Europe. She has experience in M&A and Banking law, gained in two top law firms in Warsaw. She also worked in a top arbitration law firm in Paris. Karolina obtained a LLM degree in Transnational Arbitration and Dispute Settlement at Sciences Po, Paris. She is a University of Warsaw PhD Candidate researching in the area of arbitration and human rights, and an Ambassador for Arbitrator Intelligence.

Prof Anthony Daimsis

Anthony Daimsis is a professor at the University of Ottawa, faculty of law and teaches contract law, international arbitration, and international sales law. He is Director of the joint civil law / common law program and has coached the Ottawa Vis team since 2003. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the current Chair of the Canadian branch. He has acted as sole arbitrator, party-appointed arbitrator, expert witness, and counsel in arbitrations and has appeared before courts in matters related to arbitration, contract law, and conflicts of law (PIL), including before Canada's Supreme Court. He a member of Littleton Chambers' (London, UK) international arbitration group. He is the Canadian rapporteur to UNCITRAL for the CISG.

Mr Albert Dakar

Mr Goel Damkani

Current Professional Role:
- Visiting foreign lawyer at WilmerHale (International arbitration department, London)

Current Vis Moot Role:
- Coach (Queen Mary University of London)

Past Vis Moot Experience:
- Individual Oralist, Vienna (2015) - Advanced to breakout rounds.
- Individual Oralist, Vienna (2016) - Advanced to breakout rounds and won honorable mention for best individual oralist.

Background & Training: I am licensed to practice law in Israel and Florida, and certified in New York (pending admission). I originally studied law in Israel, where I obtained an LLB in 2016. After sitting for the bar, I volunteered on the Israel Bar Association's Forum for Alternative Dispute Resolution and Committee for Arbitration and Mediation, where I contributed to proposals for amending Israeli legislation referring to arbitration and mediation. I subsequently relocated to the United States and graduated with a Juris Doctor and LLM in international arbitration from the University of Miami in Florida in 2022. During my studies, I had opportunities to work at a number of law firms, primarily in the ares of international commercial arbitration and litigation as well as domestic arbitration and commercial litigation matters.

Good luck to all the teams, and I look forward to connecting in Vienna!

Ms Pooja Damodaran

I, Pooja Damodaran, am enrolled as an advocate in the Bar Council of India and I have 2 years of practice experience in civil and commercial litigation. I am a recent graduate of LLM. in International Commercial Arbitration Law from Stockholm University. I participated in plethora of prestigious moot court competitions such as Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court (National Rounds); INTA-Asia Pacific Moot Court Competition, Singapore, and had the privilege to be the jury of a few. Being an avid mootie, I crafted various moot court problems in topics such as Trademarks, International Environmental Law, International Commercial Arbitration Law, Domestic Indian Commercial Laws. I am a strong advocate of women rights and have participated in moots/ debates related to this topic. Moreover, some of my notable publications amongst others are “Are Steve Jobs Dots Really Working? An insight on Corruption in International Arbitration through Niko v. Bangladesh” (Wolters Kluwer Romanian Arbitration Journal No. 3, July-September 2020), "Artificial intelligence in international arbitration - A myth or reality” Very Young Arbitration Blog (VYAB) and “SIAC’s Cross Institutional Consolidation - Complication or Solution” SSRN Papers (ISSN: 1556-5068). Finally, I also have notable Leadership Summit experience in Harvard, Boston and Cambridge, UK.

Mr Stefan Danojević

Mrs Channraksmeychhoukroth Dany

Channraksmeychhoukroth DANY (or “Chhoukroth”) is an Attorney-at-Law and a member of the Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia. Her legal practices centered on contract law, international commercial arbitration, family law, business and human rights and criminal litigation. She is acting as counsel in both domestic and international arbitration.

Having participated twice as a mooter in the Vis East Moot in 2013 and 2015, she had decided to work for the Vis East Moot Foundation in its Capacity Building Programme in late 2015. She then serves as a coach and arbitrator for the Vis East Moot and Vis Moot for several years.

Chhoukroth’s principle research fields center on the law of the sea, international commercial arbitration, international environmental law, and human rights law particularly right to a healthy environment and business and human rights. With her experiences and passions, she has been elected as member of the Executive Council of the Asian Society of International Law (AsianSIL) where one of the core objectives is to foster and encourage Asian perspectives on international law.

Mr Luiz Eduardo Darin da Cunha

Sócio Proprietário da Cunha & Mello Law Firm. Advogado. Árbitro. Professor e escritor na área de direito internacional privado. Mestre em Direito pela escola de Direito de Harvard. Winthrop House Alumni. Pós-graduado em Arbitragem Internacional pela escola de Direito da Faculdade Getúlio Vargas. Graduado em Direito pela Universidade de Direito de Curitiba.

Ms Sharareh Dastmalchi

Sharareh Dastmalchi is a Professional Support Lawyer at BODENHEIMER. She is a graduate of the University of Tehran, Faculty of Law (Iran) and holds two Postgraduate Masters of Law, one in International Trade and Economic Law from the University of Tehran (Iran) and the other in International Dispute Resolution (LL.M.) from Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (Germany). In her day to day work she assists the arbitral tribunal and counsel for the parties in arbitrations under, inter alia, the rules of ICC, HKIAC, ACIC, ICDR, LCIA.

Mr Wohlgemuth David

David Wohlgemuth is a former mootie participating for the University of St.Gallen in 2014/15, which sparked his interest in international arbitration. Following his studies, David joined the arbitration and litigation team at Wenger Vieli Ltd in Zurich as an intern, where he gained his first practical experiences in the field of international arbitration. After being admitted to the bar in 2020, he continued working in international commercial arbitration and litigation at Wenger Vieli Ltd as well as a solo practitioner. In 2024, David joined epartners as a Counsel, where he advises and represents clients in complex commercial litigations as well as arbitration proceedings under all major arbitration rules. His focus lies in contract and commercial law as well as sports related disputes.

In addition to his work as counsel, he also serves as an arbitrator and administrative secretary in complex international arbitration proceedings under all major arbitration rules. Since 2022, David is a lecturer at the University of Zurich where he works as a coach for the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Court. As of 2024, he represents DIS40 as regional coordinator in Zurich.

Mr Peter R. Day

Peter R. Day is an independent arbitrator and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

He retired from the Boeing legal depart ment after 25 years, including nine years as Chief Counsel for Boeing Computer Services. He began his legal career as a U. S. Marine Corps trial lawyer and court-martial judge, and then as a civilian prosecutor in San Mateo County, California.

He has taught international commercial arbitration at the University of Washington Law School and has taught at the MBA and undergraduate level at the Seattle University Business School. He also teaches trial practice for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy and has organized workshops on cross-examination in international arbitration in Beijing, Shanghai and Vienna.

