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Annex 1 Annexe 1

MEMBERS OF THE PERMANENT COURT OF ARBITRATION

LISTE DES MEMBRES DE LA COUR PERMANENTE D’ARBITRAGE

Current List Liste actuelle Date of appointment

Date de la

nomination

Date of latest renewal

Date du dernier renouvellement

Albania Albanie Mr. QIRJAKO QIRKO, Ambassador, Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Albania; July 2012-October 2013 Director of International Organizations in MFA; September 2006–June 2012 Head of Minorities Department in Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Albania; May 2001–June 2006 Ambassador of Republic of Albania in the Kingdom of The Netherlands; January 1999–May 2001 Secretary General, Council of Ministers of Republic of Albania; September 1997–January 1999 Director of Legal and Consular Affairs Department Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Republic of Albania; October 1996–September 1997 Attorney at Law; September 1991–October 1996 Director of Legal and Consular Affairs Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Republic of Albania; October 1986–September 1991 Public Prosecutor, The Attorneys Office of the District of Tirana. Other activities: Lecturer International Organizations (Master Program) in “Mesdhetar” University– from 2012 to present; Lecturer of Human Rights in the University of Law “Luarasi”, Tirana – from 2006–2011; Representative of the Republic of Albania in OPCW – 2001–2006; Deputy President of the Committee for checking the background of high officials – 1999–2001; Representative of the Republic of Albania in OPCW – from 2001 to present; Head of Albanian Delegation in: Conference on the gold looted by the German Nazis during the Second World War – London, December 1997; Member of Delegation of the Rome Conference for the adoption of the statute for the creation of International Criminal Court – Rome, 1998; Representative of Republic of Albania in the Meeting of Legal Advisors of countries member of ONU – New York, 1995; Representative of Republic of Albania in the annual meetings of legal advisors of Ministries of Foreign Affairs in the Council of Europe (Strasbourg) – during the period 1992–1996; Head of Delegation of the Republic of Albania for the inventory of all the agreements between Albania and Soviet Union – Moscow, 1998; Head of Delegation of the Republic of Albania for the discussion on propriety issues between Greece and Albania – 1994; Head of Delegation of the Republic of Albania on the preparation of Consular Treaties with: Russia, Rumania – 1993 and 1994; Head of Delegation of the Republic of Albania on the preparation of Friendship Treaties between Albania and: Greece, Turkey, Italy, France, Rumania, Bulgaria, Russia – during the period 1992–1996.

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Ms. SUELA JANINA, October 2014 – Ambassador, Head of Mission of Albania to the European Union; October 2015 – Ambassador of Albania to Belgium and Luxembourg; January–October 2014 General Director, Multilateral Relations Directorate, MFA; June 2012–Jan. 2014 Director, Treaties and International Law Department, MFA; Feb. 2007–Jan. 2012 Legal Adviser, Treaties and International Law Department, MFA; Jan. 2004–Jan. 2007 Counsel, General Consulate of the Republic of Albania to Milan, Italy; Aug. 1999–Jan. 2004 Legal Expert, International Law Department, MFA; Sept. 1998–July 1999 Assistant professor, Faculty of Law, University “Aleksandër Xhuvani” Elbasan. International experience: May 2011–2014 United Nation Committee on Enforced Disappearances, Vice Chair; June 2015 Re-elected for the second mandate as CED member; June 2012–January 2014 Member of CAHDI, Committee of Legal Advisers on Public International Law of the Council of Europe; May 2013 Alternate Arbitrator, OSCE Court of Conciliation and Arbitration. Avenue Franklin Roosevelt, 123, 1000 Brussels, Belgium; tel: +3226443329; fax: +3226403177; e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected].

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Mr. ARMAND SKAPI, Director of the Treaties and International Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Albania; May–December 2013, Director of NATO Department; June 2012-Apri1 2013, Chief of Cabinet of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Albania; February 2012–June 2012, Adviser to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Albania; February 2011–February

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2012, Minister Counselor, Embassy of Albania, Rome, Italy; January 2009–February 2011, Director of Middle East and Africa Department; September 2006-December 2008, Head of Unit, Asia and Africa Department; July 2005-August 2006, Director of Press and Public Diplomacy Department; January 2001-June 2005, Director of UN and International Organizations Department; March 1999-December 2000, Desk officer at the UN and International Organizations Department; January 1997-March 1999, Desk Officer at the Legal and Consular Department. Other activities: May 2013 Arbitrator, OSCE Court of Conciliation and Arbitration; 2002–2005 Head of Governmental Expert Group for the Drafting of Albanian National Reports to the UN Treaty Bodies for Human Rights; 2003–2005, Member of the Albanian Commission for Refugees. 2009–2011, Guest lecturer of International Law, Tirana European University. Bui. Gjergj Fishta, No. 6, Tirana, Albania; e-mail: [email protected].

Dr. GENTIAN ZYBERI, Associate Professor, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights; 2012-ongoing Associate professor, Faculty of Law/ Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo/ Norway; 2012 2012 Assistant professor, Faculty of Law/ Amsterdam Centre for International Law, University of Amsterdam/ The Netherlands; 2008- Legal Counsel (pro bono), International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, The Hague, The Netherlands.; 2009 Legal advisor and coordinator of the Albanian legal team in the Kosovo Declaration of Independence case before the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Special Advisor to the Albanian Minister of Foreign Affairs on Kosovo, Tirana, Albania; 2008-2011 Assistant professor, Faculty of Law/ Netherlands Institute for Human Rights, University of Utrecht/ the Netherlands; 2004-2012 Legal Assistant and Interpreter, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, The Hague, The Netherlands; 2003-2007 PhD Candidate, Faculty of Law/ Netherlands Institute for Human Rights, University of Utrecht/ the Netherlands. Other National and International Professional Involvements: Member of the International Law Association (ILA) International Committee on International Human Rights Law; Member of the ILA Study Group on ‘The Conduct of Hostilities under International Humanitarian Law - Challenges of 21st Century Warfare’; Member of the European Society of International Law (member of several interest groups); Member of the Norwegian Association of International Law (Norwegian branch of the ILA); Member of the Norsk militræjuridisk forening (Norwegian National Group of the International Society for Military Law and the Law of War).

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Argentina Argentine

Ms. SUSANA MYRTA RUIZ CERUTTI, Lawyer and career diplomat; Member of the Panel of Conciliators and Arbitrators of ICSID; former Ambassador to Switzerland; Agent of Argentina to the International Arbitral Tribunal dealing with a border dispute between Argentina and Chile; former member or head of delegations to several arbitral proceedings; twice Legal Adviser of the Argentine Foreign Ministry; former Vice-Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs; former Ambassador to Canada; Agent of Argentina to the International Court of Justice and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. Avda. Libertador Gral. San Martín 4408, Piso 13°, Buenos Aires (1424), Argentina; [email protected].

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Dr. RAÚL EMILIO VINUESA, Law degree from the University of Buenos Aires, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Harvard Law School, University of Cambridge, University of Amsterdam; Professor of International Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Buenos Aires, and at the Argentine Foreign Service Institute; Arbitrator at MERCOSUR, ICSID, CAR, ICC, SIECA; Judge ad hoc at the International Court of Justice; Member of the Institut de Droit International. Alsina 2360, San Isidro (B1642FOV), Argentina; tel.:/fax: +54(11)4723-6664/6780; [email protected], [email protected].

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Mr. MARIO J. A. OYARZÁBAL, Law degree from the University of La Plata, LL.M. Harvard University; The Legal Adviser of the Argentine Foreign Ministry; Member of the Panel of Conciliators and Arbitrators of ICSID; Professor of International Law at the University of Law Plata; Arbitrator and Conciliator under Art. 2 of Annexes V and VII of UNCLOS; Member of the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission; Agent of Argentina to the International Court of Justice. Arenales 1212 Of. 1501, Buenos Aires (C1007ABR), Argentina; tel.: +54(11)4819-8008; [email protected], [email protected].

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Prof. DIEGO P. FERNÁNDEZ ARROYO, Professor at Sciences Po Law School in Paris; 10 – 09 - 2019



Director of the Sciences Po LLM in Transnational Arbitration & Dispute Settlement; Member of the Panel of Conciliators and Arbitrators of ICSID; Arbitrator under UNCITRAL, ICSID, ICC, ICSID, Milan Arbitration Chamber, Bogota Chamber of Commerce, Brazilian Center of Mediation and Arbitration, etc.; Member of the Curatorium of the Hague Academy of International Law, Associé of the Institut de Droit International. Sciences Po – École de Droit, 13, rue de l’Université, 75007 Paris, France; tel.: +33(0)1 4549 5339; [email protected], [email protected].

Australia Australie

Prof. HILARY CHARLESWORTH AM, Professor of International Law and Human Rights at the Australian National University since 1998; Professor and Director of the Centre for International Governance and Justice in the Regulatory Institutions Network; Australian Research Council Federation Fellow; educated at the University of Melbourne and Harvard Law School; President of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law from 1997 to 2001; appointed judge ad hoc of the International Court of Justice in 2011 for the Whaling in the Antarctic case. Specializations: public international law, international human rights law, use of force, law of armed conflict, peace building and post-conflict legal regimes. College of Law, The Australian National University, ACT 0200, Acton, Australia; email: [email protected]; fax: +61 26125 1507.

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The Hon. SUSAN KIEFEL AC, Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia since 30 January 2017; formerly justice of the High Court of Australia (2007-2017); formerly a Judge of the Federal Court of Australia and the Supreme Court of N0rfolk Island since 1994; and the Supreme Court of Queensland (1993-94). Formerly part-time Commissioner of the Australian Law Reform Commission (2003-2007). Admitted to the Queensland Bar (1975); appointed Queen's Counsel (1987). Educated at Cambridge University. Appointed a Companion in the General Division of the Order of Australia (2011). Elected a titular member of the International Academy of Comparative Law (2013). Elected an Honorary Bencher of the Honourable Society of Gray's Inn (2014). High Court of Australia, P.O. Box 6309, Kingston, ACT, 2604; fax: +61 (0)2 6270 6947.

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Dr. STEPHEN DONAGHUE QC, Solicitor General of the Commonwealth of Australia since 2017. Former Barrister at the Victorian Bar (2001); appointed Senior Counsel (2011); appointed Queen's Counsel (2014). Former Chair of the Public Law Section of the Commercial Bar Association; former member of the Constitutional Law Committee of the Law Council of Australia. Educated at the University of Melbourne and the University of Oxford. Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne Law School. Attorney-General's Department, 3-5 National Circuit, Barton, ACT, 2600, Australia; fax: +61 2 6141 4149; email: [email protected].

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Mr. HENRY BURMESTER AO QC, Honorary Professor in the Australian National University College of Law (2016). Formerly Consultant Counsel at the Australian Government Solicitor (2009-2017). Formerly Chief General Counsel at the Australian Government Solicitor (1995-2009). Appeared as counsel before the International Court of Justice and other tribunals, served as arbitrator under Law of the Sea Convention. Formerly head of the Office of International Law in the Attorney-General's Department (1990-1995). Educated at the Australian National University and University of Virginia. Formerly member of the Australian National University College of Law (1981-1985). Barrister at the New South Wales Bar and the Australian Capital Territory Bar. Appointed Queen's Counsel (1998). E-mail: [email protected].

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Austria Autriche

Prof. Dr. GERHARD HAFNER, Professor for International Law at the University of Vienna (since 1990); Professor, Diplomatic Academy, Vienna; Permanent Guest Professor, Law Faculty, Comenius University, Bratislava; Professor, Paneurópska Vysoká Škola, Fakulta Práva, Bratislava, Jurisconsulte of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs. Memberships: Membre de l´Institut de Droit International; former President, Austrian Branch, International Law Association; Chairman, ILA-Committee on Succession of States; former Member of the Council of the German Society for International Law; Member of the Academic Commission of the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna; Member, American Society of International Law; Member, Société française pour le droit international; Member, Austrian Society for European Law; Member of the Committee of Publishers, Austrian Review of International and European Law; former Member of the International Law Commission of the United Nations (ILC); Member of the

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Governing Board and of the Executive Committee of the European Studies Institute (Moscow). Fields of specific expertise: International Law for the prevention of transboundary damage and liability; Peaceful settlement of disputes; Codification of International Law; European Law; Law of Neutrality; Territorial aspects of International Law; Succession of States; International Criminal Law, Law of the Sea. Address: Institute of European, International and Comparative Law, Section of International Law and International Relations, University of Vienna, Schottenbastei 10-16, A-1010 Wien (Austria), e-mail: [email protected]. Prof. MMag Dr. AUGUST REINISCH LL.M., Head of the Section of International Law and International Relations, University of Vienna; Deputy Head of the Department of European, International and Comparative Law at the University of Vienna; Professor of International and European Law at the University of Vienna (since 1998); Visiting Professor at the University of Sydney, Australia; Member of the Panels of Conciliators and of Arbitrators maintained by the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID); Adjunct Professor at the Bologna Center of The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies/Johns Hopkins University in Bologna, Italy (1999 to 2010); Visiting Professor at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Internationales at the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas, France (2008). Memberships: Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS); American Bar Association (ABA); American Society of International Law (ASIL); Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationales Recht (German Society of International Law), member of the Governing Council since 2005; European Communities Studies Association (ECSA); European Society of International Law (ESIL), member of the Executive Board (2008-2014); International Law Association (ILA, member of the former Committees on Accountability of International Organizations and on International Law on Foreign Investment, member of the Study Group on State Insolvency und Rapporteur of the Study Group on the Role of Soft-Law Instruments in International Investment Law), President of the Austrian Branch since 2008; State of Connecticut Bar, State of New York Bar; Member of the Austrian delegation to the Sixth Committee (Legal) of the General Assembly of the United Nations (since 2012); Arbitrator on the In Rem Restitution Panel according to the Austrian General Settlement Fund Law, Vienna. Fields of specific expertise: Investment Law (indirect expropriation, fair and equitable treatment and other standards of investment protection); International Economic Law (Extraterritoriality, economic sanctions, WTO dispute settlement); The Law of International Organizations (Responsibility of International Organizations); State Responsibility (State of Necessity); Arbitration (Investment Arbitration); European Law (External Trade, EC and WTO); International Economic Law; The Law of International Organizations; State Responsibility; Arbitration. Address: Section of International Law and International Relations, University of Vienna, Schottenbastei 10-16, A-1010 Wien (Austria), Telephone number: +43 14277 35307, Fax number: +43 1 4277 35321, e-mail: [email protected]

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Prof. Dr. DDr. h.c. WOLFGANG BENEDEK, Professor for International Law and International Relations at the University of Graz (since 1990); Director of the European Training and Research Centre for Human Rights and Democracy of University of Graz (UNI-ETC); Lecturer at Diplomatic Academy Vienna and at the European MA Programmes on Human Rights and Democratization in Venice and Sarajevo; 1989-92 Advisor to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights in Banjul, Gambia; since 1993 Chair (of Board) of World University Service (WUS) Austria with large programmes for the reconstruction of universities and the establishment of human rights centres at universities in the Balkans. Memberships: 2000-2012, Member of the Human Rights Advisory Board of the Austrian Federal Ministry of the Interior; since 2007 Chair/Member of the Human Rights Advisory Board of the city of Graz (Austria); Chair of Media Appeals Board of Independent Media Commission of Kosovo (2005-2011); Member of the Enforcement Panel of Communication Regulation Agency in Sarajevo (1999-2004). Fields of specific expertise: International and regional human rights, women and human rights, terrorism and human rights, globalisation and human rights, human rights education, international economic organisations and global governance, human security, information society and human rights. Address: University of Graz; Universitätsstraße 15 Bauteil A/4 (Institut für Völkerrecht) A-8010 Graz (Austria); tel: +43 316 380 - 3411, e-mail: [email protected]

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Prof. Dr. URSULA KRIEBAUM, Professor of International Law at the University of Vienna (since 2011); Professorial Lecturer at the Loyola University New Orleans College of Law Summer Legal Studies Program (since 2008); Legal expert in various investment arbitrations and human rights cases; Alternate Member of the Court of Conciliation and

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Arbitration within the OSCE (since 2013); Consultant of the National Fund for Victims of National Socialism of the Republic of Austria (since 2001); Member of the Austrian Human Rights Advisory Board nominated by Amnesty International (July 1999 – June 2002); Legal Advisor’s Office at the Austrian Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs (2000 – 2001); Member of the team of the Special envoy for restitution issues for the Austrian Holocaust Restitution Negotiations 2000/2001; Austrian Delegate to the Preparatory Commission for the International Criminal Court Memberships: Member, International Law Association (ILA, former Secretary and Treasurer of the Austrian Branch, member of the International Human Rights Law Committees); Member, European Society of International Law; Member, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationales Recht (German Society of International Law) Member, Austrian Arbitration Association. Fields of specific expertise: International Protection of Human Rights; International Investment Law (expropriation, fair and equitable treatment and other standards of investment protection, human rights and foreign investments); Expropriation in International Law; International Investment Arbitration; Restitution of Property Dispossessed during the Nazi-Regime; Implementation of International Human Rights Obligations in National Law Regimes. Address: Section of International Law and International Relations, University of Vienna, Schottenbastei 10-16, A-1010 Wien (Austria); tel: +43 1 4277 35308, fax: +43 1 4277 9353, e-mail: [email protected]

Bahrain Bahreïn

Prof. JAN PAULSSON, Partner, Three Crowns LLC 07 – 07 - 2008 10 – 05 - 2017

Prof. NASSIB G. ZIADÉ is the Chief Executive Officer of the Bahrain Chamber for Dispute Resolution (BCDR-AAA) and the General Editor of the BCDR International Arbitration Review. Previously, he served as Director of the Dubai International Arbitration Centre (DIAC), as Deputy Secretary-General (and Acting Secretary-General) of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and Editor-in-Chief of the ICSID Review – Foreign Investment Law Journal, and as Executive Secretary of the World Bank Administrative Tribunal. He has also acted as co-arbitrator or chair in numerous ad hoc and institutional arbitrations in commercial, construction and investment matters. He is a Vice-Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (CRCICA), a member of the International Advisory Committee of the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR/AAA), and a former member of the Court of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA). He is a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA), a member of the Panels of Arbitrators and Conciliators of ICSID, and a Council member of the International Federation of Commercial Arbitration Institutions (IFCAI). He has published extensively in the fields of international law and arbitration law and is a frequent speaker at international conferences on a wide range of legal topics. He has taught at the University of Miami School of Law, at the Law Faculty of the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, at the Law Faculty of the Saint-Joseph University in Lebanon and Dubai, at the Hague Academy of International Law, and at the Paris Academy for International Law. He is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge, a member of the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law, and a member of the editorial advisory committees of several law journals.

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Mr. DEVASHISH KRISHAN, Legal Advisor, Court of HRH Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Crown Prince, Deputy Commander of the Bahrain Defense Forces and First Deputy Prime Minister.

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Ms. NAJAH ALI RASHID, Counselor, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kingdom of Bahrain. 10 – 05 - 2017

Bangladesh Bangladesh

Justice MD. TOFAZZAL ISLAM is a former Chief Justice of Bangladesh. While a Judge of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh, Justice Islam also held the Office of Chairman of the Enrolment Committee of the Bangladesh Bar Council from 2004 to 2008 responsible for selecting the lawyers entitled to practice in the District Courts and then in the Supreme Court. He then held the Office of the Chairman of the Bangladesh Judicial Service Commission from 2008 to 2009 responsible for selecting the Assistant Judges and the Judicial Magistrates for the District Courts. Justice Islam was the principal author of several landmark judgements laying the foundations for the development of Constitutional Laws and setting significant precedents, which includes the judgments on repeal of the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution of Bangladesh, enlarging the powers of the Supreme Court

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under the Companies Act 1994 in protecting the interests of minority shareholders, and reversing the decision of the High Court Division of the Supreme Court in allowing the construction of markets in violation of the provisions of environmental laws. Justice Islam did his Bachelor of Arts (Honours) and Master of Arts in History from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh and also completed L.L.B there. He then went to the UK for further education and was called to the Bar of England and Wales from the Hon’ble Society of Lincoln’s Inn in 1967. Justice Islam was then enrolled as an advocate of the High Court of the then East Pakistan (presently Bangladesh) in 1969 and in 1980, he became an advocate in the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh. During that period, Justice Islam had been actively associated with the teaching profession and was an Adjunct Faculty in the City Law College, Dhaka teaching Transfer of Property Act and Equity & Trust, and he also taught Corporate Laws at the Institute of Business Administration, University of Dhaka and an Examiner of Law in the University of Dhaka and as a Member of the Corporate Laws Commission of Bangladesh, he actively participated in the drafting of the Bank Companies Act 1991 and the Companies Act 1994. Justice Islam attended SAARC Law Conference in Bengaluru, India and also in Colombo, Sri Lanka. He also attended Common Law Judiciary Conference in Sydney, Common Law Conference in Melbourne, Anti-Terrorism Conference in Malta and Conference of Heads of Judiciary in Tehran, Iran. Contact: +88-02-55033515; +88-01552349062; [email protected].

Justice MD. AWLAD ALI is a former Justice of the High Court Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh. He was appointed as a Judge to the High Court Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh on 23 February 1997. He retired from the High Court Division on 24 January 2008. Presently, he serves as Chairman of Arbitral Tribunal and member of several Tribunals. Mr. Md. Awlad Ali was enrolled as a pleader under the High Court of Judicature of the then East Pakistan (presently Bangladesh) in 1965. He became a member of Dhaka District Bar Association in January 1966. He was enrolled as an Advocate of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh and became member of the Supreme Court Bar Association in March 1973. He was enrolled as a Senior Advocate of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh in December 1994 (certificate of granted in January 1995). Mr. Md. Awlad Ali started dealing with the arbitration cases since 1969. During his professional career, Mr. Md. Awlad Ali conducted good number of commercial arbitration cases as a lawyer of the contesting parties including an arbitration case of a London-based shipping company Alam Maritime. He was a sole Arbitrator in the arbitration cases of the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh. After retirement from the High Court Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh in January 2008, Justice Md. Awlad Ali again entered into the arbitration jurisdiction both in international and domestic commercial arbitration and disposed of many cases being the Chairman of the Arbitral Tribunal. He also served as a member of the Tribunal in some other cases. In the recent past, some of the international commercial arbitration cases disposed of by the Arbitral Tribunal of which he was the Chairman. The list of the cases include Young Sung Co. Ltd., a company of the Republic of Korea VS. Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCCI); Crystal Inc., a company of the Republic of Korea VS. BCCI; Autoen Company Ltd., a company of the Republic of Korea VS. BCCI; HRBC (a Chinese company) INTRACO (BD) Joint Venture VS. Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh represented by Chief Engineer, Roads & Highways Department, Ministry of Road Transport and Bridges; Jamuna Builders Ltd. (Jamuna Future Park) VS. Dunhum Bush Industries SDN. Bhd., a Malaysian company (as a member of the Tribunal). Justice Md. Awlad Ali completed his matriculation in 1957 and obtained Bachelor of Arts degree in 1962 from Rajshahi University of Bangladesh. He obtained L.L.B. in 1965 and Master of Arts in Political Science in 1966 from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Justice Md. Awlad Ali was born on 27 January 1941. Contact: +88-02-9331116; +8801552330553; [email protected]

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Prof. Dr. PAYAM AKHAVAN LL.M., S.J.D. (Harvard), Professor of International Law, McGill University, Montreal, Canada; member of the Law Society of Upper Canada; member of the New York State Bar; member of the American Society of International Law; member of the Honourary Council of the International Law Students Association; counsel and advocate before the International Court of Justice, the Permanent Court of Arbitration, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, the International Criminal Court, the European Court of Human Rights, the Supreme Court of Canada, and the Supreme Court of the USA. Academic appointments: Associate Professor, McGill University, 2006-present; Visiting Fellow, Oxford University, 2014-16; Visiting Professor, Universite de Paris Ouest (Nanterre la Defense), 2015; Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow, European University Institute, 2013-14; Visiting Professor, Institut d’études politiques de Paris, 2012; Boulton Senior Fellow, McGill University, 2005-2006; Senior Fellow, Yale Law School, 2003-2005;

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Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Toronto, 2002; Senior Fellow, Leiden University, 2000-2001; Visiting Lecturer, Yale Law School, 1998. Professional Appointments: Associate, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, New York, 2001-2002; Legal Advisor, Office of the Prosecutor, International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, The Hague, 1994-2000; Human Rights Officer, UN Centre for Human Rights, Geneva, 1993-1994. Contact details: McGill University, Faculty of Law, New Chancellor Day Hall, 3644 Peel Street, Room 614, Montreal Quebec; Canada H3A 1W9; Tel: +1-514-398-8232; e-mail: [email protected]

Justice MOHAMMAD ABDUR RASHID. Enrolled at the Mymensingh District Bar in 1969 and then in 1976 at the Supreme Court Bar Association, Bangladesh; Former Judge of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh (1999-2009); Former Chairman of the Bangladesh Law Commission (2009-October 2010); Former Chairman, the Disciplinary Panel, Bangladesh Cricket Board (2013-2018). Conducted many arbitrations since. Author of various publications. Tel.: +8802 9359071; +8801711 529307; e-mail: [email protected].

