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committees

Global
Steering Committee
Corporate
Sub-Committee
Latin America
Sub-Committee
India
Sub-Committee
Africa
Sub-committee
MIDDLE EAST
SUB-COMMITTEE
YOUNG PRACTITIONERS
SUB-COMMITTEE
Arbitrator Search
Committee
USA
Sub-Committee
APAC
Sub-committee
SYLVIA NOURY QC
Co-Chair, Freshfields,
Partner
Justin D’Agostino
Co-Chair, Herbert Smith Freehills, Partner
ASHLEY JONES
SECRETARY, FRESHFIELDS
SENIOR KNOWLEDGE LAWYER
Briana Young
Secretary, Herbert Smith Freehills, Professional Support Consultant
ADEDOYIN RHODES-VIVOUR
Doyin Rhodes-Vivour & Co,
managing Partner
ALICE FREMUTH-WOLF
Nivalion
ALISON PEARSALL
Veolia, Senior Group Counsel
AMANI KHALIFA
Freshfields, Counsel
ANA CAROLINA WEBER
Eizirik Advogados, Partner
ANNA-MARIA TAMMINEN
Hannes Snellman, Partner
ANNETTE MAGNUSSON
Founding Partner of Climate Change Counsel
BEATRIZ SAIZ MARTI
ENEL, LEGAL COUNSEL
BORIS KASOLOWSKY
Freshfields, Partner
BRENDA HORRIGAN
Independent Arbitrator
Camilla Perera-de-Wit
Netherlands Arbitration Institute (NAI)
SECRETARY GENERAL
CAROLINE DUCLERCQ
Medici Law, Partner
CAROLINE RICHARD
Freshfields, Partner
CECILIA CARRARA
Legance, Partner
CHIANN BAO
Independent Arbitrator
CLAUDIA FRUTOS-PETERSON
Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Molse,  Partner
DANA MACGRATH
Independent Arbitrator
DEVA VILLANUA GOMEZ
Armesto & Asociados, Partner
DIANA DROULERS
Independent Arbitrator
EMILIA ONYEMA
SOAS
FRANCESCA MAZZA
German Institution of Arbitration, Secretary General
GABRIELLE NATER-BASS
Homburger, Partner
GISELE STEPHENS-CHU
Advocate, Stephens-Chu Dispute Resolution
HEIDI MERIKALLA-TEIR
Merilampi, Managing Partner
HUGH MEIGHEN
Borden Ladner Gervais, Partner
JACOMIJN VAN HAERSOLTE-VAN HOF
LCIA, Director General
JANE DAVIES EVANS
3VB, barrister
JAVIER ROBALINO ORELLANA
Ferrere, Partner
JO DELANEY
HFW, Partner
JULIET BLANCH
Independent Arbitrator
Katherine González Arrocha
The ICC International Court of Arbitration, Director
KELLY HERRERA
ConocoPhillips, Senior Counsel
LAURENCE KIFFER
Independent Arbitrator and mediator
Lucía Olavarría
Estudio Echecopar, Associate
LUCY GREENWOOD
Independent Arbitrator
LUCY MARTINEZ
Independent arbitrator
LUIS ENRIQUE GRAHAM
Hogan Lovells, Partner
MACARENA LETELIER
Santiago Arbitration and Mediation Centre, Executive Director
MARIA BEATRICE DELI
D|R Arbitration & Litigation, Partner
MATTHEW WEINEGER QC
Linklaters, Partner
MAY TAI
Herbert Smith Freehills, Partner
MILENA DJORDJEVIC
University of Belgrade, Professor
MIREZE PHILIPPE
The ICC International Court of Arbitration, Special Counsel
NAYLA COMAIR-OBEID
Obeid Law Firm, Founding Partner
Niamh Leinwather
VIAC
NICK LINGARD
Freshfields, Partner
NOIANA MARIGO
Freshfields, Partner
NORADÈLE RADJAI
Lalive, Partner
OLENA PEREPELYNSKA
Integrites Kiev, Partner
PAOLO DI GIOVANNI
Bonelli Erede, Partner
PATRIZIA NETAL
Knoetzl, Partner
SAMAA HARIDI
King & Spalding, Partner
SAMANTHA BAKSTAD
BP, Legal Counsel
SHERINA PETIT
Norton Rose Fulbright, Partner