He received a B.A. from Yale University, a J.D. from the University of San Francisco, a Diplôme d’études supérieures spécialisées (as a Fulbright Scholar) from the University of Grenoble, France, and studied at the Europa-Institut in Saarbrücken, Germany. He also attended an executive program (Programme Supérieur pour Dirigeants) at the INSEAD international business school in France.

Ms Andrea De Biase

Andrea De Biase is a Trial and Global Disputes associate at King & Spalding and member of the firm's International Arbitration group based in London. Andrea has experience acting on a diverse range of international commercial disputes and has acted for clients operating in various sectors, including infrastructure, energy and natural resources. Andrea participated in the Willem C. Vis Moot in 2011 for Deakin University.

Mr Joaquim Pedro de Miranda Baldoíno

Joaquim Pedro de Miranda Baldoíno is qualified to practice law in Brazil. After obtaining his law degree from Armando Alvares Penteado Foundation in 2019, he spent two semesters as an exchange student at the University of Wyoming in the USA. Joaquim is conducting postgraduate studies in International Relations and Diplomacy at Unisinos University. He has a certificate in Arbitration from the Pontifical University Catholic of Sao Paulo and attended the ICC Summer Course on Commercial International Arbitration in France. Joaquim has represented Armando Alvares Penteado Foundation in the Vis Moot as a student on two occasions, in 2017 and 2018. He has also participated in other competitions such as the Brazilian Arbitration Competition and the US Universities Debating Championship.

Mr Ivo de Paula Medaglia

Ivo de Paula Medaglia is an attorney and arbitrator based in Curitiba, Brazil. He is partner at Medaglia Roxo Advogados, with experience in negotiation, mediation, litigation and arbitration. Ivo holds a Master of Law degree in Private International Law from the University of São Paulo (USP). He is Professor at the State University of Ponta Grossa (UEPG) and Board Member of the Chamber of Mediation and Arbitration of the Commercial Association of Paraná (ARBITAC).

Mr Ali Dehdashti

Ali Dehdashti is a legal professional with extensive expertise in international arbitration and financial law. He is a dual qualified lawyer and has been practicing as an attorney at law in the Iranian jurisdiction for several years, as well as being a solicitor in England and Wales. Ali has been a Senior Associate in the Swiss law firm Python since 2016, where he has had the privilege to work on international financial and commercial disputes. His legal practice has encompassed diverse areas, including commercial and civil law, international arbitration, and litigation. Ali is well-versed in providing sound advice and representation to clients across various legal matters, ranging from commercial and corporate affairs to serving clients from a wide array of industries, including oil and gas, petrochemical, banking and finance, and pharmaceuticals.
Ali is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at King's College London, where his research focuses on the adequacy of dispute resolution practices in financial transactions concerning the future of financial markets.

Mr Alex Dehn

Alex is an alumnus of Monash University in Australia, whom he represented in the 24th Vis Moot. He now works as an international litigation and arbitration solicitor in London. Alex has a longstanding involvement in the Vis Moot, regularly judging both the Vienna moot and pre-moots.

Mrs Maria Beatriz Delamuta

Mrs. Delamuta holds a bachelor degree (2010) and a Master's degree (2017) from the University of São Paulo. Her Master's thesis focused specifically in the concept of fundamental breach provided for in the CISG and was entitled "Avoidance for breach in contracts for sale of goods: a comparative analysis between the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods and Brazilian law". Mrs. Delamuta has acted as counsel and administrative secretary in a number of different arbitration proceedings, both domestic and international. Mrs. Delamuta is a partner at Cristiano Zanetti Advogados. She has full working proficiency in Engligh and advanced knowledge of French and Spanish. Portuguese is her native language.

Mr Simon Demaurex

Associate at Schellenberg Wittmer in Geneva, Switzerland. Participated as a member of the team of the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) to the 21th Willem C. Vis International Arbitration Moot; coached the team of the Center for Transnational Legal Studies during the 22nd edition of the Moot and the team of the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) during the 23rd Willem C. Vis International Arbitration Moot.

Mr Joaquín Denis

Paraguayan lawyer working as a law clerk in the Civil Court of Appeals of Asunción. Professor (aux.) at the Faculty of Law of the Universidad Católica of Asunción, teaching Civil Law (Obligations & Juridical Acts). Former President of the Student Council. And most importantly, passionate ex-mootie (five-times pleader in various international competitions in english and spanish) and coach for the Universidad Católica of Asunción moot team since 2018.

Mr Dmytro Derkach

I am working as an associate in the Ukrainian law firm "Vasil Kisil & Partners" in the dispute resolution department and as an assistant-consultant to an MP. I have obtained a Bachelor degree in law and study for a Master degree in National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Ukraine). I have participated in 26th Vis Moot.

Prof Toni Deskoski

Professor Toni Deskoski Ph.D. graduated at the Faculty of Law, University “Ss Cyril and Methodius” in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia in 1994 as one of the best students in generation. He completed his postgraduate studies in the field of Civil Law – Private International Law in 1999 at Faculty of Law, University “Ss Cyril and Methodius” in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia. In the year of 2005 he has successfully defended his doctoral dissertation named as "Recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards" again at the Faculty of Law, University “Ss Cyril and Methodius” in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia. Prof. Deskoski is a Head of the Department of Private International Law since 2010. During his academic career, he published numerous monographs, articles, scientific papers in both Macedonian and English language. He has been conducting numerous research visits related to Private International Law and International Commercial Arbitration, among which of most importance are: the Summer session of The Hague Academy of International Law - Session for Private International Law, The Hague (1997); COLPI Business Law Institute Program of 1998, CEU Budapest (1998); Duke-Geneva Institute in Transnational Law, Geneva (1998); Central European University Summer program (SUN): The Law of International Business Transactions, Budapest (1999); Fulbright American Studies Institute, Boston (2000); Internship at the Permanent Bureau of the Hague Conference for Private International Law (2004). Guest speaker at International Hellenic University within the Conference on Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Settlement in Germany, Greece and the Balkan States (May 2013) etc.
Since 2011 Prof. Deskoski is a Vice-President of the Permanent Court of Arbitration attached to the Economic Chamber of Macedonia.

Mr JAYEMS DHINGRA

Jayems Dhingra
Chartered Arbitrator
Certified International Arbitrator
Accredited Adjudicator, Accredited Mediator
Chartered Valuer and Appraiser (CVA)
FACICA | FAMTAC | M.S.I.D | Member, AIEN |
LL.M. (IP Law) | M. Sc. (Maritime Studies) |

Jayems is currently engaged in providing professional ADR services as Arbitrator, Adjudicator, Mediator and Management Consultant. During the last 47 year period, he has worked and consulted in the industry verticals encompassing: Technology, Trading, Construction, Oil & Gas Exploration & Production, Petrochemical Process Plants and Power Plant Construction Projects, Logistics & Warehousing, Shipping, Marine, Offshore, Oil & Gas Pipelines, Infrastructure Development Projects (Ports, Offshore Supply Bases, Terminals, Highways and Airports etcetera), EPCIC Contracts, and Shipyards, in Asia, Africa, Middle East, Americas and Europe.