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Belarus Bélarus

Mr. IGOR V. FISSENKO, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the French Republic (resident) and the Kingdom of Spain (nonresident); Director General of the Directorate General for Consular Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus (2013 – 2019), Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Belarus to the Arab Republic of Egypt (resident), the Republic of the Sudan, the Sultanate of Oman and the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria (nonresident) and Permanent Representative to the League of Arab States (2008-2013). Obtained his degree in Law from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (1993) and his Ph.D. in Law from the Belarusian State University (1996). 38, Boulevard Suchet, 75016 Paris, France, Tel.: +33 1 44 14 69 79, 44 14 69 75; E-mail: [email protected].

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Mr. MIKHAIL M. KHVOSTOV, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Belarus to the United Nations Office and other International Organizations in Geneva, former Minister for Foreign Affairs, former Ambassador to the United States of America, former Ambassador to Canada, former Representative to ICAO. Specializations: international law, international economic law, international organizations, diplomatic and consular law, treaty law. Contact details : Avenue de la Paix, 15, 1202 Geneva, Switzerland ; tel. : + 41 22 748 24 50 ; fax : +41 22 748 24 51 ; e-mail : [email protected].

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Ms. OLGA G. SERGEEVA, Judge of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Belarus (2008-2012; 2017-present), Deputy Chairperson of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Belarus (2012-2017), Head of the Legal and Governance Directorate-General of the Administration of the President of the Republic of Belarus (2001-2008), Deputy Minister of Justice of the Republic of Belarus (1998-2001). Specializes in international law, constitutional law and international commercial law. 4 Krasnoarmeyskaya str., 220016, Minsk, Republic of Belarus; Tel.: +375 17 327 80 12; +375 17 327 52 09; E-mail: [email protected].

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Mr. YURI KOBETS, Deputy Chairperson of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Belarus (2018-present); Chairperson of Minsk Commercial Court (2015-2018); Judge (2009-2010) and Deputy Chairperson (2010-2015) of Minsk Regional Court; Chairperson of Borisov Regional Court (2007-2009); Deputy Chairperson of Borisov Regional Court (2002-2007); Judge (1997-2001) and Deputy Chairperson of Borisov Court (2001-2002). Contact details: 28 Lenina street, 220030 Minsk, Republic of Belarus; tel.: +375 17 226 12 06; +375 17 3271225; email: [email protected].

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Bolivia Bolivie

Prof. FERNANDO SALAZAR-PAREDES, Doctor of Law, Political and Social Sciences, University of San Andres, La Paz, Bolivia, former Minister of State, Member of Parliament and Ambassador of Bolivia; Full professor of International Private Law, Public International Law and Foreign Policy at Bolivia’s main state university; professor at the Diplomatic Academy of Bolivia. Chairman of the III Interamerican Specialized Conference on Private International Law and head of the delegation to the IV and V Conferences; Chairman of the Board of the Andean Development Corporation and President of the paramount body of the Andean Group. Chairman of the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States; Founder and President of the Centre for the Study of International Relations and Development, CERID. Former UNDP Resident Representative

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in Ecuador, Peru, Cuba and Dominican Republic. Author of more than a dozen books on international relations, foreign policy and international law. Contact details: Calle "I", No. 27 esq. Av. San Martin, Equipetrol, Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Tel.: +591.788.81138; e-mail: [email protected]. Prof. KAREN LONGARIC-RODRIGUEZ, Doctor of Law, Political and Social Sciences, University of San Andres, La Paz, Bolivia; Doctor in Economy and Master in Juridical Sciences, University of La Havana, Cuba. Career Diplomat: Director General of Legal Department, Director General of European Desk; Minister of Foreign Affairs. Full Professor of Integration Law, International Private Law, International Public Law, International Contract and Treaties. Executive Director of the International Institute of Integration; Academic Director of the IDEA Foundation. Advisor to the Bolivian Senate, House of Representatives and the Superior Court of La Paz. Contact details: Calle La Floresta N° 328 Urbanización La Rinconada, Zona La Florida, La Paz, Bolivia. Tel.: +59-701.55155; e-mail: [email protected].

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Prof. JAIME APARICIO-OTERO, Doctor of Law, Political and Social Sciences, University of San Andres, La Paz, Bolivia; Doctor of Law, Political and Social Sciences, University of San Andres, La Paz, Bolivia; Graduate of the Diplomatic Academy of Bolivia and the Institute of Political Sciences, Paris, France. Professor at Elliot School of Foreign Affairs, at the Catholic University of Bolivia and the Diplomatic Academy. Member and Chairman of the Interamerican Juridical Committee of the Organization of American States. Career diplomat: Bolivian Ambassador to the United States of America. Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs. Contact details: Tel.: +1.202.368.195; e-mail: [email protected].

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Prof. HORACIO ANDALUZ VEGACENTENO LL.M. (Harvard), Master in International Law (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), former attendee of The Hague Academy of International Law courses and of the International Chamber of Commerce Masterclass for Arbitrators. Professor of Law (UPSA, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia). Author of six books in the fields of International Law, Constitutional Law, Constitutional History and Legal Theory. Associate member of the International Chamber of Commerce, of the Institute of Iberic-American Law. Arbitrator of the Inter-American Commercial Arbitration Commission, of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, the National Chamber of Commerce, the Bolivian Chamber of Hydrocarbons and Energy; and the Chamber of Industry, Commerce and Tourism of Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Consultant Lawyer before American Courts regarding the application of Bolivian Law. Contact details: Equipetrol Norte, Av. La Salle, Luciano Justiniano 26, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. Tel.: (591-3)340-7563; (591)776-39328; e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected].

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Brazil Brésil Prof. M. CELSO LAFER, Minister of Foreign Relations; graduate of Political Science at Cornell University, New York; post-doctoral studies in International Public Law at University of São Paulo (USP) (1977); professor at the Law School, (USP) since 1971; former Chairman of the Department of Jurisprudence and General Theory of Law School (USP), Vice-Chairman of 1992 United Nations Rio Conference on Environment and Development; Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Brazil to the World Trade Organization (WTO) (1995-1998); Av. Brigadeiro Faria Lima, 1306-10 andar, CEP: 01451-914, São Paulo, Brazil; tel.: + 5511 3816 0306; fax: +5511 3815 6014.

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Mme NADIA DE ARAUJO, Master of Comparative law, (George Washington University) ; Docteur en Droit (Université de São Paulo) ; membre et Secrétaire Générale de la Société Brésilienne de Droit International ; Procureur de Justice pour l’état de Rio de Janeiro ; Professeur de droit international privé de la Pontificale Université Catholique, Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) ; Arbitre désigné par le Gouvernement du Brésil au système de solution de disputes du MERCOSUL. Spécialisations : droit international privé, arbitrage commercial, droit de l’intégration. Rua General Rabelo, 64 ap. 201, Rio de Janeiro, 22.451-010, Brésil ; tél. : +552125124673 ; fax : +552125125890 ; e-mail : [email protected].

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Prof. EDUARDO GREBLER, Bachelor of Laws (Federal University of Minas Gerais); LL.M. S.J.D. (residence) (Columbia University Law School); Attorney-at-law; Professor of Private International Law at the School of Law of the Catholic University of Minas Gerais; President of the International Law Association (ILA) (2008-2010); member of the List of Brazilian Ad Hoc Arbitrators for the Mercosur Treaty (2004 - ), practicing counsel and commercial

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arbitrator; author of several published works on arbitration and international trade law. Av. Raja Gabaglia, 1400 – 8º andar, Gutierrez, 30441-194, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil; tel: +55 31 3516 0500; e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected].

Judge ANTÔNIO AUGUSTO CANÇADO TRINDADE, Member of the International Court of Justice since 6 February 2009; served as Judge in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights for twelve years, and as its President for half a decade and was throughout this time in close contact with the distinct legal systems of the countries of the American continent and the Caribbean; Sustained links with The Hague, through the Hague Academy of International Law, go back to 1971; Represented Brazil in many international human rights meetings, regional and world conferences including those of the United Nations and the Organization of American States. Former advisor to international entities, such as UNHCR, UNDP, UNESCO, UNEP and, at regional level, the OAS and the Council of Europe. Emeritus Professor of International Law of the University of Brasilia, Brazil; Honorary Professor of the University of Utrecht, and Honorary Fellow of the University of Cambridge. Doctor Honoris Causa of seven Latin American Universities, and two European Universities; Member of the Curatorium of The Hague Academy of International Law, as well as the Institut de Droit International, and the Board of the International Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg. Author of 52 books and around 680 monographs, contributions to books, essays and articles on international law, published in numerous countries and several languages. The full curriculum vitae of Judge Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade can be found at www.icj-cij.org.

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Bulgaria Bulgarie

Prof. Dr. TSVETANA KAMENOVA, Director of the Institute for Legal Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Head of the International Law Department of the same institute; Member of the Executive Council of the International Law Association; Honorary Member of the Governing Council of UNIDROIT; Member of the Arbitration Court of the Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry; Professor at Plovdiv University Law School; Judge ad litem, ICTY (2006-2009); International Consultant; Former Chief Expert, Council of Ministers of the Republic of Bulgaria. President of the Bulgarian Association of Comparative Law. Specializations: private international law, commercial litigation, intellectual property, international protection of human rights, international humanitarian law. 4, Serdika Street, Sofia 1000, Bulgaria; tel.: +359 88 8226480; e-mail: [email protected].

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Cameroon Cameroun

M. GASTON KENFACK DOUANJI est un Magistrat diplômé de l’Ecole Nationale d’Administration et de la Magistrature, actuellement Directeur de la Législation au Ministère de la Justice du Cameroun. Docteur en droit international économique de l’Université de Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne, France), il est aussi titulaire d’un Certificat en négociations commerciales et règlement des différends commerciaux obtenu à la Kennedy School of Government de l’Université de Harvard aux Etats Unis ainsi que d’une Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches (HDR) de l’Université de Pau (France). Directeur de la Revue camerounaise de l’arbitrage, Gaston KENFACK DOUAJNI est aussi Président de l’Association pour la Promotion de l’Arbitrage en Afrique (APAA) et Président de la 49e Session de la Commission des Nations Unies pour le Droit Commercial International (CNUDCI). Il est professeur de droit dans différents universités. // Mr. GASTON KENFACK DOUAJNI is a Cameroonian Magistrate, currently the Director of Legislation at the Ministry of Justice in Cameroon, he has obtained a Doctorate of International Economic Law at the University of Paris I (Pantheon Sorbonne) in 2005, a Certificate on trade, negotiations and settlement of trade disputes at the Kennedy School of Government –Harvard University (USA) in 2004 and an Habilitation to Direct Researches at the University of Pau in France. He is the Editor of the “Revue Camerounaise de l’Arbitrage”, the President of the Association for the Promotion of Arbitration in Africa (APAA) and the Chairman of the 49th Session of United Nations Commission on international Trade Law (UNCITRAL). He also teaches in different universities around the world.

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M. MICHEL MAHOUVE. Ce Magistrat Hors Hiérarchie 1er Groupe est Directeur des Affaires Non Répressives et du Sceau au Ministère de la Justice. Il est titulaire d’un Doctorat en Droit obtenu à l’Université Panthéon-Assas/Paris II. Ancien Directeur des Droits de l’Homme et de la Coopération Internationale au Ministère de la Justice, il est Chargé de Cours à l’Institut des Relations Internationales du Cameroun et à l’Université Catholique

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d’Afrique Centrale (UCAC). Il est l’auteur de l’ouvrage intitulé : « Le Cameroun et les Organes Internationaux de Contrôle des Droits de l’Homme ». Mme. GALEGA FEH HELEN KWANGA. Magistrat Hors-Hiérarchie 2éme groupe, elle assume les fonctions de Directeur des Droits de l’Homme et de la Coopération Internationale au Ministère de la Justice depuis 2012. Elle est titulaire d’un LL.M (Master) en Droit de l’Homme et Droit International Humanitaire obtenu avec mention très bien à l’Université d’Essex au Royaume Uni en 2003. Depuis 1989, année de son intégration dans le corps de la Magistrature du Cameroun, elle a occupé plusieurs postes de responsabilité au Ministère de la Justice, notamment celui de Chef du Service du Casier judiciaire, Chef du Service de la Coopération Judiciaire et celui de Sous-Directeur de la Coopération Internationale à la Direction des Droits de L’Homme et de la Coopération Internationale. Elle a été la première à occuper le poste de Point focal pour les affaires du Commonwealth au Ministère de la Justice de 1995 à 2012.

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M. JEAN BOSCO ESSOH. Magistrat de 4éme Grade, il exerce en qualité de Procureur Général près la Cour d’Appel de l’Est. Il est titulaire d’un DEA en Droits fondamentaux, d’un Master en Droit International Comparé de l’environnement, d’un Certificat doctoral du CIEDHU et d’un Doctorat en droit, mention droit international et relations internationales. Chercheur Associé au Centre de Droit international (Lyon-France), à l’Equipe de Droit International et Comparé (Lyon-France) et au Centre pour l’Environnement et le Développement (Cameroun), il est l’auteur d’une thèse sur les Relations entre les Droits de l’Homme et l’environnement.

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Canada Canada

Mr. WILLIAM R. (BILL) CROSBIE, is a native of St. John’s, Newfoundland. He is a graduate of Dalhousie University Law School, Halifax, Nova Scotia and of Memorial University of Newfoundland. He has worked with the Federal Government since 1986, both as a Ministerial Advisor (in the portfolios of Transport, International Trade and Fisheries and Oceans) and as a Trade Negotiator. His experience in trade negotiations began with the Canada-U.S. FTA in 1988 and continued with the NAFTA, the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations and the creation of the WTO. From 1997-2000, he held several positions within the then Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade focusing on trade policy issues and negotiations related to services, investment, competition policy, intellectual property, cultural industries, telecommunications and electronic commerce. In August 2000, he was named Minister-Counsellor, Economic and Trade Policy, at the Canadian Embassy in Washington DC. In September 2004, he was appointed Director General of the North America Bureau where he was responsible for Canada’s bilateral relations with the U.S. and Mexico and for the trilateral Canada-U.S.-Mexico agenda. In October 2007, Bill became the first Assistant Deputy Minister of the Consular Services and Emergency Management Branch. He was appointed as Canada’s Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan in August 2009 – a rewarding position that he held for two years during which Canada’s military combat mission and Provincial Reconstruction Team in Kandahar concluded and Canada’s new training and development mission for the period 2011-2014 was launched. In September 2011, Bill returned to headquarters as the Assistant Deputy Minister for the recently expanded Consular, Security and Emergency Management Branch. When the Department transitioned to a new organizational model (combining functional and geographic duties) in May 2012, Bill became responsible for North America. In November 2013, with the amalgamation of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade and the Canadian International Development Agency, Bill became the Assistant Deputy Minister of the Consular, Security and Legal Branch at the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development. Bill also holds the title of Legal Adviser. Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada (DFATD), 125 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1A0G2; Tel. +343-203-3570.

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Justice ANDROMACHE KARAKATSANIS was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada in October 2011. She had been appointed a judge of the Court of Appeal for Ontario in March 2010 and a judge of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in December 2002. Justice Karakatsanis is a graduate of the University of Toronto and Osgoode Hall Law School. Following her call to the Bar in 1982, Andromache Karakatsanis served as a law clerk to the Ontario Court of Appeal. In private practice, she practised criminal, civil and family litigation in Toronto for several years. She then served in the Ontario Public Service for 15 years in a number of senior positions. During her career in public service, Andromache

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Karakatsanis served as Chair and Chief Executive Officer of the Liquor Licence Board of Ontario (1988-95); as Assistant Deputy Attorney General and Secretary for Native Affairs (1995-97); and as Deputy Attorney General (1997-2000). Andromache Karakatsanis served as Ontario's Secretary of the Cabinet and Clerk of the Executive Council from July 2000 to November 2002. As the province's senior public servant, she provided leadership to the Ontario Public Service and to the deputy ministers. While in the public service, Justice Karakatsanis was actively involved in issues related to education and reform in the field of administrative justice. She was a recipient of the Society of Ontario Adjudicators and Regulators (SOAR) Medal in 1996 for outstanding service to Ontario's administrative justice system. Justice Karakatsanis volunteered extensively with the YMCA of Greater Toronto from 1990 to 2002 and held a number of senior positions, including that of Chair of the Board of Directors. She also served as a member of the Board of the Public Policy Forum and of Canadian Policy and Research Networks (CPRN).

Mr. HUGH ADSETT is the Legal Adviser and Director General of the Legal Affairs Bureau of Global Affairs Canada (September 2016 - present). He was previously the Deputy Legal Adviser of the Legal Affairs Bureau (2013-16). Mr. Adsett graduated from Queen's University with an LL.B in 1993. Following his call to the Bar he worked as a human rights field officer in Cyangugu, Rwanda, with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in 1995. Upon his return to Canada, he joined the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada, where he had assignments in Ottawa in the Peacebuilding Division (1996-97), Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Division (1998 and 2000-02) , and the Environmental Law Division (2002-04). From 1998-2000, he was posted to the Embassy of Canada to Ethiopia as Second Secretary, with accreditation to Sudan, Eritrea and Djibouti. From 2004-2008, he was Counsellor (Legal, Economic and Social Affairs) at the Permanent Mission of Canada to the United Nations in New York, where his responsibilities included representing Canada on the Sixth (Legal) Committee of the United Nations, and chairing the Management Committee of the Special Court for Sierra Leone. Mr. Adsett served as Director of the Criminal, Security and Diplomatic Law Division (2008-11) and Director of the United Nations, Human Rights and Economic Law Division (2011-13). In 2011, he was elected to the International Criminal Court Committee on Budget and Finance for the 2012-14 term, and re-elected in 2013 for the 2014-17 term. He was a lecturer in Advanced International Law at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law, each Fall from 2010 to 2013, and a lecturer in International Human Rights Law at Queen's University, Faculty of Law, every June from 2009 until now. Mr. Adsett was a recipient of the Deputy Minister's Award of Excellence (2015); the Minister's Citation for Foreign Policy Excellence (2001) and the Zaire Crisis Merit Award (1996).

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Chile Chili

Ambassador MARÍA TERESA INFANTE CAFFI studied at the University of Chile and at the Graduate Institute of International Studies of Geneva; has been an intern in The Hague Academy of International Law and taught at the External Programme of the Academy in 1991 and 2011; visiting professor at CEDIN, Belo Horizonte, Brazil; University Jaume I, Castellón; Catholic University of Lima and national University of Córdoba, Argentina; is a professor of the University of Chile and teaches at the Diplomatic Academy of Chile; has been Director of the Institute of International Studies of the University of Chile till 1995 and Director of its Graduate Program; Co-director of the Master’s Programme in International Law jointly offered by the University of Heidelberg and University of Chile; Delegate to the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea and Antarctic Consultative Meetings; Member of the Institute of International Law; Appointed Director of Frontiers and Limits of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1997; and co-agent to the International Court of Chile in the case Peru v. Chile, 2008. Dirección Nacional de Fronteras y Límites del Estado, Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, Teatinos 180, Santiago, Chile; tel.: +56 2 2827 5065, fax.: +56 2 2381 0179, e-mail: [email protected].

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People’s Republic République populaire of China de Chine

Madam XUE HANQIN, member of the International Court of Justice (2010); former member of the International Law Commission (2002 2010); former Legal Adviser of the Chinese Foreign Ministry; former Ambassador of the People's Republic of China to ASEAN, former Ambassador of the People's Republic of China to the Netherlands, former Permanent Representative of the People's Republic of China to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons; former President of the Asian Society of International

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Law; associate member, member of Institute de Droit International (2005, 2009). Peace Palace, Carnegieplein 2, 2517 KJ The Hague, The Netherlands; fax: +31 70 3022409; e mail: h.xue@icj cij.org.

Mr. LIU ZHENMIN, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs; former Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the People’s Republic of China to the United Nations Office at Geneva and other International Organizations in Switzerland; Associate Member of Institute de Droit International; Consultant to Chinese Society of International Law; Arbitrator of China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission; Council Member of Environmental Law Institute of China Law Society; Council Member of China Ocean Mineral Resources R&D Association; Council Member of Chinese Society of the Law of the Sea; Member of China Council for the Promotion of International Trade. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 2 Chao Yang Men Nan Da Jie, Beijing 100701, People’s Republic of China; fax: +86 10 65963209.

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Mr. LIU DAQUN, Judge in the Appeals Chamber of the International Tribunals for former Yugoslavia and Rwanda; Judge of the United Nations Residual Mechanism of International Tribunals; former Ambassador of People’s Republic of China to Jamaica; Member of the Institute de Droit International; Executive Member of Chinese Society of International Law; Executive Member of Chinese Society of Environmental Law; former Vice President of Asian Society of International Law. Churchillplein 1, 2517 JW, P.O.Box 13888, EW, The Hague, The Netherlands; tel: 0031 70 512 5089; fax: +31 70 512 5252.

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Mr. HUANG JIN, Professor of International Law and President of the China University of Political Science and Law. He also serves as Vice President of the China Law Society, President of the China Society of Private International Law, Vice President of the Chinese Society of International Law, Vice President of the China Academy of Arbitration Law and Vice President of the Chinese Judicial Studies Association. His academic specialties include private international law, international commercial arbitration, state immunity, international commercial law, inter-regional conflict of laws, Chinese law and comparative law. Professor Huang is Editor-in-Chief of The Chinese Yearbook of Private International Lmv and Comparative Law and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of The Chinese Journal of International Law (Oxford). He is also a member of the Advisory Board of The Yearbook of Private International Law (sellier.elp). In addition, he has served as Guest Professor at Universitat des Saarlandes in Germany in 2000, Visiting Fulbright Scholar at Yale Law School in 1993-94, Visiting Scholar at the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, Lausanne, in 1986-87, an attendee at The Hague Academy of International Law in 1986, an arbitrator of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), the ICSID and the CIETAC. Address: China University of Political Science and Law, 27 Fuxue Road, Changping District, Beijing 102249, China; Tel. 0086-10-89709011; Fax: 0086-10-89709830; e-mail: [email protected]

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Colombia Colombie Mr. RICARDO ABELLO GALVIS, International Law Professor at the Universidad del Rosario, as well as at some other universities in Colombia and overseas, in areas such as Public International law, Theory of International Law, the Law and Practice of the International Court of Justice, among others. Agent for Colombia before the Inter-American Court of Human Rig*mandhts. Law Degree from Universidad del Rosario Bogota and Master on International Law and International Relations from the Institute de Hautes Etudes Internationales, Geneva. Cra. 19 A No. 86 A-61 apto. 705; Bogotá, DC, Colombia. Tel: +57 310 871 2079; E-mail: [email protected].

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Mr. GUILLERMO FERNÁNDEZ DE SOTO, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Colombia to the United Nations and President of the United Nations Peace-Building Commission. Former Minister of Foreign Affairs; Acting President of Colombia on several occasions; former President of the Chamber of Commerce of Bogotá and member of the Board of the Paris Chamber of Commerce; former Secretary-General of the Andean Community of Nations (CAN); former member and President of the Inter-American Juridical Committee; former Ambassador to the Netherlands and Co-Agent of Colombia before the International Court of Justice; former Representative for Europe of the Development Bank of Latin America. Doctor in juridical and economic sciences, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogotá). 140 East 57th Street, New York, N.Y. 10022; Tel.: +1 212 355 7776; E-mail: [email protected].

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Mr. EDUARDO SILVA ROMERO, Counsel and arbitrator, currently Co-chair of international arbitration practice at Dechert LLP. Lecturer on international contract law and investment arbitration at the Institute of Political Studies in Paris (Sciences Po) and professor on national and international arbitration at the University of Paris/Dauphine (Paris IX). Lecturer at the Hague Academy of International Law (Legal fictions in the language of international arbitration, 2019). Emeritus professor at the Universidad del Rosario (Bogotá). Specialist in international private law and comparative law and Doctor in Philosophy of the Law from the University of Panteon Assas (Paris II). 32 rue de Monceau; 75008 Paris, France. Tel.: +33 1 57 57 80 14; +33 6 09 71 77 72; E-mail: [email protected].

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Costa Rica Costa Rica Dr. RODOLFO PIZA ROCAFORT holds a PhD and a Specialist Degree in Human Rights by the Universidad Complutense of Madrid, and a Diploma in International Politics by the Society of International Studies of Madrid, as well as a Specialty in Labor Law by the Universidad de Salamanca Foundation (Spain), after obtaining his degree as Licensed Attorney by the University of Costa Rica. He has been a member of the Costa Rican Bar Association since 1983 and was also a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration between 2002 and 2010. He was Vice President of the Ibero-American Center of Human Rights in Madrid and a member of the Institute Hispano Luso Americano de Derecho Internacional as well as the Academia de Centroamérica (for Economic Studies). Besides practicing his profession as Lawyer and consultant, he has served as Professor of International Human Rights, Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Jurisprudence and Labor Law, and held the position of Chancellor and Director of Graduate Studies at the Universidad Autónoma de Centroamérica. He also was Professor of Constitutional Law (Master) at the Universidad Estatal a Distancia. Other relevant posts include Deputy Chief of Mission of Costa Rica before the Organization of the United Nations; Director of the Government Reform Program at Costa Rica's Ministry of Planning and Development; Executive President of the Costa Rican Social Security Institute; Coordinator of the Presidential Commission for Political Reform; Deputy Magistrate of the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice in Costa Rica, and Minister of the Presidency (member of the Cabinet) during Costa Rica's current Administration. At present he holds the post of Coordinator of Observatory of Democracy at the Organization of American States (OAS). Contact details: Inigo's Crossing, 5405 Tuckerman Lane, Apt A-556, North Bethesda, MD 20852, United States; Tel.: +1 (202) 812-3058 /+506 8881-5016; E-mail: [email protected].

