is a Senior Associate of Beale & Co Middle East. She is a New York qualified lawyer practicing in the United Arab Emirates. Ms. Habib’s experience includes both contentious and non-contentious matters. Her focus area of practice is international arbitration and dispute resolution primarily in construction. She read law in England, also holds a MSc in Construction Law and Dispute Resolution and sits as arbitrator and has been appointed as tribunal secretary for a number of cases with the Dubai International Arbitration Centre.

is an Advocate and Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya. He was called to the Malaysian Bar in 2003. He graduated with LLB (Hons) and LLM from University of Malaya, Malaysia. He holds a PhD from Monash University, Australia. He is currently acting as a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University Technology MARA. His teaching expertise includes public international law and international commercial arbitration. He has been awarded a diploma in international commercial arbitration by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, United Kingdom (CIArb) in 2016 and a fellow of the CIArb and the Asian Institute of Alternative Dispute Resolution (AIADR). 

PhD at the University of Milan-Bicocca (Italy), is a Senior Lawyer at Paul Hastings LLP, where he is part of the International Arbitration Practice Group and chairs the firm´s European Trade Control Team. Having practiced both in Italy and in the US (Washington, D.C.), he has wide experience in cross-border litigation, international arbitration (both ad hoc and institutional) and investor-State disputes. Dr. Cozzi regularly writes in the fields of international arbitration, technology, international trade and financial sanctions.

is Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Westminster. He studied at the University of Essex (LLB) and in Kent (LLM, PhD) before taking a Teaching Fellowship in Law at SOAS, University of London. He then held lectureships at Kingston and Reading Universities. Ioannis has published two monographs with Routledge (2010, 2013) and a series of articles on Law and Development, Law and Economics and Investment Arbitration. He is currently researching foreign investor rights in the context of the economic crisis in the European Periphery. Ioannis is also a blogger and commentator on Greek and European politics.

is currently working as Legal Counsel at Acacia Mining Plc, London. She has completed an LLM in International and Comparative Dispute Resolution at Queen Mary University of London. Nadya’s primary areas of expertise are international commercial arbitration, investment arbitration, public and private international law and international trade law. She has been admitted to practice in both New Zealand and the Northern Territory, Australia.

is an attorney in the New York office of Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP and serves as the Social Media Chair of the American Bar Association’s Arbitration Committee. 

is an international arbitration law specialist. She holds a PhD in International Commercial Arbitration law from the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) at University of London as well as an LLM in Commercial Law from Queen Mary University of London and an LLB from Tehran University. Bahar has taught international commercial law and various LLB subjects in London; in addition, as a legal consultant, she provides expert legal opinions to clients in issues relating to investment law, legal contracts, oil and gas projects, International Comparative Law and Economic Sanctions Regulations in the Middle East. Currently she teaches at St Mary’s University as a senior lecturer. 

is a barrister at 3 Paper Buildings, Temple who now sits solely as arbitrator, adjudicator or dispute board member, almost exclusively in the context of construction and engineering disputes. He also teaches and assesses on many arbitration courses in the UK and overseas including those for CIArb, and was a former head of the Exam Board. He is an external examiner for the Leeds Beckett University Course in Construction Law and Dispute Resolution.

undertakes arbitration, advocacy, dispute resolution, mediation and expert witness work. He mainly practises as an arbitrator in international arbitration, specialising particularly in construction, heavy engineering and infrastructure projects. He has been admitted to the Bars of California, Hong Kong, Ireland, Malaysia, New South Wales and Trinidad and Tobago. He chaired a Construction Panel for five years at the United Nations Compensation Commission and was appointed as a Recorder in 1988. He has experience of many jurisdictions and has sat as arbitrator in many common law and civil law cases.

is CIArb’s Research and Academic Affairs Manager.  Mercy is a United States qualified attorney (Texas) and certified mediator with experience as party counsel in commercial business litigation and arbitration.  She holds a an LLM with Distinction in comparative and international dispute resolution from Queen Mary University of London, a JD from Southern Methodist University, and an MSc in environmental biology from the University of North Texas.  Mercy trained in international commercial arbitration with Al Tamimi and Co. in Dubai, UAE, and was an associate attorney with Blume, Faulkner, and Skeen in Dallas, Texas, before joining the CIArb executive in 2018. Mercy is CIArb’s observer delegate to UNCITRAL Working Groups II and III and author of the CIArb Discussion Papers on ISDS reform.  She is an assistant editor of the CIArb Journal, a tutor in commercial arbitration at Queen Mary University of London, and a frequent speaker on issues of international arbitration and ADR.  Mercy is a US citizen who grew up in Nairobi, Kenya and now considers London, UK her home.