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David is a solicitor-advocate and a Chartered Arbitrator whose practice focuses on international commercial and investment arbitration. He is recognised by the leading legal directories for the strength of his Russian, CIS and Eastern European practice and is one of only three lawyers in the world ranked Band 1 for “Dispute Resolution - Russia (Experts Based Abroad)” by Chambers Global 2016. David also represents clients in court proceedings concerning the conduct of arbitral proceedings, including the enforcement or challenge to arbitral awards, the appointment of arbitrators and applications for interim measures such as disclosure and worldwide freezing orders. David has particular expertise in complex international arbitrations arising out of corporate transactions connected to Russia and the CIS. His experience covers a broad range of sectors, including oil and gas, metals and mining, telecommunications, manufacturing, financial services and insurance. David is also regularly appointed as an arbitrator, with recent appointments including arbitrations conducted under the LCIA, ICC, ICAC and UNCITRAL rules. David is a co-founder, trustee and the Secretary General of the Anglo-Russian Law Association and a founder and Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Russian Arbitration Association.

Born on June 9, 1968, in Leningrad (now St Petersburg). 1992: graduated from St Petersburg State University with a degree in Law (1992). PhD in Law. Senior Counsellor of Justice; 1986-1988: served in the Soviet Armed Forces; 1992: assistant prosecutor of the Vyborgsky District of St Petersburg; 1992-1994: investigator at the Office of the Public Prosecutor of the Vyborgsky District of St Petersburg; 1994-1997: prosecutor in charge of supervision of compliance with security legislation of the St Petersburg Office of the Public Prosecutor; 1997-1998: Deputy Prosecutor of the Moskovsky District of St Petersburg; 1998-2001: Prosecutor of the Moskovsky District of St Petersburg; 2001-2005: Deputy Prosecutor of St Petersburg; 2005: Prosecutor of Bashkortostan; November 2005: the President's Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Volga Federal District; May 12, 2008: appointed Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation; May 21, 2012: Reappointed Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation by a presidential decree. Member of the Russian Security Council.

On 1 July 2014, Jackie van Haersolte-van Hof became General Director of the LCIA. Previously, she practiced as a 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. She was previously with the Amsterdam firm De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek from 2000 to 2004 and, before that, Loeff Claeys Verbeke in Rotterdam, which she joined when she qualified, back in 1992. She has been an arbitrator on cases under the ICC, LCIA and UNCITRAL rules, as well as those of the Netherlands Arbitration Institute (NAI). She has also arbitrated cases at the Royal Dutch Grain and Feed Trade Association and the Institute of Transport and Maritime Arbitration, both based in the Netherlands. She is on the ICSID roster of arbitrators and currently sits on an ad hoc committee. 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 a lecturer in international arbitration at VU University Amsterdam and a member of the GAR editorial board. Her 1992 PhD thesis on application of the UNCITRAL rules by the Iran-US Claims Tribunal was one of the first books to be published on the subject.

Andrey Gennadyevich Lisitsyn-Svetlanov is the Director of the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences and a full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Lisitsyn-Svetlanov was born in Moscow in 1951. He graduated from the Faculty of Law of Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1973. He studied at Columbia Law School in New York (USA) in 1986–1987 and earned a Master’s degree in law (LL.M). He studied at the graduate school of the Institute of State and Law of the USSR Academy of Sciences from 1973–1976. He defended his thesis “Review of disputes in international industrial, scientific and technical cooperation” in 1977 and his doctoral dissertation “Modern trends in the development of international civil proceedings” in 2002. Lisitsyn-Svetlanov has worked at the Institute of State and Law since 1977 and has been the Director of the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences since March 2004. He was elected as a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2008 and a full member in 2011. Lisitsyn-Svetlanov’s scientific interests include problems in international private law, international civil proceedings, intellectual property and the legal regulation of foreign investments. Lisitsyn-Svetlanov has made a significant contribution to the development of alternative procedures to litigation for settling disputes that arise in international economic relations. He has been selected as an arbiter in international commercial arbitration as part of major cases in Russia and abroad. He has been practicing law for 25 years.

Sophie Nappert is a dual-qualified lawyer in Canada and in the UK. She is an arbitrator in independent practice, based in Gray’s Inn, London, specialising in international disputes, notably in energy, infrastructure, natural resources and cross-border investment. Before becoming a full-time arbitrator, she was Head of International Arbitration at a global law firm.

Ms Nappert is trained and has practised in both civil law and common law jurisdictions. She is the peer-nominated Moderator of OGEMID, the online discussion forum on current issues of international investment law, economic law and arbitration. She is ranked in Global Arbitration Review's Top 30 List of Female Arbitrators Worldwide and is commended as a “leading light” in the field by Who’s Who Legal. 
Ms Nappert delivered the 2015 inaugural Annual Lecture of EFILA, the European Federation of Investment Law and Arbitration, on the topic of Escaping from Freedom? The Dilemma of an Improved ISDS Mechanism, which won the Award for Speech of the Year at the Global Arbitration Review Awards 2016. She is the author of a Commentary on the 2010 UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules: A Practitioner’s Guide (Juris, 2012). She is a guest lecturer at Columbia Law School, Harvard Law School and McGill University Faculty of Law. She created the Nappert Prize in International Arbitration, open to young scholars and practitioners worldwide, and administered under the auspices of McGill University.

Anthony Hilton is an economics and business journalist with more than 40 years experience in London as a columnist, editor, executive and main board director of Associated Newspapers, publishers of the Daily Mail, during which time he has won most of the awards in business journalism and been awarded an honorary degree from the University of Aberdeen.He is currently senior business columnist for the Evening Standard and The Independent. In addition he has founded and chaired several media companies, and served as a director and adviser to a management consultancy and a Lloyd’s of London insurance company. He served 17 years as a pension trustee and currently serves on the investment advisory committee of the Harmsworth pension schemes. He has served as a visiting professor in Business and Economics at London Metropolitan University. He has extensive experience in the not for profit centre having served on fund raising and organising committees of the St Johns Ambulance national appeal, London First, the Aberdeen University Sixth Century Appeal, the Essex University finance sub committee, and the Children’s Film Unit. He is currently chair of Dance East one of the leading contemporary dance houses outside London.Hobbies past and present include parachuting, canal cruising and most sports (including league table tennis) .