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Amb. MONSERRAT SOLANO CARBONI, Costa Rican Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Costa Rica to the Organization of American States (OAS). She has a long and varied career in international human rights law and international criminal law. She holds an LLM in International Human Rights Law from the University of Essex. Former Head of the National Human Rights Institution of Costa Rica (Defensoría de los Habitantes de la República), she was named Secretary of the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI). She previously worked for different international organizations such as the Inter-American Institute for Human Rights and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Former analyst at the International Criminal Court, she also worked at the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala. She has served at different NGOs such as the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), Due Process of Law Foundation (DPLF), Instituto de Prensa y Libertad de expression (IPLEX) and Reporters without borders (RSF). As a journalist, she worked for La Nación, the main Costa Rican newspaper. During the past five years, she has been recognized by Forbes as one of the most influential Central American women. In 2016 she was granted the Franco-German Prize for Human Rights and the Rule of Law. She is fluent in French, English and Spanish. Contact details: Permanent Mission of Costa Rica before the OAS, 2112 S Street NW, Washington DC, 20008, United States; Tel.: + 1 (202) 908-8920 /+ 506 2271-1664; e-mail: [email protected]

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Mr. ARNOLDO BRENES CASTRO holds a degree as Licensed Attorney from the University of Costa Rica (1991) and an M.A in Theory and Practice of Human Rights from the University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom (1994). He has also undertaken an ‘Advanced Program on Human Rights’ by the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of the University of Lund, Sweden (1996); a ‘Training for Civilians on Defense Policy’ by the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico and the Torcuato di Tella University of Argentina (1999); seminars on ‘Defense Planning and Resource Management’ (2000) and ‘lnteragency

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Coordination and Counterterrorism’ (2004) imparted by the Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies of the National Defense University at Washington D.C..; an International Cycle on ‘Europe and Globalization’ imparted by the National Administration School from Paris, France (2005); and a course on ‘Conflict Prevention and Cooperation in Water Management in Latin America’ sponsored by UNESCO's International Hydrological Programme at Dominican Republic (2011), among other courses. His academic experience includes serving as Professor at the Master's Program on Human Rights and Peace Education at the United Nations University for Peace based at San José, Costa Rica (1999-2001) as well as Professor for the Center for International Sustainable Human Development/Universidad Latina for the course on ‘Human Rights in Latin America’ (2007-2013). Mr. Brenes has served as Advisor to the Ministers of Foreign Affairs since 2000, and through his work at Costa Rica's Foreign Ministry has specialized in international litigations and International Public Law, serving as Counsel and Advocate for Costa Rica in the five cases against Nicaragua heard by the International Court of Justice between 2005 and 2018: ‘Dispute regarding Navigational and Related Rights’ (Costa Rica v. Nicaragua), ‘Certain Activities Carried Out by Nicaragua in the Border Area’ (Costa Rica v. Nicaragua)’, ‘Construction of a Road in Costa Rica along the San Juan River’ (Nicaragua v. Costa Rica)’,’Maritime Delimitation in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean (Costa Rica v. Nicaragua)’, and ‘Land Boundary in the Northern Part of Isla Portillos’ (Costa Rica v. Nicaragua), as well as in the ‘Application for Permission to Intervene by Costa Rica in the case Territorial and Maritime Dispute’ (Nicaragua v. Colombia). Since 2009 he has served as Coordinator of the Commission for Extension of the External Limits of Costa Rica's Continental Shelf and also was the head of the Costa Rican delegation that negotiated the 2014 Agreement between the Republic of Costa Rica and the Republic of Ecuador on Maritime Delimitation. Mr. Brenes also participated in the maritime border negotiations with Nicaragua that took place between 2002 and 2005, as well as in several binational and multilateral negotiation meetings on different subjects. Contact details: P.O. Box 7515-1000 San José, Costa Rica; tel. +506 8872-3312; email: [email protected].

Mr. SERGIO UGALDE GODÍNEZ (M. Jur.), Adjunct Professor of International Law at the United Nations mandated University for Peace, Magister Juris in European and Comparative Law from the University of Oxford. Chair of the International Law Commission at Costa Rica's Foreign Ministry since 2002, Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) from 2006 to 2019. Appeared before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) as Counsel and Advocate for Costa Rica in ‘Dispute regarding Navigational and Related Rights’ (Costa Rica v. Nicaragua) (2005-2009), and in ‘Application for Permission to Intervene by Costa Rica in the case Territorial and Maritime Dispute’ (Nicaragua v. Colombia) (2009-2011). Also appointed Co-Agent, Counsel and Advocate by Costa Rica before the ICJ in the cases ‘Certain Activities Carried Out by Nicaragua in the Border Area’ (Costa Rica v. Nicaragua), ‘Construction of a Road in Costa Rica along the San Juan River’ (Nicaragua v. Costa Rica) (2010-2015), ‘Maritime Delimitation in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean (Costa Rica v. Nicaragua)’, and ‘Land Boundary in the Northern Part of Isla Portillos (Costa Rica v. Nicaragua)’ (2014-2018). He advised his country on the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and on the Central American Court of Justice. Representing Costa Rica, he negotiated a Host Country Agreement with the PCA, establishing the first ever facility of the PCA outside the Hague, in Costa Rica. He has served his country on over 40 occasions as SM Ambassador for legal, diplomatic, international cooperation and security affairs. He has headed several negotiations involving issues of international law. He taught at the University of Costa Rica about the Inter-American Human Rights System. He lectured at The Hague Academy of International Law summer courses program in three occasions on international litigation (2016-2017-2018) and has written several articles on international security and international law. He has also lectured about international diplomacy and about the International Criminal Court. From 2014 to 2018, Mr.Ugalde was appointed Costa Rica's Ambassador to The Kingdom of the Netherlands and Permanent Representative to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), where he served as Vice-Chair to the 20th Conference of States Parties (2015). He was also Governor at the United Nations sponsored Common Fund for Commodities, based in Amsterdam (2014-2018), and Representative to the Hague Conference on Private International Law (2014-2018). He served as Costa Rica's Representative to the Assembly of States Parties to the International Criminal Court (ICC) (2014-2018) and was appointed Vice-president of the Assembly of States Parties and Chair to The Hague Working Group on the International Criminal Court between 2016 and 2017. As acting President to the XVI Assembly of States Parties of the ICC in New York, he played a significant role in the activation of the ICC's jurisdiction over

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the Crime of Aggression by the consensus of 123 State Parties. He is a member of the Costa Rican Bar, an international member of the American Bar Association, and a member of the International Law Association in London. Contact details: Edificio Nexus, Blvd. Dent, 75 mts sur de AM-PM, San Pedro, San José, Costa Rica. Tel.: + 44 7485 193989, E-mail: [email protected].

Croatia Croatie Professor Dr. NINA VAJIĆ LLM, PhD (Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb); Diploma Program Graduate Institute of International Studies (Institut universitaire de Hautes Etudes Internationales – IUHEI), Geneva, Switzerland; Professor of Public International Law and Human Rights Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb; Chair of the Administrative Tribunal of the Council of Europe – ATCE (2018-); Member and Chair of the Council of Europe Advisory Panel of Experts on Candidates for election as Judge to the European Court of Human Rights (2013-2019); Chair of the Commission for the Control of INTERPOL’s Files – CCF (2014-2017); expert for the Council of Europe HELP (Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals) programme in Serbia (2013-2014); former Judge and Section President at the European Court of Human Rights (1998-2012). Tel.: +385 1 46 66 664.

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Ms. ANDREJA METELKO-ZGOMBIĆ is the State Secretary for European Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Republic of Croatia. Prior to assuming this position in 2017, Metelko-Zgombić held several prominent posts at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, including Chief Legal Adviser and Assistant Minister for European Law, International Law and Consular Affairs. Metelko-Zgombić served as Co-agent of the Republic of Croatia in the Border arbitration with the Republic of Slovenia; as Co-agent of the Republic of Croatia against the Republic of Serbia for genocide before the International Court of Justice; as Representative of the Government of the Republic of Croatia presenting the views in the Advisory Proceedings of the International Court of Justice on the legitimacy of the act declaring the independence of Kosovo; as Representative of the Government of the Republic of Croatia before the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg in the preliminary proceedings (authorization of notary publics in enforcement procedures) and conducted talks in a series of bilateral negotiations and expert talks related to borders (Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia). Andreja Metelko-Zgombić is also the Senior Representative of the Republic of Croatia on the Standing Joint Committee on Succession Issues and the President of the Commission of the Government of the Republic of Croatia for Borders. She holds a law degree from the University of Zagreb. Tel.: +38512569968; E-mail: [email protected].

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Professor HRVOJE SIKIRIĆ, Ph.D Professor Dr. Hrvoje Sikiric, Professor of Private International Law at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law. Head of and full professor tenure at the Department of Private International Law. Courses taught: Private International Law, European Private International Law, Settlement of Disputes through Arbitration and Mediation - at the Integrated study programme in law (in Croatian and English). Private International Law - General part/Special part, European Private International Law, European International Procedural Law International Commercial Arbitration - at the Postgraduate studies (Master and Doctoral studies) (in Croatian). UNCITRAL Chair (2012-2013) and Chair of the 45th UNCITRAL Session (2012); Delegate of the Republic of Croatia to UNCITRAL WG II - Arbitration and Conciliation/Dispute settlement and WG III - Investor-State Dispute Settlement Reform. President of the Permanent Arbitration Court at the Croatian Chamber of Economy. Member of the ICSID Panel of Arbitrators. Member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration (2014-2018); Member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR; Member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR (ICC Croatia); Member of the ICC Central and Eastern European Arbitration Group. Member of the International Advisory Board of the Vienna International Arbitration Centre. Sole Arbitrator and Co-Arbitrator in arbitrations under the Rules of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Croatian Chamber of Economy (Zagreb Rules), Vienna Rules, ICC Rules and UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules (Ad hoc). Member and former President of the Croatian Society of International Law (Croatian Branch of the International Law Association - ILA); Former member of the ILA International Commercial Arbitration Committee. Member of the Croatian Academy of Legal Sciences. Tel. +3851-4895605. E-mail: [email protected].

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Professor DAVORIN LAPAŠ, LL.M. Ph.D, Professor of Public International Law at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law. Full professor tenure at the Department of

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International Law. Teaching Public International Law, Diplomatic and Consular Law, Law of International Organizations, Human Rights Law, History of International Law - at the Graduate and Postgraduate Study at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb. Teaching Public International Law at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Zagreb (Postgraduate Study in International Relations); Public International Law at the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Republic of Croatia and the Diplomatic Academy of the Republic of Montenegro. Membership: Full member of the Croatian Academy of Legal Sciences; Member and Secretary of the Croatian Society of International Law (Croatian Branch of the International Law Association ILA): Member of the ILA Committee on the Procedure of International Courts and Tribunals; Member of the ILA Committee on International Law and Sea Level Rise; 2012-2014 President of the Croatian United Nations Association. 2013-2014 Co-agent of the Republic of Croatia before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Case Concerning Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Croatia v. Serbia). 2012-2014 Member of the Croatian legal team in the Matter of the Arbitration under the Arbitration Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Croatia and the Government of the Republic of Slovenia; 2009-2013 Croatian alternate member of the Court of Conciliation and Arbitration of the OSCE; tel. +385-1-4895624; e-mail: [email protected]

Cyprus Chypre Mr. ALECOS MARKIDES is former Attorney-General. In this capacity, he headed the Legal Office of the Republic of Cyprus and was responsible for ensuring harmonization of Cyprus’ legal system with the EU acquis communautaire. He has lectured and published articles on legal and constitutional matters. Iroon Street 1-1A, POB 24325, 1703 Nicosia, Cyprus; tel.: +357 22 819 450; fax: +357 22 819 379; e-mail: [email protected] / [email protected]

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Mr. JAMES DROUSHIOTIS, Ambassador a.h., career diplomat and lawyer; former Ambassador to The Netherlands and Egypt; former Permanent Representative to the United Nations and its Specialized Agencies and the WTO, Geneva; former Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, New York; Barrister at Law, Middle Temple; United Nations International Law Fellow; specialized in International law matters: Representative to UN legal committees and human rights bodies, and to UNCITRAL; Representative to UNCLOS III, co-signed the Convention, and to the Vienna Conference on the Law of Treaties (1986); involved in negotiations of EEZ delimitation agreement between Cyprus and Egypt; appeared representing Cyprus before the International Court of Justice in Kosovo Case; Chairman of the EU Legal Committee (COJUR-ICC) during Cyprus’s EU Presidency; President and founder of the non-profit organization, James Foundation, for the promotion of international law, human rights, and the rule of law. Contact details: 29B, Annis Komninis St.,1061 Nicosia, Cyprus; tel.: +357 22 760 766; fax: +357 22 760 799; mob.: +357 99 686 587; email: [email protected]

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Mr. GEORGE EROTOCRITOU, Born in Limassol in 1949. Studied law at Leeds University (LLB). Barrister-at-Law (Middle Temple). Worked for the Ministry of Justice in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), 1977-1979 and practiced law in Cyprus from 1980 until 1986. He joined the Bench in 1986 as District Judge and in 2007 he was appointed Judge of the Supreme Court. Between 2002-2007, he represented Cyprus at the Supervisory Body of Eurojust at the Hague. Co-authored three practitioners´ books “Road Negligence Cases” (1996), “Civil Wrongs” (2003) and “Injunctions” (2016). Ad hoc judge of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). Currently represents Cyprus as Substitute Member to the Venice Commission and as member of the Commonwealth Secretariat Arbitral Tribunal in London. Also represents the Supreme Court at the Association of the Councils of State and Supreme Administrative Jurisdictions of the European Union “ACA-Europe” and the European Judicial Training Network (EJTN). Address: P.O. Box 53012, 3300 Limassol, Cyprus. Telephones: +357 22 865 726 (office), +357 99 490 900 (mobile), fax (office): +357 22 668 460, email: [email protected]

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MR. GEORGE NICOLAOU, Born 16 September 1945, Cyprus. Law studies in London, 1965-1968. Barrister-at-Law, Lincoln’s Inn, London, 1968. Honorary Bencher of the Inn. Practicing advocate in Cyprus, 1973-1978. District Judge, 1978-1988. Senior District Judge, 1988-1989. President District Court, 1989-1995. Justice of the Supreme Court, 1995-2007. Judge of the European Court of Human Rights, 1 Feb. 2008 – 17 Apr. 2016. Address: 9 Konitsis Street,

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Larnaka 6037, Cyprus. Telephones: Cyprus mobile +357 99 515 075; French mobile +33 (0) 671705062; Cyprus home +357 24 366 491. Email: [email protected]

Czech Republic République tchèque Prof. Dr. DALIBOR JÍLEK, Doctor of Law; Professor of Public International Law at the Faculty of Law, Pan-European University in Bratislava; Professor of Public International Law at the Faculty of Law, Palacký University, 17. listopadu 8, 711 11 Olomouc, Czech Republic, e-mail: [email protected].

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Prof. Dr. JIŘÍ MALENOVSKÝ, Doctor of Law; Judge of the Court of Justice of the European Union (since 2004 until autumn 2020); Professor of Public International Law at the Masaryk University in Brno; former Ambassador, Permanent Representative of the Czech Republic to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg; former Chairman of the Committee of Ministers' Deputies of the Council of Europe (1995) and former Chairman of its Group of Rapporteurs for legal co-operation; former Director-General of the Legal and Consular Section in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic; former Judge of the Constitutional Courts of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic and of the Czech Republic; lecture on "The Independence of International Judges," given at The Hague Academy of International Law (2010). Court of Justice of the European Union, L-2925 Luxembourg, fax: +352 4303 3869, e-mail: [email protected], [email protected]

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Prof. Dr. PAVEL ŠTURMA, Doctor of Law; Professor and Head of the International Law Department, former Vice-Dean of the Law Faculty of the Charles University in Prague; Member of the UN International Law Commission (elected in 2011; elected Chair in 2019); Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Law of the Czech Academy of Sciences; former Member of the Legislative Council of the Government of the Czech Republic; Member of the Board of the Czech Branch of ILA and President of the Czech Society of International Law; member of ASIL, ESIL, SFDI. Charles University, Faculty of Law, nám. Curieových 7, 116 40 Prague 1, Czech Republic; fax: +420 2 21 00 53 48; e-mail: [email protected].

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Dr. PETR VÁLEK, LL.M., Ph.D., Director of the International Law Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2012-present), Vice-Chair of the Sixth (Legal) Committee of the UNGA (2011), rapporteur of the Ad Hoc Committee established pursuant to the UNGA resolution 51/210 (2011, 2013), Vice-Chair and Chair of the Committee of Legal Advisers on Public International Law of the Council of Europe - CAHDI (2017-2020); Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, International Law Department, Loretánské nám. 5, 118 00 Prague 1, Czech Republic, Tel.: + 420 224 183 153, e-mail: [email protected].

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Denmark Danemark Mr. TYGE LEHMANN, Former Ambassador and senior legal adviser; Danish representative at the Sixth (Legal) Committee of the United Nations General Assembly 1982-2001 and Chairman of the Committee in 1995; Agent for the Government of Denmark before the International Court of Justice in the Jan Mayen Case (1988-1993) and the Great Belt Case (1991-1992) as well as in cases before the Human Rights Commission and Court in Strasbourg (1981-94); Assigned to the Permanent Mission of Denmark to the United Nations in Geneva (1974-1977); Legal advisor in the Danish delegation to the Diplomatic Conference on Humanitarian Law during Armed Conflict (1974-1977); Assistant Professor of International Law and European Community Law at the University of Copenhagen (1977-1991). Completed law studies (LL.M) at the University of Copenhagen. Tel.: +45 30259707, E-mail: [email protected].

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Mr. THOMAS RØRDAM, President of the Danish Supreme Court; Principal at the Ministry of Justice from 1977-1985, dealing with matters of personal, family and succession law as well as preparing legislation. Posted to the Ringsted Police Service as assistant prosecutor for 18 months from 1980-1982. Also served as an assistant prosecutor to the Public Prosecutor for Zealand for two and a half years from 1982-1985. Partner in the law firm Advokatfirma Nyborg & Rørdam, Copenhagen, from 1985-2002. Admission to practise as a public defence counsel with the right to plead legal aid cases in 1990 and entitled to plead before the Supreme Court in 1991. Appointed justice of the Supreme Court on 1 June 2002. Member of the General Council of the Danish Bar and Law Society from 1991-1997, as well as member and chairman of several committees under the Council. Member of the Board of the National Association of Appointed Defence Attorneys in 1993 and chairman of the Association from 1997-2002. Chairman of the Danish chapter of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) from 2002-2004. Chairman of the board of Kong Christian den

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Tiendes Fond 2017. Board member of Thorvaldsens Museum 2017 and Board member of Illum Fondet 2017. Prins Joergens Gaard 13, DK-1218 Copenhagen K, Denmark. E-mail: [email protected].

Ms. BARBARA BERTELSEN, Permanent Secretary of State for Justice, Danish Ministry of Justice; former Deputy Director General, Agency for Modernisation, Ministry of Finance; former Head of Division, The Finance Division, Ministry of Justice; former Head of Division, The Planning and Development Division, Ministry of Justice; former Head of Division, The Police Division, Ministry of Justice; former Deputy Head of Division, The Police Division, Ministry of Justice; former Head of Section, Ministry of Justice; former Head of Section, Secretariat in the Ministry of Justice assisting the Expert Committee on visions for the Danish Police; Head of section, The Prime minister’s Office; former Head of Section, Ministry of Justice; Master of Laws (LL.M.), Aarhus University, 1998. Ministry of Justice, Slotsholmsgade 10, 1216 Copenhagen K., Phone: +45 72268400, E-mail: [email protected].

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Ambassador TOBIAS ELLING REHFELD is Under-Secretary for Legal Affairs in the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). He has previously served as head of the Department of Public International Law in the MFA. Before taking up this position, Mr. Rehfeld served as Principal Private Secretary to the Danish Prime Minister. Mr. Rehfeld has previously held the positions of Deputy Head of the Department for Human Rights and of Special Advisor on international law in the MFA and was posted as advisor on human rights to the Danish Permanent Representation to the United Nations in New York. Mr. Rehfeld holds an LL.M. from University of Copenhagen, DK, and an MA in International Relations from University of Exeter, UK. E-mail: [email protected].

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Ecuador Équateur Dr. CARLOS ESTARELLAS VELÁSQUEZ, Professor of Public International Law at the Faculty of Law, Universidad Católica de Guayaquil. Cdla Bolivariana Av del Libertador E/ Delta y Manuela Sáenz Mz I Villa 6, Guayaquil, Ecuador. Email: [email protected]; Tel. +593 04-2394720.

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DR. GONZALO SALVADOR HOLGUÍN, Ambassador and Legal Advisor to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility of Ecuador. Carrión E1-76 y Av. 10 de Agosto -170526, Quito, Ecuador; Email: [email protected].

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DR. JOSÉ MARÍA PÉREZ NELSON, partner at Bredin Prat (Paris; www.bredinprat.com), is part of both the International Arbitration team and the Corporate/M&A team. Trained in Ecuador, France, Germany and the United States, fluent in Spanish, English, French and German, the work of José María Pérez as counsel and arbitrator spans a broad range of industries including distribution, telecommunications, defense, energy and natural resources (including oil and gas, mining and renewables), construction, infrastructure, banking and finance. He has acted as counsel in a number of institutional and ad hoc international arbitration proceedings, advising and representing clients in disputes in Europe, Latin America and North America, Africa, Middle East and Asia. He served as Ecuador’s (alternate) member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration during the 2012-2015 period. He has been appointed as arbitrator in a number of international disputes in which he has sat as chairman, sole or co-arbitrator. In addition, given his 25 year experience in corporate and mergers and acquisitions matters, José María Pérez is also well versed in matters relating to post-M&A disputes, shareholders’ disputes and other international business disputes. He lectures on international business law, cross border transactions and international arbitration at the Paris Universities Panthéon-Assas and Paris-Descartes, the Institut de Sciences Politiques (Sciences Po Paris) and the Sorbonne Abu Dhabi University. He regularly speaks at international arbitration and M&A conferences. Born in Ecuador, admitted to the Paris Bar (1998) and the Quito Bar (1996), he is a graduate of Williams College (Massachusetts) (BA, 1984), the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas (Maîtrise in French and German Business Law), the University of Paris X Nanterre (DEA in Private Law), the Catholic University of Ecuador (Doctor en Jurisprudencia, with a doctoral thesis on the treatment of foreign law in private international law) and the Washington College of Law (LL.M.). Contacts: [email protected]; [email protected]; Tel: +331.44.35.35.35; Address: 53 quai d’Orsay, 75007 Paris, France.

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y Av. Patria, Edificio Fiscalía General del Estado (Quito); Email: [email protected]; Tel. +593 02 3985800.

Egypt Égypte Dr. NABIL ELARABY; former Secretary General of the League of Arab States (2011-2016), Minister of Foreign Affairs of Egypt (2011); Director of the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (2008-2011); Judge at the International Court of Justice (2001-2006); Commissioner at the United Nations Compensation Commission in Geneva (1999-2001); Member of the International Law Commission (1994-2001); Ambassador of Egypt to the United Nations in New York and Geneva (1987-1991); Legal Adviser of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1976-1978 and 1983-1987); Ambassador to India (1981-1983). His legal activities include acting as Agent of the Egyptian Government; former Judge at the Judicial Tribunal of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries; Senior Partner at Zaki Hashem & Partners; Arbitrator in several cases at the International Chamber of Commerce International Court of Arbitration and ICSID; Member of Unidroit.

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Estonia Estonie Ms. TRllNU HIOB, mag.iur.; Attorney-at-Law, Head of Dispute Resolution at NJORD Law Firm in Tallinn; member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR; member of the ICC Task Force on Maximizing the Probative Value of Witness Evidence; served as arbitrator appointed by the ICC International Court of Arbitration; arbitrator at the Estonian Insurance Arbitration Board; conciliator of the insurance conciliation body of the Estonian Insurance Association; visiting lecturer at the University of Tartu. Contacts: NJORD Law Firm, Veerenni 24-D, 10135 Tallinn, Estonia; phone: +372 667 6440; fax: +372 667 6450; email: [email protected].

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Prof. LAURI MÄLKSOO, PhD; Professor of International Law at the University of Tartu (since 2009) and head of the Department of Public Law at the School of Law of the University of Tartu (since 2013). Member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences (since 2013) and associate member of the lnstitut de droit international (since 2015). Scientific degrees at Georgetown University (LLM, 1999) and Humboldt University Berlin (PhD, 2002); fellowships at NYU School of Law and the University of Tokyo. Practical experiences with advising the Estonian government in international law and human rights matters, as adviser of the ombudsman (Chancellor of Justice) in 2002-2012 and director of the Estonian Foreign Policy Institute, a think tank based in Tallinn (2013-). Fields of specific expertise: theory and applications of international law in Eastern Europe and Eurasia, human rights law, history and theory of international law as applied in state practice. Contacts: University of Tartu School of Law, Näituse 20, 50409 Tartu, Estonia; phone: +372 503 7171; e-mail: [email protected].

