Ingeborg Schwenzer is Dean of the Swiss International Law School and Professor emerita of Private Law at the University of Basel, Switzerland. Additionally, she is an adjunct professor at Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia, and has been an adjunct professor at City University, Hong Kong, and at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.

She has published numerous books and more than 200 articles in the fields of law of obligations (contracts, tort law and unjust enrichment, sales law both domestic and international), commercial arbitration as well as family law. In particular, she is the editor and main contributor of the world's leading Commentary on the Convention on the International Sale of Goods (CISG) (4th edition, Oxford, OUP: 2016) and its German, Spanish, Portuguese and Turkish counterparts.

From 2011 to 2018 Ingeborg Schwenzer has been the chair of the CISG Advisory Council. She is also active in all areas of legal practice. In particular, she regularly acts as arbitrator, counsel and legal expert in international disputes.

Renato Treves is a Counsel in the International Arbitration Group of Curtis Mallet-Colt & Mosle LLP.  His practice focuses on public international law, investor-state disputes and international commercial arbitrations. 

He has significant experience in State-to-State disputes before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and ad hoc arbitral tribunals representing States in high-profile and politically sensitive cases dealing with various issues of public international law, including law of the sea, treaty interpretation and international human rights.

Mr. Treves has also many years of experience in international arbitrations representing States in disputes under the rules of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) and the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC).

He has advised States and State-owned entities in various sectors including energy and public infrastructure on matters such as expropriation, interpretation of bilateral investment treaties, issues of jurisdiction and admissibility, settlement transactions and enforcement of arbitral awards.

Mr. Treves has also been recognized among Who’s Who Legal – Arbitration Future Leaders 2024.

Ulyana Bardyn represents clients in complex cross-border disputes, including international commercial arbitrations, investor-state disputes and business litigation matters. 

Ulyana is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb), and she sits as an arbitrator. She has been selected to the roster of arbitrators maintained by the Ukrainian Arbitration Association. 

Prior to joining Eversheds Sutherland, Ulyana worked with a major global law firm where she represented clients in international arbitration and litigation matters, and, prior to that, with the Secretariat of the ICC International Court of Arbitration, where she oversaw hundreds of commercial arbitration matters.

Ulyana is Chair of the International Law Committee at the New York City Bar Association and serves on the CPR Institute’s Steering Committee of Young Attorneys in Dispute Resolution (CPR Y-ADR). She teaches a class on advocacy in investment arbitration at Brooklyn Law School and a class on international commercial arbitration at the Arbitration School of the Ukrainian Arbitration Association held annually in Kyiv, Ukraine. Ulyana frequently speaks and writes on topics relating to commercial and investor-state arbitration.

Francesco G. Mazzotta, is Dottore in Giurisprudenza  for the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II (Napoli, Italy). He also holds a J.D. and LL.M. from University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A. He is admitted to practice as Attorney at Law in the State of New York. He is currently a Chief Judicial Clerk at the Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

Associate Professor Lisa Spagnolo is a member of faculty at Macquarie Law School in Sydney. She was educated at Deakin University (BCom [Dean’s List, Bowater Prize] and LLB [Supreme Court Prize & Supreme Court Exhibition Prize] and Monash University (PhD [Mollie Holman Medalist]). Previously a practitioner at Minter Ellison, and the Faculty of Law at Monash University, she specializes in domestic and comparative contract law, uniform commercial law instruments, choice of law, Islamic finance, geographical indications, property law and advocacy. Her research often takes an interdisciplinary approach, ranging from impacts of socio-political trends in development of law, law and economics, behavioural economics and statistical analysis, to utilizing historical, scientific and technical material to shed light on the impacts of law in the real world, and to suggest new interpretations of law. 

Lisa has published with Kluwer, Cambridge University Press, Federation Press, Beck/Hart/Nomos and Elgar, with many works cited by judges and government reports including reports by the England and Wales Law Commission, Hong Kong Department of Justice and Australian Attorney-General’s Department. She was expert advisor to the New York State Bar Association, Rapporteur for CISG Advisory Council Opinion No 16, is a founder and Fellow of the UN Coordination Committee of Australia, has consulted for law firms and UNCITRAL, and is currently a chief investigator on an ARC Linkage Grant and CLOUT National Correspondent for Australia.