SITPAH SELVERATNAM
Tommy Thomas, Consultant
TOM SPRANGE QC
King & Spalding, Partner
TORSTEN LORCHER
CMS Cologne, Partner
WENDY MILES QC
Debevoise, Partner
Previous
Steering Committee
(May 2016 to November 2021)
Samantha Bakstad (co-chair)
BP
UK
Sylvia Noury QC (co-chair)
Freshfields
UK
ASHLEY JONES (SECRETARY)
Freshfields
UK
Alison Pearsall
Veolia
France
Arjun Agarwal
Chevron
US
Beatriz Saiz Marti
Enel
Italy
Geoffrey David
Rio Tinto
US
Giulia Previti
Burford Capital
US
Gwendoline Brooker
Total
France
Karl Hennessee
Airbus
France
Kate Wilford
Anglo American
UK
Kelly Herrera
CoP
US
Nav Juty
AECOM
Patrizia Masselli
Barclays
UK
Sapfo Constantatos
Standard Chartered Bank
UK
Sarah Walsh
Shell
UK
Thomas Wright Jr
Coty
UK
Yasmin Mohammed
Vannin Capital
London
Argentina
Jimena Vega Olmos
Consejera jurídica
Junta Directiva, Banco de la Nación Argentina
Julio César Rivera
Socio
Rivera y Asociados
Bolivia
Lindsay Sykes
Socia
Ferrere
Alejandra Guevara
Asociada
Guevara & Gutiérrez
Brasil
Gláucia M Coelho
Socia
Machado Meyer
Valeria Galíndez
Counsel / Head of International Arbitration in Sao Paulo
Uría Menéndez
Ana Carolina Weber
Socia
Eizirik Advogados
Chile
Daniela Pérez
Asociada
Bofill Mir & Álvarez Jana
Macarena Letelier
Directora Ejecutiva - Secretaria General
Centro de Arbitraje y Mediación de la Cámara de Comercio de Santiago
Colombia
Claudia Benavides Galvis
Socia
Baker & McKenzie
Luis Alfredo Barragán
Socio
Brigard & Urrutia
Costa Rica
Carolina Muñoz
Socia
Dentons Muñoz
República Dominicana
Fabiola Medina Garnes
Socia
Medina Garrigó Abogados
Marcos Peña
Socio
Jiménez Cruz Peña
Ecuador
Javier Robalino Orellana
Socio
Ferrere
Catalina Hernández
Directora
Cámara de Comercio de Quito
El Salvador
Reynaldo Herrera
Director
Centro de Mediación y Arbitraje, Cámara de Comercio
Guatemala
Paulina Rodríguez
Asociada
Consortium Legal
México
Gabriela Álvarez-Ávila
Socia
DLA Piper, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle
Luis Enrique Graham
Socio
Hogan Lovells
Miami
Harout Samra
Asociado
DLA Piper
Cristina Cárdenas
Socia
Reed Smith
Nicaragua
Fabiola Urbina Sotomayor
Asociada
Alvarado y Asociados
Noelia Espinales
Árbitro
Panamá
Katherine González Arrocha
Directora, Oficina Regional para Las Américas
Corte Internacional de Arbitraje – Independent Arbitrator
Cristina López
Socia
Lovill
Paraguay
Raul Pereira
Asociada Senior
Ferrere
Perú
Carlos Soto
Consejo Consultivo
Instituto Peruano de Arbitraje
Lucía Olavarría
Asesora jurídica
Ministerio de Energía y Minas
Rafael Sánchez
Presidente Ejecutivo
Instituto Peruano de Arbitraje
Uruguay
Sandra González
Socia
Ferrere
Mercedes Jiménez de Aréchaga
Counsel
Guyer & Regules
Venezuela
Diana Droulers
Directora
Centro de Arbitraje de la Cámara de Comercio de Caracas
Eugenio Hernández-Bretón
Socio
Baker & McKenzie
Washington, DC
Claudia Frutos-Peterson
Socia
Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP
Gonzalo Flores
Secretario General Adjunto
CIADI
Sherina Petit
Norton Rose, Partner
Chair of the Pledge India group.