Jayems is accredited as Certified International Arbitrator, Chartered Arbitrator, Sports arbitrator under CAS Rules, WIPO Neutral, Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) Bargaining Code Arbitrator, Accredited Adjudicator and Accredited Mediator. He is admitted to the international panels of arbitrators and neutrals with WIPO, Geneva; ACICA, AMTAC and ACMA, Australia; BVIAC (British Virgin Islands); JIAC (Jamaica); HKIAC Hong Kong; AIAC, Malaysia; AIADR, Malaysia; KCAB, Seoul, South Korea; ICA, Delhi, India; ICC (Singapore); SCMA, Singapore; SCCA, Saudi Arabia; VIAC Vienna, Austria; Thailand Arbitration Centre (THAC), Mediator with AIAC Malaysia, CMC, and SIMI Singapore.

Mr Shashi K. Dholandas

Shashi K. Dholandas is a litigation and arbitration practitioner with the firm of Bailey Duquette P.C. where he provides counsel to clients in both international and domestic matters. Shashi is experienced in all aspects of commercial dispute resolution, including acting as counsel in international and domestic arbitrations under the rules of the AAA, ICDR, ICC and JAMS.

He previously served as a Director and as International Case Counsel with the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) - the international division of the American Arbitration Association (AAA) - and ICDR Canada. Prior to joining the firm, Shashi was Associate General Counsel with an international specialist broker of litigation and arbitration third party financing and risk insurance.

Shashi participated as a "mootie" in the 17th and 18th Vis Moot as a member of the Rutgers Law School team. He has previously coached the Vis Moot teams of Rutgers Law School and Columbia Law School.

Ms Manuela Díaz

I am currently an associate at Dechamps International Law, a boutique firm focused on investment and commercial arbitration. I participated in the Vis Moot in its 26th edition in representation of the University of Buenos Aires, my alma mater and where I also coach the current Vis Moot team.

Mr Richard Dickman

Richard is a Legal Director of Pinsent Masons LLP in London and an English solicitor with over 20 years’ experience of complex commercial litigation and international arbitration, mainly focused on energy, international trade and marine disputes. He is a former barrister, qualified solicitor advocate who conducts his own advocacy, ADR Group accredited mediator and member of the City of London Law Society’s Litigation Committee. Richard He is a frequent contributor to Out-Law.com on conflicts of law, arbitration, state immunity and other legal developments. He has a BA Hons in Economics from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa and an MA in Law from the University of Cambridge.

Dr Alexandra Diehl

Alexandra Diehl is a local partner in the international arbitration practice of White & Cae. She is based in Frankfurt. In 2007/2008 she coached the Willem C. Vis Moot Court team of Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf. She has been infected with the "Vis virus" ever since. Alexandra teaches investment arbitration at Heinrich-Heine-University and regularly publishes on topics of international arbitration.

Ms Monika Diehl

Monika Diehl is a senior associate at Clifford Chance Warsaw specializing in international commercial arbitration and investment treaty arbitration. She has many years' experience in representing clients in complex litigation and international arbitration disputes spanning a variety of sectors, including renewables, oil & gas, construction and finance. She acts for foreign investors in investment treaty arbitrations. She is a member of the Arbitration Comittee of the Lewiatan Court of Arbitration.
Monika graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration and the Institute of International Relations at the University of Warsaw, as well as the Center for American Law Studies co-organized by University of Florida and the University of Warsaw.
Monika participated in the 18th Vis Moot and FDI Moot in 2011 where she became an Honourable Mention advocate, while her team ranked 2nd and received 2nd prize for the Claimant's memorial. She coached the University of Warsaw teams in the Vis Moot and FDI Moot until 2014, when the team has won the FDI Moot finals. She was a member of FDI Moot 2013 Case Drafting Committee and Bench Brief Committee where she worked on the case and a brief for the moot arbitrators.

Ms Thera Dieleman

Thera Dieleman (1988) grew up as a Dutch citizen in Germany. She is a real estate lawyer in a notary firm in the east of the Netherlands, which focuses on cross-border cases between the Netherlands and Germany. Before she has been a lecturer in Private Law at Maastricht University, Radboud University Nijmegen, both the Netherlands, and Hasselt University, Belgium, for 3,5 years. In 2009, she obtained a Bachelor degree in Economics from Utrecht University. In 2013, she graduated from Leiden University, having completed Masters in Civil Law and Philosophy of Law. During her masters in Civil Law she got interested in arbitration and has done empirical research on the use of arbitration and mediation within a multinational.
During her studies, she was among other things a student-assistant in the library of the Dutch Supreme Court in The Hague.

She is a former participant in the 20th Vis Moot and was twice an arbitrator in Vienna and twice during the virtual editions. All the times in Vienna she enjoyed the great international atmosphere, the nice people she met and hopefully will see again. She really looks forward to come back to Vienna and experiences the moot again as an arbitrator.

Mr Andris Dimants

I am a lawyer based in Latvia with 10 years of experience in national and international commercial dispute resolution as a law firm attorney, as well as an inhouse general counsel. During my career I have been involved in various arbitration proceedings in institutions, such as, ICC, SCC, AAA. I have represented clients in commercial litigations before the Latvian courts, as well as handled various cases from inhouse side in Latvia, United States, UK and other jurisdictions. I am currently head the legal department of Printify, which is one of the leading print on demand companies and tech startups in the world. In addition I have my own freelance law practice dealing predominately with dispute resolution. In 2019 I acquired a LLM degree in the Pittsburgh law school with a focus on cross border transactions and international arbitration. I have also acquired a Masters degree from University of Latvia in 2017 and bachelor's in 2015. During my studies I have participated in the Vis moot competition twice. I have arbitrated in the Vismoot and coached the University of Latvia team since the 25th Vismoot.

Mr Samuel Dimitri

I am currently employed at an international law firm in Finance Litigation. I assist a wide range of asset finance clients with progressing recoveries and litigation on return of goods claims, breach of contract claims, breach of guarantee claims and claims in conversion. I also assist clients with the enforcement of money judgments in England and abroad. I am involved in all stages of litigation, from pre-litigation correspondence to trial preparation. I also have previous experience of working in Banking and Finance. I competed as Counsel in the 2018 Vis Moot representing the University of Sheffield.

Mr Anton Dirlinger

I participated in the Vis Moot Court in 2017/18 for the University of Vienna attending the Vis East in Hong Kong. After that I stayed involved with the Moot, coaching the University of Vienna's team for three seasons. Following the completion of my master studies in 2019, I am currently attending a doctoral degree at the University of Vienna and working as a researcher there.

