Michael Bridge was an undergraduate and postgraduate student at LSE before starting his academic career. Before coming to the LSE in 2007, he held chairs in law at McGill University, the University of Nottingham and UCL, and was Dean of the Faculty of Laws at UCL. He has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Leeds, Malaya, Hong Kong, Melbourne, Sydney and Auckland and at Monash University. In 2013, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. In 2014 he was called as a Bencher of the Middle Temple, and in 2017 made a QC (honoris causa).

Louise Barrington is a chartered arbitrator and accredited mediator, legally qualified in Ontario, New York and England. A multicultural Canadian, she also holds a British passport. Ms Barrington is principal of Aculex Transnational Inc. She frequently acts as sole arbitrator, co-arbitrator named by parties and by institutions, and has chaired ICC and ad hoc panels. She has taught international, commercial, construction and arbitration law at University of Ottawa, King’s College London, City University of Hong Kong, LaTrobe in Melbourne and Georgetown in Washington.

Louise founded and continues to direct the annual Vis East International Arbitration Moot and is the founder and honorary president of ArbitralWomen. Ms Barrington speaks English and French fluently, plus conversational Spanish and a little German and Mandarin.

Hiroo Sono is a Professor of Law at Hokkaido University, Japan. His main fields of research interest lay in contract law (including consumer law) and international commercial law. He approaches these fields from the perspective of interaction between private ordering and the regulatory function of private law; and also from the perspective of globally and regionally coordinated developments in commercial law.

Recently, he has been most active in the field of international commercial law. He is one of the founding members of the CISG Advisory Council (CISG-AC) since 2001 and the Global Private Law Forum (GPLF) of Japan since 2014. From 2006 to 2008, he served as Counsellor, Civil Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Justice where he was responsible for Japan’s accession to the CISG. From 2008 to 2018 he served as the Japanese delegate to UNCITRAL Working Group VI (Security Interests) and is also a National Correspondent to UNIDROIT since 2015.

Prof. Yeşim M. Atamer is a full professor of Private Law at Bern University, Faculty of Law and an adjunct professor at Istanbul Bilgi University. Her main areas of research are law of domestic and international sale of goods, Turkish and EU consumer law and harmonization of European contract law. As a scholar of the European Union Jean Monnet program, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Max Planck Society, Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (Unidroit) and the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey she has conducted research in Lausanne, Basel, Rome, Munich, Hamburg and Cambridge (USA).

In 2007 she was awarded the Distinguished Young Scientist Award of the Turkish Academy of Sciences. She is elected member of the Science Academy (Turkey); the International Academy of Comparative Law, and the International Academy of Commercial and Consumer Law. Atamer is a contributor to the major commentary on the Unidroit Principles of International Commercial Contracts edited by Vogenauer (2nd edition Oxford University Press, 2015) and the CISG commentary edited by Kröll, Mistelis and Perales Viscasillas (2nd edition, Hart Publishing 2018). Atamer is member of the CISG Advisory Council since 2013. She has been active in legal practice as arbitrator and legal expert in national and international disputes.

Prof. Milena Djordjević is a Director of Center for Legal Skills and an Assistant Professor at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law where she teaches International Commercial Law, International Commercial Arbitration, Foreign Investment Law, EU Trade Policy and Legal English. She holds an LL.B. (U. Belgrade), LL.M. (U. Pittsburgh), and a Dr. iur. (U. Belgrade) degree.

She is a member of: the ICC Court of Arbitration, ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR, ICC Central and Eastern European Arbitration Group, Supervisory Board of Equal Representation in Arbitration Pledge, Board of Serbian Arbitration Association, Board of Serbian Association of Commercial Lawyers and she is a national CLOUT correspondent to UNCITRAL for Serbia.

Dr. Djordjević has published extensively on the CISG, arbitration, WTO law and EU trade law in prestigious domestic and international publications (including the CISG commentary edited by Kröll, Mistelis and Perales Viscasillas). Her doctoral dissertation on the topic "Damages for Breach of International Sales Contract" was awarded by the Belgrade Chamber of Commerce in 2013.

