Legal System:
Civil Law, Common Law, European Law, International Law
Practice Areas:
Administrative Law, Agency - Distribution - Franchising, Air & Space Law, Arbitration, Commercial Law, Corporate Law, Criminal Law, DRB (Dispute resolution board) - DAB (Dispute adjudication board), Energy - Natural Resources, Intellectual Property, Investment - Concession agreements, Joint Ventures - Consortia - Cooperation, Mediation, Oil - Gas - Mining, Public international Law, Trade - Industry, Transport
Jurisdiction:
United States, Ghana, France
Publications
The African Perspective: The Development of Investment Laws, the Pan-African Investment Code, and the African Continental Free Trade Area in the “New Economic World Order”, Cambridge University Press, 114 Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting 62-67 (2020).
Ghana's Future in the Offshore Business, International Law News Vol 44:4, Fall 2015
The Battle Between Consent and The Principle of Competence-Competence in Investment Arbitration, what can we learn from BG Group plc. v. Argentina? University of Ghana Law Journal, Spring 2016
Co-editor of speaker series of an ABA symposium in Paris on White Collar Crime in France and in the U.S
Teaching
Investment and International Commercial Arbitration, General Principles of Arbitration, Contemporary Issues in Alternative Disputes Resolution and mediation
Education
Ghana School of Law, Post-Call for Barrister and Solicitor (2015-2016) Diploma in International Arbitration, (ArbP), Swiss Arbitration Academy, 2013-2014 Certificate in Advance Studies in International Arbitration, Practitioners Course - Universities of Lucerne & Neuchâtel & Swiss Arbitration Academy, 2013-2014 Ecole de Formation Professionnelle des Barreaux de Paris (EFB-Paris Bar), France (2011- 2012) Juris Doctorate & Master Degrees in International Relations, Syracuse University College of Law, Syracuse, NY, 2000 Master in French Civilization, Middlebury College (VT) and Paris-X- Nanterre - Paris, France 1994 - 1995 Bachelor of Arts, French and Spanish, Binghamton University, New York, Bin g h a m t on N Y , 1990 1994
Other Information
Europe:
- Appointed Member by the Republic of Haiti to the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague (PCA)
- Appointed Member to the International Court of Arbitration (ICC) in Paris, France
- Member of the International Arbitration Institute, (IAI) Paris, France
- Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in the U.K.
- CEDR Certified International Mediator, U.K.
- ArbitralWomen Council Member
- ICC Task Force Addressing Issues of Corruption in International Arbitration, ICC Commission
- American Bar Foundation Fellow
- ICC Institute of World Business (LAI Chapter) Member
Africa:
- Panel Member of International Arbitrators for the Arbitration Foundation of Southern Africa (AFSA)
- Member of the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (CRCICA)
- Panel Member of the Common Court of Justice and Arbitration of OHADA, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (CCJA)
- Panel Member of the Kigali International Arbitration Centre, KIAC
Unites States:
- Public Arbitrator for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA)
- Panel Member of the American Arbitration Association and the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (AAA-ICDR) Panels of Arbitrators
- Panel Member of the International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution (CPR) Panels of Distinguished Neutrals (Cross Border Disputes)
- Past Vice-Chair, Africa Committee of the ABA International Law Section
- Past Vice-Chair, International Energy and Natural Resources Committee of the ABA International Law Section
Caribbean:
- Member of the Arbitration & Mediation Court of the Caribbean (AMCC)
- Member of the British Virgin Islands International Arbitration Centre (BVI-IAC)
- Member of the Chambre de Conciliation Arbitrage d’Haiti (CCAH)
- Board Advisor, Jamaica International Arbitration Centre
ICC Court Member; Counsel for a Sovereign State in an oil and gas dispute; Sole Arbitrator in commercial dispute, State appointed co-arbitrator, 26th Willem C. Vis Arbitrator; Counsel for a US corporation in a Commercial Transaction,