Ass Prof Dr Milena Djordjevic

• Assistant Professor, University of Belgrade Faculty of Law since October 2012, Lecturer (2002-2012).
Courses:
o International Commercial Law (international contracts, international trade, arbitration).
o International Commercial Arbitration
o International Private Law
o EU Trade Policy and the World (EU trade law and WTO law)
o Practical Skills (Legal English, research and writing)
o Coach of the Willem C. Vis Moot team and Moot court coordinator (2002-date).

• Visiting Professor,
o University of Pittsburgh School of Law, USA, Fall Semester 2010, teaching International Commercial Arbitration class to JD and LLM students.

• Arbitrator on the lists of:
o Foreign Trade Court of Arbitration attached to the Serbian Chamber of Commerce.
o Foreign Trade Court of Arbitration attached to the Chamber of Commerce of Montenegro.
o Permanent Court of Arbitration attached to the Chamber of Commerce of Croatia.
o Permanent Court of Arbitration attached to the Serbian Chamber of Commerce.
o Also serving in ad hoc arbitrations.

As a member of arbitration panels, presiding arbitrator or a sole arbitrator participated in 15 cases so far under FTCA Rules, VIAC Rules and in ad hoc cases.

• Member of the Board of the Arbitration Association in Serbia, as of 2013, and head of its Young Arbitrators Forum.

• Director of International Commercial Law and Arbitration Law Studies Centre at HARMONIUS association as of 2007 and editor of its legal journal.

Mr André Tunes do Nascimento

André Tunes is an associate at Marques Rosado, Toledo César & Carmona Advogados in São Paulo, Brazil.
He is a member of the CAM-CCBC New Gen, the Centre of Studies & Research on Arbitration of the University of São Paulo (CePArb-USP) and the Group of Arbitration of the University of São Paulo (GArb-USP)
His practice focuses on national, international arbitration and civil litigation.
A graduate at University of São Paulo, André is a coach of the University of São Paulo's Vis Moot Team. A former oralist of the University of São Paulo himself, André was also coach of the first Latin-American team to win the Foreign Direct Investment Moot, in 2020.

Mr Martin Doe

Martin Doe serves as Deputy Secretary-General at the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in The Hague, an intergovernmental organization which administers arbitrations and other dispute resolution proceedings involving various combinations of States, State entities, intergovernmental organizations, and private parties.

He has worked closely with arbitral tribunals in some of the largest and most complex inter-State, investor-State, and commercial cases administered by the PCA spanning the full breadth of public and private international law as well as the full range of commercial industry sectors. In addition, he assists the PCA Secretary-General in carrying out his roles under the Arbitration Rules of the United Nations Commission for International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), as well as the diplomatic work of the PCA with its member States and other intergovernmental organizations, in particular in regard to climate change, business and human rights, complex financial disputes, investor-State dispute settlement reform, and the harmonization of arbitration and commercial laws.

Mr Christoph S. Doellefeld

My name is Christoph S. Doellefeld, and I am a 2013 graduate of New York Law School. I currently work as a Legal Risk & Regulatory Compliance Consultant at Protiviti, Inc., and am based in New York City. Additionally, I am a member of the New York State Bar, the New York City Bar, and serve on the New York City Bar's Committee on Science and the Law, where I chair the Space-Settling Subcommittee. While in law school, I had the honour of representing my school at the 2013 Vis Moot Competition in Vienna. In the time since, I have kept in contact with many of those I met during my time at Vis, and regularly see my fellow Vis teammates to catch up and reminiscence about the times we shared in preparing for the moot, and more so the times and memories we shared while there. Since my first day at the Vis Competition, I have desired to return to participate again as an Arbitrator. A number of years have passed since I graduated, and in that time I believe I have gained the request experience and knowledge to provide a meaningful contribution to the Moot.

Mrs Lito DOKOPOULOU

Lito Dokopoulou is an Associate at KLC Law Firm, based in Athens since 2019. She is a practicing lawyer specialised in the fields of international arbitration, litigation, ADR, dispute settlement, private international law and international business transactions. She has work experience in the International Arbitration Departments of top-tier firms of Paris. She is a holder of two LL.M titles in Private International Law (University of Athens) and Transnational Arbitration and Dispute Settlement (TADS LL.M - Sciences Po, Paris) and currently participating in the 2021 research program of the Hague Academy on the topic of Applicable Law Issues in International Arbitration.

Dr Vangel Dokovski

Dr. Vangel Dokovski, Associate Professor for Private International Law at the University "SS Cyril and Methodius" in Skopje. Coach of the SS. Cyril and Methodius Vis Moot team since 2008.

PhD in Law from the Faculty of Law "Iustinianus Primus" in Skopje in 2015. PhD thesis: "Party Autonomy in Non-Contractual Obligations – A Macedonian and European perspective of the freedom of choice of law to non-contractual obligations ".


Attended the Summer session of The Hague Academy of International Law - on Private International Law, The Hague (2011); Paris International Academy for Arbitration Law, Paris (2011); Fondation pour le droit continental, Paris (2012); Inter University Center of Dubrovnik, An independent international center for advanced studies , Dubrovnik (2012); Collegio Carlo Alberto, Law & Business in Europe, Turin International Post-graduate Program, Turin (2012); Istituto Universitario di Studi Europei, Turin (2014) and Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna (2015).

Co-author of 1 book with Univ. Prof. Dr. Toni Deskoski – Private International Law: Cases and Materials (2014; 2015).


Fields of specific expertise: Conflict of Laws, International Civil Litigation, International Commercial Arbitration

Ms Earl Dolera

Earl J Rivera – Dolera is an independent arbitrator based in Singapore. She has been appointed as arbitrator in various cases with seats of arbitration in India, Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, and Hong Kong. She is listed in the Panel of Arbitrators at the SIAC (Reserve List), AIAC, HKIAC, and THAC. She has also been appointed as tribunal secretary in arbitral proceedings seated in Africa, Europe, United States, Australia, and Asia and has managed 160 arbitral proceedings in the chambers. She publishes extensively and speaks in various events and conferences in Singapore, Philippines, Thailand, Japan, Taiwan, and USA. Notably, she is a co-author of the book, “Halsbury’s Laws of Singapore: Arbitration” 2017 and 2020 re-issue and she was recently invited for accreditation as faculty member at the National Institute for Trial Advocacy in Colorado, USA. She is a qualified attorney in New York and the Philippines and a Fellow at the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators. She holds LLM degrees at Stanford Law School (USA) and at the National University of Singapore. At Stanford, she was a Salzburg-Cutler Fellow for International Law and Jean Monnet Research Fellow for Investor-State Arbitration and European Law.