Please contact Sherina if you would like to join the group or if you have any queries.
Adedoyin Rhodes-Vivour SAN
(Co-chair)
Doyin Rhodes-Vivour & Co
Nigeria
Amani Khalifa (Co-chair)
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
UAE, Egypt
STEPHANIE MBONU (SECRETARY)
FRESHFIELDS BRUCKHAUS DERINGER LLP
UK
Itweva Nogueira
In Sociedade de Advogados
Angola
Dr. Sylvie Bebohi Ebongo
APAA Association for the Promotion of Arbitration in Africa
Cameroon
Leyou Tameru
i-Arb Africa
Ethiopia
Terry Mwango
Bowmans
Kenya
Madeleine Kimei
ICC Court Member
Member of ICC Africa Commission
Tanzania
Jacqueline Lule
Bowmans
Uganda
Ismail Selim
Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration
Egypt
Abayomi Okubote
Association of Young Arbitrators 
Nigeria
Aurelia Kamga
Chazai & Partners
Cameroon
Mercy Okiro
ICC YAF Representative, Africa Middle East and Turkey/ Association of Young Arbitrators
Kenya
Folake Sadiq
Lagos Bus Services
Nigeria
Gisele Stephens-Chu
Independent practitioner
France
Ozioma Izuora
Ozioma Izuora & Co
Nigeria
Emilia Onyema
SOAS, University of London
UK
Samaa Haridi
King & Spalding
US, Egypt
Mohamed Abayazid
Abayazid & Adbelrahman
Djibouti
Ilham Kabbouri
Hogan Lovells
Morocco
Wairimu Karanja
Wairimu & Co
Kenya
Esine Okudzeto
Sena Chambers
Ghana
Khawla Ezatagui
LCICA
Libya
Njeri Kariuki
Njeri Kariuki Advocate
Kenya
Natasha Bahary Paray
ENSafrica
Mauritius
Nayla Comair-Obeid (co-chair)
OBEID LAW FIRM,
FOUNDING PARTNER
Antonia Birt (co-chair)
Partner,
Curtis Mallet
Robert Stephen
Registrar, DIFC-LCIA,
UAE
Rashid Shahin
Director, Dubai International Arbitration Centre (DIAC), UAE
Doua Alattas
Senior Case Counsel and Legal Advisor of SCCA, KSA
Olena Voronovych
Case Manager, Dubai International Arbitration Centre (DIAC), UAE
Nadia Darwazeh
Partner,
Clyde & Co Paris, France
Noradele Radjai
Partner, Lalive Law Firm,
Geneva, Switzerland
Roula Harfouche
EXPERT, HKA,
UK
Lara Hammoud
Senior Legal Counsel, Abu Dhabi National Oil, UAE
Seif Hijazi
Legal Counsel, Borouge,
Abu Dhabi
Zeina Obeid
Senior Associate, Obeid Law Firm, Beirut, Lebanon
Myriam Eid
Head of the Arbitration & ADR Practice Al-Marri & El-Hage Law Office (Qatar)
Aysha Mutaywea
Partner, Mena Chambers, Manama, Bahrain
Aseel Barghuthi
Associate, Herbert Smith Freehills, New York, US/Jordan
Samer Abou Said
Counsel, The Firm,
Dubai, UAE
Nayiri Boghossian
Partner, Al Owais Law Firm,
Dubai, UAE
Sally Kotb
Counsel, Baker & Mackenzie,
Dubai, UAE
Fatima Balfaqeeh
Independent Arbitrator,
UAE
Anne Hoffmann
Independent Arbitrator,
UAE
Sara Koleilat-Aranjo
Partner, Al Tamimi & Co
Dubai / Abu Dhabi (UAE)
Caroline Croft
(co-chair)
Associate / Fellow, Squire Patton Boggs,  Queen Mary University of London,
UK
Lindsay Gastrell
(co-chair)
Senior Counsel / Adjunct Professorial Lecturer, Arbitration Chambers / American University
US
Louise Barber
(Secretary)
SENIOR ASSOCIATE, Herbert Smith Freehills
UK
Marta García Bel
(Secretary)
Associate, Freshfields
US, Spain & Italy
Rosario Galardi
Liaison Officer, Associate,
Freshfields
SOFIA KLOT
SENIOR ASSOCIATE, FRESHFIELDS
US, LATIN AMERICA
MAGUELONNE DE BRUGIERE
SENIOR ASSOCIATE,
