Lorna Cuthbertson Tardif is a registered professional engineer and Partner at HKA Global (Canada), Inc. Lorna has over 35 years of experience in expert testimony, claims consultancy, dispute resolution and project advisory services across the construction industry.

Lorna has been retained as an independent expert on more than 200 occasions by owners, contractors, design professionals, and financial institutions. She has given expert witness testimony before courts and arbitration panels across Canada and in the USA on disputes valued up to several hundred million dollars. Her areas of expertise include delay analysis, productivity analysis and quantification of damages.

"Katherine Bell is a Partner in Schellenberg Wittmer's Dispute Resolution Group and heads the Construction Practice Group in Zurich. Her main areas of practice are domestic and international litigation and arbitration. She advises clients front-end to back-end on complex construction and infrastructure projects and specializes in the resolution of disputes arising out of complex construction, engineering and infrastructure projects across a variety of industries. In addition, she represents clients in disputes in connection with commercial tenancy and lease agreements. She acts as counsel and arbitrator in arbitral proceedings and represents parties in litigation proceedings before Swiss courts. In addition to her disputes practice, Katherine regularly advises clients on public procurement matters, contract drafting and negotiation, contract and claims administration and dispute avoidance. Katherine is a lecturer on Construction Law at the Campus Sursee Educational Centre for Construction. She is a member of the editorial board of Construction Law International (CLInt), the magazine of the IBA International Construction Projects Committee. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of ArbitralWomen. Since 2019, Katherine has been recognized by Who's Who Legal as a Future Leader in the categories of both Construction and Arbitration, highlighting her ""skillful handling of complex construction disputes"" and describing her as ""an excellent advocate, who is extremely dedicated to her cases"", as ""brilliant counsel in the field of construction arbitration"" and as ""a top-notch construction lawyer for all advisory matters"". Since 2021, Katherine has been recognized by LMG Expert Guides as a Rising Star in International Commercial Arbitration. In 2022, Katherine was recognized by The Legal 500 as a Key Lawyer for Dispute Resolution in Switzerland. In 2023, Katherine was recognized by Who's Who Legal among a very small number of Thought Leaders Global Elite – Under 45 in Construction."
"Katherine Bell is a Partner in Schellenberg Wittmer's Dispute Resolution Group and heads the Construction Practice Group in Zurich. Her main areas of practice are domestic and international litigation and arbitration. She advises clients front-end to back-end on complex construction and infrastructure projects and specializes in the resolution of disputes arising out of complex construction, engineering and infrastructure projects across a variety of industries. In addition, she represents clients in disputes in connection with commercial tenancy and lease agreements. She acts as counsel and arbitrator in arbitral proceedings and represents parties in litigation proceedings before Swiss courts. In addition to her disputes practice, Katherine regularly advises clients on public procurement matters, contract drafting and negotiation, contract and claims administration and dispute avoidance. Katherine is a lecturer on Construction Law at the Campus Sursee Educational Centre for Construction. She is a member of the editorial board of Construction Law International (CLInt), the magazine of the IBA International Construction Projects Committee. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of ArbitralWomen. Since 2019, Katherine has been recognized by Who's Who Legal as a Future Leader in the categories of both Construction and Arbitration, highlighting her ""skillful handling of complex construction disputes"" and describing her as ""an excellent advocate, who is extremely dedicated to her cases"", as ""brilliant counsel in the field of construction arbitration"" and as ""a top-notch construction lawyer for all advisory matters"". Since 2021, Katherine has been recognized by LMG Expert Guides as a Rising Star in International Commercial Arbitration. In 2022, Katherine was recognized by The Legal 500 as a Key Lawyer for Dispute Resolution in Switzerland. In 2023, Katherine was recognized by Who's Who Legal among a very small number of Thought Leaders Global Elite – Under 45 in Construction."

Dana MacGrath is an independent arbitrator with more than two decades of experience in international dispute resolution. Her unique mix of experience includes serving as an arbitrator, arbitration practitioner, and in-house counsel in arbitration finance. Most recently, Dana served as Legal Counsel and Investment Manager at Omni Bridgeway, a leading global litigation and arbitration finance company. In this role, she led arbitration investments out of the United States while also serving as an independent arbitrator. Prior to joining Omni Bridgeway, Dana was a partner in the international arbitration group at Sidley Austin LLP. Previously, she served as an international arbitration practitioner and arbitrator at Allen & Overy LLP and O’Melveny & Myers LLP. She started her legal career in the litigation department at Sullivan & Cromwell. Dana’s high-stakes international arbitration matters have involved a variety of businesses and industries, among them oil and gas, LNG, energy, construction, finance, telecommunications, intellectual property, construction, sale of goods, and international investments. She has also represented parties regarding the enforceability of arbitration agreements and arbitral awards under the New York Convention, disputes regarding forum selection and choice of law clauses, sovereign immunity, arbitral immunity, and discovery pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1782. Dana has been recognized as a leader in international arbitration in various directories including Chambers USA – Nationwide – International Arbitration and Who’s Who Legal: Arbitration. She has also been recognized in the field of arbitration finance in various directories including Leaders League – Arbitration Finance and LawDragon: Global 100 Leaders in Legal Finance. Dana is active within the international arbitration field across arbitral institutions and organizations. She is on the Council of the AAA-ICDR, co-chairs the AAA Large Complex Case Committee, and is a member of the AAA Nominating and Governance Committee. Dana is also an active member of the CPR Arbitration Committee. Previously she served as Chair of the Arbitration Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and as co-chair of the CPR Institute Arbitration Rules Revision Committee that revised CPR’s domestic and international arbitration rules. Additionally, Dana served on the ICC Commission on Arbitration Task Force on Reducing Time and Cost in Complex Arbitration and the ICC Commission on Arbitration Task Force on National Rules of Procedure for Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Awards Pursuant to the New York Convention of 1958. Dana is a committed leader in the diversity and inclusion space. She has been President of the Board of Directors of ArbitralWomen since 2018, having joined the Board in 2016. She is also on the Global Steering Committee of the Equal Representation in Arbitration Pledge, and on the Global Steering Committee of Racial Equality for Arbitration Lawyers. She is also on the Advisory Board of the Rising Arbitrators Initiative and the North American Committee for the Campaign for Greener Arbitrations. Dana regularly speaks and writes on international arbitration issues. She co-authored a chapter on Covid-19 and Third-Party Funding published by Kluwer International in 2020, and several articles on recent case law regarding U.S. discovery pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1782 in aid of foreign arbitrations. She has long served as an adjunct professor of law at Brooklyn Law School teaching a seminar on international commercial arbitration and coaching the Brooklyn Vis Moot team. Dana received her J.D. from New York University School of Law and her B.A., cum laude, from Middlebury College. She is a member of the New York Bar. She is fluent in English and proficient in French, having majored in French at Middlebury and lived in Paris for a year. *Disclaimer: Attorney Advertising*
Litigation finance; international arbitration; international litigation; U.S. judicial enforcement of arbitration awards

20 years experience in international commercial arbitration in a variety of industry sectors including oil & gas, construction, real-estate, shreholders' disputes, sale and purchase agreements, both as counsel and arbitrator.