Mr Dr Felix A.R. Dörfelt

Mr Dörfelt is a partner in the Hamburg office of Addleshaw Goddard (Germany) LLP and leads Addleshaw Goddard's German Litigation and International Arbitration practice. Mr Dörfelt assists and advises companies, individuals and States in successfully navigating complex disputes. He advises and represents parties in domestic and international arbitration proceedings, including commercial and investment arbitration, as well as in litigation proceedings in German state courts. His arbitration and public international law expertise includes advising and representing clients in relation to international commercial arbitrations under ICC and DIS rules, investment treaty arbitrations under ICSID rules and bilateral investment treaties (BITs). In addition, in his German litigation practice he also focuses on enforcement proceedings and cartel damages claim. Mr Dörfelt's industry focus includes renewable energy, aerospace, transportation and financial institutions. Mr Dörfelt also advises on issues relating to third party funding. He regularly sits as arbitrator and mediator.

Mr Dörfelt holds a Dr. jur. from Bucerius Law School and an LL.M. from the Pepperdine University School of Law Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution. He worked as a mediator at the Los Angeles and Honolulu Courts before joining Latham and Watkins LLP. Additionally, he published on topics of Dispute Resolution and International Law of the Sea.

His recent experience include inter alia successfully representing the Republic of Croatia in an ICSID arbitration brought under a bilateral investment treaty in relation to a real estate investment .

Ms Hana Doumal

Ms. Hana Doumal leads the Secretariat of the BVI International Arbitration Centre.
Hana has served in the arbitration sector at leading international firms and arbitral institutions in Hong Kong, Washington, D.C. and Paris. She has experience in commercial arbitration and investor-State arbitration, working in English, French and Spanish.
Before joining the BVI IAC, Hana was a Registered Foreign Lawyer in the international arbitration practice of Pinsent Masons in their Hong Kong office. She previously worked as a Registered Foreign Lawyer with the arbitration team of King & Wood Mallesons in Hong Kong, and before that, as Counsel at the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC). Her experience also includes an externship at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) in Washington, D.C. In Paris, she was an associate in the International Litigation and Arbitration practice of Foley Hoag, and she completed internships at Allen & Overy and Herbert Smith Freehills.
Hana received her Master of Laws in International Legal Studies from the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C., and her Master of Laws in Arbitration and International Business Law, with honors, from the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. At the University of Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne, she received both her Master of Laws in Comparative Law and Arab Countries Law and her Maîtrise in International Law. Hana received her Bachelor of Laws from the University Complutense of Madrid, with honors, after studying at the University of Rouen.
She participated in various moots during her studies, including the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot with the Paris Bar School Team in 2013.

Mr James Drake

James Drake QC is an experienced advocate specialising in commercial litigation and arbitration, with extensive experience across a number of jurisdictions, principally England & Wales, the United States (New York) and Australia. James specialises in all areas of commercial law, with particular emphasis on contractual disputes of all kinds including: aircraft sales; commercial fraud; distributorship/ franchise; insurance and reinsurance; international trade; partnership; and all related interlocutory and jurisdictional issues.

James is also an experienced arbitrator in international commercial arbitral disputes. He is a member of the London Court of International Arbitration, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a Fellow of the Australian Centre for International Arbitration, and a Chartered Arbitrator. James is a member of various international arbitration panels and has conducted arbitrations under the auspices of the ICC, the LCIA, the LMAA, the SMA, and the SCMA, as well as various ad hoc proceedings. James is also a member of the Court of Arbitration for Sport panel of arbitrators and a panel member of Sports Resolutions UK.

Ms Teodora Drašković

Teodora Draskovic is a senior associate at Pierstone law firm where she focuses on ICT, IP law and privacy. She is a graduate of the Charles University and has also studied in Toulouse, France. She participated in the 24th Vis Moot competition and she is coaching the Charles University Vis Moot team.

Ms Miriam Driessen Reilly

Miriam is an Irish national who has lived, studied and worked in Belgium for over 20 years. Qualified as a Solicitor in Ireland, England and Wales, she has worked as a lawyer in private legal practice in both Dublin and Brussels, where she has been admitted to the Brussels Bar (B list). Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (London), Miriam works as a Legal Advisor for the EESC in Brussels. She speaks English, French and Dutch.

Miriam has been admitted as a panel Arbitrator by the Law Society of Ireland (Dublin). She regularly acts as Arbitrator in the Vis Moot in Vienna. Miriam has expertise in both common and civil law, EU law, competition , public procurement , commercial and international commercial arbitration.


LL.M Bruges, 2001
LL.B Hons UCG 1994
B.A. Hons UCG 1992
Dip IntComArb CIArb

Publications include:
Private Damages in EU Competition Law and Arbitration – A changing landscape:Arbitration International, September 2015 (Oxford University Press)

Mr Alexey Drobyshev

My background includes in-house and private practice roles and revolves around science, technology, and regulation-intensive industries, with years of experience in private practice, life sciences and reg-tech.
I am is a regular speaker at international conferences on dispute resolution and regulatory compliance in key client industries. I have extensive experience in managing and conducting cross-border litigation and arbitration in multiple civil and common law jurisdictions. Because I am in the shoes of both counsel and client at the same time, I value swift, efficient and to the point conduct of proceedings (be it litigation or arbitration) by both counsel teams and tribunals. The same applies to communication, including at the expense of decorum.

Mr Olexander Droug

Partner at Sayenko Kharenko

Mr Sergii Drug

Dr Maciej Durbas

Maciej Durbas, PhD, LL.M., MCIArb, of counsel and co-leader of the arbitration practice at Kubas Kos Gałkowski, attorney at law. Expert in the field of dispute resolution. He has advised clients from many sectors, including automotive, banking, construction, government, insurance, rail, real estate, retail, telecommunication. He has extensive experience in arbitration as an arbitrator, counsel, or tribunal’s secretary. For several years he has been ranked as the Future Leader in Who's Who Legal Arbitration Ranking and recommended for Commercial Arbitration as Rising Star by Expert Guides. Coach of the Jagiellonian University of Kraków Vis Moot and Vis East Team.

Ms Derya Durlu Gürzumar

Ms. Derya Durlu Gürzumar graduated from Bilkent University Faculty of Law, where she was a participant in the 15th, 16th and 17th Vis Moots. She received two Honorable Mentions in the Martin Domke Award in the 16th and 17th Vis Moots, being the sole recipient of this award from among participants attending the Vis Moot from Turkey. She also holds an LL.M. degree from the same university, with a specialization on law & economics.

Ms. Durlu Gürzumar is a registered attorney-at-law at the Istanbul Bar Association and a PhD candidate at the University of Neuchâtel, in Switzerland. Her academic research focuses on international arbitration and corruption.

She has coached the Bilkent University Vis Moot Team and the Bilkent University ISTAC Moot Team, and has been acting as an arbitrator in various national and internation moot court competitions, including the FDI Moot, Jessup, and the ICC Moot.

Her ISTAC Moot Team won the 4th ISTAC Future of the Arbtiration Moot Court Competition in Turkey, in 2020, and her Vis Moot and Vis East Moot teams in 2021 became the highest ranking Turkish university team to reach the octo-finals and semi-finals, respectively.