HERBERT SMITH FREEHILLS
UK
Fabiana de Cerqueira Leite
Partner, Eleonora Coelho Advogados
Brazil
Sara Nadeau Seguin
Partner, Teynier Pic
Paris
representative for Canada
Catalina Amenábar Valenzuela
PRINCIPAL ASSOCIATE, Philippi Prietocarrizosa Ferrero DU & Uría
Chile
Jiaying (Angela) Yan
Senior Associate, Zhong Lun Law Firm
China
Prof. Dr. Diana Correa
Founding Partner & Arbitrator / Professor, Diana Correa International / Externado University
Colombia
Gabriele Ruscalla
Senior Associate, Liedekerke Wolters Waelbroeck Kirkpatrick
France
Isabel San Martin
Associate, Lalive
France
Olga Hamama
Founder and Partner / Arbitrator, V29 Legal
Germany
Eliza Jiang
Senior Associate, Fangda Partners
Hong Kong
Namrata Shah
Principal Associate, Rashmikant and Partners
India
Yoko Maeda
Partner, CITY-YUWA PARTNERS
Japan
Mirjam Trouw
Abayomi Okubote
Manager Partner / Executive Director, Pensbury Attorneys & Solicitors/Africa Arbitration Academy
Nigeria
Diana Gárate Moreno
Regulatory and Compliance Manager/Arbitrator, APM Terminals Callao
Peru
Hye Sung KIM
Attorney, Kim & Chang
South Korea
Krystle Maria Baptista Serna
INDEPENDENT ARBITRATOR, Krystle Baptista, KB | International Law & Arbitration; IE Law School
Spain
Shirin Saif
Roschier, Attorneys Ltd
Sweden
Catherine Anne Kunz
Partner, Lalive
Switzerland
Michele Potestà
Partner & Arbitrator/Senior Researcher / Adjunct Professor, Levy Kaufmann Kohler / CIDS / MIDS
Switzerland
Anna Wren
Senior Associate, Herbert Smith Freehills
UAE
Sally Kotb, FCIArb
Habib Al Mulla & Partners
UAE
Oksana Karel
Arzinger Law Office
Ukraine
Wing Shek
Deputy Registrar, London Court of International Arbitration
UK
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Chan
Allen & Overy, Queen Mary University of London
UK
Maguelonne de Brugiere
Senior Associate, Herbert Smith Freehills
UK
Sofia Klot
Senior Associate, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
US / Latin America
Kabir Duggal
Senior Associate / Arbitrator / Lecturer-in-Law, Arnold & Porter / Columbia Law School
US
Rekha Rangachari
Executive Director, New York International Arbitration Center
US
Sylvia Sámano Beristain
Hogan & Lovells
Mirèze Philippe
(co-chair)
ArbitralWoman
Emma Van Campenhoudt
CEPANI
Lilian Elizabeth Menezes Bertolani
CCMA CIESP/FIESP
Viktor von Essen
DIS
Ana Flávia Furtado
Center for Arbitration and Mediation of the Chamber of Commerce Brazil-Canada (CAM-CCBC)
Camilla Perera-de-Wit
Netherlands Arbitration Institute (NAI)
Christoffer Coello Hedberg
Arbitration Institute for the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC)
Daniel Rodrigues Aguiar
Case Manager, Centro de Arbitragem & Mediação AMCHAM
Deborah Tomkinson
Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (ACICA)
Diana Bayzakova
Tashkent International Arbitration Centre (TIAC)
Elisabeth Vanas-Metzler
Vienna International Arbitration Centre (VIAC)
Helena Tavares Erickson
CPR Dispute Resolution
Karima Sauma
International Center for Conciliation and Arbitration of the American Chamber of Commerce in Costa Rica
Korinna von Trotha
Swiss Arbitration Centre
Leticia Baddauy
Center for Arbitration and Mediation of the Chamber of Paraná (CAMFIEP)
