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Christine Barthelemy
Julie Thompson
Anna Förstel-Cherng
  • State Contact: Vienna
  • Publications:

    Edel/Förstel-Cherng/Dobrić, Ablehnung von Schiedsrichtern im Lichte der jüngsten OGH-Judikatur (RdW 2021/86, Heft 2/2021)

    Edel/Förstel-Cherng/Dobrić, Ermessensspielraum des Schiedsgerichts bei der Kostenentscheidung in Österreich (SchiedsVZ, Heft 1/2021)

    Klausegger/Förstel-Cherng, Beweisverfahren in Nueber (Hrsg) Handbuch Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit und ADR (2021, publication pending)

    Klausegger/Förstel-Cherng, Beweiswürdigung und Adverse Inferences in internationalen Schiedsverfahren in Schumacher (Hrsg) Beweiserhebung im Schiedsverfahren (publication pending)

    Edel/Fremuth-Wolf/Förstel, How the COVID-19 pandemic may shape the future of international arbitral proceedings (IBA, Arbitration Committee Publications 2020)

    Förstel, Can the E.U. Proposal to Establish an Investment Court Through TTIP Inform the Establishment of an Appeal Mechanism in ICSID?, University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, April 2017

    Förstel/Riedl, The IBA Guidelines on Party Representation in International Arbitration: Problem Solved?, Young Arbitration Review, January 2015

    Petsche/Förstel, Die IBA Guidelines on Party Representation, ecolex 2014, 783

  • Firm Country: Austria
  • Jurisdiction: Austria
  • Type of Practitioner: Counsel
  • Practice Areas: Arbitration
  • Legal System: Civil Law
  • Nationality/Nationalities: Austrian
  • Select Languages:
    • Language(s): English, Speaking Proficiency: Proficient, Professional Proficiency: Conduct DR proceedings, Represent clients as an advocate in DR proceedings, Testify orally, Draft opinions, reports, agreements, decisions, orders or awards, Understand written documents
    • Language(s): German, Speaking Proficiency: Native Fluency, Professional Proficiency: Conduct DR proceedings, Represent clients as an advocate in DR proceedings, Testify orally, Draft opinions, reports, agreements, decisions, orders or awards, Understand written documents
Vienna, Vienna, AT
Lucia Montes
Zeynep Ekinci
Nicola Sharpe Phiri
  • State Contact: Lusaka
  • Education:

    LLB. LLM, FCIArb

  • Firm Country: Zambia
  • Type of Practitioner: Arbitrator
  • Practice Areas: Arbitration, Commercial Law, Corporate Law, Family Law, Real Estate
  • Legal System: Common Law
  • Nationality/Nationalities: Zambian
  • Select Languages:
    • Language(s): English, Speaking Proficiency: Proficient, Professional Proficiency: Conduct DR proceedings, Draft opinions, reports, agreements, decisions, orders or awards, Understand written documents
Lusaka, Lusaka, ZM
Ayen Aljak
Victoria Sahani
  • State Contact: AZ
  • Other Relevant Experience:

    * former Deputy Director, Arbitration and ADR, North America Office, International Court of Arbitration of the

    International Chamber of Commerce (ICC); and

    former Deputy Director, Arbitration and ADR Committee, United States Council for International Business (USCIB)

    * Expert Witness on international arbitration, Superior Court (Civil Division), Province of Quebec, Canada

    * Expert Witness, International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) Arbitration Case

  • Publications:

    Please see my publications on my most recent CV, available here: https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/3152547

  • Education:

    Harvard Law School, JD, 2007

    Harvard University, AB, 2004

  • Other Information:

    * available to serve as arbitrator, mediator, consultant, or expert witness

    * former Deputy Director, Arbitration and ADR, North America Office, International Court of Arbitration of the

    International Chamber of Commerce (ICC); and

    former Deputy Director, Arbitration and ADR Committee, United States Council for International Business (USCIB)

    * Expert Witness on international arbitration, Superior Court (Civil Division), Province of Quebec, Canada

    * Expert Witness, International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) Arbitration Case

  • Firm Country: United States
  • Jurisdiction: United States
  • Type of Practitioner: Analyst, Arbitrator, Expert, Mediator
  • Practice Areas: Arbitration, Commercial Law, Corporate Law, Domain names, Finance - Banking, Information - Communication Technologies, Intellectual Property, Investment - Concession agreements, Joint Ventures - Consortia - Cooperation, Mediation, ODR (Online dispute resolution), Public international Law, Real Estate, Sales - Purchases, Other
  • Legal System: Common Law, International Law
  • Nationality/Nationalities: American
Taylor Wilson
  • Nationality/Nationalities: American
Paola Ghezzi
Susanne Schwalb
  • Other Relevant Experience:

    Ten years experience in an international arbitration team working as counsel and arbitrator in commercial and investment arbitration cases.