Professor Alejandro Garro teaches at Columbia University School of Law, where he is also a Senior Research Scholar at the Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law. A member of the Columbia Law School Faculty since 1981, he has been teaching in the fields of Comparative Law, International Business Transactions and Latin American Legal Systems. His principal areas of teaching and research at present are international commercial contracts and transnational arbitration and litigation.

He regularly gives courses and seminars in Latin America (including the National Universities of Buenos Aires and La Plata (Argentina), Universidad Iberoamericana and Escuela Libre de Derecho (Mexico), Universidad de Montevideo (Uruguay), Universidad Francisco Marroqui (Guatemala), and Universidad de Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil). and he is a regular Visiting Professor at the Université de Strasbourg and the University of Mainz.

Professor Garro is an expert to the delegation of the Government of Argentina before the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) and before the OAS Conference on Private International Law (CIDIP). He also represents the American Association of Private International Law (ASADIP) before the Hague Conference on Private International Law and the New York City Bar Association before the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT).

Edgardo Muñoz is a leading voice in the field of international business law as member of Universidad Panamericana's law faculty in Guadalajara, Mexico, from where he frequently contributes in specialized publications and discussion forums.

Edgardo Muñoz received his Bachelor of Laws from Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico, and Master degrees from University of Liverpool in the U.K. and University of California in Berkley. He also holds a Doctoral degree from University of Basel in Switzerland.

Besides his academic commitments, he practices in the area of international contracting and arbitration. He sits as arbitrator in international forums and represents clients in commercial and sport proceedings.

Alfredo Ferrante is current Director of the Department of Private Law of University Alberto Hurtado in Santiago de Chile (Chile) and former professor at the university of Oviedo and Girona.

Doctor in Law at the University of Oviedo (Spain), with honors and awarded by Sancho Rebullida prize. He received his Bachelor of Laws from University of Pisa (Italy) and Oviedo.

Visiting researcher in the University of Columbia, Max Planck Institute, Swiss Institute of Comparative Law and Sorbonne University; visiting professor in the University of Brescia and University Paris XII (Nanterre).

He is a member of European law Institute (ELI), of Associazione Italiana di Diritto Comparato (AIDC), Societá italiana per il diritto comparato (SIRD) International Society of family Law (ISFL), and Association Henri Capitant des amis culture juridique française.

Daniel Jacob Nogueira, FCIArb. Founding name partner of a prominent law firm in the Brazilian state of Amazonas. Law degree from the Federal University of Amazonas (UFAM) in 1998. Masters of Law degree conferred by the University of Texas at Austin (2000). As a reelected Councilman of Federal Council of the Brazilian Bar, he is one of the 81 lawyers nationwide who make up the Bar's highest governing body for all of Brazil. Visiting professor at various post-graduate and extension programs, including at PUC (São Paulo), UNIPE (Paraiba), Damásio (São Paulo), UNISC and Escola Nacional da Advocacia, always teaching subjects related to domestic and international arbitration. Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

Vast experience with arbitration, both as a party-representative and as a neutral. Former National President of the Arbitration Commission of the Brazilian Bar Association. Recipient of both the Amazonian State Legislature’s Medal of the Order of Legislative Merit and the Electoral Tribunal of Amazonas’ Medal of Electoral Merit; frequent speaker and lecturer in numerous arbitration and CISG-related events and educational activities; Honorable Mention at the International Academy for Arbitration Law; Alumnus of ICC's Advanced Arbitration Academy for Latin America. Recipient of the "Friend of Industry" award, granted by the Federation of Industries of the State of Espírito Santo, in recognition of work with development of local arbitration markets. Co-author of several books on arbitration and on the CISG; and Regional Coordinator for Amazonas of the Brazilian Arbitration Committee (CBAr).