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MEMBERS OF THE PERMANENT COURT OF ARBITRATION

LISTE DES MEMBRES DE LA COUR PERMANENTE D’ARBITRAGE

Current List Liste actuelle Date of Date of
appointment latest renewal
Date de la Date du dernier
nomination renouvellement
Albania Albanie
Mr. QIRJAKO QIRKO, Ambassador, Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of 10 - 05 - 2016
Albania; July 2012-October 2013 Director of International Organizations in MFA;
September 2006–June 2012 Head of Minorities Department in Ministry of Foreign Affairs
of Albania; May 2001–June 2006 Ambassador of Republic of Albania in the Kingdom of
The Netherlands; January 1999–May 2001 Secretary General, Council of Ministers of
Republic of Albania; September 1997–January 1999 Director of Legal and Consular Affairs
Department Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Republic of Albania; October 1996–September
1997 Attorney at Law; September 1991–October 1996 Director of Legal and Consular
Affairs Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Republic of Albania; October
1986–September 1991 Public Prosecutor, The Attorneys Office of the District of Tirana
Other activities: Lecturer International Organizations (Master Program) in “Mesdhetar”
University– from 2012 to present; Lecturer of Human Rights in the University of Law
“Luarasi”, Tirana – from 2006–2011; Representative of the Republic of Albania in OPCW –
2001–2006; Deputy President of the Committee for checking the background of high
officials – 1999–2001; Representative of the Republic of Albania in OPCW – from 2001 to
present; Head of Albanian Delegation in: Conference on the gold looted by the German
Nazis during the Second World War – London, December 1997; Member of Delegation of
the Rome Conference for the adoption of the statute for the creation of International
Criminal Court – Rome, 1998; Representative of Republic of Albania in the Meeting of
Legal Advisors of countries member of ONU – New York, 1995; Representative of
Republic of Albania in the annual meetings of legal advisors of Ministries of Foreign
Affairs in the Council of Europe (Strasbourg) – during the period 1992–1996; Head of
Delegation of the Republic of Albania for the inventory of all the agreements between
Albania and Soviet Union – Moscow, 1998; Head of Delegation of the Republic of Albania
for the discussion on propriety issues between Greece and Albania – 1994; Head of
Delegation of the Republic of Albania on the preparation of Consular Treaties with:
Russia, Rumania – 1993 and 1994; Head of Delegation of the Republic of Albania on the
preparation of Friendship Treaties between Albania and: Greece, Turkey, Italy, France,
Rumania, Bulgaria, Russia – during the period 1992–1996.

Mrs. SUELA JANINA, October 2014– Ambassador, Head of Mission of Albania to the 10 - 05 - 2016
European Union; October 2015– Ambassador of Albania to Belgium and Luxembourg;
January–October 2014 General Director, Multilateral Relations Directorate, MFA ; June
2012–Jan. 2014 Director, Treaties and International Law Department, MFA; Feb.
2007–Jan. 2012 Legal Adviser, Treaties and International Law Department, MFA; Jan.
2004–Jan. 2007 Counsel, General Consulate of the Republic of Albania to Milan, Italy;
Aug. 1999–Jan. 2004 Legal Expert, International Law Department, MFA; Sept. 1998–July
1999 Assistant professor, Faculty of Law, University “Aleksandër Xhuvani” Elbasan
International experience: May 2011–2014 United Nation Committee on Enforced
Disappearances, Vice Chair; June 2015 Reelected for the second mandate as CED
member; June 2012–January 2014 Member of CAHDI, Committee of Legal Advisers on
Public International Law of the Council of Europe; May 2013 Alternate Arbitror, OSCE
Court of Conciliation and Arbitration. Avenue Franklin Roosevelt, 123, 1000 Brussels,
Belgium Telephone: [phone]; Fax: [phone]; E: mail: [email protected];
[email protected].

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Mr. ARMAND SKAPI, Director of the Treaties and International Department, Ministry of 10 – 05 - 2016
Foreign Affairs of Albania; May–December 2013, Director of NATO Department; June
2012-Apri1 2013, Chief of Cabinet of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Albania; February
2012–June 2012, Adviser to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Albania; February
2011–February 2012, Minister Counselor, Embassy of Albania, Rome, Italy; January
2009–February 2011, Director of Middle East and Africa Department; September
2006-December 2008, Head of Unit, Asia and Africa Department; July 2005-August 2006,
Director of Press and Public Diplomacy Department; January 2001-June 2005, Director of
UN and International Organizations Department; March 1999-December 2000, Desk
officer at the UN and International Organizations Department; January 1997-March 1999,
Desk Officer at the Legal and Consular Department. Other activities: May 2013 Arbitrator,
OSCE Court of Conciliation and Arbitration; 2002–2005 Head of Governmenta1 Expert
Group for the Drafting of Albanian National Reports to the UN Treaty Bodies for Human
Rights; 2003–2005, Member of the Albanian Commission for Refugees. 2009–2011, Guest
lecturer of International Law, Tirana European University. Bui. Gjergj Fishta, No. 6,
Tirana, Albania. E-mail: [email protected] .al.

