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Horacio Grigera泭Na籀n
Center Director and Distinguished Practitioner in Residence

楚鳥硃勳梭:泭hnaon@wcl.american.edu
Phone: (202) 895-4531

Dr. Grigera Na籀n, presently an independent international arbitrator and consultant on arbitration and business and international law matters, is a former Secretary General of the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce and a practitioner in the field of international commercial arbitration and international business law for over thirty years. Dr. Grigera Na籀n has also widely published in those areas, including a book on ���Choice-of-Law Problems in International Commercial Arbitration��� (1992) and lectures at the Hague Academy of International Law (2001) on the same topic.

Dr. Grigera Na籀n, is a Distinguished Practitioner in Residence at the Washington College of Law, 51勛圖, Washington D.C. and the Director of its Center for International Commercial Arbitration, a former Special Counsel with White & Case LLP and a former Senior Counsel with the International Finance Corporation, Washington D.C. 泭He also serves as an adviser to the American Law Institute���s project on restating the U.S. law of international commercial arbitration. Professor Grigera Na籀n holds LL.M. and S.J.D degrees from Harvard Law School, LL.B and LL.D. degrees from the School of Law of the University of Buenos Aires and is a member of the Argentine Federal, New York, District of Columbia, and United States Supreme Court Bar Associations.

Susan D. Franck
Professor of law

楚鳥硃勳梭:泭sfranck@wcl.american.edu
Phone: (202) 274-4362

Professor Franck is an expert in the fields of international economic law, dispute settlement, and the empirical analysis of international law. Professor Franck's legal experience includes serving at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and practicing in international dispute settlement with Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering [now Wilmer Hale] in Washington, DC and Allen & Overy in London, England. She is qualified to practice law in England and Wales, Minnesota and the District of Columbia. She is the Chair of the Academic Council of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration, a member of the Executive Committee of the American Society of International Law, and a member of the American Law Institute.

Professor Franck is the author of various articles published in journals such as the泭American Journal of International Law,泭Duke Law Journal,泭Fordham Law Review,泭Harvard Journal of International Law,泭Minnesota Law Review,泭North Carolina Law Review,泭Virginia Journal of International Law, and泭Washington University Law Review. In connection with the Lewis Center and Transnational Law Institute, she organized the Joint Symposium on International Investment and Alternative Dispute Resolution, and created a UNCTAD publication summarizing the proceedings, which occurred through a collaboration blog, other online mediums and a traditional in-person conference.

Professor Franck has been elected to the International Who's Who of Commercial Arbitration and received the "New Voices" award from the American Society of International Law (ASIL) for her groundbreaking empirical analysis of investment treaty arbitration.

Claudia Frutos-Peterson
Adjunct Professor
Managing泭Partner, Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP
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Email: cfrutos-peterson@curtis.com
Phone: (202) 274-4321

Dr. Frutos-Peterson is Managing Partner of the Washington, D.C. office and a member of the International Arbitration group.

Dr. Frutos-Peterson was formerly counsel at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) from 2001 to 2009. At ICSID, she served as Secretary of Tribunals in numerous arbitral proceedings brought under the ICSID Convention and the ICSID Additional Facility Mechanism, based on the bilateral and multilateral investment treaties.

She focuses her practice on arbitration, international law and international investment law and works with multiple governments and state entities. She has represented foreign states in investor-state arbitrations under the Arbitration Rules of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL).

Dr. Frutos-Peterson has also represented private companies in international commercial arbitration under the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) and the ICC International Court of Arbitration (ICC).泭 She has also acted as an arbitrator under the ICC Arbitration Rules and the Rules of the Centro de Conciliaci籀n y Arbitraje (CeCAP) of Panama.

Dr. Frutos-Peterson is an Adjunct Professor at the 51勛圖 Washington College of Law in Washington D.C., where she lectures on international commercial arbitration and investor-state arbitration. She is also a frequent speaker at conferences and seminars in the United States and abroad.泭 She is the author of the book泭L���矇mergence de l���arbitrage commercial international en Am矇rique latine: l���efficacit矇 de son droit, published by L���Harmattan.