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Mr. TOOMAS VAHER, Attorney-at-Law, Member of Estonian Bar Association (since 1997) and its Board (2004-2013 and since 2016), Chairman of the Estonian Bar Association (2010-2013); Member of the Board of the Arbitration Institute of Finland Chamber of Commerce (since 2013); Partner at Ellex Raidla law firm (since 2002); served as an arbitrator or a party representative in several international commercial arbitrations (SCC, FAI, Arbitration Institute of Estonian Chamber of Commerce and Industry), served as a party-appointed arbitrator in investment protection arbitration at PCA. Contacts: Raidla Ellex law firm, Roosikrantsi 2, 10119 Tallinn, Estonia; phone: +372 6407 170, +372 510 6669; email: [email protected].

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Dr. RENÉ VÄRK, Associate Professor of International Law at the University of Tartu; Associate Professor of Constitutional and International Law at the Estonian National Defence College; Visiting Professor of the Baltic Defence College and the Estonian School of Diplomacy; reservist Legal Adviser for the Estonian Defence Forces. Specialisations: diplomatic and consular law, use of force, law of armed conflict. Contacts: School of Law, University of Tartu, Kaarli pst 3, 10119 Tallinn, Estonia; +372 505 8573; [email protected].

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Ethiopia Éthiopie

Mr. SOLOMON AREDA WAKTOLLA is the Deputy Chief Justice of the Federal Supreme Court of Ethiopia. Mr. Waktolla is a distinguished Justice who has over 21 years of experience in law, public administration and policy research. Recently, he was appointed to serve as the Vice President of the Federal Supreme Court of Ethiopia. Mr. Waktolla served in the Ethiopian Judiciary mainly as a Judge for 17 years on different levels of the court in both regional and federal positions. He holds an LLM from Harvard Law School

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and MPA from Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He also completed a Master of Law (LLM) in International Economic Law at the University of Amsterdam and Bachelor’s Degree in Law from the Addis Ababa University. Prior to his appointment to the current position, Mr. Waktolla was running his own law firm as a managing partner assisting international and domestic clients on various aspects of commercial transactions litigation and international arbitration. Tel.: +251911606917 or +251944736544; E-mail: [email protected] or [email protected].

Finland Finlande

Mr. MARTTI KOSKENNIEMI, Academy Professor, Professor in International Law, Faculty of Law. P.O. Box 4, 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland; tel.: +358 9 191 22469; e-mail: [email protected].

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Mr. PEKKA TIMONEN, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Justice. P.O. Box 25, FI-00023 Government, Finland. Tel.: +358 9 1606 7502; E-mail: [email protected].

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Ms. MARJUT JOKELA, Justice, Supreme Court of Finland. P.O. Box 301, 00171 Helsinki; Tel.: +358 2956 40139; E-mail: [email protected].

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Ms. KAIJA SUVANTO, Director General, Legal Service, Ministry for Foreign Affairs. P.O. Box 176, FI-00023 Government, Finland. Tel.: + 358 29 535 1159 11; E-mail: [email protected].

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France France

Son Excellence M. GILBERT GUILLAUME, ancien juge de la Cour internationale de Justice ; ancien Directeur des Affaires juridiques au ministère des Affaires étrangères. 36 rue Perronet, 92200 Neuilly-sur-Seine, France ; fax : +33 1 47 45 67 84;

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Mme EDWIGE BELLIARD, Conseiller d’Etat, 45, avenue Bosquet, 75007, Paris; téléphone : +33 (0)1 40 20 80 00 ; courriel : [email protected].

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Mme GENEVIÈVE BASTID BURDEAU, Professeur à l’Ecole de droit de la Sorbonne, (Université de Paris-I) ; Membre de l’Institut de Droit International, Ancien Secrétaire général de l’Académie de droit international de La Haye, Membre du Curatorium de l’Académie de droit international de La Haye, 11 rue Jean de Beauvais, 75005 Paris, France ; tél/fax : +33 1 4634 7791.

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M. FRANÇOIS ALABRUNE, directeur des affaires juridiques, ministère des affaires étrangères et du développement international, 57 Boulevard des invalides 75007 Paris 07SP ; téléphone : +33 (0)1 53 69 36 01 ; fax : +33 (0)1 53 69 36 68 ; courriel : [email protected]

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Germany Allemagne

Prof. Dr. DORIS KÖNIG, Justice at the German Federal Constitutional Court, Professor of Public Law, General Administrative Law, European and International Law, Bucerius Law School; Former Member of the Public International Law Advisory Committee of the German Foreign Office; Alternate Member of the OSCE Court of Conciliation and Arbitration; Member of the German and European Society of International Law; Chairperson of the International Foundation for the Law of the Sea (Hamburg). Bundesverfassungsgericht, Schlossbezirk 3, D-76131 Karlsruhe, Germany; tel.:+49 721 9101 338/337. Bucerius Law School Hochschule für Rechtswissenschaft, Jungiusstr. 6, D-20355 Hamburg, Germany; tel.: +49 40 30706 194; fax: +49 40 30706 235; e-mail: [email protected].

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Prof. Dr. STEFAN OETER, Professor of German and Comparative Public Law and Public International Law, Hamburg University; Managing Director of the Institute of International Affairs, University of Hamburg Law School; Vice-Chairman of the Independent Committee of Experts of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (Council of Europe); Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal Ministry of Transport; President of the Historical Commission, International Society for Military Law and the Laws of War; former Senior Fellow, Max-Planck-Institute for International Law and Comparative Law, Heidelberg. Institut für Internationale Angelegenheiten, Fakultät für Rechtswissenschaft, Rothenbaumchaussee 33, D-20148 Hamburg, Germany; tel.: +49 40 42 838 4565/4601; fax: +49 40 42 838 6262; e-mail: [email protected].

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Prof. em. Dr., LL.B.(London), A.K.C. EIBE RIEDEL, Professor of German and Comparative Public Law, European and International Law; studied laws and theology at King’s College London, and Laws at the University of Kiel, Germany; Dr. iuris 1974; Dr.iur.habil. 1983; Professor of Public and Comparative Public Law, European and International Law, University of Mainz, (1983); then at the University of Marburg(until 1993); then at Mannheim( emeritus since 2008); presently a Director of Inland Navigation Law Institute, and a former Director, Institute of Medical Law, Bioethics and Public Health of the Universities of Heidelberg and Mannheim; Pro-Vice Chancellor, University of Mannheim 1996-2001; Member and Vice-Chairperson of UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Geneva 1997 - 2012; Member of Scientific Advisory Council at the German Foreign Office until 2013; 1989 – 2009 director of studies in international law at the German Diplomatic Academy, Berlin; Member and Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the German Institute of Human Rights, Berlin; Member of the German UNESCO Commission; member of the German delegation of the UNESCO Committee on Conventions and Recommendations in Education since 2014; Chairperson, Scientific Advisory Board, Max Planck Institute for International and Comparative Public Law, Heidelberg until 2013; Honorary Adjunct Professor, University of Adelaide/Australia; Visiting Professor, Swiss Chair of Human Rights, Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement, Geneva 2009 - 2012; Visiting Professor, Geneva Graduate Institute and Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights and at the Geneva Graduate Institute since 2012; Honorary Member, founder member, and Chairperson of the board of directors of WaterLex, Geneva. University of Mannheim, Faculty of Law and Economics, Schloss Westflügel, D-68131 Mannheim, Germany; tel.: +49 621-181-1417; or +49 6321 84819; mobile: 00 49 179 49 86 238; e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected].

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Prof. Dr. ANDREAS ZIMMERMANN, Professor of Law and Director of the Human Rights Centre, University of Potsdam; Member of the Advisory Committee on International Humanitarian Law of the German Red Cross; Member of the Advisory Board of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs on United Nations issues, as well as of the Advisory Board on International Law; 1999-2001 member of the expert commission for the drafting of a Code of Offences against International Law at the German Ministry of Justice; 1997/1998 adviser of the German delegation at the Rome Conference on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court; counsel in various cases before the ICJ and in inter-State arbitration cases; judge /ad hoc at the European Court of Human Rights; conciliator under the Annex to the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties; inter alia editor of the "Statute of the International Court of Justice: A Commentary" (Oxford University Press, 2nd ed. 2012). Lehrstuhl für Öffentliches Recht, insbesondere Staatsrecht, Europa- und Völkerrecht sowie Europäisches Wirtschaftsrecht und Wirtschaftsvölkerrecht, August-Bebel-Str. 89, 14482 Potsdam, Germany; tel.: +49 (0)331 977 3516; fax: +49 (0)331 977 3224; e-mail: [email protected].

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Greece Grèce

Prof. em. Dr. EMMANUEL ROUCOUNAS, a former member of the International Law Commission, is Chair of International Law at the Academy of Athens, and a member and former President of the lnstitut de droit international. He served as ad hocjudge at the International Court of Justice.

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Prof. em. CHRISTOS ROZAKIS is Professor emeritus of Public International Law, School of Law, Economics and Political Science, University of Athens; President, Administrative Tribunal of the Council of Europe; Associate member of the Institut de droit international; former Judge and Vice-President of the European Court of Human Rights (1998-2001); former member of the European Commission of Human Rights (1987-1998).

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Prof. LINOS-ALEXANDRE SICILIANOS is President of the European Court of Human Rights (until May 2020); Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Athens; former Vice-Chairman of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination; member of the Institut de droit international and member of the Curatorium of the Hague Academy of International Law.

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Ms. MARIA TELALIAN is Head of the Legal Department of the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Representative of Greece at the Sixth Committee of the UN General Assembly; former Deputy Permanent Representative of Greece to the United Nations; Agent of Greece before the International Court of Justice (m the case of former Yugoslav Republic of

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Macedonia v. Greece); Counsel of Greece at the European Court of Human Rights.

Guatemala Guatemala

Mr. LESTHER ANTONIO ORTEGA LEMUS, Lawyer, Notary Public and Diplomat. LL.M. in International Maritime Law (IMLI, Malta); LL.M. of Advanced Studies in International Dispute Settlement (MIDS, Geneva); PhD Cand. (University of Geneva). Arbitrator and Conciliator designated by the Republic of Guatemala under Articles 2 of Annexes VII and V respectively of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, UNCLOS. Expert in navigation, including pollution from vessels and dumping for the purposes of Special Arbitration, under Article 2 of Annex VIII of UNCLOS; Alternate Permanent Representative of Guatemala to the International Criminal Court, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the International Maritime Organisation and the International Sugar Organisation. Currently, Minister Counsellor and Deputy Head of Mission of the Embassy of the Republic of Guatemala in the Netherlands and previously Deputy Head of Mission of the Embassy of the Republic of Guatemala in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Embassy of Guatemala, Javastraat 44, 2585 AP, The Hague, The Netherlands; Tel.: +31703020253; E-mail: [email protected].

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Hungary Hongrie Prof. VANDA LAMM, Professor em. of Public International Law; Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences; Member of the Institut de droit international (2nd vice- president, 2009-2011); Conciliator, Court of Conciliation and Arbitration within the OSCE (member of the Bureau); President of the Hungarian Branch of the International Law Association; Honorary President of the International Nuclear Law Association.CH-1026 Budapest, Virágárok 14., Tel: +36 20 924 76 86, E-mail: [email protected].

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Dr. JÁNOS BRUHÁCS, Professor em. at Janus Pannonius University, specialised in international environmental law, international law of waters and responsibility in international law; member of the Hungarian Branch of the International Law Association and the Hungarian National Commission for UNESCO; member of the Governing Council of UNA Hungary; member of the Court of Conciliation and Arbitration within the OSCE. H-7623 Pécs, Szabadság u. 21.,Tel: +36 20 546 5040, E-mail: [email protected]

02 - 04 - 1999 18 - 05 - 2016

Dr. RÉKA VARGA, Ph.D. in legal and political sciences; head of the International Law Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade; senior lecturer of the Pázmány Péter Catholic University Budapest; member of the Public Chamber of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences; former legal adviser of the Hungarian Red Cross and International Committee of the Red Cross. H-1027 Budapest, Bem rakpart 47., Tel: +36 1 458 1142, E-mail: [email protected]

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Dr. MARCEL SZABÓ: Mr. Szabó is Doctor of Philosophy in Legal and Political Sciences, Ombudsman for Future Generations and Deputy Commissioner for Fundamental Rights of Hungary; Chair of the Network of National Institutions for Future Generations; Head of the European Law Department at the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences of Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest; former Agent of Hungary in the Gabcikovo- Nagymaros case, Editor-in-Chief of the Hungarian Yearbook of International Law and European Law. Contact details: Postal address: H-1132 Budapest, Victor Hugo u. 43. VI/91., tel: +3630/575-7253; e-mail: [email protected]

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India Inde Justice H.L. DATTU, Chief Justice of India. Enrolled as advocate in 1975 and practiced at Bangalore in Civil, Criminal, Constitutional and Taxation matters. He was High Court Government Pleader for Sales Tax Department (1983-1990), Government Advocate (1990-1993), Standing Counsel for Income Tax Department (1992-1993) and Senior Standing Counsel for Income Tax Department (1993-1995). Followed by appointments as Judge of the High Court of Karnataka (1995), Chief Justice of the High Court of Chhattisgarh (2007) and later Kerala (2007); Judge of the Supreme Court of India (2008) and Chief Justice of India (2014). Also Chairman of the National Judicial Academy; Patron-in-Chief, National Legal Services Authority; President, Indian Law Institute; Chancellor, National Law School of India University Bangalore; Chancellor, West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences Kolkata; Pro-Chancellor, University of Delhi. Supreme Court of India, New Delhi-110001.

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Justice G.T. NANAVATI, Retired Judge, Supreme Court of India. Master of Law from 27 - 01 - 2015



Bombay University; practiced as lawyer from 1957-1979. Followed by appointments as Judge of the High Court of Gujarat (1979), Chief Justice of the High Court of Orissa (1993); Chief Justice of Karnataka (1994); Judge of the Supreme Court of India (1995-2000); Chairman of several Commissions of Inquiry (2000-2002). From 2002 onwards engaged in domestic and international arbitration work. Member of the Indian Council of Arbitration and panel member of the Indian Council of Alternative Dispute Resolution in Delhi. A-91, Galaxy Apartment, Near Hotel Grand Bhagwati, Bodakdev, Ahmedabad, Gujarat-380054; e-mail: [email protected].

Shri MUKUL ROHATGI, Attorney General of India. LL.B from Bombay University (1978); admitted on the rolls of the Bar Council of Delhi as Advocate in 1978. He was designated as a Senior Advocate by the High Court of Delhi in 1994. In 1999, he was appointed as Additional Solicitor General of India. As a law officer of the Government of India, he handled myriad matters in the Supreme Court of India and various High Courts for state governments as well as private sector enterprises. Appeared in litigation involving constitutional law, commercial and corporate laws, criminal law, property law, arbitration law, maritime law, anti-dumping, taxation, armed forces, service law and a host of other areas. In June 2014, he was appointed Attorney General for India. Chambers 59, Sunder Nagar, New Delhi-110003; tel.: +91-11-24350019/20/21, Fax: +91-11-24350021, e-mail: [email protected].

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Shri HARISH SALVE, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India. LL.B from Nagpur University. Worked as a Chartered Accountant in taxation work; enrolled as an advocate in 1980; joined the Chambers of Mr. Soli Sorabjee (former Attorney General of India); set up independent chambers in 1986; was designated a Senior Advocate in 1992; was Solicitor General of India from 1999-2002. Enrolled as a Barrister in the UK in 2013; called to the bar at the Grays Inn in July 2013. Permanent tenant at Blackstone Chambers, London. Areas of practice: commercial law, arbitration law, direct and indirect taxes, telecom laws, electricity tariffs, competition law, et cetera. Member of the Court of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre and Member of the Court of the London Council of International Arbitration. 6-E, White House, 10 Bhagwan Dass Road, New Delhi-110001; tel.: +91-11-24350019/20/21, Fax: +91-11-24350021.

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Iran Iran Prof. Dr. MOHSEN MOHEBI, Professor of international law, Faculty of Law & Political Sciences at Azad University (Center of Sciences and Researches); Head of Center of International Legal Affairs of the Presidency of Iran; since 2014; Member of the International Court of Arbitration of ICC (Paris) since 1998; former Head of Iran's bureau of International Legal Services at the Hague (1989-1995); Secretary General of the Arbitration Center of the Iran Chamber of Commerce since 2005; Member of Panel of Arbitrators of Shanghi Arbitration Center since 2014; Member of Panel of Arbitrators CIETAC since 2013; Member of the IRAN BAR Association since 1980. No.17, Freshteh st.Andarzgoo Bld, Tehran (19378), Iran. Tel: +982122239403; Fax: +982122239404 ; E-mail: [email protected]

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Prof. Dr. DJAMCHID MOMTAZ, Member of the International Law Commission of the United Nations (2000-2006 and Chairman 2005); Professor of International Law, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, University of Tehran; Legal Advisor to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran; Lecturer of the General Course of International Law, Hague Academy of International Law, 2014; Member, Institut de droit international; Member, Curatorium of the Hague Academy of International Law; Member, Permanent Court of Arbitration; Member, Commission for the Settlement of Disputes related to Confidentiality, Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW); Doctorate (Doctorat d'Etat) in Public Law, University of Law, Economics and Social Sciences, Paris II, 1971; Teaching at University of Paris X (Nanterre); lnstitut des Hautes Etudes Internationales de Paris, University of Law, Economics and Social Sciences, Paris II; University of Paris X (Paris Ouest Nanterre, La Defense); University of Grenoble II (Mendes-France); University of Paris XI (Jean Monnet); University of Paris XIII (Villetaneuse); University of Caen (Basse-Normandie); University of Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne); University of Rouen,; University Paul Cézanne, Aix-Marseille III,; University of Paris II (Panthéon-Assas); University of Rouen (Haute Normandie); University Aix- Marseille III (Paul Cézanne); Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), Law School. Building no. 8, Legal department of MFA, Tehran, Iran. Tel: +982161154466 Website: http://www.djamchidmomtaz.com; Email: [email protected].

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Prof. Dr. ALIREZA JAHANGIRI, Professor of International Law; Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the Kingdom of the Netherlands & the Permanent Representative to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) (since 2014); Chair of the Non-Aligned Movement CWC States Parties (2014-2016); Director General for International Legal Affairs of MFA of the I.R. of Iran (2010-2014); Ph.D in International Law, (University of Manchester, UK, (2002-2006); Member of International Advisory Board of AALCO Joumal of International law, New Delhi, India; Head of Iranian Team in Mixed Commission for Reconstruction of Boundary Pillars in Land Boundary between Iran and Iraq; Head of Iranian Team in Working Group for Joint New Hydrographic Operation in Shatt-al-Arab (Arvand Rud); Member of Supreme Council of Civil Aviation of Iran. ,Member of Legal Committee of Supreme Council of National Security of Iran; Member of Special Commission in Legal Affairs (Bills and International Agreements) & Education Commission of Vice President for Legal Affairs; Assistant Professor and University Lecturer in Iran (2007-2014); Head of Iranian Delegations to many International Conferences (2010-2014) such as: 50 & 52th Session of AALCO, New Delhi & Colombo; 20th, 21st and 22nd Session of Commission of Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, Vienna; Diplomatic Conference on the Protection of Audiovisual Performances, Beijing, China; Diplomatic Conference to Conclude a Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works by Visually Impaired Persons and Persons with Print Disabilities, Marrakesh, Morocco; The Ninth United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names, New York. Duinweg 20, 2585 JX The Hague, The Netherlands. E-mail: [email protected]

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Dr. HOSSEIN PIRAN, Ph.D., Senior Legal Advisor, Iran-United States Claims Tribunal since 1992, The Hague; Former Legal Advisor to Iran's Bureau of International Legal Services, and Iran's Ministry of Energy; Arbitrator of Tehran Regional Arbitration Center (TRAC); Arbitrator of ACIC of Iran Chamber of Commerce. Parkweg 13, 2585 JH, The Hague, The Netherlands. Tel: +31703064840; e-mail: [email protected].

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Iraq Iraq

Dr. WAEL ABDUL LATEEF HUSSAIN ALFADHEL holds a Ph.D degree in Constitutional Law and is a Member of the Iraqi Lawyers Syndicate. Prior to 2003, he held several positions as first judge (Rumaitha Court, Hai Court, Shatra Court) and was the Deputy Senior Judge of the Appeal Board in Nassiriya. After 2003, he was involved in the rehabilitation of judicial and police authorities in Basra as Governor and Member of the Governing Council. He was a Member of Iraqi Parliament and part of the writing committee for the Iraqi Constitution. He was elected a Member of the Council of Representatives as member of the law, agriculture, water and national conciliation committees. He published various books on legal matters.

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Ireland Irlande Mr. SÉAMUS WOULFE, SC, Attorney General since June 2017. Called to the Bar of Ireland in 1987 and to the Inner Bar in 2005. Formerly Legal Assessor, Fitness to Practice Committee of the Irish Medical Council and the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland; lecturer in law, Trinity College Dublin; Vice Chair and Treasurer, Bar Council of Ireland. Educated at Trinity College Dublin, Dalhousie University and the King's Inns. Office of the Attorney General, Government Buildings, Upper Merrion Street, Dublin 2, Ireland.

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Mr. Justice DAVID BARNIVILLE, Judge of the High Court since December 2017, currently assigned to the Commercial Division; Arbitration Judge. Called to the Bar of Ireland in 1990 and to the Inner Bar in 2006. Chair, Irish Rule of Law International; Governor, National Maternity Hospital; Judicial Fellow, International Society of Barristers and International Academy of Trial Lawyers. Formerly Chair, Bar Council of Ireland; Co-Chair, International Bar Association Forum for Barristers and Advisers; Vice Chair, Sport Ireland's Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel and Vice President, Arbitration Ireland. Educated at University College Dublin and the King's Inns. High Court, Four Courts, Dublin 7.

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Prof. SIOBHÁN MULLALLY, Established Professor of Human Rights Law and Director, Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland Galway since September 2017. President, Council of Europe Group of Experts on Action Against Human Trafficking (GRETA}; Member, Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission; Joint Editor in Chief, Irish Yearbook of International Law. Formerly Professor in Law and Director, Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights, University College Cork. Educated at University College Cork, London School of Economics, Rene Cassin Institute and University of

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Florence. Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland Galway, University Road, Galway, Ireland.

Mr. JAMES KINGSTON, Legal Adviser, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade since April 2009. Called to the Bar of Ireland in 1992. President, International Law Association (Irish Branch} . Formerly Assistant Legal Adviser and Deputy Legal Adviser, Department of Foreign Affairs; Agent of the Government of Ireland, European Court of Human Rights. Educated at Trinity College Dublin, London School of Economics and King's Inns. Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, St Stephen's Green, Dublin 2, Ireland.

11 - 06 - 2012 20 – 07 - 2018

Israel Israël Prof. RUTH LAPIDOTH, LL.M.; Doctor of the University of Paris; Professor of International Public Law at the Faculty of Law, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem 91905, Israel.

01 - 01 - 1989 14 - 10 - 2015

Mr. MEIR SHAMGAR, former President of the Supreme Court. Specializations: constitutional law, administrative law, criminal law, laws of war. Sachar St. 12, Jerusalem 96263, Israel; fax: +972 02 52 61 30.

01 - 01 - 1989 14 - 10 - 2015

Mr. ALAN BAKER, LL.M., Legal Adviser, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Tel.: +972 2 530 37 61; fax: +972 2 530 32 51; e-mail: [email protected].

09 - 09 - 1989 14 - 10 - 2015

Prof. ROBBIE SABEL, Ph.D. Professor of International Law, Faculty of Law Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Former: Counselor for Political Affairs Israel Embassy Washington; The Legal Adviser Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Foreign Ministry’s Deputy Director General for Arms Control and Disarmament; Head of Israel Delegation, Taba arbitration with Egypt; Member of delegation, peace talks with Egypt, Jordan and Palestinians. Arbitrator on the Appeals Panel of the International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims. Personal rank of Ambassador. Author of several publications. 107 Yasmin St. Mevasseret 9077404 Israel; [email protected]; Tel. +972 2 533 2650; Fax 1532 533 2650.

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Italy Italie Prof. IDA CARACCIOLO, Doctor of Law (University of Rome “La Sapienza”). She is full professor of International Law (since 2005) and President of the MA Course in “International Relations and Organizations”(since 2010) at the Department of Political Sciences of the University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”. Visiting professor in various universities, lastly the University of Paris 8 and lecturer in International Law in numerous post-degree courses in Italy and abroad. Ah hoc Judge at the European Court of Human Rights and Alternate Arbitrator at the OSCE Court of Conciliation and Arbitration. Member of the Bar of Rome and counsel to Italy in various disputes and advisory proceedings before the International Court of Justice, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, arbitral tribunals, and European Courts. Advisor to the Legal Affairs Service of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and member of the Italian delegation at several meetings of the EU and the UN as well as international conferences. She is the author of numerous scientific publications in International Public Law. Specializations: Law of the Sea, International Criminal Law, International Humanitarian Law, and Human Rights Law. She is Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Department of Political Sciences, Viale Ellittico 31, Caserta 81100; Email: [email protected]; Tel.: +39 0823 27530.