Dr. GENTIAN ZYBERI, Associate Professor, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights;
2012-ongoing Associate professor, Faculty of Law/ Norwegian Centre for Human Rights,
University of Oslo/ Norway; 2012 2012 Assistant professor, Faculty of Law/ Amsterdam
Centre for International Law, University of Amsterdam/ The Netherlands; 2008- Legal
Counsel (pro bono), International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, The
Hague, The Netherlands.; 2009 Legal advisor and coordinator of the Albanian legal team
in the Kosovo Declaration of Independence case before the International Court of Justice
(ICJ). Special Advisor to the Albanian Minister of Foreign Affairs on Kosovo, Tirana,
Albania; 2008-2011 Assistant professor, Faculty of Law/ Netherlands Institute for Human
Rights, University of Utrecht/ the Netherlands; 2004-2012 Legal Assistant and
Interpreter, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, The Hague, The 10 – 05 - 2016
Netherlands; 2003-2007 PhD Candidate, Faculty of Law/ Netherlands Institute for
Human Rights, University of Utrecht/ the Netherlands.
Other National and International Professional Involvements: Member of the International
Law Association (ILA) International Committee on International Human Rights Law;
Member of the ILA Study Group on ‘The Conduct of Hostilities under International
Humanitarian Law - Challenges of 21st Century Warfare’;·Member of the European
Society of International Law (member of several interest groups); Member of the
Norwegian Association of International Law (Norwegian branch of the ILA); Member of
the Norsk militræjuridisk forening (Norwegian National Group of the International
Society for Military Law and the Law of War).

Argentina Argentine
Her Excellency Ms. SUSANA MYRTA RUIZ CERUTTI, Lawyer and career diplomat; 26 - 04 - 1995 03 - 02 - 2014
former Ambassador to Switzerland; Agent to the International Arbitral Tribunal dealing
with a border dispute between Argentina and Chile; former member or head of
delegations to several arbitral proceedings; former Legal Adviser; former Vice-Minister
and Minister of Foreign Affairs; former Ambassador to Canada; since November 2000
Secretary of State for Foreign Relations. Avda. Libertador Gral. San Martín 4408, piso 13,
1424 Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Dr. RAÚL EMILIO VINUESA, law degree from the University of Buenos Aires, The 21 - 11 - 2007 03 - 02 - 2014
Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Harvard Law School, University of Cambridge,
University of Amsterdam; Professor of International Law at the Faculty of Law, University
of Buenos Aires, and at the Argentine Foreign Service Institute; Arbitrator at MERCOSUR,
ICSID, CAR, ICC, SIECA; Judge ad hoc at the International Court of Justice; Member of the
Institut de Droit International. Arsenales 843 5 18, Buenos Aires (C1061AAC), Argentina;
tel.:/fax: [phone].

Mr. ENRIQUE J.A. CANDIOTI, Member and former Chairman of the United Nations 25 - 07 - 1997 03 - 02 - 2014
International Law Commission; former Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Legal
Adviser of the Argentine Foreign Ministry; former Ambassador to the United States of
America, Germany, Australia and New Zealand. Specializations: public international law,
law of the sea, territorial and boundary matters, international arbitration. Avda. Coronel
Díaz 2277 (10-A), C1425DQI Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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His Excellency Mr. HORACIO A. BASABE, Director of the Argentine Institute for the 28 - 01 - 2005 03 - 02 - 2014
Foreign Service; former professor of public international law (University of Buenos Aires);
former legal adviser and former under Secretary for Foreign Policy of the Argentine
Foreign Ministry; former Ambassador to the Czech Republic; former agent in the Laguna
del Desierto Arbitration. Beruti 535, B1828 HNK, Banfield, Argentina.

Australia Australie
Professor IVAN A. SHEARER, A.M. RFD., Emeritus Professor of Law, University of 23 - 10 - 1986 18 - 06 - 2011
Sydney; Adjunct Professor of Law, University of South Australia; former Challis Professor
of International Law; Judge ad hoc at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea;
Former Member of the UN Human Rights Committee (2001-2008), Vice President
(2006-2008). Past President of the Australian Branch of the International Law
Association. Specializations: law of the sea, law of armed conflict, national security law,
extradition law, international human rights law. School of Law, University of South
Australia, GPO Box 2471, Adelaide SA 5001, Australia; fax: + 61 8 8302 7128 ; e-mail:
[email protected].

Professor HILARY CHARLESWORTH, Professor of International Law and Human Rights 22 - 04 - 2009 24 - 04 - 2015
at the Australian National University since 1998; Professor and Director of the Centre for
International Governance and Justice in the Regulatory Institutions Network; Australian
Research Council Federation Fellow; educated at the University of Melbourne and
Harvard Law School; President of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International
Law from 1997 to 2001; appointed judge ad hoc of the International Court of Justice in 2011
for the Whaling in the Antarctic case. Specializations: public international law, international
human rights law, use of force, law of armed conflict, peace building and post-conflict legal
regimes. College of Law, The Australian National University, ACT 0200, Acton, Australia;
email: [email protected]; fax: [phone].

The Honourable ROBERT SHENTON FRENCH AC, Chief Justice of the High Court of 22 - 04 - 2009 24 - 04 - 2015
Australia since 1 September 2008; formerly a Judge of the Federal Court of Australia since
1986; President of the National Native Title Tribunal from 1994 to 1998; formerly a
member of the Supreme Court of Fiji; former additional member of the Supreme Court of
the Australian Capital Territory; former Deputy President of the Australian Competition
Tribunal; former Member of the Australian Law Reform Commission; former President,
Australian Association of Constitutional Law. High Court of Australia, PO Box 6309,
Kingston, ACT 2604, Australia; fax: [phone].

