Gaillard Banifatemi Shelbaya Disputes

Founding Partner, Gaillard Banifatemi Shelbaya Disputes

Founding Partner, Gaillard Banifatemi Shelbaya Disputes (Feb 2021–Present) Partner, Shearman & Sterling LLP (Jan 2006–Feb 2021) Associate, Shearman & Sterling LLP (Oct 1997–Dec 2005) Visiting Lecturer, Harvard Law School (2018–Present) Visiting Lecturer in Law, Yale Law School (2014–Present) Lecturer, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (Sep 2006–Present) Lecturer on International Arbitration, Sciences Po Law School (2022–Present) Lecturer, The Hague Academy of International Law, Private International Law Session (Summer 2019; Summer 2022) Director of Studies, The Hague Academy of International Law, Public International Law Session (Summer 2004) Lecturer on Public International Law, Panthéon-Assas University (Paris II) (1994–1996 and 1999–2000)

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President of the International Arbitration Institute (IAI) (2021–Present) Member, Court of Arbitration of the Singapore International Arbitration Center (SIAC) (2019–2024) Member, SIAC Users Council (2017–2024) Member, Arbitration Council of the Georgian International Arbitration Center (GIAC) (2020–Present) Member, Advisory Board of the Mauritius International Arbitration Center (MIAC) (2021–Present) Vice-President, ICC International Court of Arbitration (2015–2021) Member, ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR (2015–2021) Member, LCIA Court (2015–2020) Listed, ICSID Panel of Arbitrators (2017–2023), appointed by the Chairman of ICSID’s Administrative Council Listed, HKIAC Panel of Arbitrators (2016–2021); SHIAC Panel of Arbitrators (2018–2021); CIETAC Panel of International Investment Arbitrators (2018–2020); ADGMAC Panel of Arbitrators (2020–) Listed, Panel of Experts of the Recognised International Market Experts in Finance (P.R.I.M.E. Finance) Founding member and Co-Secretary-General, International Academy for Arbitration Law (2011–2013) Member, Advisory Board, Journal of International Economic Law (2023–2026) Member, Editorial Board, ICSID Review, Foreign Investment Law Journal (2012–2014) Member, Editorial Board, Yearbook on International Investment Law and Policy Member, SIAC Drafting Sub-Committee on Arbitral Procedure and Powers of the Tribunal (including Early Dismissal) (2020–2021) Member, P.R.I.M.E. Finance Arbitration Rules Drafting Committee (2020–2021) Member, Editorial Board for the Revision of the Uruguayan Conciliation and Arbitration Center Rules (2018–Present) Member, SCC Rules Revision Committee (2017) Chair, Georgian International Arbitration Center (GIAC) Commission for Final Revision of the GIAC Arbitration Rules (2014–Present) Member, World Bank’s Investing Across Borders (IAB) Member, ILA Study Group on the Soft Law Instruments in Foreign Investment Law (2010–2014) Member, ILA Study Group on the Use of Private Law Principles for the Development of International Law Member, IBA Investment Treaty Sub-Committee Member, IBA Recognition and Enforcement of Arbitral Awards Sub-Committee Member, Advisory Board, Africa International Legal Awareness (AILA) Member, Advisory Board, Association of Young Arbitrators (AYA), Nigeria Member, Advisory Board, Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA) Expert, joint UNCITRAL-CIDS Expert Group meeting on possible reforms of investor-State dispute settlement Member, International Arbitration Institute (IAI), Comité Français de l’Arbitrage (CFA), Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA), London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) Member, American Society of International Law (ASIL), European Society of International Law (ESIL) and French Society of International Law (SFDI)

Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas, Ph.D. in International Law (with highest honors; Dissertation honored with a prize at the Concours de Prix de Thèses) Harvard Law School, LL.M.