  • Education: Germany and USA
  • Other Information: Ten years experience in an international arbitration team working as counsel and arbitrator in commercial and investment arbitration cases.
  • Firm Country: Germany
  • Jurisdiction: Germany
  • Type of Practitioner: Arbitrator, Counsel, Lawyer
  • Practice Areas: Arbitration, Investment - Concession agreements, Public international Law, Sales - Purchases
  • Legal System: Civil Law, European Law, International Law
  • Nationality/Nationalities: German
  • Select Languages:
    • Language(s): English, Speaking Proficiency: Proficient, Professional Proficiency: Conduct DR proceedings, Represent clients as an advocate in DR proceedings, Testify orally, Draft opinions, reports, agreements, decisions, orders or awards, Understand written documents
    • Language(s): French, Speaking Proficiency: Conversational, Professional Proficiency: Understand written documents
    • Language(s): German, Speaking Proficiency: Native Fluency, Professional Proficiency: Conduct DR proceedings, Represent clients as an advocate in DR proceedings, Testify orally, Draft opinions, reports, agreements, decisions, orders or awards, Understand written documents
    • Language(s): Spanish, Speaking Proficiency: Conversational, Professional Proficiency: Understand written documents
Munich, DE
Bethan Heathcote
Nudrat Bayan Majeed
Akosua Asirifi
  • Education:

    Sciences Po Paris

    University Cergy-Paris

  • Firm Country: France
  • Jurisdiction: France
  • Type of Practitioner: Counsel
  • Practice Areas: Arbitration, Public international Law
  • Legal System: Civil Law, European Law, International Law
  • Nationality/Nationalities: Ghanaian
  • Select Languages:
    • Language(s): English, Speaking Proficiency: Native Fluency, Professional Proficiency: Conduct DR proceedings, Represent clients as an advocate in DR proceedings, Testify orally, Draft opinions, reports, agreements, decisions, orders or awards, Understand written documents
    • Language(s): French, Speaking Proficiency: Native Fluency, Professional Proficiency: Conduct DR proceedings, Represent clients as an advocate in DR proceedings, Testify orally, Draft opinions, reports, agreements, decisions, orders or awards, Understand written documents
Paris, FR
Stephanie Collins
  • Education:

    University College London (LLB), First Class

  • Other Information:

    Steering Committee member of CPR's Young Leaders in ADR

  • Firm Country: United Kingdom
  • Jurisdiction: United Kingdom
  • Type of Practitioner: Counsel
  • Practice Areas: Arbitration, Public international Law
  • Legal System: Common Law, International Law
  • Nationality/Nationalities: British
  • Select Languages:
    • Language(s): Spanish, Speaking Proficiency: Conversational
London, GB
Evanthia Kasiora
  • State Contact: IDF
  • Publications:

    "The Achmea ripple effect: Greek Conseil d'État finds that a commercial arbitral tribunal has no jurisdiction to deal with matters of EU law" Les Cahiers de l'Arbitrage 2023 (1) 111 (co-author)

    "The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Third Party Funding and Security for Costs in International Commercial Arbitration", July 2020, Kluwer Arbitration Blog (co-author)

    "UK Appellate Rulings Clarify Arbitral Choice of Law", June 2020, Law360 (co-author)

    "Securing Witness Evidence: English Courts to the Rescue of Foreign Arbitrations", March 2020, Kluwer Arbitration Blog (co-author)

  • Education:

    LLM in International Business Law, London School of Economics, UK

    LLM in Civil Law and Civil Procedure, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

    LLB, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

     

     

  • Firm Country: France
  • Speaking Engagements:

    "Contract Performance in Times of Crisis: War, Sanctions, Force Majeure, and Hardship", 24 October 2025, Arbitration in Times of Crises conference organised by Lewiatan Arbitration Court

    "LLM Alumni Careers Panel", 1 October 2025, organised by LSE Law School

    "Moot Tribunal session: consideration of actual scenario regarding arbitrator's disqualification" (moot counsel), 26 June 2025, 7th International Arbitration Conference organised by Nomiki Bibliothiki and Athens Mediation & Arbitration Organization