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Prof. PAOLO BENVENUTI. Since October 2002, Professor of International Law, International Humanitarian Law, Private International Law, European Union Law at the Faculty of Law, at the University Roma Tre; Member of the Department of European Studies and Director (2006-2008); from January 2009 to December 2015 Dean of the Faculty. Member of the Scientific Board of the “Centro di Eccellenza” in European Law University Roma Tre. President of the Ethics Commission, University Roma Tre; Lecturer of International Law and related studies at the University of Teramo, the University of Rome "La Sapienza", the University of Florence, the Libera Università Internaz. di Studi Sociali, the Università Telematica Internazionale Uninettuno and the University of Catania. From 1989 to 2004 Chairman of the Italian Red Cross Committee for the Dissemination of International Humanitarian Law and currently President of the Scientific Committee for IHL of the Italian Red Cross; Member of the Ethics Commission of the Red Cross as to actions of the Red Cross to face the state of emergency for the earthquake in Central Italy. Decorated with Red Cross Gold Medal. Scientific affiliation to the Società Italiana di Diritto

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Internazionale;; the Societé Française de Droit International; the International Institute of Humanitarian Law; the International Institute of Human Rights; the Associazione di Diritto Pubblico Comparato ed Europeo (member of the Council). Secretary General of the Italian Committee for Human Rights of the Italian Society for International Organization. Honorary Member of the “Centro Internazionale di Studi Gentiliani”. Member of the Italian Council for Refugees. Author of books and articles covering topics pertaining to International Law, International Organizations, International Disputes, Private International Law, International Criminal Law, International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Law.

Prof. MAURO POLITI has been a full professor of International law at the University of Trento since 1990. Prior to this, and since 1976, he had taught at the Universities of Cagliari and Urbino. As Legal Adviser to the Permanent Mission of Italy to the United Nations (1992-2001), he participated actively in the negotiation process that lead to the adoption of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. He was also Chairman of the VI (legal) Committee of the U.N. General Assembly (2000-2001). During his judicial career (1969-1983), he was a judge at the Tribunals of Oristano and Milan. He was also Deputy Prosecutor at the Juvenile Court of Milan. In 2001, he was elected by the U.N. General Assembly to be on the list of ad litem judges of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. He was a judge of the International Criminal Court (2003-2009). He has published several articles and books relating to various areas on international law, including consular law, nuclear non-proliferation, environmental law, human rights and international criminal law and justice.

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ATTILA M. TANZI, Ph.D., is Chair of International Law at the University of Bologna and an Associate Member at 3VB Chambers, London. Formerly Visiting professor at the Queen Mary University of London (2014-2016), Université Paris II, Panthéon Assas (2018), University of Vienna (2018-2019). Counsel or arbitrator in various inter-state investment arbitrations, he is currently a Conciliator at the OSCE Court of Conciliation and Arbitration. Chairman of the Legal Board of the UNECE 1992 Convention on Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (2004-2012); Chairman of the Implementation Committee of the UNECE 1999 London Protocol on Water and Health (2007-2010); since 2013 Chairman of the Compliance Committee of the above UNECE 1992 Convention. He advises governments and international organisations on international law issues. He has held numerous academic positions and has published extensively in English, Spanish, French and Italian on State responsibility, foreign investment law, environmental law, the law of international organisations and jurisdictional immunities. Mob: + 39 347 9307826, e-mail: [email protected].

13 – 01 - 2014 16 - 10 - 2019

Japan Japon Judge SHUNJI YANAI, LL.B.; Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo; Judge of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea; former President of the Tribunal (2011-2014); former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the United States of America; former Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs; former Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs; former Director-General of the Foreign Policy Bureau. 4-22-701 Gobancho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0076, Japan.

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Prof. KIMIO YAKUSHIJI; LL.M Graduate School of Law, Kyoto University; Professor, School of Law, Ritsumeikan University; Former Legal Advisor to the Japanese Delegation to the United Nations’ Conference of the Ad Hoc Committee on Jurisdictional Immunities of the States and their Property; Former Member of the Committee on Enforced Disappearance. Postal address: 1-4-175 Oriidai, Uji, Kyoto 611-0023, Japan; Tel. +81-774-21-5509; Email: [email protected].

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Kenya Kenya The Hon. S. AMOS WAKO, EGH, F.C.I. Arb., SC. Currently, Senator - Busia County, Kenya, Former Attorney-General of the Republic of Kenya (1991-2011), A member of the UN International Law Commission (2017-2022). Member, Advisory Committee to the International Council for Commercial Arbitration. Bachelor of Laws - University of East Africa - LL.B (HONS) (BA.) (1969), Advocate of the High Court of Kenya, August 1970, Bachelor of Science in Economics - University of London with specialization in International Affairs - B.Sc (ECON) (HON) (LOND) (1975), Fellow, International Academy of Trial Lawyers (U.S.A.) (1977) v. Master of Laws - University of London with specialization in Comparative Constitutional Law, International Economic Law and the Law of Treaties

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LL.M , Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (LONDON) - F.CI Arb, Senior Counsel (S.C.) .

Dr. WILLY M. MUTUNGA; Distinguished Scholar in Residence, Fordham University; Special Envoy of the Secretary General of the Commonwealth to the Maldives; Former Chief Justice and President of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Kenya; Member, IDLO International Advisory Council; Established and served in several civil society organizations - the Legal Advice Centre (Kituo Cha Sheria), the Law Society of Kenya, Council for Legal Education – Kenya, Citizens Coalition for Constitutional Change (4Cs), Kenya Human Rights Commission, East African Centre for Constitutional Development (Kituo Cha Katiba) – Uganda, and the International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development (Rights and Democracy) in Montreal, Canada. Published two first author books and eight coauthor books including. Published 39 articles in journals and legal magazines; presented 37 papers at conferences and seminars. Columnist (Saturday Nation and Sunday Nation) – 2004 to 2011 under the pen name, Cabral Pinto – a compilation of these writings will be published in book form. Recipient of national and international honours and awards for contributions to the development of law, human rights, good governance and social justice. Member of various national and international boards. Consultant in constitutional and political matters. Political mediator. Bachelor of Laws (Honours) (1971), Master of Laws (1974), University of Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania; Doctor of Jurisprudence (JSD) (1992), Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto, Canada. Tel: +254 20 222 1221; email: [email protected].

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Prof. Dr. PHOEBE OKOWA, Professor of Public international law at Queen Mary, University of London. Advocate High Court of Kenya. Educated at the University of Nairobi and University of Oxford (LLB, BCL, D.Phil). Global Visiting Professor of Law, New York, University , School of Law. Specializations: Public International Law, Protection of Natural Resources in Conflict Zones, International Law of Armed Conflict and Use of Force, International Environmental Law. Address: Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, e-mail: [email protected].

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Prof. GITHU MUIGAI, EGH, SC. Githu Muigai has over 35 years’ experience in the practice of law in Kenya and in East Africa. Prof. Muigai holds LLB and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Nairobi and an LLM Degree from Columbia University School of Law, New York. He was called to the Bar in 1985. In addition to the practice of law he has served as Professor of Public law in the School of Law of the University of Nairobi (currently on leave of absence). He has published extensively in the area of Public Law and has previously worked as a consultant to various international organizations, including the African Union, United Nations Development Programme, the World Bank and the International Committee of the Red Cross. Prof. Muigai has a wide range of areas of practice which include Commercial Litigation and Arbitration, Constitutional and Administrative Law, Information and Communications Technology Law, Insurance and Banking Law, Investments Law, Mergers & Acquisitions Law, Public and Private International Law, Public Procurement Law. From August 2008 - September 2011 Prof. Githu Muigai was the UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms Of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia And Related Intolerance. Prof. Muigai is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK) and Institute of Public Secretaries, Law Society of Kenya, East African Law Society, Council of Legal Education, International Commission of Jurists, International Bar Association and the Commonwealth Lawyers Association. Prof. Muigai has also been a Judge of the African Court of Human & Peoples Rights between 2008 – 2010. Prof. Muigai has appeared as a Counsel and Agent on behalf of the Republic of Kenya, before the International Criminal Court and International Court of Justice. Prof. Muigai has recognized expertise in the areas of justice sector reform generally and Constitutional reform specifically. From the year 2000 to 2005, he was a Commissioner to the Constitutional Review Commission where he was specially charged with the legal drafting of the Draft Constitution of the Republic of Kenya. He was a legal adviser and draftsman to the Somali peace process and was involved in the drafting the Somali federal Transitional charter. Hon. Prof. Githu Muigai was sworn as Attorney General of the Republic of Kenya on the 23rd August 2011. Article 156 (4) of the Constitution stipulates the roles of the Attorney General, critical amongst which is his role as Principal Legal Advisor to the Government of the Republic of Kenya. These roles are further expounded in the Office of the Attorney General Act. The Attorney General also discharges the mandate of the Department of Justice and has responsibility for the promotion of human rights and constitutional implementation, access to justice, good governance, ethics and integrity; legal education, law reform, legal aid and the monitoring and reporting of Kenya’s

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international legal obligations among others.

Republic of Korea République de Corée

Mr. JANG-HIE LEE, Professor Emeritus, Law School, Hankuk Univ. of Foreign Studies, Seoul, Korea, arbitrator of Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in The Hague (2006-present) and President, Asian Social Science Research Institute (1991-present). He received his B.A. in Law from Korea University, his M.A. in International Law from Seoul National University and his Ph.D. in International Law from Kiel University in Germany. Tel: +82-01-6272 2185; fax: +82-2-6221- 2185, email: [email protected]; [email protected].

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Mr. HAI-UNG JUNG, Former Ambassador for International Legal Cooperation; Fonner Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Korea to Algeria; Former Director-General of Treaties Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Ph.D.in Law, University of Edinburgh; Docteur en Droit, Université de Paris-Sud; Docteur en Gestion, Université de Paris I - Pantheon-Sorbonne; Tel: +82 10-28550178; e-mail: [email protected].

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Mr. SUNG KEUN YOON, Presiding Judge, Seoul High Court. Honorable Sung Keun Yoon was appointed as Judge of the Inchon District Court in 1998 and later as Presiding Judge of Seoul High Court (appellate court) in 2010 hearing civil and criminal cases, most importantly corporate and international transaction related disputes. Prior to serving as a Judge, he worked as an attorney at Kim & Chang, a leading law firm in Asia, handling corporate, international transaction and transnational investment related matters with extensive experiences in drafting legal documents and negotiations. He was educated at the Seoul National University (LL.B & LL.M) and University of Michigan (LL.M). He was a Korean delegate to the UNCITRAL working group, and had teaching experiences as a visiting scholar at Peking University and as a lecturer at Sangi College. He is a member of various law associations composed both of scholars and practitioners. His publications cover mostly international transaction and dispute resolution issues, such as substantial connection test or enforcement of foreign arbitral awards. Tel: +82-2-530-1505, email: [email protected].

13 – 04 - 2018

Mr. TAE HYUN CHOI, Professor of International Law at Hanyang University School of Law in Seoul, Korea; Member of Korean National Committee for International Humanitarian Law; Former President of the Korean Society of International Law; Former President and Chief Director of Seoul International Law Academy; Former Deputy-Director at International Legal Affairs Department of the Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs; B.A. in Law from College of Law of Seoul National University, Master of Law and Ph. D. in International Law from Graduate School of Seoul National University; LL.M. from Northwestern University School of Law, USA; LL.M. from Leiden University, the Netherlands; Former Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Washington Univ. in St. Louis; Legal Advisor of the Korean Delegations to the U.N. Preparatory Committee, to the 1998 Diplomatic Conference in Rome, to the Preparatory Commission, and to the Conferences of the Assembly of States Parties which have been held in the Hague and New York so far, and to the 2010 ICC Review Conference in Kampala, Uganda. Tel.:+82 10 3738 3187; e-mail: [email protected].

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Kosovo Kosovo

Mr. JETISH JASHARI received his Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree in US Legal System at the University Of Connecticut School Of Law, in Hartford, Connecticut, in 2001, as a Ron Brown Fellowship Scholar. Mr. Jashari holds a degree in International Relations and European Studies from the Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, obtained in 1996, and a B.A. from the Facu1ty of Law of the University of Prishtina, Kosovo. In 2005, Mr. Jashari conducted a research study on UN Field Missions and Legal Reform, focusing on the Kosovo case, at the Columbia University School of Law, in New York, as a Fulbright Scholar. The research was published as an article at the Spring 2007 Edition of Columbia Journal of East European Law-CJEEL, a publication of Columbia University School of Law. In 1999, Mr. Jashari was part of the US Department of State sponsored International Visitors Program on 'Conflict Resolution and Preventive Diplomacy.' Currently, Mr. Jashari is Head of the Department on Legal Issues and Treaties at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kosovo. Mr. Jashari's professional experience also includes positions of Minister Counselor and Deputy Chief of Mission at Embassies of the Republic of Kosovo in Macedonia (August 2015 - September 2016), Kingdom of Sweden (July 2013 - August 2015) and the United States of America (October 2008 - July 2013). Mr. Jashari was Senior Staff Attorney at the American Bar Association/Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative, from 2001 to 2007 and Senior Legal Advisor at National Center for State Courts, from 2007

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until 2008. Mr. Jashari was also engaged in a pro bono legal counseling for the American University in Kosovo Foundation-AUKF. From June 2007 until April 2008, Mr. Jashari was Legal Expert at the Commission for the Drafting of Kosovo Constitution. M. Barleti Str. No. 8; 10000 Prishtina, Kosovo; [email protected]

Mr. ROBERT MUHARREMI Assistant Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology in Kosovo; 2015-ongoing, Advisor, Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Kosovo; 2013–ongoing, Assistant Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology in Kosovo; 2014-2015 Advisor, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kosovo; 2014, Legal Consultant, Ministry of Health of the Republic of Kosovo; 2010-2014, In-House Legal Counsel, Deloitte Albania and Kosovo; 2010, Legal Counsel, Independent Commission of Mines and Minerals in Kosovo; 2009, Advisor, Kosovo Security Council/Office of the Prime Minister; 2008, Consultant, Constitutional Court of the Republic of Kosovo; 2005-2007, Advisor, Assembly of Kosovo; 2004-2005, Legal Officer, United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo; 2003-2004, Consultant, Office of the Prime Minister of Kosovo; 2001 -2002, Consultant, Assembly of Kosovo; 2000 -2001, Legal Officer, United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo. Other activities: Arbitrator with the Arbitration Center of the American Chamber of Commerce in Prishtina/Kosovo; Associate with the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators; Member of the International Law Association - Albanian Branch; Mediator appointed by Kosovo for the Central European Free Trade Agreement. Address: Rochester Institute of Technology in Kosovo, Germia Campus, Rr. Dr. Shpetim Rrobaj p.n., 10000 Prishtina, Kosovo, email: [email protected].

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Kuwait Koweït

Mr. YAACOUB ABDULMOHSEN ALSANEAA, Minister of Justice and Minister of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs. Mr. Alsaneaa was a former Secretary of the Parliamentary group from 2012 to 2015. Furthermore, Mr. Al Sane is an arbitrator at the Commercial Arbitration of the Gulf Cooperation Council Centre (GCC) and a member of several legal institutions, including the Kuwait Lawyers Association, the Court of Cassation, the Constitutional Court and the Arab Lawyers Union. He is also the founder and the general coordinator of the National Conference of Electronic Legislation in 2013 and a former chairman of the Kuwait Lawyer's Committee of Human Rights.

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Mr. ZAKARIA AL-ANSARI is the Assistant Undersecretary in the Ministry of Justice and Legal Affairs in the State of Kuwait and the Secretary General of the Supreme Committee of Human Rights. Mr. Al-Ansari represented the State of Kuwait in various United Nations Organizations and participated in numerous legal, international and regional conferences. Moreover, he also represented Kuwait in negotiations of legal, judicial, bilateral and collective agreements, including negotiations of bilateral agreements on legal and judicial cooperation, negotiations of the GCC agreements. He has contributed to the development of the enactment of a number of projects and models of law within the scope of the GCC as well as the Arab League. Mr. Al-Ansari was granted his Bachelor in Law by Alexandria University in 1992. He also participated at a legal session on Mutual Legal Assistance at Oxford University. Furthermore, he received a qualification by the World Intellectual Property Organization in 2002 (WIPO-2002).

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Dr. MANSOUR FARAJ AL-SAEED is currently the Assistant Undersecretary of Legal Affairs in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. In 1998, Dr. Al-Saeed became a Certified Legal Arbitrator of Class “A” in the Legal Arbitration Department and started practicing his arbitration profession at the Kuwait Commercial Arbitration Centre in the Kuwait Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Dr. Al-Saeed is an active member of several associations in the State of Kuwait, including The Journalists Association, the Kuwaiti Environment Society from 2008 to 2009, and the Kuwaiti Bars Association from 2008 to 2012. Furthermore, Dr. Al-Saeed obtained his Ph.D. in Business and Foreign Investment from the School of Law at Aberdeen University in 1998 and specialized in The Private Foreign Investment in the State of Kuwait. He acquired his Masters in the United States from Washington College of Law and specialized in Law-International Business Transactions. He is also the author of a number of Articles regarding local and international investment and Commercial subjects. Email: [email protected]; [email protected]; Tel.: +965-22469563

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Dr. KHALIFAH THAMER ALHAMIDAH is a lecturer at the Department of Public Law in Kuwait University since 2001. In 2013, he headed the Public Law Department at the Faculty of Law in Kuwait University and became a member of the Committee of Experts in the

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Parliament of Kuwait in the same year. Moreover, Dr. Alhamidah obtained his Ph.D. in Law from Manchester University in 2001 and acquired his LLM in 1998 from Harvard Law School. He is also the co-author of “Administrative Law, 2009” and the author of “The Kuwaiti Constitutional System”. He is an arbitrator in the Kuwaiti Chamber of Commerce. He also an arbitrator in the GCC center of Arbitration as well as an arbitrator in the Judicial Arbitration Department at the Kuwaiti Ministry of Justice. He was a member of the Grievances and Complaining Committee at the Capital Market Authority (CMA) and is the founder of the Dr. Khalifah Thamer Alhamidah,ph.D. Law Firm. Dr. Alhamidah is a member of the Kuwaiti Bar Association. He undertook some studies within his master degree relating to International Commercial Arbitration and conducted research on the same topic. Email: [email protected]; Tel.: (+965) 24984499

Lao People’s Democratic République démocratique Republic populaire lao

Prof. KET KIETTISAK, Former Deputy Minister of Justice of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic

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Mr. DAVONE VANGVICHITH, Legal Advisor, Former Chairman of Law Committee, National Assembly of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic.

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Mr. KONGCHI YANGCHUE, Vice Chairman of the Justice Committee, National Assembly of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic

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Mr. PHOUKHONG SISOULATH, Director General, Department of Treaties and Law, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic

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Latvia Lettonie

Ms. EVA KALNINA, counsel and international arbitrator at Lévy Kaufmann-Kohler (Geneva), member of the New York State Bar. Member of the Council of Independent Experts in International and European Law with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Latvia; Member of the Panel of Arbitrators of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes; Member of the Council of the Georgian International Arbitration Center; Representative of the International Chamber of Commerce Court of Arbitration Young Arbitrators' Forum. Contact details: c/o Lévy Kaufmann-Kohler, 3-5 rue du Conseil-Général, CP 552, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland. Tel: +41 22 809 6200; email: [email protected].

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Dr. MARTINŜ PAPARINSKIS, Reader in Public International Law and Director of Graduate Research Studies at University College London, Faculty of Laws; Member· of the Council of Independent Experts in International and European Law with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Latvia; Member of the Panel of Arbitrators of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes. C/o UCL Laws, Bidborough House, 38-50 Bidborough Street, London WClH 9BT, United Kingdom; tel.: +44 (0)20 3108 8365; e-mail: [email protected].

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Prof. Dr. INETA ZIEMELE Ph.D. (Cantab.), M.I.L. (Lund), Justice of the Latvian Constitutional Court (since 2015), Professor of International and Human Rights Law at the Riga Graduate School of Law (since 2009), ad hoc judge to the European Court of Human Rights (since 2015), former Judge and Section President at the European Court of Human Rights (2005-2014). Visiting Professor at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute at Lund University and Soderberg Chair in International Law at the Riga Graduate School of Law (2001-2005), Staff member of the Council of Europe (1999-2001), Advisor to the Prime Minister of Latvia (1995-1996) and to the Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee (1993-1995), Director of the Human Rights Institute at the University of Latvia, lecturer in international law, human rights and European Union law (1993-1999). Memberships: European Society of International Law (ESIL), member of the Executive Board (2004-2012, 2014-2016), Research Council of the European University Institute, Constitutional Law Commission under the auspices of the President of Latvia (2008-2013), Commission on Strategic Analysis under the auspices of the President of Latvia (2004-2005), EU Network of independent experts on Fundamental Rights (2003-2004). Fields of specific expertise: Law on State Succession and State Continuity, International Procedural Law, Human Rights Law, Public Law, Citizenship and Statelessness, Fundamental Rights in EU. Address: Riga Graduate School of Law, Strelnieku iela 4k-2, Riga, LV-1010, Latvia, Telephone number: +371 67039230, Fax number: +371 67039240, e-mail:

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[email protected].

Lithuania Lituanie

Prof. habil. dr. VYTAUTAS NEKROŠIUS serves as a chairman of the Vilnius Court of Commercial Arbitration since 2003. He is as well a member of the Council since 2017 and used to serve as a member of the Senate of Vilnius University (2015-2017). Prof. habil. dr. Vytautas Nekrošius has numerous responsibilities in the Faculty of Law of Vilnius University: he is the Head of the Private Law Department since 2015, the Head of the Council since 2015 and the Head of the Institute of Civil Procedure and Roman Law since 2012 in the Faculty of Law of Vilnius University. He also served as both a Vice-Dean (1997-2002) and a Dean (2002-2012) of the Faculty of Law. Professor was appointed as an advisor to the Minister on Civil Law and Law of Civil Procedure in the Ministry of Justice of Republic of Lithuania (1996-1998; 2012-2016) and as an advisor to the Legal Affairs Committee in the Parliament of the Republic of Lithuania (1995-1996). V. Nekrošius is as well member of various institutions, such as the Science Council of Lithuania, the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, the International Association of Procedural Law, and many others. Professor was a part of different working groups set up by the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Lithuania. He obtained his Master’s degree in the Faculty of Law in Vilnius University in 1993, LL.M. of Law of Civil Procedure J.W. Goethe University (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) in 1994. He defended his doctoral thesis in Vilnius University in 1996 and was habilitated in 2003 in the University of Lodz, Poland. Contact details: Vilnius University, Faculty of Law, room 309, Sauletekio av. 9 - I block, 10222 Vilnius, Lithuania. Ph.: +370 5 236 6170, e-mail: [email protected]

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Dr. RIMVYDAS NORKUS, President of the Supreme Court of Lithuania. In November 2016, he was elected Chairman of the Judicial Council of Lithuania, which is an executive body of the autonomy of courts ensuring the independence of courts and judges. Rimvydas Norkus obtained a doctor’s degree in law from Mykolas Romeris University in Vilnius in 2005, and he has been a professor at the Department of Business Law of that University since 2012. His main teaching activities comprise Insolvency Law, European and International Insolvency Law, Civil Procedure and European Civil Procedure. Dr. Norkus is a member of various working groups formed by the Lithuanian Government (drafting amendments to the Code of Civil Procedure, Enterprise Bankruptcy Law, Law on Courts, etc.) and regularly publishes on various legal issues both in Lithuania and abroad. He is also a lecturer at the Judicial Training Centre in Lithuania. Supreme Court of Lithuania, Gynėjų str. 6, LT - 01109 Vilnius, Lithuania; tel: +370 5 2610560; e-mail: [email protected]

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Prof. Dr. IGNAS VĖGĖLĖ, President of the Lithuanian Bar Association; Attorney-at-Law; Professor of the Institute of International and European Union Law at Mykolas Romeris University; Vice Chairman, Lithuanian Lawyers Association; Member, The Commission of the qualifying exam for notaries; member of the experts group for the amendments of the civil code of the Republic of Lithuania; member of the State Legal Aid Council to the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Lithuania; the Head and the member of the various expert groups in drafting national legislation and national positions towards international treaties; author of scientific articles, study books and monographs and speaker at numerous international conferences on EU and international law. Tilto Street 17 Vilnius, Lithuania, LT-01101 tel.: + +370 5 262 4546; +370 5 236 0533; +370 687 30 878, e-mail: [email protected]

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Mr. JUSTINAS ŽILINSKAS, Professor of the Institute of International and European Union Law at Mykolas Romeris University Faculty of Law.

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Luxembourg Luxembourg

M. PATRICK KINSCH, avocat au Barreau de Luxembourg ; Professeur à l'Université du Luxembourg ; Professeur associé à l'Université Robert Schuman de Strasbourg (en droit international privé) de 1999 à 2005. Secrétaire-général du Groupe européen de droit international privé. Wurth Kinsch Olinger, 14, rue Nicolas Adames, L-1114 Luxembourg, Luxembourg; tel.: +352 26 26 73; fax: +352 26 26 73 73.

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M. CHRISTOPHE SCHILTZ, Membre du conseil d’État du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg (depuis 2013), Chef du Service juridique et Conseiller juridique du Ministère des Affaires étrangères et européennes du Luxembourg (depuis 2016). Représentant du Luxembourg au CAHDI (Comité des Conseillers juridiques sur le droit international public du Conseil de l’Europe), et au COJUR (groupe de travail « droit international public » du Conseil de

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l’Union européenne). Agent auprès de la Cour de justice de l’Union européenne (de 2006 à 2012, depuis 2014). Membre du comité de rédaction de la Revue luxembourgeoise du droit public. Conseiller juridique de la Représentation permanente du Luxembourg auprès de l’Union européenne (2012-2014). Chef de cabinet ministre du Travail, de l’Emploi et de l’Immigration (2009-2012). Conseiller du ministre délégué aux Affaires étrangères à l’Immigration (2006-2009). Référendaire au cabinet du Juge Schintgen à la Cour de Justice des Communautés européennes (2005-2006). MA, Collège d’Europe, Bruges (2004) ; LL.M., Université de Cambridge (2003) ; Maîtrise en droit privé, Université de Strasbourg III (2002). Né le 12 décembre 1978 à Luxembourg, Luxembourg.