Mr. JUSTIN GLEESON SC, Solicitor General of the Commonwealth of Australia since 24 - 04 - 2015
2012; former Barrister at the New South Wales Bar (1989-2012); former Head of Banco
Chambers, Sydney (2005-2012); former member of the Commonwealth Takeovers Panel;
former member of the NSW Bar Council; former Solicitor at Freehill Hollingdale and Page
(1985-1989). Educated at the University of Sydney and the University of Oxford.
Attorney-General’s Department, 3-5 National Circuit, Barton, ACT, 2600, Australia; fax:
[phone]; e-mail: [email protected].

Austria Autriche
Prof. Dr. GERHARD HAFNER, Professor for International Law at the University of Vienna 15 - 05 - 2002 09 - 09 - 2014
(since 1990); Professor, Diplomatic Academy, Vienna; Permanent Guest Professor, Law
Faculty, Comenius University, Bratislava; Professor, Paneurópska Vysoká Škola, Fakulta
Práva, Bratislava, Jurisconsulte of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration
and Foreign Affairs. Memberships: Membre de l´Institut de Droit International; former
President, Austrian Branch, International Law Association; Chairman, ILA-Committee on
Succession of States; former Member of the Council of the German Society for
International Law; Member of the Academic Commission of the Diplomatic Academy in
Vienna; Member, American Society of International Law; Member, Société française pour
le droit international; Member, Austrian Society for European Law; Member of the
Committee of Publishers, Austrian Review of International and European Law; former
Member of the International Law Commission of the United Nations (ILC); Member of the
Governing Board and of the Executive Committee of the European Studies Institute
(Moscow). Fields of specific expertise: International Law for the prevention of
transboundary damage and liability; Peaceful settlement of disputes; Codification of
International Law; European Law; Law of Neutrality; Territorial aspects of International

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Law; Succession of States; International Criminal Law, Law of the Sea. Address: Institute
of European, International and Comparative Law, Section of International Law and
International Relations, University of Vienna, Schottenbastei 10-16, A-1010 Wien
(Austria), e-mail: [email protected].

Prof. MMag Dr. AUGUST REINISCH LL.M., Head of the Section of International Law and 09 - 09 - 2014
International Relations, University of Vienna; Deputy Head of the Department of
European, International and Comparative Law at the University of Vienna; Professor of
International and European Law at the University of Vienna (since 1998); Visiting
Professor at the University of Sydney, Australia; Member of the Panels of Conciliators and
of Arbitrators maintained by the International Centre for Settlement of Investment
Disputes (ICSID); Adjunct Professor at the Bologna Center of The Paul H. Nitze School of
Advanced International Studies/Johns Hopkins University in Bologna, Italy (1999 to
2010); Visiting Professor at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Internationales at the
University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas, France (2008). Memberships: Academic Council on
the United Nations System (ACUNS); American Bar Association (ABA); American Society
of International Law (ASIL); Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationales Recht (German
Society of International Law), member of the Governing Council since 2005; European
Communities Studies Association (ECSA); European Society of International Law (ESIL),
member of the Executive Board (2008-2014); International Law Association (ILA, member
of the former Committees on Accountability of International Organizations and on
International Law on Foreign Investment, member of the Study Group on State Insolvency
und Rapporteur of the Study Group on the Role of Soft-Law Instruments in International
Investment Law), President of the Austrian Branch since 2008; State of Connecticut Bar,
State of New York Bar; Member of the Austrian delegation to the Sixth Committee (Legal)
of the General Assembly of the United Nations (since 2012); Arbitrator on the In Rem
Restitution Panel according to the Austrian General Settlement Fund Law, Vienna. Fields
of specific expertise: Investment Law (indirect expropriation, fair and equitable treatment
and other standards of investment protection); International Economic Law
(Extraterritoriality, economic sanctions, WTO dispute settlement); The Law of
International Organizations (Responsibility of International Organizations); State
Responsibility (State of Necessity); Arbitration (Investment Arbitration); European Law
(External Trade, EC and WTO); International Economic Law; The Law of International
Organizations; State Responsibility; Arbitration. Address: Section of International Law
and International Relations, University of Vienna, Schottenbastei 10-16, A-1010 Wien
(Austria), Telephone number: [phone], Fax number: [phone], e-mail:
[email protected]

Prof. Dr. DDr. h.c. WOLFGANG BENEDEK, Professor for International Law and 09 - 09 - 2014
International Relations at the University of Graz (since 1990); Director of the European
Training and Research Centre for Human Rights and Democracy of University of Graz
(UNI-ETC); Lecturer at Diplomatic Academy Vienna and at the European MA
Programmes on Human Rights and Democratization in Venice and Sarajevo; 1989-92
Advisor to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights in Banjul, Gambia;
since 1993 Chair (of Board) of World University Service (WUS) Austria with large
programmes for the reconstruction of universities and the establishment of human rights
centres at universities in the Balkans. Memberships: 2000-2012, Member of the Human
Rights Advisory Board of the Austrian Federal Ministry of the Interior; since 2007
Chair/Member of the Human Rights Advisory Board of the city of Graz (Austria); Chair of
Media Appeals Board of Independent Media Commission of Kosovo (2005-2011); Member
of the Enforcement Panel of Communication Regulation Agency in Sarajevo (1999-2004).
Fields of specific expertise: International and regional human rights, women and human
rights, terrorism and human rights, globalisation and human rights, human rights
education, international economic organisations and global governance, human security,
information society and human rights. Address: University of Graz; Universitätsstraße 15
Bauteil A/4 (Institut für Völkerrecht) A-8010 Graz (Austria), Telephone number: +43 316
380 - 3411, e-mail: [email protected]

