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Professor Loukas Mistelis, LLB, MLE, FCIArb, is an acknowledged authority on international dispute resolution and investment treaty law. In 2006 he was listed as one of the “leading lights in international arbitration”, 45 under 45, amongst the top 15 highlighted members of the list, is listed on the Who’s Who Commercial Arbitration since 2007 and also a member of the ICSID Panel of Arbitrators as well as the recipient of the GAR Award for best arbitration lecture of 2013. He is also listed as one of the Thought Leaders in International Arbitration.

Loukas Mistelis is the Clive M Schmitthoff Professor of Trans-national Commercial Law and Arbitration and the Director of the School of International Arbitration at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London. He joined Queen Mary University of London in 1998 and became a professor in 2005. He was also Visiting Professor, NYU in London (2006-2012), a Visiting Professor at Pepperdine University London program (2008-2011); he is Distinguished Visiting Professor, National University of Singapore (2013); he was Visiting Scholar at Columbia University Law School (spring semester 2007), Visiting Fellow at NYU Law School (2012), Visiting Professor at Keio University, Tokyo (2008), LUISS, Rome (2009) and Catholic University of Portugal, Lisbon (2007, 2009).He is coordinating the LLM specialisation in Comparative and International Dispute Resolution. He teaches at the LLM programs in London and Paris and is the coordinator of the courses in International Arbitration Law and Practice II, Investment Treaty Arbitration and Investment Arbitration: Substantive Protection and also teaches on the International Commercial Law and International Energy Transactions courses. In Paris Loukas Mistelis teaches International Investment Dispute Settlement, Regulation and Infrastructure of International Arbitration and Applicable Law and Procedures in International Arbitration. Loukas Mistelis has also developed directs our Diploma in International Arbitration by Distance Learning, the Diploma in International Mediation (ADR) by Distance Learning and the Diploma in International Arbitration, which is offered by CCLS with accreditation from the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
Professor Mistelis was the Secretary of the CISG-AC (Advisory Council of the Convention on Contract for the International Sale of Goods) from 2001 to the end of 2007. He is a member of the Academic Committee of the Institute of Transnational Arbitration, an academic member of the Investment Treaty Forum, British Institute of Inter¬national and Comparative Law and a member of the Advisory Board of the EFILA (European Federation of Investment Law and Arbitration) and a member of the Academic Committee of AIPN, Chair of Academic Committee of the Civil Mediation Council and President of the Court of CEDRAC (Cyprus Eurasia Dispute Resolution & Arbitration Centre).

Professor Mistelis was educated in Greece (LLB Hons Athens 1991); France (Certificate in International & Comparative Human Rights, IIHR, Strasbourg, 1990); Germany (MLE, 1992, Law School, Hanover, Germany, 1998); and Japan (Certificate in Japanese international trade law, Law School, Keio University, Tokyo, 1998). He has been a member of the Athens Bar since 1993. He is fluent in English, German and Greek, and has good knowledge of French, and basic knowledge of Polish, Russian and Spanish. Member of Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) since 2001, became Fellow of the CIArb (FCIArb) in December 2016.

Laurence Shore became a Partner at BonelliErede in September 2017 and is the Co-head of the firm’s international arbitration practice group. He is resident in the Milan office. Previously, Laurence practiced law in New York and London, where he was a partner at Herbert Smith (1999-2008, 2013-2017) and Gibson Dunn (2008-2013). Laurence has been the lead advocate in a large number of arbitration cases under, for example, the ICC, LCIA, ICDR, AAA, UNCITRAL, Cairo Regional Centre, and Swiss Rules. Laurence also has been called as an arbitrator on more than 25, ICC, ICDR and other arbitrations.

He has experience serving as co-arbitrator, tribunal chair and sole arbitrator in the following arbitral seats: New York, Connecticut, London, Geneva, Paris, The Hague, Montreal, Cairo, Tel Aviv and Cyprus.  In addition to his work as an arbitration practitioner, Laurence has tried cases in the United States courts and in England’s High Court. His publications include “You Can Bet the Company but Not the State: The Proper and Improper Conduct of Sovereigns in Arbitration,” World Arbitration and Mediation Review (2009 Vol. 3, Nos. 4-5); “Arbitration, Rhetoric, Proof: The Unity of International Arbitration across Cultures,” in Contemporary Issues in International Arbitration and Mediation: The Fordham Papers (2009), Ed. A.W. Rovine (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2010).

John Ribeiro is Senior Legal Counsel at INPEX Corporation, specialising in dispute resolution and international commercial arbitration with experience of advising clients in arbitration under the ICC, LCIA, JCAA, AAA and UNCITRAL Rules. He holds a PhD in international commercial arbitration and has a particular focus on the pharmaceuticals sector, as well as advising Japanese business conglom¬erates and technology companies John has been with the Tokyo office for over five years and recently completed a two-year secondment with the dispute resolution team in our London office. In addition to his dispute resolution specialism, John has spent time on secondment to the legal department of a major Japanese entertainment company, advising on general corporate matters. He has published in both English and Japanese on international commercial arbitration, international trade and international IP infringement. He is a founding member of the Young Japan Association of Arbitrators, and an editor of the World Arbitration Reporter, Japanese Yearbook of International Law and Doing Business in Japan.

John holds a Bachelor of Laws with First Class Honour from Queen Mary University of London and a PhD on procedure in international commercial arbitration at Osaka University. He is fluent in Japanese and is admitted to practise in England and Wales.

Dr. Stavros Brekoulakis is a Professor and the Director of the School of International Arbitration at Queen Mary University of London and an associate member of 3 Verulam Buildings (Gray’s Inn). He teaches courses in International Commercial Arbitration, International Construc¬tion Contracts and Arbitration, International Investment Arbitration, International Commercial Litigation and Conflict of Laws, International Commercial Law. His academic work includes the leading publications on Third Parties in International Arbitration, Arbitrability, the ICCA-Queen Mary Report on Third Party Funding and numerous publications in leading legal journals and reviews. He is currently working on a book on Policies, including Public Policy in English Arbitration Law (OUP forthcoming). He is a member of the Steering Committee of the UNCITRAL Academic Forum on ISDS, the ICC Commission on Arbitra¬tion, an assistant Rapporteur in the International Law Association Committee on International Commercial Arbitration, the General Editor of the Journal of International Dispute Settlement, the Editor-in-Chief of the (CIArb’s) International Journal of Arbitration, Mediation and Dispute Management and Co-editor of the Kluwer’s International Arbitration Law Library series.

Brekoulakis is regularly listed in the Who’s Who Legal: Arbitration, described as “standing out as a first-rate arbitrator and academic; an expert in construction and commercial disputes and is regularly engaged in matters arising out of major infrastructure projects around the world”. He was also listed in the Who’s Who Future Leaders: Arbitration 2017 as one of the ten most highly regarded future leaders, described as “very thorough and professional” and “held in the highest regard”, named as a GAR Thought Leader—Arbitration 2018 and 2019, and nominated for GAR “Best Prepared and Most Responsive Arbitrator” in 2016. He has been appointed in more than 30 arbitrations, as chairman, sole arbitrator, co-arbitrator and emergency arbitrator under the rules of the ICC, LCIA, SCC, DIA, CAS and UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules.

He holds an LLB degree from the National University of Athens, an LLM degree in International Business Law from King’s College London and a PhD degree in Arbitration and Conflict of Laws from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL).