Reception: ICCA Mauritius 2016 - Opportunities and Challenges for Arbitration in Africa

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, the International Council for Commercial Arbitration and the ICCA 2016 Host Committee are delighted to invite you to a champagne reception for the presentation of the programme of the ICCA Mauritius 2016 Congress.

The reception will be preceded by a keynote speech from Lise Bosman, Senior Legal Counsel at the Permanent Court of Arbitration and the Executive Director at ICCA. She is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Cape Town, a Fellow at the Association of Arbitrators (Southern Africa) and serves on the Editorial Board of Tijdschrift voor Arbitrage and is a Series Editor of the PCA Award Series. She is the general editor and contributing author to Arbitration in Africa: a Practitioner’s Guide (Kluwer Law International, 2013).

Salim Moollan will follow the keynote speech. Mr Moollan is a barrister at Essex Court Chambers, specialising in investment and commercial arbitration. He is a past Chairman of UNCITRAL and of its Arbitration Working Group, a former Vice-President of the International Court of Arbitration of the ICC, a member of the LCIA Court and a Visiting Professor in International Arbitration Law at King’s College London.

Dr. Maxi Scherer will moderate the event. She is a Special Counsel at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, with extensive experience in international arbitration. She is a solicitor in England and Wales and a French avocat, and regularly sits as arbitrator in Africa-related energy disputes. Maxi is also a full-time faculty member at the School of International Arbitration, Queen Mary University of London, a Global Professor at NYU Law School and the General Editor of the Kluwer Journal of International Arbitration.
Monday 15 February 2016
7.00 pm – 9.00 pm
49 Park Lane | London | W1K 1PS

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THIS EVENT, CONTACT:

Sharon Ward +44 (0)20 7872 1631 sharon.ward@wilmerhale.com