Lina Bugaighis
DIFC|LCIA Arbitration Centre
Raquel Marangon
CAMARB, São Paulo
Rekha Rangachari
New York International Arbitration Center” (NYIAC)
Sarah Grimmer
Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre” (HKIAC)
Laura Aguilera Villalobos
CAM Santiago
Alice Frerichs
CAM Brazil
Chinelo Agbala
CIArb Nigeria Branch
Mwaka Ngoma
CIARB Zambia branch
Mercy Okiro
CIArb Kenya - Nairobi Centre for International Arbitration
Sub-Committee Co-Chairs
Dana MacGrath
Independent Arbitrator
MacGrath Arbitration
New York, New York, USA
Sarah Reynolds
Managing Partner
Goldman Ismail Tomasseli
Brennan & Baum
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Victoria Sahani
Associate Dean and Professor of Law
Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law
Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Sub-Committee Secretary
Nilufar Hossain
Associate Investment Manager,
Legal Counsel
Omni Bridgeway
San Francisco, California, USA
Sub-Committee Members
Susan Franck
Professor of Law
American University School of Law
Washington, DC, USA
Erin Gleason Alvarez
Independent Arbitrator and Mediator
Gleason Alvarez ADR
New York, New York, USA
Kiran Gore
Professorial Lecturer in Law,
GW Law Counsel,
Law Offices of Charles H. Camp, PC
Washington, DC, USA
Brody Greenwald
Partner
White & Case
Los Angeles, California, USA
Charles Harris
Partner
Mayer Brown
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Raimonda Kundrotaité
Director and Board Member
Baltic Litigation Fund
Austin, Texas, USA
Floriane Lavaud
Counsel
Debevoise & Plimpton
New York, New York, USA
Sara McBrearty
Senior Associate
King & Spalding
Houston, Texas, USA
Maria Julia Milesi
Senior Associate
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Washington, DC, USA
Les Schiefelbein
CEO & Founder
Schiefelbein Global Dispute Resolution
Palo Alto, California, USA
Quinn Smith
Managing Partner
GST
Miami, Florida, USA
Charlene Sun
Partner
DLA Piper
New York, New York, USA
Nancy Thevenin
General Counsel, USCIB
Independent Arbitrator,
Thevenin Arbitration
New York, New York, USA
Gretta Walters
Counsel
Chaffetz Lindsey
New York, New York, USA
David Wilson
Member
Sherman Howard
Denver, Colorado, USA
Charline Yim
Of Counsel
Gibson Dunn
New York, New York, USA
Jeffrey Zaino
Vice-President, Commercial Division
American Arbitration Association
New York, New York, USA
Sub-Committee Co-Chairs
Kate Apostolova
Freshfields
Sitpah Selvaratnam
Tommy Thomas
Sub-Committee Secretary
Ewa Kondracka
Freshfields
Malaysia
Shanti Mogan
Shearn Delamore & Co
Swee Im Tan
39 Essex Chambers
Australia
Lucy Martinez
Shearn Delamore & Co
Jo Delaney
HFW
Hong Kong
May Tai
HSF
Briana Young
HSF
Mariel Dimsey
CMS
Sarah Grimmer
HKIAC
Kiran Sanghera
HKIAC
Duncan Watson
Quinn Emmanuel
Stella Hu
Dechert
Singapore
Chiann Bao
independent arbitrator
Nick Lingard
Freshfields
Brenda Horrigan
independent arbitrator
Sheila Ahuja
A&O
Korea
Liz Chung
Netflix
Professor Joongi Kim (Mr.)
Yonsei Law School
Mainland China
Ling Yang
HKIAC
Lijun Cao
Zhonglun
Melody Wang
A&O
Helen Tang
HSF
Xueyu Yang
Hui Zhong
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