Prof. Dr. URSULA KRIEBAUM, Professor of International Law at the University of Vienna 09 - 09 - 2014
(since 2011); Professorial Lecturer at the Loyola University New Orleans College of Law
Summer Legal Studies Program (since 2008); Legal expert in various investment
arbitrations and human rights cases; Alternate Member of the Court of Conciliation and

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Arbitration within the OSCE (since 2013); Consultant of the National Fund for Victims of
National Socialism of the Republic of Austria (since 2001); Member of the Austrian
Human Rights Advisory Board nominated by Amnesty International (July 1999 – June
2002); Legal Advisor’s Office at the Austrian Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs (2000 –
2001); Member of the team of the Special envoy for restitution issues for the Austrian
Holocaust Restitution Negotiations 2000/2001; Austrian Delegate to the Preparatory
Commission for the International Criminal Court Memberships: Member, International
Law Association (ILA, former Secretary and Treasurer of the Austrian Branch, member of
the International Human Rights Law Committees); Member, European Society of
International Law; Member, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationales Recht (German
Society of International Law) Member, Austrian Arbitration Association. Fields of specific
expertise: International Protection of Human Rights; International Investment Law
(expropriation, fair and equitable treatment and other standards of investment protection,
human rights and foreign investments); Expropriation in International Law; International
Investment Arbitration; Restitution of Property Dispossessed during the Nazi-Regime;
Implementation of International Human Rights Obligations in National Law Regimes.
Address: Section of International Law and International Relations, University of Vienna,
Schottenbastei 10-16, A-1010 Wien (Austria), Telephone number: [phone], Fax
number: [phone], e-mail: [email protected]

Bangladesh Bangladesh
Justice MD. TOFAZZAL ISLAM is a former Judge of the High Court Division of the 15 - 09 - 2015
Supreme Court of Bangladesh. He was appointed as a Judge to the High Court Division of
the Supreme Court of Bangladesh on 23 February 1997. He retired from the High Court
Division on 24 January 2008. Presently, he serves as Chairman of Arbitral Tribunal to
resolve the international commercial disputes and member of several Tribunals. Mr. Md.
Awlad Ali was enrolled as a pleader under the High Court of Judicature of the then East
Pakistan (presently Bangladesh) in 1965. He became a member of Dhaka District Bar
Association in January 1966. He was enrolled as an Advocate of the Supreme Court of
Bangladesh and became member of the Supreme Court Bar Association in March 1973.
He was enrolled as a Senior Advocate of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of
Bangladesh in January 1995. Mr. Md. Awlad Ali started dealing with the arbitration cases
since 1969. During his professional career, Mr. Md. Awlad Ali conducted good number of
commercial arbitration cases as a lawyer of the contesting parties including an arbitration
case of a London-based shipping company Alam Maritime. He was a sole Arbitrator in the
arbitration cases of the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh. After retirement from the
High Court Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh in January 2008, Justice Md.
Awlad Ali again entered into the arbitration jurisdiction both in international and
domestic commercial arbitration and disposed of many cases being the Chairman of the
Arbitral Tribunal. He also served as a member of the Tribunal in some other cases. In the
recent past, some of the international commercial arbitration cases disposed of by the
Arbitral Tribunal of which he was the Chairman. The list of the cases include Young Sung
Co. Ltd., a company of the Republic of Korea VS. Bangladesh Chemical Industries
Corporation (BCCI); Crystal Inc., a company of the Republic of Korea VS. BCCI; Autoen
Company Ltd., a company of the Republic of Korea VS. BCCI; HRBC (a Chinese company)
INTRACO (BD) Joint Venture VS. Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh
represented by Chief Engineer, Roads & Highways Department, Ministry of Road
Transport and Bridges; Jamuna Builders Ltd. (Jamuna Future Park) VS. Dunhum Bush
Industries SDN. Bhd., a Malaysian company (as a member of the Tribunal). Justice Md.
Awlad Ali completed his matriculation in 1957 and obtained Bachelor of Arts degree in
1962 from Rajshahi University of Bangladesh. He obtained L.L.B. in 1965 and Master of
Arts in Political Science in 1966 from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Contact:
[phone]; [phone]; [email protected]

Justice MD. AWLAD ALI is a former Justice of the High Court Division of the Supreme 15 - 09 - 2015
Court of Bangladesh. He was appointed as a Judge to the High Court Division of the
Supreme Court of Bangladesh on 23 February 1997. He retired from the High Court
Division on 24 January 2008. Presently, he serves as Chairman of Arbitral Tribunal and
member of several Tribunals. Mr. Md. Awlad Ali was enrolled as a pleader under the High
Court of Judicature of the then East Pakistan (presently Bangladesh) in 1965. He became a
member of Dhaka District Bar Association in January 1966. He was enrolled as an
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Bar Association in March 1973. He was enrolled as a Senior Advocate of the Appellate
Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh in December 1994 (certificate of granted in
January 1995). Mr. Md. Awlad Ali started dealing with the arbitration cases since 1969.
During his professional career, Mr. Md. Awlad Ali conducted good number of commercial
arbitration cases as a lawyer of the contesting parties including an arbitration case of a
London-based shipping company Alam Maritime. He was a sole Arbitrator in the
arbitration cases of the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh. After retirement from the
High Court Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh in January 2008, Justice Md.
Awlad Ali again entered into the arbitration jurisdiction both in international and
domestic commercial arbitration and disposed of many cases being the Chairman of the
Arbitral Tribunal. He also served as a member of the Tribunal in some other cases. In the
recent past, some of the international commercial arbitration cases disposed of by the
Arbitral Tribunal of which he was the Chairman. The list of the cases include Young Sung
Co. Ltd., a company of the Republic of Korea VS. Bangladesh Chemical Industries
Corporation (BCCI); Crystal Inc., a company of the Republic of Korea VS. BCCI; Autoen
Company Ltd., a company of the Republic of Korea VS. BCCI; HRBC (a Chinese company)
INTRACO (BD) Joint Venture VS. Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh
represented by Chief Engineer, Roads & Highways Department, Ministry of Road
Transport and Bridges; Jamuna Builders Ltd. (Jamuna Future Park) VS. Dunhum Bush
Industries SDN. Bhd., a Malaysian company (as a member of the Tribunal). Justice Md.
Awlad Ali completed his matriculation in 1957 and obtained Bachelor of Arts degree in
1962 from Rajshahi University of Bangladesh. He obtained L.L.B. in 1965 and Master of
Arts in Political Science in 1966 from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Justice Md.
Awlad Ali was born on 27 January 1941. Contact: [phone]; [phone];
[email protected]

Dr. PAYAM AKHAVAN is Professor of International at McGill University. He is a member 24 - 06 - 2016
of the Law Society of Upper Canada and the New York State bar and has appeared as
counsel and advocate in leading cases before the International Court of Justice, the
International Criminal Court, the Permanent Court of Arbitration, the International
Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, the European Court of Human Rights, and the Supreme
Courts of Canada and the United States.
Academic Appointments: Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, McGill University,
2006-present; Visiting Fellow, Kellogg College, Oxford University, United Kingdom,
2014-16; Visiting Professor, Université Paris Ouest (Nanterre la Défense), Paris, France,
2015; Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow, European University Institute, Florence, Italy,
2013-14; Visiting Professor, Sciences Po, Paris, France, 2012; Boulton Senior Fellow,
Faculty of Law, McGill University, 2005-2006; Senior Fellow, Yale Law School & Yale
University Genocide Studies Program, New Haven, USA, 2003-2005; Distinguished
Visiting Professor, University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, 2002; Visiting Senior Lecturer &
Senior Fellow, Leiden University, The Netherlands, 2000-2001; Visiting Lecturer, Yale
Law School, New Haven, USA, 1998; Research Fellow, Danish Institute of Human Rights,
Copenhagen, Denmark, 1991-1993; Research Fellow, University of Oslo Faculty of Law,
Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, Oslo, Norway, 1990-1991.
Professional Appointments: Senior Associate, Debevoise & Plimpton, International
Arbitration practice, New York, 2001-2002; Legal Advisor, Office of the Prosecutor,
International Criminal Tribunals for former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, The Hague, The
Netherlands, 1994-2000; Human Rights Officer, United Nations Centre for Human
Rights, Geneva & Zagreb/Sarajevo, 1993-1994.
Education: S.J.D., Harvard University, 2001; LL.M., Harvard University, 1990; LL.B.;
Osgoode Hall Law School, 1989, Admitted to the New York State bar 2002; Admitted to
the Law Society of Upper Canada, 2012.
Other Activities and Distinctions: Selected to deliver the 2017 Massey Lectures (CBC &
Massey College); Selected to deliver the 2016 Jean-Gabriel Castel Lecture on International
Law (Glendon College); Selected to deliver the 2014 Vancouver Human Rights Lecture
(CBC Ideas & Laurier Institution); Member of the American Society of International Law
Honours Committee; Honourary Member of the Golden Key Society; Selected by the
World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader (2005); Advisor to the UN in Bosnia,
Cambodia, Croatia, Guatemala, Rwanda & Timor Leste; Author of Report on the Work of
the Office of the Special Advisor of the UN Secretary-General on the Prevention of
Genocide (2005); Chairman of the Conference From Truth to Reconciliation: Towards a
Just Future for Canada’s Indigenous Peoples (2016); Chairman of Global Conference on

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Prevention of Genocide (2007); Appointed by the Government of Canada as Director of
Rights & Democracy (2008-10); Co-Founder and Director of Iran Human Rights
Documentation Centre (2004-present); Appointed by the Presidency of the European
Community as Special Rapporteur of the Mission of the Conference on Security and
Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) to investigate places of detention in the former Yugoslavia
(1993); Member of the CSCE Special Rapporteur Mission to the former Yugoslavia (1992)
under the Moscow Human Dimension Mechanism (mission that first proposed the
establishment of an international criminal jurisdiction); Author of numerous opinion
editorials, and expert interviews in CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera, CBC, New York Times,
Washington Post, National Post, Globe & Mail, etc.; International law career featured on
BBC, HARDtalk, New York Times, CBC Ideas, Macleans Magazine, etc. Professor Akhavan
has published extensively in leading international journals and is author of several books.
Contact details: New Chancellor Day Hall, 3644 Peel Street, Room 614, Montreal Quebec;
Canada H3A 1W9; Tel: [phone]; e-mail: [email protected]

Belarus Bélarus
His Excellency ULADZIMIR A. SAKALOUSKI, former Ambassador Extraordinary and 03 - 05 - 2013
Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Belarus to the Republic of India and to the People's
Republic of Bangladesh, former Director of the Treaty and Law Department, Ministry of
Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus. Specializations: international law, international
organizations, diplomatic and consular law, treaty law. Contact details: Lenina 19,
220030, Minsk, Republic of Belarus; tel.: [phone]; fax: [phone];
e-mail: [email protected].