Mr Chanakya Dwivedi

Chanakya Dwivedi is currently working as an advocate at the Supreme Court of India. He has completed his B.B.A. LL.B. from Symbiosis Law School in 2011 and his LL.M. from Cornell Law School in 2013. He has been enrolled as an Advocate in India since 2011. Chanakya was previously heading the Legal Department for Old World Hospitality Private Limited (in New Delhi) and was also a Visiting Associate Professor teaching Alternate Dispute Resolution & Arbitration to final year law students at Symbiosis Law School, Noida.

Ms Yanita Dzhunova

Former Vis mootie in the 26th Vis Moot, participant as an arbitrator in Sofia Vis Pre Moot. Tax Consultant in Deloitte Bulgaria.

Dr Björn P. Ebert

Björn P. Ebert is an Associated Partner with Gleiss Lutz in Stuttgart, Germany, and specializes in international arbitration, including enforcement and setting aside proceedings. Björn studied law at the University of Tübingen and graduated top of his class in 2014. He participated in the 18. Willem C Vis International Arbitration Moot Court and coached the team of the University of Tübingen in the following moot court. In February 2017, he received a PhD from the University of Tübingen. During writing his dissertation on international investment arbitration, he worked at a German law firm specializing in international arbitration. He was a visiting scholar at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law in Cambridge in autumn 2015 and in spring 2016. Björn was co-chair of the DIS40 Stuttgart from 2020 through 2023.

Mr David Edet

David Edet has cognate experience in international commercial arbitration, complex civil litigation, mergers and acquisitions, insolvency and corporate commercial law. He is a graduate of the prestigious University of Nigeria where he obtained his LL.B degree with Honours. David is currently an Associate in the Dispute Resolution and International Arbitration Practice of Dorothy Ufot & Co, a leading full service law firm headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria. David regularly advises corporations in various sectors ranging from construction, energy and oil and gas, aviation, banking, insurance, FMCG and shipping. David has a certificate in International Development from the Institute for Development Research (IDR), a Certificate in Regulatory Compliance from the University of Pennsylvania and a Certificate in Leadership from the University of Illinois. David is a member of the Association of Young Arbitrators (AYA), Young Practice Group of the London Court of International Arbitration (YPG-LCIA), and International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA). David Edet was recently appointed a registrar in a $1.3 Million USD construction dispute between two local construction companies in Nigeria.

Ms Chloe Edworthy

Chloe is a senior associate at London firm Macfarlanes LLP. She has a particular interest in international arbitration and commercial litigation, with a focus on corporate disputes.
Recent experience includes: (i) acting on behalf of London listed company in relation to a substantial international arbitration and providing on-going advice in relation to certain other international proceedings and regulatory issues; (ii) advising an Italian investment fund in respect of its successful defence of an injunction issued by its former sub-investment manager on the basis of alleged wrongful termination; and (iii) representing a former equity partner in an an arbitration against his former Big-Four firm for whistleblowing-related breach of contract claims.
Chloe also acts on behalf of high net worth individuals in relation to various contentious trust and probate matters.

Dr Nadia El Baroudi-Kostrikis

Dr. Nadia El Baroudi-Kostrikis is an Attorney at Law with the Paris Bar Association and a European Attorney at Law with the Cyprus Bar Association. She is currently based in Cyprus and is the founding partner of NBK Law Office in Nicosia.
She holds a doctorate degree in Law from the Faculty of Law of Montpellier I in France and is the Morocco country expert for the International Distribution Institute (IDI).
Dr. El Baroudi-Kostrikis is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the co-author of the Country Report on Arbitration for Morocco, published in WAR (World Arbitration Reporter) in 2015.
Dr. El Baroudi-Kostrikis specializes in competition law, international distribution contracts, commercial contracting matters, international arbitration and international business law, with a focus on Europe and North Africa. She also has over 15 years of extensive experience in art collection and charitable foundation management, including extensive involvement with museums, private and public foundations, auction houses, art dealers and experts. She has extensively handled matters pertinent to insurance, export/import rights and duties, ownership and title and intellectual property rights within the art domain.

Ms Nour El Ghadban

Lawyer in Egypt, and currently in the Institut des Etudes Judiciaires of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Ms. El Ghadban obtained a double degree of Egyptian and French Law from the Institut de droit des affaires internationales (IDAI), which was the result of a cooperation agreement between Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and Cairo University.

In 2019, Ms. El Ghadban obtained a masters degree from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne in International Economic Law. In 2020, Ms. El Ghadban obtained a masters degree from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne in Comparative Law. Her first exposure to arbitration was as an intern in the Cairo Regional Center for International Commercial Arbitration. Since, she has had numerous internships in international law firms in Cairo and Paris, specifically in the arbitration department.

In 2018, Ms. El Ghadban participated as a mootie in the 15th Vis East Moot. That year, as an administrator of her university's moot club, she organised the 4th annual local IDAI moot court. She has also coached teams from her university in regional and international moot competitions. Ms. El Ghadban also acted as an arbitrator in various moot courts and pre-moot events.

Ms. El Ghadban speaks Arabic, French and English.

Dr Tarek El Ghadban

Tarek El Ghadban is a lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Cairo University, and an associate lecturer at the Sorbonne Law School and the University of Osnabrück. His research focuses on the link between public and private international law, and international dispute resolution. An almnus of the "Institut de droit des Affaires Internationales" (IDAI or the International Business Law Institue), he holds a "Licence" in French law and in Egyptian law, and Masters in International and European business law, as well as Private International Law and International Commercial Law from the École de Droit de la Sorbonne. He obtained his PhD from the same university, in International and European law on the subject of " Universal jurisdiction in civil matters".

In addition to his academic activities, Dr. El Ghadban has participated in a number of international negotiations and dispute resolution procedures. He is fluent in Arabic, English, and French and is moderately proficient in Spanish.

Mr Ahmed El Hadidi

Ahmed El Hadidi

PRACTICE DESCRIPTION

Head of legal (International transactions)

Ahmed El Hadidi focuses on banking and finance international Agreements, its Arbitration disputes, civil, commercial and private law, aircraft finance, mergers and acquisitions, securities, Construction, trademarks and patents. He is always being called on to assist in drafting and reviewing ICC Rules, the new Banking Laws, the Acquisition Rules under the Capital Market.

Before joining the National Bank of Abu Dhabi as a counsel, Ahmed spent several years with Arab bank, Ahli United Bank, Commercial International Bank, and Baker &Mckenzie International law firm. He regularly acts as lead Counsel in the transactions he is involved in and execute high-value deals.

Ahmed joined the Banking Commission of ICC France, He is in the legal, Financial Crime Risk and Policy committee , and SSCF committees. He led or participated in several law reforms in transition economies.

He is the author of leading articles on international arbitration, international banking and finance, and cross-border insolvency.