Malaysia Malaisie

Tan Sri MOHD GHAZALI MOHD YUSOFF is currently an Independent Non-Executive Director of Affin Bank Berhad and Axa Affin Life Insurance Berhad. He joined the Malaysian Judicial and Legal Service in 1974. Senior positions held include serving as Deputy Public Prosecutor, Registrar of Companies, State Legal Adviser, Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court and Solicitor-General. Thereafter he was elevated to the High Court, Court of Appeal and later the Federal Court. He holds the title of “Tan Sri” conferred on him by His Majesty the Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia. After his stint at the Bench he joined the corporate sector.

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Dato ANANTHAM KASINATHER is a law graduate of the University of Singapore (now known as the National University of Singapore), a former Judge of the Court of Appeal of Malaysia and currently a practicing lawyer. Anantham is also a former member of Malaysia's Judicial Appointments Commission. During his years as a practitioner, Anantham was a Senior Partner of one of the largest Malaysian Law Firms, Skrine, and practiced in the field of Commercial Arbitration and Litigation for more than thirty (30) years. Anantham has been recognized as a leading Shipping practitioner in Malaysia in several editions of the Asia Pacific Legal 500. He was cited as one of the three leading Commercial Litigators in Malaysia in the International Who's Who of Business Lawyers in its 2002 and 2003 edition. He was a member of the Editorial Board of the 2013 publication of Malaysian Civil Procedure. Currently he is a member of the Panel of Arbitrators of the Asian International Arbitration Centre.

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Dato’ NOOR FARIDA ARIFFIN was the director-general of the research, treaties and international law department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Malaysia from July 2008 until her retirement in January 2012. Prior to that she was the Malaysian Ambassador to the Kingdom of the Netherlands from August 2000 to January 2008. During this period, she was concurrently accredited as the Permanent Representative of Malaysia to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). During her tenure in the Netherlands she was appointed by the government of Malaysia as its Co-Agent to the International Court of Justice in the case of Sovereignty over Pulau Ligitan and Pulau Sipadan between Malaysia and Indonesia (1998 to 2002). She was again appointed as Malaysia’s Co-Agent to the International Court of Justice in the case of Sovereignty over Pulau Batu Puteh /Pedra Branca between Malaysia and Singapore (2003 to 2008). At the OPCW, she was appointed to chair the Drafting Group on the Political Declaration at the First Review Conference of the Chemical Weapons Convention in May/June 2003. In October of 2003, she was elected as the Chair of the Eighth Conference of States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention which was held from 20th to 24th October, 2003. Ambassador Noor Farida was invited to be a Panel Member of the Colloquium on the Occasion of the 60th Anniversary of the International Court of Justice which was held on 10th and 11th April 2006 at the Peace Palace in The Hague. She is a barrister-at-law and is a member of Gray’s Inn, London, United Kingdom.

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Ms. SITPAH SELVARATNAM, Bachelor of Laws (University of Wales, United Kingdom); Master of Law (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom); Barrister-at-law (Lincoln’s Inn, United Kingdom); Admitted as Advocate & Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya in 1990; Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration (Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, at Keble College, Oxford). Founding partner of the law firm Tommy Thomas, established in 2000. Counsel in a wide range of corporate, insolvency, commercial and maritime law disputes. Appearing at all levels of the superior Courts of Malaysia. Member of the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) since July 2018. Arbitrator in international commercial disputes; appointed by parties, Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC), Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC), and Asian International Arbitration Centre (AIAC) (formerly known as KLRCA).

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Arbitrator on panel of Arbitrators of Singapore Chambers of Maritime Arbitration (SCMA), the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), Emirates Maritime Arbitration Centre (EMAC), International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR). Supporting member of the London Maritime Arbitrators Association (LMAA). Founding President of the International Malaysian Society of Maritime Law (IMSML), affiliated to Comite Maritime International (CMI). Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) and the Malaysian Institute of Arbitrators (MIArb). Country reporter for Malaysia to the Asia Pacific Arbitration Reporter of Singapore (2014 - 2017). Co-author of the Admiralty Chapter to Bullen & Leake & Jacob’s Malaysian Precedents of Pleadings. Contributor to the Malaysian Chapter of “Recognition and Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters” soon to be published by Hart Publishing. Recognized by Chambers Asia, Asia Pacific Legal 500 and others professional publications. Email: [email protected]; Tel. + 603 2287 3540 ; + 6 012 315 7357

Malta Malte Prof. DAVID J. ATTARD, Diploma Notary Public; Doctor of Law (LL.D.), University of Malta; Doctor of Philosophy (D.Phil., University of Oxford); Chairman of the Malta Arbitration Center; former Adviser to the Minister of Foreign Affairs; President and founder of the Maltese Branch of the International Law Association.

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Dr. GEORGE M. HYZLER, Dip. I.C.E.I. (Amst.), LL.D. Graduated Doctor of Laws from the University of Malta in 1980 and obtained a Diploma in European Integration from the University of Amsterdam. He has specialized in Commercial and Civil Law. He is currently Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Malta Arbitration Center and has served on the Boards of various private and public companies. He is also a former Parliamentary Secretary in the ministry for Economic Services, a former Chairman of the Ethics Committee within the Council for the Administration of Justice, and former Vice President of the Camera degli Avvocati. In addition, he is a partner in a Maltese Law Firm, GVTH Advocates. GVTH Advocates, 192 Old Bakery Street, 1455 Malta; tel.: +356 21 228 888; fax: +356 21 228 808.

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Dr. MARK ATTARD MONTALTO is a lawyer who pleads before the Civil Courts and the Constitutional Court on behalf of clients and provides legal counselling and advice. His main areas of work include property law, succession law, human rights law, arbitrations, mediations and his particular specializations are European law, energy and environmental law. He serves as a legal consultant to the Ministry of Justice, Culture and Local Government and to the Office of the Prime Minister. He is also Charmain of the Malta Mediation Centre.

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Mexico Mexique

M. l'Ambassadeur ALBERTO SZÉKELY SÁNCHEZ, Consultant en droit international, droit de la mer et droit de l'environnement; Professeur de droit international visitant à l'Université de droit de l'État de l'Arizona; Directeur de recherches au "International Transboundary Resources Center", Career Ambassador; ancien membre de la Commission du droit international des Nations Unies. Ministère des Affaires étrangères, México, D.F., Consultoría Jurídica Internacional, Calle Corregidora 18, Col. Tlacópac, San Angel, Del. Alvaro Obregón, C.P. 01040 México-City, México; tel. :+525556160839; fax : +525556631305 ; e-mail : [email protected].

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Mr. ALONSO GÓMEZ ROBLEDO VERDUZCO, LL.M., Ph.D. candidate; Member of the International Affairs Section of the Board of the Reform of the State; Coordinator for the International Public Law section of the Mexican Law Dictionary; Alternate Member of the United Nations Subcommittee on the Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities; member of the Mexican Branch of the International Law Association. Av. México 151, 40 Piso, Col. Del Carmen, Del. Coyoacán, C.P. 04100, México-City, México; tel.: +525555042407 and +525550042400; Ext. 22508; fax: Ext. 5006, e-mail: [email protected].

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Mr. BERNARDO SEPÚLVEDA-AMOR, former Judge of the International Court of Justice (2006-2015). Vice-President of the Court 2012-2015; As an independent arbitrator, he is back in Mexico City. He is active in his law practice, working in the field of international investment arbitration; Member of the Board of Trustees of the Permanent Court

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of Arbitration Financial Assistance Fund (2006- ); Member of the United Nations International Law Commission (1997-2005); President of the United Nations Commission on Transnational Corporations (1980); Secretary of Foreign Relations of Mexico (1982-1988). Ambassador of Mexico to the United States of America (1982); Ambassador of Mexico to the United Kingdom of Great Britain (1989-1993); Director General for International Affairs (1976-1980) at the Secretary of the Treasury of Mexico; Director of the Foreign Investment Program at the Secretary of the Treasury of Mexico (1971-1975); Deputy Director for Legal Affairs at the Secretary of the Presidency of Mexico (1968-1970); General Counsel of Grupo ICA, the largest infrastructure enterprise in Mexico (1997-2005); Associate member of the Institut de Droit International , elected in 2011; President of the Latin American Society of International Law (2010-2012); President of the Mexican Branch of the International Law Association (2000- 2005); Member of the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law (1974-1975); Professor of International Law at El Colegio de Mexico (1967-2005). He has been invited to lecture in US and European universities, as well as in other Mexican academic institutions. He has published books and articles dealing with the work of the UN, the ICJ, foreign policy, international law and economic issues such as trade and foreign investment; In 1984, he received from King Juan Carlos of Spain the Principe de Asturias Prize in the field of international co-operation; In 1985 UNESCO awarded him the Simón Bolivar Prize; Recipient of a number of orders, decorations and medals awarded by foreign governments, which include, among others, the Knights Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George; the Grand Cross, Order of Isabel la Católica; the Grand Cross, Order of General San Martin; Ribbon, Order of Kwang-Wha; the Grand Cross, Order of Cristo; Order of the Republic of Egypt, First Class; the Grand Cross of the Order of Cruzeiro do Sul; the Grand Cordon, Order of the Rising Sun; Grand Officer, Ordre de la Légion d’Honneur. Born in Mexico City on 14 December 1941. Law degree, National University of Mexico (1964) (magna cum laude); LL.M. (Cantab.) (1966); Diploma in International Law (Cantab.) (1965); Honorary Bencher of the Middel Temple (London); Honorary Fellow of Queens’ College, University of Cambridge (1990); Honorary Doctorate from the University of San Diego (1982) and from the University of Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) (1987); Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship (1964-1966).

Morocco Maroc

M. EL HASSAN EL GUASSEM, Magistrat de grade exceptionnel, Conseiller près de la Cour chargé de mission de Directeur des Affaires Civiles au Ministère de la Justice et des Libertés.

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M. MOHAMED BENNOUNA, juge à la Cour internationale de Justice ; Professeur de droit international ; membre de l’Institut de Droit international ; juge au Tribunal pénal international pour l’ex-Yougoslavie de 1998 à 2001 ; membre de la Commission du droit international des Nations Unies de 1986 à 1998, Premier Rapporteur de cette commission sur le sujet de la protection diplomatique ; Représentant permanent du Royaume du Maroc auprès des Nations Unies de 2001 à 2006. Auteur de nombreux ouvrages et articles en droit international, particulièrement dans le domaine du droit de la mer, du droit international de développement et du règlement pacifique des différends. 5, rue Henner, 75009 Paris, France, tél. : +33 1 42 81 56 87. Adresse professionnelle : Cour internationale de Justice, Carnegieplein 2, 2517 KJ La Haye, Pays Bas, tél. : +31 70 302 2406, [email protected].

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M. MOSTAFA FARESS, Premier Président de la Cour de Cassation 14 - 07 - 2010 21 – 11 - 2016

M. MOSTAFA MADDAH, Procureur Général du Roi près de la Cour de Cassation. 14 - 07 - 2010 21 – 11 - 2016

Netherlands Pays-Bas

Prof. Dr. ANDRÉ NOLLKAEMPER, Professor of Public International Law at the University of Amsterdam and Vice-Dean for Research of the Faculty of Law of the University of Amsterdam, Director of the Amsterdam Center for International Law, Vice President of the European Society of International Law, (external) Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands. University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Law, Public International Law, Oudemanhuispoort 4-6, 1012 CN Amsterdam, The Netherlands; tel.: +31 20 5252637/5252951; e-mail: [email protected].

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Judge ALPHONS ORIE, former lecturer in Criminal Law and Procedure at Leyden University, former partner in the The Hague law firm Wladimiroff & Spong, former judge

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at the Supreme Court of the Netherlands, Judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, judge in the UN Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals, Honorary Member of the Royal Netherlands Society for International Law. International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, Churchillplein 1, 2517 JW The Hague, P.O. Box 13888, 2501 EW The Hague, The Netherlands; tel.: +31 70 512 8752, e-mail: [email protected].

Judge ELISABETH LIJNZAAD, member of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) Hamburg (since 2017); endowed professor Practice of International Law at the University of Maastricht (since 2011). Former Legal Adviser and Head of the International Law Division of the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2006-2017); International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, Am Internationalen Seegerichtshof 1, 22609 Hamburg Germany; tel.: +(49)(40) 35607-132; fax: +(49)(40) 35607-335; e-mail: [email protected]

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Prof. Dr. NICO J. SCHRIJVER, Professor of International Law and Academic Director of the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at Leiden University, member of the Senate of the Dutch house of parliament, visiting professor of The European Union and Co-operation with Developing Countries at the Université libre de Bruxelles and the Institute of Law of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and the chairperson of its Section on Legal Sciences, member and vice-chair of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, associate member of the Institut de droit international. Leiden University, Chair of Public International Law, Faculty of Law, P.O. Box 9520, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands; tel.: +31 71 5278936/5277532; fax: +31 71 5277509; e-mail: [email protected].

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New Zealand Nouvelle-Zélande The Right Hon. Dame SIAN ELIAS, QC, GNZM, Chief Justice of New Zealand; former Barrister in private practice; former Commissioner of the New Zealand Law Commission; former Supreme Court Judge. Chief Justice’s Chambers, High Court, P.O. Box 1091, Wellington, New Zealand; fax: +64 4 914 3636.

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The Hon. DAVID PARKER, Attorney-General of New Zealand. P.O. Box 2858, Wellington 6140, New Zealand; fax: +64 4 499 5804.

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Ms. UNA JAGOSE, Solicitor-General of New Zealand, Crown Law Office; PO Box 2858, Wellington 6140, New Zealand; fax: +64 4 473 3482.

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Mr. GERARD VAN BOHEMEN, Judge of the High Court of New Zealand, former Permanent Representative of New Zealand to the United Nations in New York, and former Barrister in private practice. DX CX10222, Auckland, New Zealand; fax: +64 9 916 9611.

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Nicaragua Nicaragua

Dr. CARLOS J. ARGÜELLO GÓMEZ, Ambassador of Nicaragua to the Kingdom of the Netherlands; Agent of the Republic of Nicaragua in all past and present cases before the International Court of Justice since 1984; Member of the International Law Commission (elected in 2016); Permanent Representative of Nicaragua to the OPCW; Alternate Governor to the Common Fund for Commodities; former Minister of Justice; former Dean of the Law Faculty and former Professor of International Law at the Universidad Centroamericana in Managua; Doctor of Law Degree, Universidad Centro Americana;. Embassy of Nicaragua, Eisenhowerlaan 112, 2517 KM, The Hague, The Netherlands. Tel.: +31 70 322 5063; E-mail: [email protected].

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Nigeria Nigéria

Mr. JUNAIDU BELLO MARSHALL 03 – 04 - 2017

Mr. IBRAHIM EDMUND IHEDIWA MARK 03 – 04 - 2017

Mr. ADEBAYO ADENIPEKUN 03 – 04 - 2017

Mr. ABUBAKAR MALAMI, Minister of Justice / Attorney-General of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

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North Macedonia Macédoine du Nord

Mr. VLADIMIR PESHEVSKI, Deputy Prime Minister in charge of Economic Affairs Government of the Republic of Macedonia; former General Manager SEAF South Balkan Fund and partner in the International Investment Fund; former Lecturer of M.A. studies at the Sheffield University Program of the City College in Thessaloniki; Arbitrator on Panel of Arbitrators at ICSID; Arbitrator on Panel of Arbitrators MCC Permanent Court of Arbitration; Conciliator OSCE Court of Conciliators and Arbitrators. Tel: +389 70 252 867; e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected].

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Ms. ROMELA POPOVIC TRAJKOVA, Head of Department for Economic Policy and Regulatory Reform of Government of the Republic of Macedonia - Cabinet of the Vice Prime Minister for Economic Affairs; former CFO of Health Insurance Fund of the Republic of Macedonia - Ministry of Health; Arbitrator on Panel of Arbitrators MCC Permanent Court of Arbitration; Conciliator OSCE Court of Conciliators and Arbitrators. Tel: +389 70 268 560; e-mail: [email protected].

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Ms. DANELA ARSOVSKA, President of the Macedonian Chambers of Commerce; Chairman of the International Chambers of Commerce NC ICC Macedonia; Chairman of the Macedonian Union of Employers' Organizations; Court Member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration; Arbitrator on Panel of Arbitrators at ICSID, KLRCA, MCC Permanent Court of Arbitration, OSCE Court of Conciliators and Arbitrators; Member of the Presidium of MCC Permanent Court of Arbitration; Delegate in ICC World Council; Member of the Economic Council of the Government of the Republic of Macedonia; Member of the National Council for European Integration in the National Assembly - Parliament of the Republic of Macedonia; Member of the Committee on European Affairs in the National Assembly - Parliament of the Republic of Macedonia; Member of the National Council of Ministry of Education and Science of Republic of Macedonia. Tel: +389 75 388 952; e-mail: [email protected].

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Mr. ALEXIS MOURRE, President of the ICC International Court of Arbitration; Independent Arbitrator; Associate and Partner Lette & Partners Paris (1987-1996); Founding partner Castaldi Mourre & Partners (1996-2015); Arbitrator on Panel of Arbitrators at ICSID, KLRCA, MCC Permanent Court of Arbitration. Tel: +33 1 4953 2947; fax +33 1 4953 2929; e-mail: [email protected].

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Norway Norvège

Ms. HILDE INDREBERG, Norwegian Supreme Court Judge since 2007; former Director of the Legislation Department of the Ministry of Justice (2000-2007); former Legal Adviser at the Legislation Department of the Ministry of Justice (1995-2000); Head of the Legislation Department of the Ministry of Justice from 2000; former Legal Adviser at the Legislation Department of the Norwegian Ministry of Justice (1989-1994); served as Deputy Judge from 1994-1995; former Legal Adviser at the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (1988-1989). Supreme Court of Norway, PO Box 8016 Dep, 0030 Oslo, Norway; tel: +47 22 03 59 00; e-mail: [email protected].

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Dr. HENRIK BULL, Norwegian Supreme Court Judge since January 2011; former Judge of the EFTA Court (2006-2010); Ad hoc Judge of the EFTA Court (2001-2005); Head of the Centre for European Law, University of Oslo (2002-2005); awarded the degree doctor juris by the University of Oslo in 2002; Associate Professor, University of Oslo, Faculty of Law from 2002; member of the Panels of Conciliators and of Arbitrators, International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), Washington DC (1996-2002); Norwegian representative in, and later EFTA Chairman of, the Joint EFTA-EC General Drafting Committee on the Agreement of the European Economic Area (1990-1993); Norwegian representative in the EU drafting Committee on the Accession Agreements for Austria, Finland, Sweden and Norway in 1993; Legislative Adviser at the Norwegian Ministry of Justice (1988-1996); Deputy Judge (1987-1988); former consultant to the Ministry of Justice (1985-1987). Supreme Court of Norway, PO Box 8016 Dep, 0030 Oslo, Norway; tel: +47 22 03 59 00; e-mail: [email protected].

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Mr. ROLF EINAR FIFE, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Norway to France since 2014; former Director General of the Department of Legal Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway (2002-2014); headed Norwegian delegations in various multilateral and bilateral negotiations including on the Rome Statute for the International Criminal Court and on the Treaty between the Kingdom of Norway and the Russian Federation concerning

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Maritime Delimitation and Cooperation in the Barents Sea and the Arctic Ocean; Chair of the Council of Europe Committee of Legal Advisers on Public International Law (CAHDI) (f2009-2010); Deputy Director General of the Department of Legal Affairs at the Royal Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway (1997-2002); Head of Division for Law of the Sea at the Department of Legal Affairs (1993-1997); posted to the Permanent Mission of Norway to the United Nations (1990-1993) and at the Norwegian Embassy to Saudi Arabia (1988-1990); executive officer of the Polar affairs department of the Ministry of Justice (1984-1985). Royal Norwegian Embassy to France, 28 Bayard Street, 4th Floor, 75008 Paris, France; tel: +33 153670400; e-mail: [email protected].

Mr. HELGE SELAND, Director General of the Department of Legal Affairs at the Royal Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway since 2017; Deputy Director General of the Department of Legal Affairs (2014-2017); Deputy Director General of the Department of Legal Affairs (2009-2010); Deputy Director of the Department of Legal Affairs (2000-2002). Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, P.O. Box 8114 Dep. 0032, Oslo, Norway; tel: +47 23 95 00 00; e-mail: [email protected].

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Paraguay Paraguay

Ambassador ELADIO LOIZAGA 14 – 10 - 2017

Dr. JOSE ANTONIO MORENO RUFINELLI 14 – 10 - 2017

Dr. ERNESTO VELAZQUEZ ARGAÑA 14 – 10 - 2017

Dr. JOSE ANTONIO MORENO RODRIGUEZ ALCALÁ 27 – 02 - 2020

Peru Pérou Dr. DIEGO GARCÍA-SAYÁN LARRABURE, Lawyer; President and Judge of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights; General Director of the Andean Commission of Jurists; former Minister of Foreign Affairs; former Minister of Justice and former Congressman of Peru; former Legal Counsel of the Board of the Central Bank of Peru; former Chairperson of the Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances of the United Nations; former Representative of the UN Secretary-General for the verification and implementation of the Peace Accords in El Salvador (ONUSAL); former Adviser of the UN Negotiating Team in the Guatemalan peace negotiations and former Member of the Executive Committee of the International Commission of Jurists (Geneva, Switzerland); Member of the Executive Council of the Inter-American Institute for Human Rights, headquartered San José, Costa Rica; member of the Inter-American Dialogue (Washington D.C.); Founding Member of the Peruvian Center for International Studies (CEPEI); Member of the Peruvian Society of International Law; Professor at the Catholic University of Peru and of the Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas in Lima; Visiting Professor at the American University, Washington College of Law and at the Université de Paris III; author of several books and articles related to international law, human rights and foreign affairs.

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Dr. EDUARDO FERRERO COSTA, Doctor of Law; former Minister of Foreign Affairs (1997-1998); former President of the Peruvian Center for International Studies (CEPEI) (1983-1995); former Member of the United Nations Committee for Racial Discrimination (CERD) (1988-2000); Peruvian Counsel of the Republic of Peru in the maritime delimitation dispute with the Republic of Chile at the International Court of Justice (2008 until now); former Ambassador of Peru to the United States and former Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States (OAS); Senior Professor of International Law at the Catholic University of Peru (since 1972) and University of Lima; Senior Professor and former Dean of the Law School at Universidad del Pacífico; Professor of International Law at the Diplomatic Academy of Peru (1973 – 1989); Senior Partner of Estudio Luis Echecopar García in Lima; Member of the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) of Paris; author of several books and many academic articles on issues of International Law, Law of the Sea and International Relations, among other matters. Tel.: +51 (1) 618-8525; +51 (1) 991688101; fax: +51 (1) 372- 7374; e-mail: [email protected].

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Dr. JUAN JOSÉ RUDA SANTOLARIA. Professor Ruda has a degree in law from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP) and a PhD. from the University of Deusto (Bilbao, Spain). He is currently a Member of the U.N. International Law Commission (2017- 2021), First Alternate Judge for Peru in the Court of Justice of the Andean Community,

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Member of the Hispano-Luso-American Institute of International Law and Life Member of the Inter- American Bar Association (IABA). Professor Ruda currently serves as Senior Legal Adviser of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Peru. He has also been Secretary of the ad hoc Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Peru on the process of maritime delimitation with Chile and Member of the Delegation of Peru before the International Court of Justice (The Hague) in this process. He has been decorated with the most important honors in Peru for his outstanding participation in the process before the International Court of Justice concerning the maritime delimitation between Peru and Chile. Furthermore, Professor Ruda is Principal Professor at the Department of Law of the PUCP and he has been lecturer at various international fora. He is the author of several publications in the area of international law, including the article Vatican and the Holy See of the series Oxford Bibliographies in International Law, published by Oxford University Press, and the book Los Sujetos de Derecho Internacional: El caso de la Iglesia Católica y del Estado de la Ciudad del Vaticano, published by the PUCP. Additionally, Professor Ruda recorded lecture for the Audiovisual Library of International Law of the United Nations. Address: Calle Punta Negra 710, Orrantia del Mar, Lima 17; tel.: +51 (1) 204 24 50; e-mail: [email protected]

Dr. WALTER JORGE ALBAN PERALTA, Professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) with more than 40 years of professional experience in law, especially in the area of defence of human rights, as well as arbitration and other alternative mechanisms of dispute resolution; Executive Director of PROETICA (2015-2018); Professor at the Law Department of PUCP (2013-2015; 2008-2011); Minister of the Interior (2013); Permanent Representative of Peru to the Organization of American States (2011-2013); Ombudsman (2000-2005); First Deputy Ombudsman (1996-2000); Address: Calle Arca Parró 160, Dpto 4, San Isdidro, Lima, Peru; tel.: +51 (1) 421 56 13; +51 (1) 421 56 13; e-mail: [email protected].