His Excellency VALYANTSIN N. FISENKA, PhD (international law), Professor of 03 - 05 - 2013
International Law of the Belarusian State University in Minsk, former Ambassador
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Belarus to Austria, Permanent
Representative of Belarus to the International organizations in Vienna, Permanent
Representative of Belarus to the OSCE, former Director of the Treaty and Law
Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus; member of Advisory
Board of Experts to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus.
Specializations: international law, international organizations, diplomatic and consular
law, treaty law, international humanitarian law, law of the sea; has a number of
publications on international and private law. Contact details: Lenina 19, 220030, Minsk,
Republic of Belarus; tel.: [phone]; fax: [phone]; e-mail:
[email protected].

His Excellency Mr. MIKHAIL M. KHVOSTOV, Permanent Representative of the Republic 09 - 06 - 1995 03 - 05 - 2013
of Belarus to the United Nations Office and other International Organizations in Geneva,
former Minister for Foreign Affairs, former Ambassador to the United States of America,
former Ambassador to Canada, former Representative to ICAO. Specializations:
international law, international economic law, international organizations, diplomatic
and consular law, treaty law. Contact details: Avenue de la Paix, 15, 1202 Geneva,
Switzerland; tel.: + 41 22 748 24 50; fax: [phone]; e-mail:
[email protected].

Ms. OLGA G. SERGEEVA, Deputy Chairperson of the Constitutional Court of the Republic 03 - 05 - 2013
of Belarus, former Deputy Minister of Justice of the Republic of Belarus. Specializations:
international law, constitutional law, international commercial law. Contact details: K.
Marksa, 32, 220016, Minsk, Republic of Belarus; tel.: + 375 17 327 80 12, fax: [phone]
52 09; e-mail: [email protected].

Belgium Belgique
M. ERIK FRANCKX, Professeur et Directeur du Centre de droit international et européen 01 - 07 - 2006 01 - 07 - 2012
à la « Vrije Universiteit Brussel »; chargé de cours à l’Université libre de Bruxelles ;
Professeur adjoint au Vesalius College (Bruxelles) et enseignant à la Brussels School of
International Studies (University of Kent at Canterbury, Bruxelles). 2, av. de la Plaine,
B-1050 Bruxelles, Belgique ; tél.: [phone] ; fax: [phone] ; e-mail:
[email protected].

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Brazil Brésil
Prof. M. CELSO LAFER, Minister of Foreign Relations; graduate of Political Science at 02 - 09 - 2002 17 - 07 - 2012
Cornell University, New York; post-doctoral studies in International Public Law at
University of São Paulo (USP) (1977); professor at the Law School, (USP) since 1971;
former Chairman of the Department of Jurisprudence and General Theory of Law School
(USP), Vice-Chairman of 1992 United Nations Rio Conference on Environment and
Development; Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Brazil to the World Trade
Organization (WTO) (1995-1998); Av. Brigadeiro Faria Lima, 1306-10 andar, CEP:
01451-914, São Paulo, Brazil; tel.: + 5511 3816 0306; fax: [phone].

Mme NADIA DE ARAUJO, Master of Comparative law, (George Washington University); 18 - 06 - 2004 17 - 07 - 2012
Docteur en Droit (Université de São Paulo); membre et Secrétaire Générale de la Société
Brésilienne de Droit International; Procureur de Justice pour l’état de Rio de Janeiro;
Professeur de droit international privé de la Pontificale Université Catholique, Rio de
Janeiro (PUC-Rio); Arbitre désigné par le Gouvernement du Brésil au système de solution
de disputes du MERCOSUL. Spécialisations: droit international privé, arbitrage
commercial, droit de l’intégration. Rua General Rabelo, 64 ap. 201, Rio de Janeiro,
22.451-010, Brésil; tél.: [phone] ; fax: [phone] ; e-mail:
[email protected].

Mr. ANTÔNIO AUGUSTO CANÇADO TRINDADE, Member of the International Court of 26 – 05 - 2016
Justice since 6 February 2009; served as Judge in the Inter-American Court of Human
Rights for twelve years, and as its President for half a decade and was throughout this
time in close contact with the distinct legal systems of the countries of the American
continent and the Caribbean; Sustained links with The Hague, through the Hague
Academy of International Law, go back to 1971; Represented Brazil in many international
human rights meetings, regional and world conferences including those of the United
Nations and the Organization of American States. Former advisor to international
entities, such as UNHCR, UNDP, UNESCO, UNEP and, at regional level, the OAS and the
Council of Europe. Emeritus Professor of International Law of the University of Brasilia,
Brazil; Honorary Professor of the University of Utrecht, and Honorary Fellow of the
University of Cambridge. Doctor Honoris Causa of seven Latin American Universities, and
two European Universities; Member of the Curatorium of The Hague Academy of
International Law, as well as the Institut de Droit International, and the Board of the
International Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg. Author of 52 books and around
680 monographs, contributions to books, essays and articles on international law,
published in numerous countries and several languages. The full curriculum vitae of
Judge Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade can be found at <http://www.icj-cij.org/court/
index.php?p1=1&p2=2&p3=1&judge=167>

