30 June 2022 – ArbitralWomen is pleased to announce the appointment of seven new members of its Advisory Council. The Advisory Council, composed of several former ArbitralWomen Board members and officers, provides advice and guidance to the Board of ArbitralWomen.
The new members will join ArbitralWomen’s Advisory Board with effect from 1 July 2022, upon stepping down from the Board of ArbitralWomen, and include Dana MacGrath, Immediate Past President of ArbitralWomen, and independent arbitrator at MacGrath Arbitration, based in New York, together with:
Juliette Fortin, Immediate Past Treasurer, and Senior Managing Director at FTI Consulting, based in Paris
Yasmine Lahlou, Partner at Chaffetz Lindsey, based in New York
Amanda Lee, Immediate Past Communications Director, and Consultant at Costigan King, based in London
Donna Ross, Founder of Donna Ross Dispute Resolution, based in Melbourne
Patricia Nacimiento, Head of the German dispute resolution team at Herbert Smith Freehills, based in Frankfurt
Rose Rameau, Managing Partner of Rameau Law, based in Washington, DC
“We look forward to supporting the Board of ArbitralWomen going forward” said Ms. MacGrath.
The Advisory Board is composed of a number of former members and officers of the Board of ArbitralWomen, including Lorraine Brennan, President from 2010 to 2012, Dominique Brown-Berset, President from 2012 to 2014, Gillian Carmichael Lemaire, Newsletter Director from 2014 to 2018, Karen Mills, who held several roles on the Board from 2005 to 2020, and Gabrielle Nater-Bass, Vice-President from 2014 to 2018. “We are delighted to welcome 7 new members to the Advisory Council, each of whom is an experienced practitioner in international dispute resolution and has made an invaluable contribution to ArbitralWomen during her tenure on the Board. ArbitralWomen will benefit greatly from their continued involvement and I and the other Board members from their guidance and advice” said Louise Woods, 2022-2024 ArbitralWomen President and Head of International Disputes – Europe at Vinson & Elkins in London.
Further information about the members of the Advisory Council is set out below:
ArbitralWomen Advisory Council
(new members indicated by an asterisk):
Name
Nationality(ies)
City(ies) of Residence
Lorraine Brennan
American
New York
Dominique Brown-Berset
Swiss
Geneva
Gillian Carmichael Lemaire
British and Scottish
London
Juliette Fortin *
French
Paris
Yasmine Lahlou *
American, French and Moroccan
New York
Amanda Lee *
British
London
Dana MacGrath *
American
New York
Karen Mills
American
Jakarta
Gabrielle Nater-Bass
Swiss
Zurich
Rose Rameau *
American and Haitian
Washington, DC
Donna Ross *
American and Australian
Melbourne
ArbitralWomen is an international non-governmental organisation for the promotion of women and diversity in international dispute resolution. For almost 30 years, ArbitralWomen has developed many programmes and opportunities to support and promote women in international dispute resolution as well serving as a leader in the efforts to overcome gender bias in the legal profession.Of note is ArbitralWomen’s Diversity Toolkit™, a unique training programme designed to help practitioners identify bias and explore ways to address and overcome it, which was shortlisted for the Equal Representation in Arbitration (ERA) Pledge Award.ArbitralWomen has a mentorship programme and a parental mentorship programme and regularly promotes the achievements and activities of its members in its News Alerts, on its webpage dedicated to news about its members, and in its periodic Newsletters.
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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:
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.
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.
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).
An all-female team may be awarded the ArbitralWomen President’s Bursary if the other requirements are met.
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.
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.
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.
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.