Academic Position : Professor of Law (Comparative Law, Private International Law, and International Business Law) - Faculty of Law, Erasmus University, Rotterdam

Education : Harvard Law School (LLM - 1983); University of Ghent, Belgium (Lic. Iur. - 1982, Dr. Iur. - 1989); Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium (Cand. Iur. - 1979)

Experience as counsel: Counsel or expert witness in numerous domestic and international arbitration proceedings, ad hoc or institutional (ICC, NAI, and various commodities associations); arbitration-related proceedings before Dutch, Belgian, and French courts

Award rendered:

• NAI Case No. 2633, Telecommunications consultant (Uruguay) v. Internet provider (Netherlands), Award in Summary Arbitral Proceedings, 23 Apr. 2002

• NAI Case, Seven insurance companies (Netherlands), Joint Venture (Netherlands) v. Manufacturer (Italy), Partial Final Award of 17 May 2005

Publications:

• International Business Law and Lex Mercatoria (T.M.C. Asser Instituut / Elsevier Science Publishers BV, 1992)

• The Place of Arbitration (Mys & Breesch, 1992)(with M. Storme)

• International Law Association International

• "Paradigmatic Changes - Uniformity, Diversity, Due Process and Good Administration of Justice: The Next Thirty Years," in The Evolution and Future of International Arbitration 21 (S. Brekoulakis, J. Lew, L. Mistelis eds., Kluwer, 2016)

• Commercial Arbitration Committee's Report and Recommendations on "Confidentiality in International Commercial Arbitration," 28(3) Arb. Int’l 355 (2012)(with M. Friedman and L. Radicati Di Brozolo)

• International Business Law and Lex Mercatoria (T.M.C. Asser Instituut / Elsevier Science Publishers BV, 1992)

• The Place of Arbitration (Mys & Breesch, 1992)(with M. Storme)§§Numerous articles and case commentaries on international arbitration, more particularly on the law applicable to the merits of the dispute (including on lex mercatoria and UNIDROIT Principles), procedural questions, and the setting aside and enforcement of arbitral awards

Numerous articles and case commentaries on international arbitration, more particularly on the law applicable to the merits of the dispute (including on lex mercatoria and UNIDROIT Principles), procedural questions, and the setting aside and enforcement of arbitral awards