21 – 03 – 2019

Philippines Philippines

Chief Justice (Ret.) ARTEMIO V. PANGANIBAN was the Chief Justice of the Philippines and Chairperson of the Philippine Judicial Academy from 2005-2006. Prior to becoming Chief Justice, he served as Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines for 10 years from 1995-2005, and as Chairperson of 8 Supreme Court Committees from 1998-2005. He was Senior Partner of Panganiban Benitez Parlade Africa & Barinaga Law office (PABLAW) for more than 3 decades starting from 1963 to 1995. From 1996-2001, he became the only Filipino Member of the Pontifical Council for The Laity, appointed by Pope John Paul II for a 5-year term. He was the Former President Rotary Club of Manila from 1990-1991, which has been the first and largest in Asia. Additionally, from 1990-1991, he co-founded and became President of the National Union of Students of the Philippines. He finished his Associate in Arts with Highest Honors at the Far Eastern University in 1956, and his law degree as Cum Laude at the same university 4 years after. Moreover, he received Honorary Doctoral Degrees in several universities in the Philippines. Furthermore, he is an Honorary Member of the Consular Corps of the Philippines, Phi Kappa Phi International Honor Society (UP Chapter), and San Beda Law A!umni Association. CJ Panganiban (Ret.) is a recipient of numerous awards such as: The Renaissance Jurist of the 21st Century, given by the Supreme Court during his retirement in 2006; Sole awardee of the Most Outstanding Law Alumnus for 1988, awarded by the Far Eastern University Law Alumni-Association; Most Outstanding Practicing Lawyer of the Consumers' Union of the Philippines in 1994; and the Golden Helm Award, bestowed by the Senate of West Bertin and the International Association of Helmsmen, Berlin in 1984. In addition, he wrote several books about the judiciary, the latest one entitled 'With Due Respect' published in 2012. Currently, he is the Chairman of the Philippine Chapter of ASEAN Law Association, the Chairman Emeritus of the Philippine Dispute Resolution Center, Inc., as well as Consultant of the Judicial and Bar Council.

18 – 08 - 2017

Chief Justice (Ret.) RENATO S. PUNO was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines from 2006 to 2010. He was Former Solicitor at the Office of the Solicitor General from 1971-1974. In 1986, he was appointed Associate Justice of the Court of Appeals, and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court seven years after. He finished his Bachelor of Science in Jurisprudence and his Bachelor of Laws at the University of the Philippines in 1962. He obtained his Master of Comparative Laws at the Southern Methodist University in Texas in 1967 and his Master of Laws at the University of California in 1968. Likewise, he finished all academic requirements of the degree of Doctor of Juridical Science at the University of Illinois in 1969. Furthermore, he received Honorary Doctoral

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Degrees in numerous universities in the Philippines. Moreover, CJ Puna (Ret.) is a recipient of many distinctions such as The American Jurisprudence Prize for excellence in U.S. Constitutional Structure given by the Lawyers Cooperative Publishing Co. of New York; Honorary citizenship granted by the State of Texas, U.S.A. in 1966; One of the Distinguished Citizens of the Philippines in 1980; Grand Lodge Gold Medal in 1988, the highest awarded of the Grand Lodge of Free & Accepted Masons of the Republic of the Philippines; and Human Cultural Asset International Awardee for 2008 given in Seoul, Korea by the World Peace Prize Awarding Council. Justice (Ret.) JOSE C. VITUG was the Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines for 10 years from 1993-2004, and designated concurrently during incumbency as Acting Chief Justice on 17-23 May and 25-27 May 2004. He previously chaired the Court Committee on Legal Education and Bar Matters, and the 2003 and 1997 Bar examinations in the Philippines. In 2007, he became the Consultant at the Office of the Solicitor General. He obtained his Bachelor of Laws degree as Cum Laude in 1956, Master of Laws in 1962, and his Master of National Security Administration in 1975. As an academician, he was former Dean at Arellano Law Foundation, former Professor and Professorial Chair at Chung Chi College in Hong Kong, and former Professor at numerous universities in the Philippines. He was likewise a Fellow of the Commonwealth Judicial Education Institute of Canada in 2000. In the private sector, he counseled ABS-CBN Corporation, Marinduque Mining and Industrial Corporation, Sierra Madre Development Corporation, and other corporations in the Philippines. Moreover, he had been a Philippine Delegate to numerous international fora such as the First International Forum for Training of the Judiciary in Jerusalem in 2002, the Millennium Law Conference in Singapore in 2000, the Global Conference on Anti-Corruption and Safeguarding Integrity in Washington D.C., U.S.A. in 1999, among other conferences. Justice Vitug was conferred multiple awards and commendations such as Outstanding Senior Professor of Law and installed in Hall of Fame by the Legal Education Board, the Commission on Higher Education, the Philippine Association of Law Schools and the Ateneo Law Schoolin 2012; A "Special Tribute” by the Court of Tax Appeals wherein a court library is named after him; Outstanding Filipino (TOFIL) Award from the Philippine Jaycees Senators in 2001; and the First GAWAD Arellano Achievement Award in 2001. He also received Commendations, Certificates of Recognition and Certificates of Appreciation from government and non-government institutions. Furthermore, he is an author of several textbooks about law and jurisprudence as well as various published articles in periodicals, journals, and reviews. His selected ponencias/presentations and separate opinions are also published by the Supreme Court of the Philippines. At present, he is Senior Professor at the Philippine Judicial Academy of San Seda Law Graduate School, Chairman of Board of Trustees of Angeles University Foundation Medical Center, Independent Director of ABS-CBN Holdings Corporation and Aboitiz Equity Ventures, Inc., and Trustee and Law Dean at Angeles University.

18 – 08 - 2017

Dr. RAUL C. PANGALANGAN, Judge of the International Criminal Court, The Hague (since 2015); Professor of Law (from 1984) and Law Dean (1999-2005), University of the Philippines; Corps of Professors, Philippine Judicial Academy; Delegate to the Rome Diplomatic Conference to establish the International Criminal Court (1998); Executive Secretary, Asian Development Bank Administrative Tribunal (1992-2006); Academic and Governmental Expert, ICRC study on customary international humanitarian law (2005). He received his LL.M. (1986) and S.J.D. (1990) from the Harvard Law School and holds the Diplôme of The Hague Academy of International Law (1987). He has served as expert or counsel in international law and constitutional law cases before the Supreme Court of the Philippines and in international arbitration cases.

18 – 08 - 2017

Poland Pologne

Prof. Dr. hab. ANNA WYROZUMSKA, Professor of Public International Law and European Union Law, University of Lodz; Head of the Department of European Constitutional Law; President of the Legal Advisory Committee of the Minister of Foreign Affairs; Member of the Legislative Council, an advisory body of the Council of Ministers; counsel and judge ad hoc in cases before the European Court of Human Rights; conciliator and alternate member of the Bureau of the Court of Conciliation and Arbitration within the OSCE; former Director of the Department of Legal and Consular Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2000-2001); 1997/1998 member of the Polish delegation at the Rome Conference on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court; 2002 member of the Ad Hoc Committee on jurisdictional immunities of States and their property; member of the Polish delegation to the UN General Assembly Sixth Committee. Faculty of Law and Administration, PI-90-

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232 Lodz, Poland, Kopcińskiego 8/12, tel.: 48-42 6354038;e-mail: [email protected].

Prof. Dr. ELŻBIETA KARSKA, Habilitated Doctor of Law (Higher Doctorate) (2010); Ph.D. in Law (cum laude) (2004); Master in Law (2001), University of Wroclaw; Professor and Head of the Department of Human Rights Protection and International Humanitarian Law (since 2010) and Director of the Institute of International Law, the European Union and International Relations (since 2014), Faculty of Law and Administration, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw; Member of the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI), Council of Europe, Strasbourg (since 2017); Member of the Management Board of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), Vienna (since 2017); Expert for the Human Dimension Mechanism, Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (independent expert enrolled on the list of ODHIR 'Moscow Mechanism') (since 2017); Member of the Legal Advisory Committee of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland, Warsaw (since 2016); Member of the International Law Association (ILA), London (since 2011); Member (2011-2018) and Chairperson-Rapporteur (2014-2016) of the UN Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination, UN Human Rights Council, Geneva; Judge ad hoc of the European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg (2010-2012). Wóycickiego 1/3, Bldg. 17, 01-938 Warszawa, Poland; E-mail: [email protected].

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Prof. Dr. hab. ROMAN KWIECIEŃ, graduated in law and philosophy, professor of law. Now he serves as a professor at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Faculty of Law and Administration, Department of Public International Law. He is also a member of the Legal Advisory Committee to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland and an alternate member in the Court of Conciliation and Arbitration within the OSCE. His teaching and research interests focus on international law, particularly the legal position of States, the theory and philosophy of international law, the law of treaties, the use of force, as well as EU law and legal philosophy. PL-31-007 Kraków, Gołębia 9, Poland; tel. +48 12 663 12 10; e-mail: [email protected].

15 – 05 - 2018

Prof. Dr. hab. CEZARY MIK, Professor of International Law and European Law, Head of the Chair of International and European Law at the Faculty of Law and Administration (since 1998), Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University (Warsaw, state university); Member of the Council of the Prokuratoria Generalna Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej (state office responsible for representing the interests of the state and state companies before international and national courts and arbitral tribunals); legal expert in international and EU law at the Chancellery of Sejm (parliament) and at the State Environmental Protection Institute; member of the Advisory Committee of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and of the Maritime Law Commission at the Polish Academy of Sciences (Gdańsk); author of many books, articles as well as opinions for different state institutions and law firms in the field of international law and EU law. Areas of interests: theory of international law (esp. theory of obligations, pacta sunt servanda), substantive international law (law of the sea, international economic law, organizations of regional economic integration, human rights), EU law (legal order, internal market, media law, maritime law). Contact: 01-938 Warsaw, Poland, 1/3 Wóycickiego str.; E- mail: [email protected].

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Portugal Portugal

Dr. JOSÉ MIGUEL JÚDICE, Former President of the Portuguese Bar Association (2002-5) and of its Human Rights Institute (2003-4); Lawyer (Founding Partner of PLMJ since 1980) and International Arbitrator; Member of ICSID Roster of Arbitrators and Conciliators (since 2011) and of ICC International Court of Arbitration (since 2009); Professor of Constitutional Law and Political Science (1972-4), International Public Law (1979-81) , Business Law (since 2004), Energy and Politics, Dispute Resolution. Avenida da Liberdade, 224, 1250-148 Lisbon, Portugal; e-mail: [email protected]; website: www.josemigueljudice-arbitration.com.

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Dr. MIGUEL DE SERPA SOARES, Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and United Nations Legal Counsel; former Director of the Legal Department of the Foreign Affairs Ministry; former Legal Counsellor of the Permanent Representation of Portugal with the EU in Brussels; Member of the Portuguese Bar. Palácio das Necessidades, Largo do Rilvas, 1399-030 Lisbon, Portugal, tel.: +351 21 3946130, e-mail: [email protected].

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Prof. JOSÉ MANUEL SÉRVULO CORREIA, Doctor of Law (University of Lisbon); Emeritus Professor of the Law School of the University of Lisbon (Public Law); former Member of the Parliament and of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe; former Secretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Co-agent and Counsel of the Portuguese Republic in the case of East-Timor in the International Court of Justice; Member of the Portuguese Bar. Rua Garret, 64, 1200-204 Lisbon, Portugal; tel.: +351 21 093 30 00; fax: +351 21 093 30 01.

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Prof. PATRÍCIA GALVÃO TELES, Member of the United Nations International Law Commission. Professor of International Law at the Autonomous University of Lisbon and Senior Legal Consultant for International Law at the Legal Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Portugal. Former Legal Counsellor of the Permanent Representation of Portugal to the European Union in Brussels. PhD and Master in International Law from the Graduate Institute of International Studies (Geneva, Switzerland) and a Law Degree from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon. Palácio das Necessidades, Largo do Rilvas, 1399-030 Lisbon, Portugal; e-mail: [email protected]

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Romania Roumanie

Mr. BOGDAN AURESCU, Minister of Foreign Affairs (November 2014 – present). Between 2009 and 2014 he held the position of State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, for Strategic Affairs, European Affairs and Global Affairs respectively. He was the Romanian Agent before the International Court of Justice, coordinating the activity of the team which represented Romania in the case against Ukraine before the International Court of Justice on Maritime Delimitation in the Black Sea, finalized on 3 February 2009. Between 2010 and 2011, he was head of the Romanian delegation for the negotiations on the Romanian-American Ballistic Missile Defense Agreement, and of the Joint Declaration on the Strategic Partnership for the 21st Century between Romania and USA. Bogdan Aurescu is a University Professor within the Public Law Department of the Faculty of Law, University of Bucharest. He has a PhD in legal sciences and finalized a post-doctoral advanced research programme in the fields of International Law of Human Rights, Humanitarian International Law, Refugees Law and Criminal Law. He is author, co-author or editor of 15 volumes in the field of International Law, 20 chapters in volumes, 16 studies in volumes of international conferences and of more than 120 articles, studies, comments and book reviews published in Romanian or foreign journals. As a substitute member (independent expert) of the Venice Commission, he was rapporteur or co-rapporteur for 23 reports, opinions or studies of this body. Tel.: +40 21 3192199; fax: +40 21 3192354; e-mail: [email protected].

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Prof. Dr. RALUCA MIGA BEŞTELIU, Doctor of Law; Head of the Public Law Chair, Nicolae Titulescu University; Professor of International Law, Faculty of Law, Bucharest University; member of the Romanian Branch of the International Law Association (ILA); member of the scientific board of the Year Book of the University of Bucharest; member (conciliator) of the Court of Conciliation and Arbitration of the OSCE; member of the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI, Council of Europe); former Judge ad-hoc at the European Court of Human Rights; former member of the expert group for drafting the Convention on Conciliation and Arbitration of OSCE; former UN expert in the expert group appointed by the Human Rights Committee. 6D Ana Davila st., Bucharest 76244, Romania; tel.: +40 21 4109 511; e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected].

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Ms. ALINA OROSAN is the Director of the International Law and Treaties Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since November 2010. She completed a Master Program on European Institutions and Regulations from the University Babeș-Bolyai and an International and European Law Scholarschip Program at the University of Utrecht. She authored various publications. Aleea Alexandru no.31, sector 1, Bucharest, Romania ; E-mail: [email protected]

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Ms. ANCA MARIA STOICA, Director of the Department for European Affairs of the Romanian Ministry of Justice. She previously held positions at the National Institute for Magistracy, Linklaters London and the First Instance Court (II District) in Bucharest. She completed her LL.M in EC Law in 2005. Bd. 13 Septembrie, Nr.225, BL.V 52, Sc.2, Ap.45, Sector 5, Bucharest, Romania; tel.: +40 723 557787; e-mail: [email protected], [email protected].

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Russian Federation Fédération de Russie

Mr. KIRILL G. GEVORGIAN Ambassador; Member of the Collegium; Director of the Legal Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation; Vice-President of the Russian Association of International Law; former Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the Kingdom of the Netherlands and Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (2003-2009). Tel.: +7 499 241 7718; fax: +7 499 241 1166; e-mail: [email protected].

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Mr. ROMAN A. KOLODKIN, Ambassador. Head of the Legal Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation; Associate Member, Institute of International Law; Member, International Law Commission; Member, Scientific Board of the Eurasian Institute of International Law; Vice-President and Member of the Executive Board, Russian Association of International Law. Previously held the positions of Ambassador to the Kingdom of the Netherlands; Deputy Director, Legal Department, Assistant to and Head of Staff of the First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs; Legal Officer, Committee on Inter-Republic Relations, Supreme Soviet Parliament; Legal Officer, Ministry of Merchant Marine. Author of several publications. Degree in international law. 32-34 Smolenskaya/Sennaya pl., 119200, Moscow; Tel.: +7 499 244 1864; Fax: +7 499 244 2166; E-mail: [email protected].

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Mr. KAMIL ABDULOVICH BEKIASHEV, Doctor of Law; Professor; Head of International Law Department, Kutafin Moscow State Law Academy; Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation. Specializations: public international law, law of the sea, international organizations, private international law. 9 Sadovo-Kudrinskaya St., Moscow 123286, Russian Federation; tel.: +7 495 433 98 98; fax: +7 495 313 34 21.

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Mr. STANISLAV VALENTINOVICH TCHERNICHENKO, Doctor of Law; Professor; Adviser, International Law and International Security Center, Institute of Contemporary International Studies, Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation; Honored Scholar of the Russian Federation. 53/2 Ostozhenka St., Moscow 119929, Russian Federation; tel.: +7 495 209 09 19, fax: +7 495 244 18 78.

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Singapore Singapour

Mr. TOMMY KOH is currently Ambassador-At-Large at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Special Advisor to the Institute of Policy Studies; and Chairman of the Governing Board of the Centre for International Law at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He is the Chairman of the International Advisory Committee of the Master’s degree on Environmental Management (NUS). He is also the Co-Chairman of the Asian Development Bank’s Advisory Committee on Water and Sanitation. He is Rector of the Tembusu College, at NUS, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the SymAsia Foundation of Credit Suisse. He had served as Dean of the Faculty of Law of NUS, Singapore’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York, Ambassador to the United States of America, High Commissioner to Canada and Ambassador to Mexico. He was President of the Third UN Conference on the Law of the Sea and the Chairman of the Preparatory Committee for and the Main Committee of the UN Conference on Environment and Development. He was the Founding Chairman of the National Arts Council, founding Executive Director of the Asia-Europe Foundation and former Chairman of the National Heritage Board. He was also Singapore’s Chief Negotiator for the US-Singapore Free Trade Agreement. He acted as Singapore’s Agent in two legal disputes with Malaysia. He has chaired two dispute panels for the WTO. He is the Co-Chairman of the China-Singapore Forum, the Japan-Singapore Symposium and the India-Singapore Strategic Dialogue. In 2006, Prof. Koh received the Champion of the Earth Award from UNEP and the inaugural President’s Award for the Environment from Singapore. He was conferred with honorary doctoral degrees in law by Yale and Monash Universities. Harvard University conferred on him the Great Negotiator Award in 2014. Professor Tommy Koh c/o Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tanglin, Singapore 248163.

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Mr. SUNDARESH MENON, SC, is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Singapore. He was formerly the Attorney-General of Singapore before he was appointed Judge of Appeal of the Supreme Court on 1 August 2012 and, thereafter, elevated to his current appointment on 6 November 2012. Formerly the Managing Partner of one of the largest Singapore law firms, Rajah & Tann LLP, he practiced in the field of commercial arbitration and litigation for more than 20 years. Menon has been recognized by a number of legal journals,

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including the 2009 Best Lawyers ® Annual Guide to Litigation and ADR, PLC Cross-Border Dispute Resolution Handbook 2009, the Chambers Global Guide, Chambers Asia, the Best Lawyers Guide, Asia Pacific Legal 500, Who’s Who Legal, International Who’s Who of Commercial Arbitrators, the Guide to the World’s Leading Experts in Commercial Arbitration, the Guide to the World’s Leading Insolvency and Restructuring Lawyers, Euromoney’s Guide to the World’s Leading Real Estate Lawyers and Euromoney’s Guide to the World’s Leading Litigation Lawyers as being one of Singapore’s and Asia’s leading lawyers in the fields of commercial litigation and arbitration, insolvency and construction law. Menon was named among the leading international arbitration practitioners in the world by the Chambers Global Guide 2006. Menon previously served as Deputy Chairman of the SIAC. He is also a member of the Main Panel of Arbitrators of the SIAC, the Panel of Arbitrators of the Beijing Arbitration Commission and the Panel of Arbitrators of the Korean Commercial Arbitration Board, and a Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators. He represented Singapore as a delegate of the UNCITRAL Working Group on International Arbitration from 2003-2005 and from 2009-2010. During his term as Judicial Commissioner, he presided over several prominent criminal and civil cases in the High Court. After his stint at the Bench, he returned to Rajah & Tann becoming the Managing Partner in August 2009, a position he held until his appointment as the Attorney-General on 1 October 2010. Mr. Sundaresh Menon c/o Supreme Court of Singapore, 1 Supreme Court Lane, Singapore 178879.

Mr. LIONEL YEE, SC, is a Deputy Attorney-General of Singapore. Prior to his current appointment, he was the Solicitor-General from 1 February 2014 to 13 January 2017. He served as a Judicial Commissioner of the Singapore Supreme Court from February 2013 to January 2014 and was Singapore’s Second Solicitor-General from January 2011 to January 2013. Between July 2008 and May 2012, Yee was Director-General of the International Affairs Division in the Attorney-General’s Chambers of Singapore, which provides advice on public international law to all agencies of the Singapore Government. He has also served as Legal Advisor in the Permanent Mission of Singapore to the United Nations in New York and has represented Singapore in legal disputes before the International Court of Justice, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea and a Dispute Settlement Panel of the World Trade Organization. Yee was appointed a Senior Counsel in 2013. Mr. Lionel Yee c/o Attorney-General’s Chambers, 1 Upper Pickering Street, Singapore 058288.

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Mr. PANG KHANG CHAU is a Judge of the Supreme Court of Singapore. Previously, he served as a Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court of Singapore from 1 August 2016 to 31 July 2019. Before joining the Supreme Court, he practiced public international law for 13 years in the International Affairs Division of the Attorney-General’s Chambers, which is the department responsible for advising Singapore government departments on international law matters and representing the Singapore government in international negotiations and international disputes. He was appointed the Director-General of the International Affairs Division in June 2012. He was a member of the government’s legal team for both the Land Reclamation dispute before the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea, as well as in the Pedra Branca dispute before the International Court of Justice. He was also the Deputy Agent for the Government of Singapore in the Railway Land arbitration before the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague and the leader of Singapore’s delegation in the negotiations with Indonesia over the maritime boundary in the eastern part of the Singapore Strait. He served as the Deputy Director of the Legal Policy Division in the Ministry of Law from 1998 to 2002 and as a State Counsel in the Civil Division of the Attorney-General’s Chambers from 1995 to 1998, where he advised the government on civil, regulatory and constitutional matters and acted as counsel for the government in various legal proceedings. He is also the president of the Singapore Branch of the International Law Association’s Singapore branch and the vice-chairman of the Asean Law Association’s Singapore national committee. c/o Supreme Court of Singapore, 1 Supreme Court Lane, Singapore 178879.

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Slovak Republic République slovaque

Prof. Dr. JÁN KLUČKA, Doctor of Law; Professor of International Law, Director of the Institute of European Law, Faculty of Law, P.J. Šafárik University, Košice; former Judge at the Court of Justice of the European Communities; former Judge at the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic; Honorary President of the Slovak Society of International Law at the Slovak Academy of Sciences. P.J. Šafárik University, Faculty of Law, Institute of European Law, Ková_ska 26, P.O. Box A-45, 04075 Košice, Slovak Republic; e-mail: [email protected].

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Dr. PETER TOMKA, Jude and former President of the International Court of Justice; Doctor of Law; former Permanent Representative of Slovakia to the United Nations; former Member (Second Vice Chairman, 2000; Chairman of the Drafting Committee, 2001) of the United Nations International Law Commission; former Agent of Slovakia before the International Court of Justice in the Gab_íkovo-Nagymaros Project case (Hungary/Slovakia); Honorary President of the Slovak Society of International Law at the Slovak Academy of Sciences. International Court of Justice, Carnegieplein 2, 2517 KJ, The Hague, The Netherlands; fax: +31 70 302 2409; e-mail: [email protected].

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Dr. METOD ŠPAČEK, Director of the International Law Department of the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic; Agent of Slovakia before the International Court of Justice; President of the Slovak Branch of the International Law Association; Vice-President of the Slovak Society of International Law at the Slovak Academy of Sciences; Lecturer of International Law at the Faculty of Law of Comenius University in Bratislava. Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic, Hlboká cesta 2, 83336 Bratislava, Slovak Republic; tel.: +421 2 5978 3711; email: [email protected].

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Dr. VÁCLAV MIKULKA, PhD in International Law; Assistant Professor in International Law, Masaryk University, Brno (1974-1977); Legal Officer, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia (1977-1986); Deputy Permanent Representative of Czechoslovakia to the United Nations, New York (1987-1991); Legal Advisor/Director, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia (1991-1192); Legal Advisor, General Credit Bank, Prague (1993-1994); Counsel/Advisor Law Offices Vyroubal & Krajhanzl, Prague (1994-1998); Co-Agent and Counsel of Slovakia before the International Court of Justice in the case concerning the Gabcikovo-Nagymaros Project (1993-1998); Advisor for International Law, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic (1993-19985); Director, Codification Division, United Nations, New York (1999-2007); Director, Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea, United Nations, New York (2007-2009); Director, Codification Division, United Nations, New York (2009-2012). 455 Main Street Apt 5D, New York 10044, United States of America; [email protected]

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Slovenia Slovénie

Dr. MIŠA ZGONEC-ROŽEJ is currently a Legal Officer in the Registry’s Legal Office of the International Criminal Court. She was formerly an Associate Fellow in international law at Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London (2012-2016); a Senior Counsellor in London based law firm Lindeborg – Counsellors at Law (2016-2017); a Legal Advisor in the international justice team at Amnesty International’s Secretariat in London (2011-2012); an Associate Legal Officer in the Chambers of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (2005-2007); a Legal Assistant to the former President of the International Court of Justice, Judge Shi, and the former Vice-President of the Court, Judge Al-Khasawneh (2003-2004); a Teaching Fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (2010-2014); a Teaching Associate at the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana in Slovenia (1999-2005). She holds a PhD (2006) and a Master’s Degree (2002) in international law from the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana, and an LL.M. (2003) from Columbia University School of Law, New York. She is also an Associate at Doughty Street Chambers, barristers’ chambers in London. She was a member of the International Law Association’s Committee on the International Criminal Court and is currently a member of the Committee on the Use of Force. She is the author of several articles and manuals, including the International Bar Association’s manual on international criminal law. Contact details: Oude Waalsdorperweg 10, 2597 AK, The Hague, The Netherlands; e-mail: [email protected].

