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UNCITRAL has requested the assistance of two experts, Professor Emmanuel Gaillard and Professor George Bermann, to prepare a Guide on the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (the 1958 New York Convention). The Guide aims to promote the uniform and effective interpretation and application of the New York Convention with a view to limit the risk that State practice might diverge from its spirit.
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UNCITRAL Secretariat
Anna Joubin-Bret is the Director of the International Trade Law Division (ITLD) of the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs, which functions as the substantive secretariat for the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL). She is the ninth Secretary of UNCITRAL since the Commission was established by the General Assembly in 1966.
Renaud Sorieul is the former Director of the International Trade Law Division (ITLD) of the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs. He was the eighth Secretary of UNCITRAL from October 2008 to November 2017.
Corinne Montineri is a Legal Officer at the International Trade Law Division (ITLD) of the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs. She has been the Secretary of the UNCITRAL Working Group II (Arbitration and Conciliation) since January 2009.
Monica Canafoglia is a Legal Officer at the International Trade Law Division (ITLD) of the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs. Her responsiblities include the management of the Case Law on UNCITRAL Texts (CLOUT) system.
Cyril Emery is a former Legal Officer at the International Trade Law Division (ITLD) of the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs. He was the Librarian in charge of the UNCITRAL Law Library between May 2010 and July 2016.
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Ricardo Alarcón, Georgios Andriotis, Mary Arutyunyan, Luciana Attiye, Tasiana Auguste, Taylan Aygun, Gueorgui Babitchev, Leyla Bahmany, Daniel Barbosa, Othmane Benlafkih, Ketevan Betaneli, Michael Bode, Ana Boksay, François Bordes, Victoria Cadiz, Simon Cassell, Jessica Crow, Youssef Daoud, Sophie Davin, Elise Edson, Omar El-Sada, Alia El Sadda, Patrick El Hayek, Jaber Esfandi Sarafraz, Julie Esquenazi, Peter Frilay, Ross Galvin, Négah Ghorbany Zadeh, Anna Guillard Sazhko, Becky Hurt, Emmanuel Jacomy, Jasmine Jin, Tammam Kaïssi, Dimitris Katsikis, Umaer Khalil, Lara Kroop, Paavana Kumar, Akaraporn Kulvijit, Rachel Laut, Andrés Lema Sanz-Guerrero, Zongyao (Eric) Li, Clémence Lizé, Jo En Low, André Marini, Marina Matousekova, Olivia McNee, Trisha Mitra, Gustavo Moser, Metehan Motugan, Ilija Mitrev Penusliski, Edwige Nathan, Jenna Narayan, Natia Navrouzov, Carter Nelson, Anthony Nicholls, Diana Nielsen, Shannon O'Neill, Sipan Ohanians, Paschalis Paschalidis, Peter Petrov, Karolina Pociūtė, Yael Ribco Borman, Matthew Rogier, Arianna Rosato, Benjamin Ross, Margaret Clare Ryan, Sergey Ryapisov, Guillermo Salcedo Salas, Irina Samodelkina, David (Dongsuk) Shin, Rudolf Simone-Pont, Karen Siwek, Chaymaa Shady, Andrei Solin, Menalco José Solis, Vincenzo Speciale, Anna Stockamore, Michel Szczepanski, Anna Tevini, Sarocha Thongperm, Mariia Tsarova, Teresa Vega, Chloé Vialard, Zuzana Vysudilova, Antonio Wirta and Kitty Zheng.
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The Experts
UNCITRAL has requested the assistance of two experts, Professor Emmanuel Gaillard and Professor George Bermann, to prepare a Guide on the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (the 1958 New York Convention). The Guide aims to promote the uniform and effective interpretation and application of the New York Convention with a view to limit the risk that State practice might diverge from its spirit.
Alieldean Weshahi & Partners
Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC)
Associação Brasileira de Estudantes de Arbitragem (ABEArb)
Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (CRCICA)
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
Everest attorneys
Georgian International Arbitration Centre (GIAC)
Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC)
New York International Arbitration Center (NYIAC)
Organisation pour l’Harmonisation en Afrique du droit des affaires (OHADA)
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- Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC)
- Associação Brasileira de Estudantes de Arbitragem (ABEArb)
- Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (CRCICA)
- Centre of Documentation of the Italian Supreme Court
- Consejo General del Poder Judicial (Centro de Documentación Judicial | CENDOJ)
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
- Deutsche Institution für Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit e.V. (DIS)
- DSP Publishing
- Everest attorneys
- Federal Court of Australia
- Georgian International Arbitration Centre (GIAC)
- High Court of Australia
- Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC)
- Incorporated Council of Law Reporting (ICLR)
- New York International Arbitration Center (NYIAC)
- OHADA (Organisation pour l’Harmonisation en Afrique du droit des affaires)
- Repubblica e Cantone Ticino
- Shearman & Sterling US International Arbitration Digest
- Singapore Academy of Law
- Supreme Court of the Australia Capital Territory
- Supreme Court of South Australia
- Supreme Court of Tasmania
- The People’s Court Press (Supreme People’s Court of the People’s Republic of China) (人民法院出版社)
- Tribunal de Justiça do Estado de São Paulo
- Ali Adamjee (Barrister | Chambers of Sir Hamid Moollan QC – Port Louis, Mauritius)
- Pilar Álvarez (Uruguayan attorney)
- Francisco A. Amallo (MHR | Martínez de Hoz & Rueda)
- Judge Koorosh H. Ameli (Ameli International Arbitration)
- Alexey Anischenko (Sorainen)
- Anže Arko (Ilić and Partners LLP | ODI Law)
- Babajimi Ayorinde (The New Practice | TNP)
- Elena Babkina (Department of Private International and European Law of the Faculty of International Relations of the Belarusian State University)
- Prof. Gary F. Bell (Associate Professor | National University of Singapore, Faculty of Law)
- Vilius Bernatonis (TGS Baltic)
- Ana Bicolli (Mazars)
- Emanuel Bondalici (Nestor Nestor Diculescu Kingston Petersen)
- Stefan Botezatu (Botezatu Estrade Partners)
- Hakim Boularbah (Loyens & Loeff)
- Isaiah Bozimo (Broderick Bozimo & Company)
- Professor Liza Chen (Dean of Law School, Shanghai University of International Business and Economics School of Law)
- Martin Chocano (Rodrigo, Elias & Medrano Abogados)
- Francisco González de Cossío (González De Cossío Abogados, S.C.)