Luísa Quintão is an Associate Lawyer in the Arbitration & Mediation department of Justen, Pereira, Oliveira & Talamini Advogados in São Paulo, where she focuses her practice on infrastructure contracts and State-related disputes.

Luísa is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) and serves as an Ambassador for the legal-tech platform Arbitrator Intelligence (AI) in Brazil. She is a member of the Management Committee of the Centre for Arbitration and Mediation of the Brazil-Canada Chamber of Commerce’s (CAM-CCBC) under-45 Committee (NewGen CAM-CCBC). She is also a member of the Coordination team of the Brazilian Arbitration Committee’s (CBAr) Study Group on State-related arbitration. Luísa is also a Lecturer at Ibmec (LL.M. in Commercial Arbitration) and a Visiting Lecturer at PUC-SP (Specialization in Arbitration); at both institutions, she teaches the course “Arbitration and State entities”.  In collaboration with Cesar Pereira, Luísa coordinates and hosts the series “Lex Arbitri: La Ley Local” on Arbitration Channel.

Luísa holds a Bachelor’s degree in Law and a Master’s degree in Law and International Economic Relations from the Pontifical Catholic University of Sao Paulo (PUC-SP). She also holds an LL.M. from Duke University. She is a former Vis Mootie (2014/2015) and current Vis Coach (PUC-SP).

Joshua Karton is a Canadian academic and independent arbitrator, focusing on commercial and investor-state arbitration, international and comparative contract law, and transnational legal theory. He is an Associate Professor in the Queen’s University Faculty of Law, where he was until recently Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research. He has written or edited four books and dozens of articles and book chapters in his areas of interest. He holds a BA in International Relations and Humanities from Yale, a JD from Columbia, and a PhD in Law from Cambridge.

Professor Karton is an elected member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, has served on the Executive Committee of the American Society of Comparative Law, and is a Vice Chair of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration’s Academic Committee. He co-founded and continues to be the Managing Editor of the Canadian Journal of Commercial Arbitration, is a Book Review Editor of the American Journal of Comparative Law, and is a General Editor of Kluwer Arbitration Practical Insights.

Aside from his academic activities, Professor Karton is active as an arbitrator and consultant in commercial disputes, and has been designated a “Qualified Arbitrator” by the ADR Institute of Canada. Before commencing his academic career, he practiced in litigation and arbitration at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP in New York and Hong Kong. He is a native English speaker and proficient in Mandarin Chinese and French.

Mr. Orlando Cabrera studied law in Canada, Mexico, and the United States of America, and is fluent in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French. Mr. Orlando Cabrera advices governments and corporate investors in international dispute resolution across borders and languages.

With more than 10 years of experience, Mr. Orlando Cabrera draws on his deep understanding of complex domestic and international disputes to effectively represent clients in ICSID, ICC, ICDR, LCIA, UNCITRAL, CANACO and Arbitration Center of Mexico (CAM) arbitrations in mining, energy, telecommunications, finance, construction, transport, national security, real estate assets, and government contracting. He frequently writes, speaks, and organizes events on international arbitration.

Orlando is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) and former Board Secretary of CIArb's North American Branch (NAB), a listed arbitrator by the Tashkent International Arbitration Centre (TIAC), the Arbitration Center of the Lima Chamber of Commerce, the International Center for Conciliation and Arbitration, and the Panama Conciliation and Arbitration Centre, ICC Committee Member on the Proposal of Arbitrators, and an associate to the Madrid Court of Arbitration. Before, he served as Young ICCA Events Coordinator. Orlando teaches investment arbitration at Universisdad Iberoamericana.

Prior to joining the Hogan Lovells Mexico City office, Orlando started in the international arbitration practice of the firm's Miami office. He divides his time between these two offices. Orlando also previously served as a legal intern in the New York State Supreme Court.