He is actively engaged in charitable and community projects.

Ahmed is admitted to practice before the Court of appeal and has a Master of Law degree from the American University and Zurich law University , Master of Law degree and Bachelor of Law from Cairo university (English law Section).

Ms Myriam El Kara

Currently based in Paris, Myriam has been for the last 2 years a startup accelerator in the electrification industry focussed on building responsible metals&mining supply chains for li-ion batteries. Myriam was a commodities trader for 7 years with a track record in thermal coal, rare earths and battery metals namely with Noble Group. She travelled extensively in Asia and grew trading and investment portfolios successfully, negotiating complex contracts structures, managing cross-functional teams in diverse geographical locations, and building collaborative partnerships.

Previously, Myriam worked 7 years in the financial services sector as a capital markets in-house counsel, then as a distressed debt trader in Paris, finally as a risk management consultant in London. In those years Myriam acquired strong skills in finance and law e.g. European MiFID and Prospectus directives application, ISDA contracts standardisation, SPVs and securitisation vehicles set-up, Basel III capital adequacy.

A Fellow of the CIArb, Myriam has a dual academic background: she holds an MBA from INSEAD and a Master of International Economic Law from the University of Paris I: Panthéon – Sorbonne following an undergraduate degree in private law at the Université Saint-Joseph of Beirut, Lebanon.
In her spare time Myriam likes sailing, writing, traveling and trekking.

Ms Alaa Al Halima El Kholy

Currently conducting my first masters degree in Business Law at the Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth. After my participation in last year's competition, I grew certain of my choice of career post-graduation in international commercial arbitration. I was a research assistant this summer 2020 in the virtual internship with Prof. Dr. Ingeborg Schwenzer and Prof. Dr. Edgardo Muñoz Lopez, gathering legal information from Lebanon for analysis and inclusion in the second edition of the "Global Sales and Contract Law". I am also part of the team of translators for the CISG-data base online organized by Professor Dr. Ulrich G. Schroeter.
As I am fluent in Arabic, French and English, I hope this will assist me in my career path and in maximizing my possibilities through the network I will be acquiring on my journey.
Excited for this year and hoping it will be better for all of us. Good luck Mooties!

Mr Mohamed El-Baroudy

Mr. Mohamed El-Baroudy is an Anti-trust lead lawyer at the Egyptian Competition Authority, Egyptian Cabinet of Ministers.
Former Arbitration Lawyer in 2018.
Graduated from Faculty of Law, French Dep, Alexandria University.
Currently LL.M. student at Hamburg Law School.
Mr. El-Baroudy was a previous mooter, coach of the Alexandria University team, and the co-founder of the Alexandria University Mooting Club.
Mr. El-Baroudy is trilingual in English, French, and Arabic.

Ms Gvantsa Elgendashvili

Ms. Gvantsa Elgendashvili is a qualified business lawyer specializing in Commercial Law and Dispute Resolution (Litigation, Arbitration, Mediation) currently pursing doctoral studies at Central European University (S.J.D (PhD) in Law). In addition to her studies, Ms. Elgendashvili serves as a Legal Director at SunBreath Corp. Legal Services, a domestic business corporation operating in two jurisdictions – New York, the United States and Tbilisi, Georgia. Gvantsa Elgendashvili also serves as an Invited Lecturer at Georgian-American University (GAU) and University of Georgia (UG) providing lectures on EU Internal Markets Law, Secured Transactions Law, and Introduction to Law.
Ms. Elgendashvili holds LL.M. degree in International Business Law from Central European University (with honors) and masters and bachelors degrees in Private Law from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (with distinction). She has published various academic articles in the fields of commercial law, law and economics, EU law.
Ms. Elgendashvili was a participant of Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot (2018) representing Central European University in Vienna as well as in Belgrade, Budapest and Mostar Oral Hearings Rounds. Ms. Elgendashvili also participated in Telders International Law Moot Court Competition (2017) and she was selected among Top 10 Respondent Agents (Representatives).

Mr Jeffrey Elkinson

Barrister and Attorney of Ireland, England and Wales, Hong Kong, Australia (NSW), New York, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, United States Court of International trade, Bermuda, Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, Special Assistant General for Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Assistant Judge Supreme Court of Bermuda. Arbitrator with appointments from LCIA,ICC, Past President CIArb, Course Director for all CIArb courses. Chairman of Professional Conduct Committee of Bermuda Bar, Police Complaints Authority. Co-Author ICCA Chapter and author of World Arbitration Reporter on Bermuda

Ms Asmaa Elmalky

I am a Gender and Women Rights Researcher. Regarding the moot, I am an ex-participant at the 27th Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Competition, and ex coach to Alexandria University Vis Team.

Mr Orsino Elnaouq

PRESENT POSITION:
Arbitrator, Solicitor, & Legal Counsel

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Legal Advisor
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:
Arbitration & ADR
Comparative Law
Conflict of Laws
Dispute Resolution
Intellectual and Industrial Property

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS:
ADR
PANELS OF ARBITRATORS:
Member, ICSID Panel of Arbitrators; Member, SIAC Panel of Arbitrators

ARBITRATION EXPERIENCE:
Arbitrations as a counsel and party-appointed arbitrator, sole arbitrator and chairman within ICC, LCIA, ICSID, ad hoc, AAA, IACAC, SIAC
PUBLICATIONS FROM JURIS:
PUBLICATIONS:
The use of soft law in the arbitration organized by the court of international commercial arbitration attached to the national chamber of commerce and industry of Romania, 2018
www.international-arbitration.net

Mr Hesham Elwakeel

Hesham is an academic and a professional lawyer in the fields of private international law, arbitration and competiton law.

Hesham is currently an Assistant Lecturer of private international law at Cairo University.

Hesham is also an Associate in the arbitration and competition teams at Matouk Bassiouny & Hennawy. Hesham handles international and domestic arbitration cases under various rules, including ICC, LCIA, ICSID, CRCICA and UNCITRAL, in relation to disputes involving oil and gas agreements, share purchase agreements, telecommunications, construction, pharmaceuticals, maritime, and international investment in Egyptian and Saudi law jurisdictions. Furthermore, Hesham works on enforcement proceedings of arbitral awards before Egyptian courts.

Hesham also handles a multiplicity of competition law matters and disputes within the competiton practice at Matouk Bassiouny & Hennawy, and deals with the legal and economic analysis of cartels, vertical agreements, abuse of dominance. Hesham also participates in providing strategies for mergers and acquisitions, training on dawn raids, and preparing fair competition compliance reports for multinational companies.

Hesham obtained his LL.B. from Cairo University (English Department) with distinction - first class honors, ranking first in his class. He also obtained his LL.M. in international law from Cairo University. He is currently enrolled as a Magister Juris student at the University of Oxford.

Hesham is a previous member of Cairo University's team that participated in Vis Moot Vienna and Vis East Hong Kong in 2017.