- Joost van Dam (Fieldfisher N.V.)
- Berk Demirkol (University of Galatasaray (Istanbul/Turkey); Demirkol Consultancy (London/UK))
- Valeria Dubeshka (Sorainen)
- Maria Farooq (Axis Law Chambers)
- Bassamat Fassi-Fihri (Bassamat & Laraqui)
- Raúl Pereira Fleury (Ferrere Abogados)
- Daniela Ghervas (Nestor Nestor Diculescu Kingston Petersen)
- Mariam Gotsiridze (Head of the Department of State Representation in Arbitration and Foreign Courts | Ministry of Justice of Georgia)
- Matthieu Grégoire (Barrister | 4 New Square)
- Marina Hadjisoteriou (Michael Kyprianou and Co LLC)
- Katsiaryna Hashko (Sorainen)
- Duarte G. Henriques (Victoria Associates)
- Grant Herholdt (Group One)
- Joana Holzmeister e Castro (Lefosse Advogados)
- Professor Jie (Jeanne) Huang, S.J.D. (Associate Professor, The University of Sydney Law School)
- Beka Injia (Secretary General, GIAC | Georgian International Arbitration Centre)
- Justinas Jarusevicius (Motieka & Audzevicius)
- Dr. Ana Jereb (LL.M. (MIDS); the Supreme Court of the Republic of Slovenia)
- Niki K. Kerameus (Minister of Education in Greece | Member of the Hellenic Parliament)
- Dr. Minas Khatchadourian (Qatar International Center for Conciliation and Arbitration)
- Rosalia Klimova (Michael Kyprianou and Co LLC)
- Veronika Korom (ESSEC Business School)
- Evegeny Kovalenko (National Center of Legal Information of the Republic of Belarus)
- Kirill Laptev (Sorainen)
- Christoph Liebscher (Liebscher Dispute Management)
- Luca de Maria (PMG Avocats)
- Pedro Martini (Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP)
- Zoriana Matiiash (Integrites)
- Ishita Mishra (Advocate, Supreme Court of India | Chambers of Mr. Gourab Banerji)
- Alexandra Nascimento Correia (Abreu Advogados)
- Sorina Olaru (Nestor Nestor Diculescu Kingston Petersen)
- Julio Olortegui (Rodrigo, Elias & Medrano Abogados)
- Wesley Pang (Eversheds Sutherland)
- André Pereira da Fonseca (Abreu Advogados)
- Francisco G. Prol (Prol & Asociados)
- Elijah Putilin (Putilin Sippel)
- Hassan Raza (Orr, Dignam & Co. Advocates)
- Guilherme Santos Silva (Abreu Advogados)
- Albertas Šekštelo (Motieka & Audzevicius)
- Yehia Shahine (Alieldean Weshahi & Partners)
- Hafed Nassim Stambouli
- Maja Stanković (Law Office Miroslav Stojanović cooperating law office of Wolf Theiss)
- Anna-Maria Tamminen (Hannes Snellman Attorneys Ltd)
- Jonathan Thompson (DF Advocates)
- Sophie Tkemaladze (MCIArb, ADR Advisor for the Judicial Independence and Legal Empowerment Project (JILEP) implemented by the East-West Management Institute)
- Kristian Torp (Holst, Law and Aarhus University)
- Natascha Tunkel (Knoetzl)
- Serhii Uvarov (Integrites)
- Charlotte Van Themsche (Université libre de Bruxelles)
- Tadas Varapnickas (TGS Baltic)
- Herman Verbist (Everest Attorneys)
- Ezequiel H. Vetulli (Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP)
- Khalid Zaher (Professor of Law | University of Fes)
- Ventzislava Zhelyaskova Grigorova (Eurolex Bulgaria – Andrey Delchev & Partners; Professor of Private International Law at New Bulgarian University and Veliko Tarnovo University)
- Elizabeth Zorrilla-Arena (Lecturer | UNAM Law Faculty)
