Jackie van Haersolte-van Hof has been the Director General of the LCIA since 2014. Previously, she practised as counsel and arbitrator in The Hague, at her GAR 100 boutique HaersolteHof. She set up HaersolteHof in 2008 after three years as counsel in the international arbitration group at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Amsterdam. From 2000 – 2004 she was with De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek in The Hague, and before that with Loeff Claeys Verbeke in Rotterdam, which she joined on her qualification in 1992. She continues to sit as arbitrator and has handled cases under the ICSID, ICC, LCIA and UNCITRAL Rules, as well as those of the Netherlands Arbitration Institute (NAI), and UNUM, the Institute of Transport, Arbitration & Mediation, and at the Royal Dutch Grain and Feed Trade Association, based in the Netherlands. She is on the ICSID roster of arbitrators and was and is a member, including as president, of several ICSID Annulment Committees.

She was also involved in setting up the arbitral process for the Claims Resolution Tribunal in Zurich, which analysed claims from Holocaust survivors over dormant accounts in Swiss banks. She is the professor of arbitration law at Leiden University and a member of GAR’s editorial board. Her 1992 PhD thesis on the application of the UNCITRAL Rules by the Iran-US Claims Tribunal was one of the first books to be published on the subject. On 3 December 2020 she delivered the 35th Annual Lecture of the School of International Arbitration and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, entitled “Impartiality and Independence: fundamental and fluid”.

Ann Ryan Robertson, Chartered Arbitrator, FCIArb, is the 2021 global President of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrator. An International Partner in Locke Lord LLP’s Houston office, Ann acts as advocate and arbitrator in a wide variety of complex business disputes. She has been named to Global Arbitration Review’s “Who’s Who Legal: Arbitration” since 2015 and to “The Best Lawyers in America, International Arbitration/Governmental” since 2014. Ann is a member of a number of arbitral institution panels, including the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR), the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC), the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC), the Asia International Arbitration Centre (AIAC), the Korean Commercial Arbitration Board (KCAB), the International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution (CPR), the British Virgin Islands International Arbitration Centre (BVI-IAC),

The Thailand International Arbitration Center (THAC), the Maldives International Arbitration Centre (MIAC), and the Court of Arbitration for Art (CAfA). She is frequent author and speaker on arbitration issues, an adjunct professor at the University of Houston Law Center and for eighteen years coached the Law Center’s Vis Moot team. A recipient of many awards and honors, most recently, the United States Department of Trade selected Ann as one of ten arbitrators appointed by the United States to serve as a dispute settlement panelist pursuant to Chapter 31 of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). Long a supporter of diversity in arbitration, Ann is also a founding member of ArbitralWomen.

Andrea Orta has focused her professional practice to the areas of dispute resolution (commercial, civil, administrative, arbitration and MASC litigation), infrastructure and transactional. She is the Director of the Mediation and Arbitration Commission of the National Chamber of Commerce of Mexico City (CANACO). Member of the Steering Committee of the Mexican Chapter of the Spanish Arbitration Club.

She is a regional representative for Latin America for the Young International Arbitration Group (YIAG) of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA). During 2013 and 2014 she served as coordinator of the CAM / CANACO Young Arbitrators Forum.

She has participated in national and international arbitrations as a party attorney, sole arbitrator, coarbitrator, president of the arbitral tribunal, emergency arbitrator, secretary of the arbitral tribunal, in ad hoc arbitrations, ABC arbitration, arbitrations under different institutional regulations.

She is professor in the field of Dispute Resolution Methods at the PanAmerican University.

Prof. Dr. Pilar Perales Viscasillas is the Chair of Commercial Law at the University Carlos III of Madrid and the Director of the School of Law. Doctor in Law at the University Carlos III of Madrid, with honours; Spanish Representative at UNCITRAL in the Working Group on International Commercial Arbitration (2001-2014), CLOUT National Correspondant until 2017; visiting Scholar in UNCITRAL and the Universities of Columbia, Arizona and Pace.

She has published several books and articles in international commercial contract law, arbitration and corporations. She is the Director of the Madrid Moot (www.mootmadrid.es) and of Master of International Advocacy, and the database cisgspanish.com. She has been a member of the CISG-AC since 2003, and acts as an arbitrator in international and domestic commercial cases, as well as a legal expert in both domestic and international disputes. She is a member of the Board of Director of MAPFRE.

Prof. Daniel Girsberger is a founding member of the Faculty of Law of the University of Lucerne (www.unilu.ch) and a tenured professor for Swiss and International Private, Business and Procedural, as well as Comparative Law. Before accepting the Lucerne assignment, he taught at the University of Zurich law school. He is also of counsel at Wenger Vieli Ltd., a major Zurich business law firm (www.wengervieli.ch).

Daniel Girsberger completed his legal and doctoral studies at the University of Zurich, where he also taught as an adjunct professor. He has an LL. M. in Common Law Studies from Georgetown University Law School (Washington, D.C.), where he also spent time as a Visiting Scholar, as well as at the Max-Planck Institute for Foreign and International Private Law in Hamburg. He headed the Working Group on Choice of Law of the Hague Conference on Private International Law (2010-2015).

He is also the Vice President of the Board of the Swiss Association for International Law and a member (and former head) of the editorial committee of the Swiss Review of International and European Law. Daniel Girsberger is the author of numerous publications focusing primarily on international business and procedural law, arbitration, and ADR. He has also frequently acted as chairman, as arbitrator and counsel in numerous international and domestic arbitration proceedings, both institutional and ad hoc, and has been an expert witness in a multitude of international litigation and arbitration proceedings. He is also a Member of the Arbitration Court of the Swiss Arbitration Centre (the former Swiss Chambers’ Arbitration Institution).

Janie Soublière holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Sciences, a Bachelors Degree in Common Law, is a member in good standing of the Ontario Bar Association since 2002 and holds a Masters in International Sport Law (her masters thesis focusing on the respect of athletes’ procedural rights in sport arbitration). As the head of Soubliere Sport Law, Janie acts as Legal Counsel and Consultant in anti-doping, safeguarding, governance, anti-corruption, policy review etc. She shares her practice working in arbitration. As a Chartered Arbitrator, she sits on sport dispute resolution panels including among others the Court of Arbitration for Sport, the Tennis Integrity Unit Anti-Corruption Disciplinary Panel, the World Athletics Disciplinary Tribunal, Ultimate Fighting Championships, Sport Resolutions, Zwift and the SDRCC.

Janie is actively involved as an investigator into sport context related allegations, has taught Sport Law at Carleton University and regularly guest lectures in University Sport Law courses, acted as athlete-agent to Canadian athletes, is an Executive Board member of the Canadian Ski Hall of Fame and is a North American representative of WISLaw (Women in Sport Law).

Dr. Moreno holds an LL.M degree from Harvard University, specializing in corporate, banking, capital markets, foreign investments, and international contracting legal-related matters. He is an Annulment Committee Member at several ICSID cases, a Member of Court and active Arbitrator before the ICC arbitration mechanism, and a Member of Court and active Arbitrator before the Permanent Court of Arbitration and the Court of Arbitration for Sports. He is a Member of the UNIDROIT Governing Council, a Member of the Inter-Juridical Committee of the OAS, and author of its Guide on International Contracts.

Dr. Moreno acted as an Expert of the Working Group that drafted the Hague Principles on International Contracts and drafter of the forward-looking Paraguayan Law on International Contracts. He is the author and co-author of several books and articles published in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. He is a Lecturer at The Hague Academy of International Law and several leading universities in the Americas and Europe. Dr. Moreno heads Altra Legal (www.altralegal.com). His website is www.jmoreno.info.