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Prof. Dr. VERICA TRSTENJAK is former Advocate General of the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg and a professor of European Union law. From 2004 to 2006 she was a judge at the General Court of the European Union in Luxembourg and from 2006 to 2012 an Advocate General of the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg (the highest legal position in EU) and she was advocate general also in cases concerning fundamental (economic) freedoms (e.g.free movement of goods, services, companies, capital in the EU), fundamental rights (asylum, fundamental social rights, judicial rights, right to property), consumer protection cases, intellectual property cases, state aid, public procurement, etc. From 2017 she is Member of Management Board and from October 2017 also Member of Executive Board of the EU Agency for fundamental rights. She is also a member of the

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advisory Board (comparable with arbitration) of the international organization Energy community and an external scientific member of the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law. She is Professor for European law in Austria and Slovenia (at University in Ljubljana and Maribor (partly) and at different LLM programmes (University of Vienna, Nova univerza -European Law Faculty in Slovenia), Sigmund Freud University in Vienna) and teaches European law at the summer schools (University of Salzburg, University of Innsbruck - university course in Alpbach). She has written expert opinions for law firms and arbitration in many cases concerning European law and legal protection in the EU. She has published several books and more than 300 articles (also with SSCI) and has been a lecturer at different universities (e.g. Zurich, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Luxemburg, Sydney, Montreal, Singapore, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Kyoto, Seoul, Nursultan) and at different international and European conferences (e.g. General reporter at International Conference of Comparative Law 2014, keynote speaker at International Conference of Consumer Law 2015). She is member of editorial board of several important legal journals, e.g. European Law Review. In Slovenia, she was also State Secretary for Science and member of negotiation group for the Slovenian Membership in the European Union.Address: Franz Josefs Kai 31/16, 1010 Vienna, Austria. Tel:+43 660 8690739; Email: [email protected]: [email protected].

Ms. ANA STANIČ, lawyer, arbitrator and founder of E&A Law, visiting professor at Technische Universitat (Germany) in EU energy law, University of Dundee (Scotland) in investment and commercial arbitration and UIBE (China) in public international law. Areas of expertise: (i) public international law including maritime boundary disputes, law of the sea, state succession, investment treaty, right of transit. climate change and human rights; (ii) private international law; (iii) EU law including energy law, state aid, competition law, public procurement and environmental law; (iv) energy law including concession agreements and host government agreements; and (v) investment treaty and commercial arbitration. LLM from Cambridge University, United Kingdom and LLB and Bachelor of Finance and Banking from University of New South Wales, Australia. In 1995 and 1996 worked at the Ministry of Economic and Development and the Central Bank of the Republic of Slovenia where negotiated investment treaties and free trade agreements on behalf of the Slovenian government and conducted on site supervision of banks. Member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR and ICC Commission on Arbitration in CEE. Email: [email protected].

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Prof. Dr. Dr. JURE VIDMAR LLM, Professor of Public International Law, Maastricht University, Faculty of Law, the Netherlands; European Court of Human Rights, Judge ad hoc (since 2018); International Law Association, Member of the Committee on the Use of Force: Military Assistance on Request; Editor-in-Chief of the Hague Yearbook of International Law; Editor of the Netherlands International Law Review; Member of the Oxford Law Faculty (2010-2015); Anglo-German Fellow of the Institute of European and Comparative Law, University of Oxford (2010-2012); Research Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford (2012-2015); Post-Doctoral Fellow, The Queen's College, Oxford (2010-2012); Visiting Fellow of the Human Rights Program, Harvard Law School (2013-2014), Extraordinary Lecturer, University of Pretoria Faculty of Law (2012-), Post-Doctoral Fellow, Amsterdam Center for International Law, University of Amsterdam (2009-2010). Books include: Democratic Statehood in International Law: The Emergence of New States in Post-Cold War Practice (Oxford, Hart, 2013, Runner up for the Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship in 2014); Hierarchy in International Law: The Place of Human Rights (Oxford, OUP, 2012, eds. with E. de Wet). Areas of expertise: statehood, recognition and self-determination, international legal personality, sub-state entities, state succession, boundaries and delimitation, immunities, the use of force, state responsibility, the relationship between EU law and public.

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Spain Espagne

Mr. JUAN ANTONIO YANEZ-BARNUEVO, Career diplomat (retired); member of the Board of Trustees, the Executive Committee and the Scientific Council of the “Elcano” Royal Institute for International and Strategic Studies; Master’s Degree in Law from the Complutense University of Madrid and Diploma of International Law from Cambridge University; former Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; former Ambassador Permanent Representative of Spain to the United Nations; former representative of H.M. the King of Spain in the mediation between Uruguay and Argentina concerning the Uruguay river issues; former Chairman of the Sixth (Legal) Committee and former Vice-President of the United Nations General Assembly; former Head of the International Legal Department of

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the Spanish Foreign Ministry; former Head of the Spanish Delegation at the Rome Conference for an International Criminal Court and at the ICC Assembly of States Parties; former member and vice-president of the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission under Article 90 of Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions; former Head of the International Office of the President of the Government of Spain. Carretera de Humera, 1 (Aravaca), 28023-Madrid, Spain. Tel.: +34 91 3078017; e-mail: [email protected].

Prof. ANTONIO REMIRO BROTÓNS, Professor of Public International Law at the University of Autonoma of Madrid (UAM) from 1981; Director of the Program of Ph.D. and Advanced Studies in International Law and international Relations of the University Institute Ortega y Gasset (UIMP, Madrid) from 2001; tel.: +34 610 485053; e-mail: [email protected].

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Ms. ÁUREA ROLDÁN MARTÍN, Legal Adviser to the Council of State since 1994, Sections VI (Public Works, Infrastructures, Concessions of Public Services), I (Foreign Affairs and Public Administration), II (Justice). Former Under Secretary of State, Ministry of Justice (2014-2018); Responsible for the coordination of the legislative reforms on civil and commercial obligations law, anticorruption measures, compliance, credit agreements for consumers relating to residential immovable property, criminal code and international judicial cooperation in civil matters; Member of the Executive Council of Foreign Policy and of the Inter-Ministerial Committees on Refugees and Immigration, Brexit and Negotiations with the World Trade Organization. Former Counsellor of Justice at the Permanent Representation of Spain to the European Union (2012-2014), expertise in judicial cooperation in civil and criminal matters and data protection. Former Director General for Cultural Cooperation and Communication, Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport (2001-2004), expertise in intellectual property and trade in cultural goods and services. Legal expert in International Law (BITs, jurisdiction immunities), EU, Constitutional Law (protection of fundamental rights) and Administrative Law (State liability and expropriation cases). Doctor of International Relations, Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations.

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Mr. JOSÉ MARTÍN Y PÉREZ DE NANCLARES; Professor of Public International Law at the University of Salamanca, Spain (since 2009). Previously, he has also been Full Professor of Public International Law and Jean Monnet Professor in EU Law (2001-2009), Senior Lecturer of Public International Law (1996-2001) and Associate Professor of International Public Law (1994-1996) at the University of La Rioja, Spain. Previous positions: Director of the International Law Department (Legal Adviser) at the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation (2012-2018); Spanish Representative in COJUR (Working Group International Public Law, EU) and CAHDI (Working Group International Public Law, Council of Europe) (2012-2018); Member of the Spanish Delegation at several meetings of the EU, Council of Europe, United Nations (6th Committee), States Parties Assembly of the International Criminal Court, etc.; Agent for Spain before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea; PhD in Law; author of several books on European and International Law issues.

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Sri Lanka Sri Lanka

Mr. JAYANTHA JAYASURIYA, President’s Counsel and Attorney General. Having successfully completed legal studies at the Sri Lanka law College with Honours at the Final Examination, he enrolled as an Attorney-at-Law in September 1982; joined the Attorney-General’s Department as State Counsel in November 1983; promoted to Senior State Counsel, Deputy Solicitor-General, Additional Solicitor-General and Senior Additional Solicitor-General. In March 2012, he was sworn in as President’s Counsel. Pursued research studies at the University of Hong Kong as a Commonwealth Scholar and was awarded with the degree of Master of Philosophy, for the thesis on Right to Fair Trial. Served as Trial Attorney in two UN War Crimes Tribunals; UNICTY and UNICTR. Since February 2016, he is the Attorney-General. Attorney General’s Department, Hulftsdorp, Colombo 12, Sri Lanka; Tel.: +94 11-2458293; Email: [email protected].

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Justice Dr. SHIRANI A. BANDARANAYAKE, former Chief of Justice of Sri Lanka. Born in April 1958 in Kurunegala, Sri Lanka, Dr. Shirani A. Bandaranayake obtained her Ph.D in Law in March 1986 from the University of London. Prior to that, Dr. Bandaranayake obtained her Master of Philosophy in Law (1983) and her LL.B (Hons.) (1980) from the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka and subsequently was called to the Bar (1983). Dr.

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Bandaranayake was awarded the Commonwealth Open Scholarship (1983), the Chevening Scholarship (1989) and Fulbright-Hays Fellowship (1996). Dr. Bandaranayake had functioned as a member of, inter alia, Human Rights Task Force, National Task Force on Forestry Legislation, National Task Force on Environmental Law, Working Committee for Law and Computers, Expert Working Committee on Banking and Law as well as, as a Commissioner of the Law Commission of Sri Lanka and as the Founder Co-Ordinator in Law at the then Kotalawela Defense Academy. Following a 16-year career in academia, serving as the Head of the Department, Dean of the Faculty of Law, Associate Professor of Law as well as the Acting Vice Chancellor of the University of Colombo and publishing well over 29 research papers and monographs, Dr. Bandaranayake became the youngest and the first female to be appointed as a Judge of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Sri Lanka; an unprecedented event in its over 200 year old history in October 1996. Having served in her capacity as a Judge of the Supreme Court for well over 14 years as well as functioning as the Acting Chief Justice on 11 occasions, she was appointed the first female Chief Justice of Sri Lanka in May 2011. Dr. Bandaranayake, in her capacity as a Judge and Chief Justice, had delivered over 320 considered Judgements and Determinations. Dr. Bandaranayake retired as the 43rd Chief Justice of Sri Lanka in January 2015. 170 Lake Drive, Colombo 08, Sri Lanka; Tel.: +94 776 975626; Email: [email protected].

Prof. SHARYA SCHARENGUIVEL is Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Colombo and has been in the University System for almost forty years. Holding postgraduate degrees from Harvard and Oxford, she has held various senior positions at the University of Colombo, including Dean of the Faculty of Law, Head of the Department of Private and Comparative law and the Director of the Centre for the Study of Human Rights. She is a life member of Clare Hall Cambridge and has been the Benians Fellow of St John’s College Cambridge, Inns of Court Fellow, a visiting fellow of Balliol College Oxford, and Clare Hall Cambridge. She has widely published on Family law and the Rights of the Child. More recently she has written on Labour law and Legal systems. Her expertise in these areas has also been recognized by policy makers, as reflected in her membership in a number of governmental working groups, ministerial law reform committees as well as board membership of various organizations. She has served as a Commissioner at the Law Commission of Sri Lanka and as a member of the National Child Protection Authority. Faculty of Law, University of Colombo, Colombo 7, P.O. Box 1490, Sri Lanka. Tel: +94-1-2585638; Email: [email protected].

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Mr. HARSHA SOZA, President’s Counsel. Professional posts held include Vice-Chairman of the Rent Board of Review; Vice-Chairman of the Ceiling on Housing Property Board of Review; Chairman of the Professional Purposes Committee of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka; Chairman of Disciplinary Committee No. 9 of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka; Editor-in-Chief of the Bar Association Newsletter; Lecturer in Professional Ethics at the Sri Lanka Law College and Arbitrator in Commercial Arbitrations in Sri Lanka. Mr. Soza was admitted as an Attorney-at-Law of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka in 1974; admitted as Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England in June 1989 and appointed President’s Counsel in May 2004. He obtained his LL.B (Honours) from the University of London. 160/8 Polhengoda Road, Kirulapone, Colombo 05, Sri Lanka; Tel. +94 773546699.

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Sweden Suède

Ms. MARIE JACOBSSON, Ambassador and Principal Legal Adviser on International Law at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, SE-103 39 Stockholm, Sweden; tel.:+46 8 405 10 00; fax: +46 8 723 11 76; e-mail: [email protected].

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Mr. MATS MELIN, President of the Swedish Supreme Administrative Court; former Justice of the Swedish Supreme Administrative Court; former Presiding judge at the Svea Court of Appeal in Stockholm; former Chief Parliamentary Ombudsman of Sweden; former Chef de cabinet of the Swedish member of the Court at the Court of Justice of the European Communities, SE-103 17 Stockholm, Sweden, tel.: +46 8 561 676 16; fax: +46 8-561 678 20; e-mail: [email protected].

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Ms. ELINOR HAMMARSKJÖLD, Ambassador and Director General for Legal Affairs at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs; agent of the Swedish Government before the European Court of Human Rights, SE-10 339 Stockholm, Sweden; tel. +46 8 405 10 00; fax: +46 8 723 11 76; e-mail: [email protected].

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Switzerland Suisse

M. ROBERTO BALZARETTI, Ambassadeur, Jurisconsulte du Département fédéral des affaires étrangères, Directeur de la Direction du droit international public, Docteur en droit : Taubenstrasse 16, CH-3003 Bern, Suisse ; fax : +41 58 46 49073 ; courriel : [email protected]

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Thailand Thaïlande

His Excellency Mr. ARUN PANUPONG, Docteur en droit, Universite De Paris; former Director-General of the Department of Treaties and Legal Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; former Ambassador of Thailand to Indonesia, to the Soviet Union concurrently to Mongolia, to the United States and to France concurrently to Algeria and to UNESCO; member of the State Council; professor of law at Thammasat University and Chulalongkorn University (Bangkok, Thailand). 739/55 Puttan Village, Petchkasem 81 (Macharoen Road), Nongkham, Bangkok 10160, Thailand; tel.:/fax: + 662 420 7973.

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Dr. PRAJIT ROJANAPHRUK, Doctor at de I'Université Paris; Adviser to Constitutional Court of Thailand; former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Philippines, the Soviet Union and Mongolia; former Director-General of the Department of Treaties & Legal Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; former Senator; Advisor to the Foreign Relations Commission of the National Legislative Assembly; Managing Director, Dr. Prajit Law Office. 92/136 Muang Ake Village, Project III, Lakhok Sub-District, Muang District, Pathum Thani Province 12000, Thailand.

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Mr. THANA DUANGRATANA joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1980 and had several positions at the Department of Treaties and Legal Affairs. From 1994-2001 he was the Deputy Director-General of the Department of Treaties and Legal Affairs, and from 2001-2003 the Director-General. Between 2003-2009, he was Ambassador of Thailand to the Netherlands, France and Malaysia respectively. He retired from the Foreign Service in 2012 and acted as Vice Minister attached to the Prime Minister’s Office from 2012-2014. Mr. Duangratana completed his Doctorat de 3ème cycle (Droit International Public et Privé) from the University of Paris.

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Prof. Em. VITIT MUNTARBHORN, Professor of Law at the Chulalongkom University, Bangkok, Thailand.

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Togo Togo

Maître KOFFI MARTIAL AKAKPO. Il intervient comme conseil ou arbitre dans les contentieux financiers, télécoms ainsi que dans les projets d’infrastructure minière et ressources naturelles.

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Maître AYÉLÉ GBADOE DECKON : Diplômée en contentieux international des affaires de l’Université Paris-Est-Creteil (France). Avocate au Barreau du Togo, elle est également arbitre spécialisée en droit des affaires et arbitrage international. Anciennement, Juriste au sein d’une Organisation Internationale.

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Turkey Turquie

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Prof. Dr. ALI YEŞILIMARK, Head of the Department of International Law at Blacksea Technical University; Member, International Law Association; Member, European Society of International Law. Author of various publications.

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Associate Prof. Dr. MEHMET ALI ZENGIN, Head of Constitutional Law, Faculty of Law, Yildirim Beyazit University; Member, Turkish Parliament, Reconciliation Committee; Member, European Health Law Association, Scotland; Member, Ankara Provencial Committee of Human Rights. Author of various books, papers and articles. Yildirim Beyazit University Faculty of Law, Cinnah Caddessi 16/A, 06690 Çankaya, Ankara, Turkey; Tel.: +90 312 466 7533; E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected].

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Dr. MEHMET BEDII KAYA, Assistant Professor at the Administrative Law Department, Yildirim Beyazit University; Lecturer, Istanbul Bilgi University Information Technologies Law Institute; Member of the Commission of Law, Turkish Council of Higher Education; Member of Editorial Board, Yildirim Beyazit Law Journal. Published various books and

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articles. Yildirim Beyazit University Faculty of Law, Cinnah Caddessi 16/A, 06690 Çankaya, Ankara, Turkey; Tel. +90 312 466 7533; E-mail: [email protected]; Website: www.mbkaya.com.

Uganda Ouganda

Justice BART M. KATUREEBE is the Chief Justice of Uganda since March 2015, has been a Justice of the Supreme Court since 2005, served as an elected delegate to the Constituent Assembly that debated and promulgated the 1995 Constitution of Uganda, was a Member of Parliament and a Cabinet Minister in the Government of Uganda including serving as the Minister of Justice and Attorney General. Before becoming a Justice of the Supreme Court, he founded and became Managing Partner of Kampala Associated Advocates, still one of the leading Law Firms in Uganda to-day.

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Justice BENJAMIN ODOKI is the former Chief Justice of Uganda, Director of the Uganda Law Development Centre, Director of Public Prosecutions, Judge of the High Court of Uganda, Justice of the Supreme Court, Chairperson of the constitutional Commission, and Chairperson of the Judicial Service Commission.

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Mr. FRANCIS ATOKE is the Solicitor General of Uganda, and Chair of the Justice Law and Order Sector (JLOS). He has held the position of Administrator General/Public Trustee of Uganda, Deputy Chair of the AU Committee on the Drafting of the Convention on the Protection and Assistance to Internally Displaced Persons in Africa. He has an LLM in international law (Law of war, Human Rights and Terrorism), Post graduate Diploma in Legal Practice, and Bachelors of Laws Degree; and various courses in Mediation and Arbitration, he has been involved in a number of arbitration cases on behalf of Uganda.

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Mr. PETER KABATSI has a Bachelor of Laws Degree, Post Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice. He is an Attorney and Notary (Lesotho), Member of the International Law Commission (Geneva), and former Solicitor General of Uganda.

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United Kingdom Royaume-Uni

Rt Hon LADY ARDEN OF HESWALL, Justice of the Supreme Court since October 2018; ad hoc judge of the European Court of Human Rights since 2000. C/o The Supreme Court, Parliament Square, London, SW1P 3BD, United Kingdom.

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Sir FRANKLIN DELOW BERMAN, KCMG, QC, barrister and international arbitrator; Legal Adviser to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office 1991-1999; ad hoc Judge of the International Court of Justice 2003-2005; visiting Professor of International Law, University of Oxford and Cape Town since 2000. C/o Essex Court Chambers, 24 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3EG, United Kingdom.

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Sir CHRISTOPHER GREENWOOD, CMG QC, Judge of the International Court of Justice since 2009; former Professor of International Law School at the London School of Economics. C/0 International Court of Justice, Peace Palace, Carnegieplein 2, 2517, The Hague, The Netherlands; fax: +31 70 302 23 23

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Sir IAIN MACLEOD KCMG, Legal Adviser to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office since 2011. Foreign and Commonwealth Office, King Charles Street, London, SW1A 2AH, United Kingdom. Tel.: +44 020 7008 1500

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United States of America États-Unis d’Amérique

Ms. JENNIFER G. NEWSTEAD, Legal Adviser to the State Department. Office of the Legal adviser, U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC 20520, U.S.A.; tel.: +1 202 647 9598; fax: +1 202 647 7096.

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Mr. BRIAN J. EGAN, Legal Adviser for the U.S. Department of State from 2016-2017; Steptoe & Johnson LLP, 1330 Connecticut Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20036, U.S.A.

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Uruguay Uruguay Dr. CARLOS ALBERTO MATA PRATES is doctor of Law and Sciences (university of the Republic – UDELAR). He is member of the Inter-American Juridical Committee of the Organization of American States (OAS), Director of the Public International Law Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uruguay, President of the

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Advising Committee of the Executive Power for the establishment of the external limit of the Continental Shelf (COALEP), legal Advisor and Controller of the MERCOSUR Parliament, agent of the Republic of Uruguay before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, member of the Conciliation Committee to act in the dispute between the Republic of Uruguay and a Belgian investor, Delegate of the Republic before the Assembly of the States Parties to the Rome Statute (International Criminal Court). In such capacity, he was delegated to the Review Conference of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court held in Kampala (Uganda) (May 2010). He was coordinator of the government working group before the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). He is also professor of Public International Law (School of Law of the Universidad Católica del Uruguay- UCUDAL and Centro Latinoamericano de Economía Humana) and Professor of Public Law (School of Law of the University of the Republic). Tel.: + 598 2 9021010 int. 2368; e-mail: [email protected].

Dr. JOSE KORZENIAK, Doctor of Law and Social Sciences; Senior Professor of Public Law at the University Mayor of the Republic (Montevideo) and University of Mexico; author of a large number of publications of constitutional, administrative and bank law; Senator of the Republic since 1990.

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Venezuela Venezuela Dr. ALFREDO DE JESÚS OJEDA, a national of Venezuela, is an Attorney, Arbitrator and Academic. He is a Member of the Bars of Paris and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Holds a Ph.D in Law, Summa cum laude, from the Sorbonne University (Paris II Pantheon-Assas), a Master Degree in Business and Economic Law from the University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne, a Master Degree in General Private Law from the University of Paris II Pantheon-Assas and a Law Degree, cum laude, from the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Caracas. He regularly advises and represents States, state entities as well as private entities, in international arbitration proceedings, particularly relating to the oil and gas, mining and construction industries, administered by the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA), the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and others, as well as before state courts. He is also an Arbitrator at MERCOSUR (Olivos Protocol) and the ICC in cases related to oil and gas exploration and production contracts, as well as construction contracts in the petrochemical sector. He is a Member of the Steering Committee of the Master Degree on International Business Law at the University of Paris XI Paris-Sud where he teaches the courses of Transnational Petroleum Law and International Arbitration in Latin America. He is an Associate Member of the CREDIMI - Centre de recherche sur le droit des marches et des investissement internationaux, themix research unit of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the University of Burgundy, an Honorary Associate of the CEPMLP - Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral law and Policy of the University of Dundee and an Associate Researcher of the DANTE - Laboratoire de droit des affaires et nouvelles technologies of the University of Versailles. He has intervened as a Guest Lecturer in several universities such as the University of Paris II Pantheon-Assas, the University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne, the Queen Mary University of London, the Institute of Political Studies of Paris (SciencesPo Paris), the University of Versailles, the University of Houston, the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, the University of Havana and the Central University of Venezuela, among others. He is a Member of the ICC Latin American Arbitration Group, the ICC Institute of World Business Law and the GTCI - Groupe de travail contrats internationaux. He is fluent and works in English, French, Portuguese and Spanish. Postal address: 20, rue Quentin-Bauchart, 75008 Paris, France. Tel. +33 (0)1 83 96 85 57. Email: [email protected]

04 – 10 – 2019

Viet Nam Viêt Nam Mr. NGUYEN KHANH NGOC, LL.M. in International Trade Law, University of Arizona, USA; Vice Minister of Justice of Viet Nam; Arbitrator of Viet Nam International Arbitration Center (since 2002); Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (since 2012). Tel.: +84 2462739441; E-mail: [email protected].

04 – 10 - 2019

Dr. NGUYEN DANG THANG, Ph.D in International Law, University of Cambridge (UK), Director-General, Department of Law and Policy, National Boundary Commission, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Viet Nam; Member of the Governing Council of the Asian Society of International Law; Founding member of the Vietnamese Society of International Law. Tel.: +84 945295677; E-mail: [email protected].

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Dr. NGUYEN THI HOANG ANH, Dr.jr, University of Humboltd (Germany); Judge at the Vietnamese Supreme Court (since 2016); former Ambassador of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam to Germany; former Director-General of Department of International Law and Treaties, Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Head of Vietnamese delegation at the Advisory Proceeding at the International Court of Justice on the Unilateral Declaration of Independence in respect of Kosovo. Tel: +84 903232355; E-mail: [email protected].

16 – 11 - 2018

Dr. DANG XUAN HOP, Ph.D, University of Oxford (UK), Arbitrator in the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC), Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC), Viet Nam International Arbitration Centre (VIAC); visiting Professor at the Singapore National University (Singapore), University of Melbourne (Australia), University of Kyushu and University of Nagoya (Japan). Tel.: +84967460330; Email: [email protected].

16 – 11 - 2018

Zambia Zambie

Mr. MATHEW M.S.W. NGULUBE, former Chief Justice of Zambia. 16 - 06 - 2014 Mr. ALBERT M. WOOD, Acting Deputy High Judge in Charge, High Court of Zambia; P.O. Box 50067, Lusaka, Zambia; e-mail: [email protected], [email protected]

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