Prof. EDUARDO GREBLER, Bachelor of Laws (Federal University of Minas Gerais); LL.M. 18 - 06 - 2004 17 - 07 - 2012
S.J.D. (residence) (Columbia University Law School); Attorney-at-law; Professor of Private
International Law at the School of Law of the Catholic University of Minas Gerais;
President of the International Law Association (ILA) (2008-2010); member of the List of
Brazilian Ad Hoc Arbitrators for the Mercosur Treaty (2004 - ), practicing counsel and
commercial arbitrator; author of several published works on arbitration and international
trade law. Av. Raja Gabaglia, 1400 – 8º andar, Gutierrez, 30441-194, Belo Horizonte, MG,
Brazil; tel: [phone]; e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected].

Bulgaria Bulgarie
Prof. Dr. TSVETANA KAMENOVA, Director of the Institute for Legal Studies, Bulgarian 28 - 07 - 2014
Academy of Sciences, Head of the International Law Department of the same institute;
Member of the Executive Council of the International Law Association; Honorary Member
of the Governing Council of UNIDROIT; Member of the Arbitration Court of the Bulgarian
Chamber of Commerce and Industry; Professor at Plovdiv University Law School; Judge
ad litem, ICTY (2006-2009); International Consultant; Former Chief Expert, Council of
Ministers of the Republic of Bulgaria. President of the Bulgarian Association of
Comparative Law. Specializations: private international law, commercial litigation,
intellectual property, international protection of human rights, international
humanitarian law. 4, Serdika Street, Sofia 1000, Bulgaria; tel.:+ 359 88 8226480; e-mail:
[email protected].

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Cameroon Cameroun
Prof. MAURICE KAMTO, Docteur en droit ; Professeur à l'Université de Yaoundé II, à 19 - 10 - 2010
l'Institut des Relations Internationales du Cameroun, à l'Ecole Nationale
d'Administration et de Magistrature ; Professeur associé aux Universités de Douala, de
Dschang, à l'Université Catholique d'Afrique Centrale ; ministre Délégué auprès du
Vice-Premier ministre, ministre de la Justice, Garde des Sceaux du Cameroun (déc.
2004 - ) ; membre de la Commission du droit international des Nations Unies depuis mai
1999 et Premier Vice-Président de la Commission en 2000 ; membre du Conseil des
ministres de l'Organisation pour l'Harmonisation en Afrique du droit des Affaires ;
membre et conseiller juridique de la délégation camerounaise à la Conférence
diplomatique de Rome pour la création de la Cour pénale internationale (CPI) (juillet 1998)
; à la première session de la Commission préparatoire pour la CPI (février 1999) ; Chef de
la délégation du Cameroun à la Conférence de révision du Statut de la CPI (juillet 2010).
Ministère de la Justice, B.P. 11261 Yaoundé, Cameroun ; tél. : [phone] ; e-mail :
[email protected].

M. MICHEL MAHOUVE. Ce Magistrat Hors Hiérarchie 1er Groupe est Directeur des 29 - 06 - 2015
Affaires Non Répressives et du Sceau au Ministère de la Justice. Il est titulaire d’un
Doctorat en Droit obtenu à l’Université Panthéon-Assas/Paris II. Ancien Directeur des
Droits de l’Homme et de la Coopération Internationale au Ministère de la Justice, il est
Chargé de Cours à l’Institut des Relations Internationales du Cameroun et à l’Université
Catholique d’Afrique Centrale (UCAC). Il est l’auteur de l’ouvrage intitulé : « Le Cameroun
et les Organes Internationaux de Contrôle des Droits de l’Homme ».

Mme. GALEGA FEH HELEN KWANGA. Magistrat Hors-Hiérarchie 2éme groupe, elle 29 - 06 - 2015
assume les fonctions de Directeur des Droits de l’Homme et de la Coopération
Internationale au Ministère de la Justice depuis 2012. Elle est titulaire d’un LL.M (Master)
en Droit de l’Homme et Droit International Humanitaire obtenu avec mention très bien à
l’Université d’Essex au Royaume Uni en 2003. Depuis 1989, année de son intégration
dans le corps de la Magistrature du Cameroun, elle a occupé plusieurs postes de
responsabilité au Ministère de la Justice, notamment celui de Chef du Service du Casier
judiciaire, Chef du Service de la Coopération Judiciaire et celui de Sous-Directeur de la
Coopération Internationale à la Direction des Droits de L’Homme et de la Coopération
Internationale. Elle a été la première à occuper le poste de Point focal pour les affaires du
Commonwealth au Ministère de la Justice de 1995 à 2012.

