Board of Advisors
Alexis Mourre
Mr. Mourre, a member of the Paris Bar and the founding Partner of Castaldi Mourre & Partners served as President of the ICC International Court of Arbitration from 1 July 2015 to 30 June 2021. Mr. Mourre’s longstanding links with ICC also include service as a Vice-President of the ICC Institute of World Business Law. He has a wealth of experience variously as counsel, arbitrator, and expert in ad hoc– arbitrations and cases conducted under the rules of prominent arbitral institutions.
He is the founder and past editor-in-chief of Les Cahiers de l’Arbitrage – The Paris Journal of International Arbitration and has held several leadership positions on the International Bar Association Arbitration Committee, the London Court of International Arbitration, and the Milan International Chamber of Arbitration. He has authored numerous books and publications in the field of International Business Law, Private International Law, and Arbitration Law.
Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler, a partner at Levy Kaufmann-Kohler since 2008, holds esteemed roles in international arbitration. She is the former President and current Honorary President of ICCA and ASA. Since 1997, she has been a Professor Emerita of Private International Law and International Arbitration at the University of Geneva and currently teaches in the Geneva LLM’s International Dispute Settlement (MIDS) program.
Gabrielle is a founder of FIAA, President of its Advisory Board, and has held positions in major arbitration institutions like the ICC Court, LCIA Court, and AAA Board. She is a member of the Swiss delegation to UNCITRAL and co-authored two CIDS reports. She is a renowned member of the Geneva Bar and the New York State Bar and frequently serves on institutional panels (e.g., ICC, ICSID, AAA, LCIA, SIAC, CIETAC).
Her practice spans international commercial, investment, and sports arbitration, with over 220 cases mainly as an arbitrator under major institutions’ rules. She is consistently ranked among the world’s top ten arbitrators and is a prolific author and editor in dispute settlement.Gabrielle is also a visiting professor at prestigious institutions like the National University of Singapore, Tsinghua University in Beijing, and Georgetown University. She presides over the Council of the Centre for International Dispute Settlement (CIDS).
Gary B. Born
Mr. Gary B. Born is the chair of the International Arbitration Group at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP. He is widely regarded as the pre-eminent authority on international commercial arbitration. Mr. Born has participated in more than 675 international arbitrations, including four of the largest ICC arbitrations and several of the most significant ad hoc arbitrations in recent history. He is consistently ranked as one of the leading practitioners in the field. He is also one of the only three lawyers in the world to hold the global “starred” status in Chambers’ rankings.
Mr. Born has represented multi-national corporations in arbitrations under all leading institutional rules and ad hoc arbitrations in all leading international seats. He was selected by leading international arbitrators and peer practitioners to receive the Global Arbitration Review’s inaugural “Advocate of the Year” award for 2010. He regularly teaches at Harvard Law School, Stanford Law School, St. Gallen University, Georgetown University Law Centre, National University of Singapore, University of Virginia College of Law, University College London and the University of Arizona College of Law.
Mr. Born is the former President of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre Court of Arbitration. He is also a Member of the American Law Institute and has served on the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law and as co-chair of the ABA International Section, Committee on International Aspects of Litigation.
He has published several leading works on international arbitration, international litigation, and other forms of dispute resolution. He is the author of International Commercial Arbitration (Kluwer 2d ed. 2014), the leading treatise in the field, which has received the American Society of International Law’s Certificate of Merit for High Technical Craftsmanship and OGEMID’s Book of the Year Award for 2009.
Professor Lakshmi Jambholkar taught in the Faculty of Law, University of Delhi with expertise in the field of Private International Law, for a period of 30 years. She served as Member, Law Commission of India and also as a Member of National Legal Services Authority of India.
She has delivered special lectures at various National Law University Schools all over India and has been honoured as Professor Emeritus at National Law University, Jodhpur, Honorary Professor for Research at GNLU, and visiting professor for Symbiosis Law University. She has been honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Symbiosis Law University in 2017. She has long association with the Indian Society of International Law, being a member of the Governing Body and also member of the Editorial Board of the Indian Journal of International Law. She was the Chief Editor of the ISIL Yearbook of International Humanitarian and Refugee Law for five years.Another area of expertise has been Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), where she conducted more than 100 training workshops for Mediation & Conciliation in International Centre for Alternative Dispute Resolution (ICADR). She has authored a book on ‘Select Essays on Private International Law’, and also on ‘International Commercial Arbitration: Private International Law’.
Professor Loukas Mistelis is a renowned expert in international dispute resolution and investment treaty law. In 2006, he was named one of the “leading lights in international arbitration” and featured in the top 15 members of that list. He has consistently been listed in Who’s Who Commercial Arbitration since 2007 and serves as a member of the ICSID Panel of Arbitrators. In 2013, he was honoured with the GAR Award for the best arbitration lecture.
Prof. Loukas currently holds the Clive M. Schmitthoff Professorship of Transnational Commercial Law and Arbitration and serves as the Director of the School of International Arbitration at Queen Mary University of London. He is a visiting professor at esteemed institutions such as NYU in London, Pepperdine University London program, National University of Singapore, Columbia University Law School, and others.
He served as the Secretary of the CISG-AC and is actively involved in various academic committees and advisory boards related to international arbitration and investment law. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and has a broad range of expertise, including arbitration, international commercial transactions, secured transactions, comparative law, and civil law reform. Professor Mistelis’s arbitration experience spans a wide array of cases involving parties from diverse countries and industries. His expertise is sought after by governments, international organizations, and legal practitioners worldwide, making him an influential force in the field of international law.
