Peter Ashford FCIArb is a Partner at Fox Williams. He has particular expertise in international commercial
arbitration and also acts in litigation, mediation, expert determination and negotiations. Peter is a widely
published author, commentator and lecturer, including the Handbook on International Commercial
Arbitration published by Juris Publishing of New York in 2014; the Guide to the IBA Rules on the Taking
of Evidence in International Arbitration and the Guide to the IBA Guidelines on Party Representation in
International Arbitration.

Lucinda Brabazon is a Senior Associate at Clifford Chance in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Group.  Her practice focuses on the oil, gas, infrastructure and aviation sectors.  Lucinda was admitted as an Australian lawyer in 2015 and called to the Bar of England and Wales in 2019.  She has a Masters in International Commercial Law from UCL

Julia Dias QC MCIArb is a barrister at 7KBW Chambers. She was their first female tenant and rapidly acquired
a formidable reputation as a leading commercial junior before taking silk in 2008. She is also a member
of the Gibraltar Bar, to which she was called in 1994. Julia’s principal areas of practice are in arbitration,
shipping, insurance and reinsurance and professional negligence. She is increasingly in demand as
an arbitrator and also sits regularly as a Deputy High Court Judge

David Joseph QC, the moderator for the second panel, is a barrister at Essex Court Chambers and
acts as both counsel and as arbitrator. He is well-recognised not only in the English courts but across
the common law world as an authority in the twin fields of international arbitration and jurisdiction
disputes and is author of Jurisdiction and Arbitration Agreements and their Enforcement. He is
consistently recommended in the top tier of each of the UK and global directories in the field of
international arbitration as well as in commercial litigation, general insurance and aerospace. In 2013
he was chosen as Silk of the Year in International Commercial Arbitration by both Chambers Directory
and the Legal 500.

John Judge FCIArb is a leading independent arbitrator specialising in international commercial disputes. He
was at Stikeman Elliott LLP in Toronto for over 35 years where he left as senior partner to launch his
arbitrator practice and joined Int-Arb Arbitrators in 2020. John is also a founding member of Arbitration
Place (Toronto). John has sat as arbitrator and chair on substantial international disputes under ICC,
LCIA, AAA-ICDR, SIAC, BCICAC and AdHoc rules in a variety of seats including London, New York,
Paris, Houston, Washington, Canada and the Middle-East.