As a previous mooter, and a current arbitration lawyer and lecturer, Hesham has a profound belief in the importance of delivering the experience of moot court to ambitious students.

Assoc Prof Dr Ersin Erdogan

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ersin Erdogan is Associate Professor at Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University since 2015. He received his LL.B. (2010), LL.M. (2011) and PHD degrees (2015) from Bilkent University, where he worked there also as a research assistant for 5 years (2010-2015). He made last year his post-doc researches as a Guest-Researcher at Justus Liebig University in Giessen, Germany.
He offers courses about national and international arbitration at Yildirim Beyazit University to master and Phd students. He teaches also Civil Procedure Law at Yildirim Beyazit University and Bilkent University.
His PHD Dissertation is about applicable law for procedural issues, and published in Turkish as a book in 2016. He has also new published book, which is named "Res Judicata Effects of Arbitral Awards in Turkish Law" (in Turkish - December 2017). He published also several articles (in Turkish and in English) on procedural issues.

Mr ENES ETLIK

Mr. Enes is a founding partner at Renvoi Turkish Law Services Law Firm in Rotterdam, Holland.

Mr. Enes graduated from Bachelor of Laws at Istanbul Sehir University in 2018 and still pursuing an LL.M degree at the same University. During the course of his education, he has completed an International Legal Studies program co-organized by the University of Pacific – Mc. George School of Law, Salzburg, Austria as well as the International Criminal Law program at Leiden University, Holland.

During the course of his education, he has participated in various law student competitions around the globe and represented his university and country. These events took place in Moscow, Glasgow, Paris, Vienna, Athens, Hamburg, Brussel, London, Kyiv. In these events, Mr. Enes fulfilled the roles of a judge, a coach and also a participant. He organized the very first International Mediation Tournament in Istanbul. This keen interest brought home six (6) awards & Prizes.

Mr. Enes has eight (8) different internship experiences including Ministry of Justice, Leading International Law firms based in Thessaloniki and Rotterdam as well as International Companies based in Istanbul and London.

Mr. Enes active publisher in Istanbul Bar Association Journal and sworn translator.

Bar Admission: Istanbul

Mr ENES ETLIK

Mr. Enes is a founding partner at Renvoi Turkish Law Services Law Firm in Rotterdam, Holland.

Mr. Enes graduated from Bachelor of Laws at Istanbul Sehir University in 2018 and still pursuing an LL.M degree at the same University. During the course of his education, he has completed an International Legal Studies program co-organized by the University of Pacific – Mc. George School of Law, Salzburg, Austria as well as the International Criminal Law program at Leiden University, Holland.

During the course of his education, he has participated in various law student competitions around the globe and represented his university and country. These events took place in Moscow, Glasgow, Paris, Vienna, Athens, Hamburg, Brussel, London, Kyiv. In these events, Mr. Enes fulfilled the roles of a judge, a coach and also a participant. He organized the very first International Mediation Tournament in Istanbul. This keen interest brought home six (6) awards & Prizes.

Mr. Enes has eight (8) different internship experiences including Ministry of Justice, Leading International Law firms based in Thessaloniki and Rotterdam as well as International Companies based in Istanbul and London.

Mr. Enes active publisher in Istanbul Bar Association Journal and sworn translator.

Bar Admission: Istanbul

Ms Elisabeth Zoe Everson

Elisabeth commenced her legal education at the University of Geneva in 2013. She has since successfully completed her Bachelor of Laws, Certificate in Transnational Law, Master of Laws (with an exchange semester at the University of Sydney, Australia) and Certificate of Advanced Studies in Legal Professions. She is admitted to the bar of Geneva since October 2021 and is in the process of qualifying as a Solicitor in England and Wales.

During her undergraduate studies, Elisabeth worked as a legal intern at DOCIP (under the United Nations Organisation), devoted her free time to volunteering at a local law clinic, and was also an active member of AIESEC and Amnesty International. She ranked as a finalist in a Swiss law student competition, Lawbility, in negotiation and client interview. Aiming to gain more practical soft skills, she participated in various Model United Nations simulations, as well as a Model European Union simulation in Belgrade.

During her postgraduate studies, Elisabeth was a member of the University of Geneva team in the 25th edition of the Vis Moot. She spent 6 months interning at the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (ACICA) and worked as a Paralegal in a boutique arbitration law firm in Geneva between February 2019 and February 2020. In July 2021, Elisabeth completed her traineeship with LALIVE's litigation team, following which she passed the Geneva bar exam in October 2021. Since November 2021, she is a part of LALIVE’s arbitration team, as an Associate.

Following her participation in the Vis Moot as a Mootie in 2017/2018, Elisabeth has sat as arbitrator in pre-moots (including the Belgrade Open Pre-Moot, the Middle East eVis Pre-Moot, the Tehran Regional Arbitration Centre Vis Pre-Moot, and the İstanbul Pre-Moot) and final oral rounds in Vienna, and acted as coach for the teams of the Middlesex University Dubai (2020/2021, 28th edition) and the Addis Ababa University (2021/2022, 29th edition; under the aegis of Africa in the Moot).

Apart from law, Elisabeth has keen interest in photography and music.

Ms Daria Evtushenko

Daria Evtushenko graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University with honours in 2020 (LLB) and completed an LL.M. degree at the National Research University Higher School of Economics majoring in private law. Now she works as an associate in the dispute resolution team of Voskhod Law Firm in Moscow dealing with arbitration and complex litigation disputes.
Daria participated in the 26th Vis Moot as part of Lomonosov MSU team, advancing to the semi-final and receiving honourable mention as individual oralist. From the 27th to 29th Vis Moot, Daria coached Lomonosov MSU Team and she now couaches the group of students from Russia for the 21st Vis East Moot. In the 27th and 28th Vis, the team received honourable mentions on both Claimant's and Respondent's memoranda.

Ms EFOSA OSARUEMEN EWERE

Efosa Osaruemen EWERE is a Partner in Gravida Attorneys, a Law Firm in Nigeria engaged primarily in Commercial Law Practice with a special bias for ADR as a tool for dispute resolution.
With over a decade of active legal practice, her passion for dispute resolution motivated her desire to use Litigation, Mediation, and Arbitration in achieving these goals.

The challenges faced in litigation with clients’ cry for speedy dispensation of Justice in Nigeria propelled her to see the need to explore the tenets of Arbitration.

In a quest to achieve this, She began her academic journey in Arbitration with The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK), Nigeria Branch, in 2011 as an Associate and later a Fellow. She has taken up the responsibilities upon appointment to act as Tribunal Secretary, Arbitrator, and Counsel in Arbitration Proceedings.
She is a member of several professional bodies as well as the CIArb Young Members Group Steering Committee Nigeria Branch, first as an executive member, then as the Chair of the Group; a position she held till the year 2022. She has a passion for good governance.