Dr. Promod Nair is a Senior Advocate at the Supreme Court of India, and an admitted Solicitor Advocate with Higher Rights of Audience in England and Wales (currently non-practising).
As both counsel and arbitrator, he has participated in a wide range of arbitration proceedings, under the ICC, LCIA, SIAC, ICSID, and PCA Rules, as well as ad hoc arbitrations and has also served as an emergency arbitrator. He has represented India in arbitrations initiated under Bilateral Investment Treaties and has also represented the country at the United Nations.
Dr, Nair founded Arista Chambers in 2014, after he was a partner in the dispute resolution practice at JSA. He was a visiting fellow at the Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge.
He was serving as a member of the LCIA Court, and is a current Council Member of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre, member of the Advisory Council of the Mumbai Centre for International Arbitration, and Governing Council Member of the International Arbitration and Mediation Centre, Hyderabad. He represents India at the UNCITRAL CLOUT project, serving on the Coordination Committee for India, and coordinating the Permanent Court of Arbitration India Committee.He concluded his law degree from the National Law School of India and the University of Cambridge, where he was awarded the Clive Parry (Overseas) Prize in International Law, the St Edmunds College Tutorial Prize and the DFID-Cambridge and Pegasus Scholarships. He also serves as Visiting Lecturer at the National Law School of India, teaching a course on Arbitration Law and Practice.
W. Michael Reisman is Myres S. McDougal Professor of International Law at the Yale Law School where he has been on the faculty since 1965. He has been a visiting professor in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Berlin, Basel, Paris and Geneva. He is a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science and a former member of its Executive Council, a former member of the Advisory Committee on International Law of the Department of State, President of the Arbitration Tribunal of the Bank for International Settlements, and a member of the Board of The Foreign Policy Association. He has been elected to the Institut de Droit International.
He was President of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States, Vice-President and Honorary Vice-President of the American Society of International Law, Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of International Law, and Vice-Chairman of the Policy Sciences centre, Inc. He has served as arbitrator and counsel in many international cases and was presiding arbitrator in the OSPAR arbitration (Ireland v. UK) and arbitrator in the Eritrea/Ethiopia Boundary Dispute and in the Abyei (Sudan) Boundary Dispute.He is involved in extensive publishing work including “International Commercial Arbitration: Cases, Materials, and Notes on the Resolution of International Business Disputes” and “Foreign Investment Disputes: Cases, Materials and Commentary”.
Ajay is an independent New Delhi based arbitrator who occasionally acts as counsel in arbitrations and arbitration-related litigation. In addition to this, he is a national correspondent for India to the CLOUT system established by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL). He also currently serves as the Vice Chairman of the ICC India Arbitration Group and is on the panel of arbitrators of SCOPE, the apex body of Indian public sector enterprises.
He has had the unique privilege of working with three of the world’s leading arbitration institutions and has over 17 years of experience as arbitration administrator, arbitrator and advocate.
From 2009-2016, he was Director and Founding Registrar with the Indian subsidiary of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), and also a member of the LCIA India Board of Directors. Prior to joining the LCIA, Ajay was Counsel with the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC). He also served as Assistant Counsel with the Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration (SCMA).
Ajay was a member of the expert committee constituted by the Law Commission of India to assist in the preparation of its 246th Report on ‘Amendments to the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996’. He played a key role in the planning and execution of the first ‘India Conference’ hosted jointly by the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) and the Ministry of External Affairs (October 2017). He was also a member of UNCITRAL’s Organising Committee for the two-day international conference held in New Delhi to celebrate 50 years of the establishment of UNCITRAL (November 2016).
He is regularly invited to speak at conferences, seminars and workshops on arbitration, and is a visiting faculty at the Indian Society of International Law (ISIL), New Delhi. He has also been a tutor at arbitration training courses conducted by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb). Ajay is on the International Editorial Board of the Brazilian Journal of Alternative Dispute Resolution (RBADR), and a Member of the Executive Committee of the Asia-Pacific Forum for International Arbitration (AFIA).
Dr. Kabir Duggal is an attorney in Arnold and Porter’s New York office focusing on international investment arbitration, international commercial arbitration, and public international law matters, serving both as arbitrator and counsel. Dr. Duggal is also a Lecturer-in-Law at Columbia Law School, an adjunct Professor at Fordham Law School, and a Course Director and Faculty Member for the Columbia Law School-Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Comprehensive Course on International Arbitration. He also acts as a Consultant for the United Nations Office of the High Representative for Least Developed Countries.
Dr. Duggal works closely with the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Commercial Law Development Program (CLDP) as an expert and has undertaken capacity-building workshops in Georgia, Kosovo, Bosnia & Herzegovina. He has also conducted training and capacity-building sessions for several Governments including Colombia, Saudi Arabia, Myanmar, India, Philippines among others on public international law and dispute resolution matters. He also serves on the Federal Republic of Somalia’s New York Convention Task Force as well as the WTO Negotiating Team (International Board). He has published over 40 articles and has spoken at over 300 arbitration events all over the world. He is also the Co-Founder of REAL (Racial Equality for Arbitration Lawyers), a non-profit seeking to create greater representation in international arbitration.
He is a graduate of the University of Mumbai, University of Oxford (DHL-Times of India Scholar), NYU School of Law (Hauser Global Scholar), Leiden Law School (2019 CEPANI Academic Prize), and is currently pursuing an SJD Degree from Harvard Law School.