M. JEAN BOSCO ESSOH. Magistrat de 4éme Grade, il exerce en qualité de Procureur Général 29 - 06 - 2015
près la Cour d’Appel de l’Est. Il est titulaire d’un DEA en Droits fondamentaux, d’un
Master en Droit International Comparé de l’environnement, d’un Certificat doctoral du
CIEDHU et d’un Doctorat en droit, mention droit international et relations
internationales. Chercheur Associé au Centre de Droit international (Lyon-France), à
l’Equipe de Droit International et Comparé (Lyon-France) et au Centre pour
l’Environnement et le Développement (Cameroun), il est l’auteur d’une thèse sur les
Relations entre les Droits de l’Homme et l’environnement.

Canada Canada
WILLIAM R. (BILL) CROSBIE, is a native of St. John's, Newfoundland. He is a graduate of 25 - 06 - 2014
Dalhousie University Law School, Halifax, Nova Scotia and of Memorial University of
Newfoundland. He has worked with the Federal Government since 1986, both as a
Ministerial Advisor (in the portfolios of Transport, International Trade and Fisheries and
Oceans) and as a Trade Negotiator. His experience in trade negotiations began with the
Canada-U.S. FTA in 1988 and continued with the NAFTA, the Uruguay Round of
Multilateral Trade Negotiations and the creation of the WTO. From 1997-2000, he held
several positions within the then Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade
focusing on trade policy issues and negotiations related to services, investment,
competition policy, intellectual property, cultural industries, telecommunications and
electronic commerce. In August 2000, he was named Minister-Counsellor, Economic and
Trade Policy, at the Canadian Embassy in Washington DC. In September 2004, he was
appointed Director General of the North America Bureau where he was responsible for
Canada's bilateral relations with the U.S. and Mexico and for the trilateral
Canada-U.S.-Mexico agenda. In October 2007, Bill became the first Assistant Deputy
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as Canada's Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan in August 2009 - a
rewarding position that he held for two years during which Canada's military combat
mission and Provincial Reconstruction Team in Kandahar concluded and Canada's new
training and development mission for the period 2011-2014 was launched. In September
2011, Bill returned to headquarters as the Assistant Deputy Minister for the recently
expanded Consular, Security and Emergency Management Branch. When the
Department transitioned to a new organizational model (combining functional and
geographic duties) in May 2012, Bill became responsible for North America. In November
2013, with the amalgamation of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International
Trade and the Canadian International Development Agency, Bill became the Assistant
Deputy Minister of the Consular, Security and Legal Branch at the Department of Foreign
Affairs, Trade and Development. Bill also holds the title of Legal Adviser. Department of
Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada (DFATD), 125 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, ON,
K1A0G2; Tel. [phone].

Chile Chili
Ms. XIMENA FUENTES TORRIJO, D.Phil. (Oxon.); Lawyer; Associate Professor of 07 - 07 - 2004 29 - 11 - 2013
International Law at the University Adolfo Ibañez; Assistant Professor of International
Law at University of Chile; Vice President of the Chilean Society of International Law;
Member of the International Law Association; Co-Rapporteur of the Committee on
Sustainable Development. Areas of expertise: international environmental law, human
rights, sustainable development, peaceful settlement of international disputes. Avda.
Presidente Errazuriz 3485, Las Condes, Providencia, Santiago de Chile, Chile; tel.:
[phone]; e-mail: [email protected].

Her Excellency MARÍA TERESA INFANTE CAFFI studied at the University of Chile and at 20 - 03 - 2013
the Graduate Institute of International Studies of Geneva; has been an intern in The
Hague Academy of International Law and taught at the External Programme of the
Academy in 1991 and 2011; visiting professor at CEDIN, Belo Horizonte, Brazil; University
Jaume I, Castellón; Catholic University of Lima and national University of Córdoba,
Argentina; is a professor of the University of Chile and teaches at the Diplomatic Academy
of Chile; has been Director of the Institute of International Studies of the University of
Chile till 1995 and Director of its Graduate Program; Co-director of the Master's
Programme in International Law jointly offered by the University of Heidelberg and
University of Chile; Delegate to the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea and
Antarctic Consultative Meetings; Member of the Institute of International Law; Appointed
Director of Frontiers and Limits of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1997; and co-agent to
the International Court of Chile in the case Peru v. Chile, 2008. Dirección Nacional de
Fronteras y Límites del Estado, Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores,Teatinos 180,
Santiago, Chile; tel.: [phone], fax.: [phone], e-mail:
[email protected].

His Excellency Mr. EDMUNDO VARGAS CARREÑO, Lawyer; Professor of International 04 - 07 - 1990 29 - 11 - 2013
Law, Secretary-General of the Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin
America and the Caribbean (OPANAL); former Juridical Counselor at the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs of Chile; former Director of the Diplomatic Academy; former
Executive-Secretary of the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights of the OAS;
former Under-Secretary of Foreign Affairs; former Member of the Intl. Law Commission.
Schiller 326, 11570 Mexico DF, Mexico; e-mail:[email protected].

Mr. EDUARDO VÍO GROSSI, Lawyer; Doctor in Public Law at the University of Social 20 - 08 - 1990 29 - 11 - 2013
Sciences of Grenoble, France; President of the Inter-American Juridical Committee of the
OAS, former President of the Administrative Tribunal of the Latin American Association
for Integration; Professor of International Public Law at the University Diego Portales,
Santiago de Chile and at the Diplomatic Academy “Andrés Bello” of the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs of Chile. La Concepción 65, oficina 704, Providencia, Santiago de Chile,
Chile; tel.: [phone] and 9264; fax: [phone]; e-mail: [email protected].

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