    "Fireside chat with Kevin Nash" (co-moderator), 15 April 2025, "YIAG meets Vis" organised by LCIA YIAG

    "Arbitr-AI-tion: Justice Meets the Algorithm", 14 April 2025, debate organised by VIAC

    "The Role of Technology in Modernizing Construction Arbitration", April 2025, "Paris Baby Investigation" podcast hosted by Paris Baby Arbitration

    "The Exclusion of Evidence in Light of Procedural Fairness in Arbitration" (moderator of talk by P. Netal), 9 January 2025, "Speaker Series" (organised by Moot Alumni Association)

    "Stay and Bifurcation of Arbitral Proceedings", 3 April 2023, "YIAG meets Vis" organised by LCIA YIAG

  • Jurisdiction: France, Greece
  • Type of Practitioner: Counsel
  • Practice Areas: Arbitration, Commercial Law, Construction - Engineering, Corporate Law, Energy - Natural Resources, Infrastructure, Investment - Concession agreements, Joint Ventures - Consortia - Cooperation, Oil - Gas - Mining, Sales - Purchases
  • Legal System: Civil Law, European Law, International Law
  • Nationality/Nationalities: Greek
  • Select Languages:
    • Language(s): English, Speaking Proficiency: Proficient, Professional Proficiency: Conduct DR proceedings, Represent clients as an advocate in DR proceedings, Testify orally, Draft opinions, reports, agreements, decisions, orders or awards, Understand written documents
    • Language(s): Greek, Speaking Proficiency: Native Fluency, Professional Proficiency: Conduct DR proceedings, Represent clients as an advocate in DR proceedings, Testify orally, Draft opinions, reports, agreements, decisions, orders or awards, Understand written documents
    • Language(s): French, Speaking Proficiency: Conversational, Professional Proficiency: Understand written documents
Paris, IDF, FR
Filippa Exelin
Cheng-Yee Khong
Padma Todi
Nadia Nicolaou

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Policy on Funding Moot Competition Teams

Each year ArbitralWomen provides support to a number of Teams who participate in dispute resolution competitions, such as the Vis or Vis East International Arbitration Moot by covering their registration fee.

Following are the conditions for the funding:

  1. Any qualified team requesting financial assistance must complete an application form providing details of the teams, resources, and the reason for the requested assistance. The application form is available on the website, and may be amended from time to time as the Board deems appropriate.
  2. The Board, through its Moot Bursary Committee, shall consider all applications received and decide which team(s) shall be supported through payment of its(their) registration fee to compete. In general, teams selected will be from different countries. Applications filed after the deadline will be disregarded.
  3. Criteria of selection:
    • The team must reflect ArbitralWomen's mission of promoting the participation of women in dispute resolution, i.e. at least half of the members of a team must be women.
    • The team must demonstrate the need for financial assistance.
    • Priority will be given to teams:
      • who have not previously participated, and whose school has not previously participated;
      • who have no support from their universities or no coach;
      • who come from developing countries or jurisdictions which, in the sole discretion of the Board, are in the greatest need of support for the advancement of women in dispute resolution;
      • of smaller number of students composing the team (for example 4 students as opposed to 8).
  4. An all-female team may be awarded the ArbitralWomen President’s Bursary if the other requirements are met.
  5. Nothing in this Policy prevents a team, which has already received funding in one year, from applying in future years. The Board shall treat each application on its merits and in relation to other applications received for that particular year.
  6. The Board shall effect payment to the final payee rather than directly to the team. In the event the team for any reason cannot participate, the Board at its sole option may request a refund from the organising authority, may request the organising authority to apply the funds to assist another team in that year, or may request that the funds be used to pay for another team in the following year.
  7. Funding will, in the first instance, be sought from external sponsors, who shall be identified and introduced to the sponsored team(s). Further funding by ArbitralWomen itself in any given year will be contingent upon the existence and maintenance of sufficient funds in the account of ArbitralWomen. Each year, the Board will decide the number of awards to be given in that year. Nothing in this Policy obliges the Board to provide funding in any given year.
  8. Although the ArbitralWomen Moot Bursaries are limited to payment of the registration fee, as mentioned above, there is nothing to prevent the chosen sponsors from providing additional assistance to the teams assigned as their "fundee", but any such arrangement will be made directly between the sponsor and the applicable team.
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