LL.M. (2001), Ph.D. (2010) and Habilitation (2022) in Procedural Law awarded by the University of São Paulo - Brazil. Vice-President of CAM-CCBC. FCiarb. Lawyer, Arbitrator and Professor.

Massimo Benedettelli is name partner of ArbLit, an Italian boutique focusing on international arbitration and cross-border litigation. He is full professor of International Law. He has been teaching from 1994 to 2023 at the University “Aldo Moro” in Bari and is currently professor of practice at Bocconi’s Law School and SDA School of Management in Milan.

In January 2022 he has delivered a course at the Hague Academy of International Law on Powers in International Arbitration between Party Autonomy, Arbitral Authority and State Sovereignty. He is the author of books and articles on public and private international law, EU law and international arbitration, including the first ever written treatise in English on International Arbitration in Italy.

Upon designation of the ICC World Council Massimo has been appointed Italian member of the ICC Court of Arbitration to serve for the 2021-2023 term. Since July 2018 Massimo had already participated to the works of the ICC Court as Italian alternate member, having led for some years the Italian delegation to the ICC Commission of Arbitration. He is also a member of the Arbitration Council of ACIAM, Atlanta (GA).

One of Italy’s main arbitration specialists, throughout his career Massimo has acted as counsel or sat as chairman, sole or party-appointed arbitrator in several commercial and investment treaty arbitrations and featuring procedural and substantive laws of different jurisdictions as well as public international law.

Markus Burianski is the Head of White & Case's German arbitration practice, Markus' work focuses on national and international dispute resolution. He represents German domestic and multinational clients in a variety of court and arbitration proceedings, including those conducted under the ICC, DIS, UNCITRAL, SIAC, ICDR, ICSID, VIAC and Swiss rules. In addition, Markus regularly acts as a sole arbitrator, chair and co-arbitrator as well as a German-law "expert" in national and international arbitration proceedings.  Markus teaches international arbitration at the Institute for Law and Finance of the Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main and is a prolific author on arbitration law.”

Yuliya Chernykh is Associate Professor at the Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences and Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Oslo. She researches questions related to the interpretation of legal texts and the intersections between national law and international law in international adjudication. Her monograph dealing with the practice and theory of contract interpretation in investment treaty arbitration ‘Contract Interpretation in Investment Treaty Arbitration: A Theory of the Incidental Issue’ (Brill 2022) is available as an Open Access book. Yuliya is Chartered Arbitrator and has acted as arbitrator, expert and counsel in numerous arbitration proceedings.

Claudio Finkelstein is full professor and coordinator of the post graduation program in International Economic Law and Graduate Extention Course in Arbitration at the Pontificate Catholic University of São Paulo. He serves as the editor of the Brazilian Journal of Constitutional and International Law and arbitrator. 

Luíza Kömel is Deputy Secretary General of the CAM-CCBC (Center for Arbitration and Mediation of the Chamber of Commerce Brazil-Canada) and a fellow of the CIArb (Chartered Institute of Arbitrators). She has obtained her law degree from the University of São Paulo (USP) and is certified in civil law by the University of Paris II: Pantheón-Assas. She has acted as counsel and case manager in domestic and international arbitration proceedings and has over 10 years of experience working in the field from the institutional perspective.

Professor Dr. Stefan Kröll is Professor for International Dispute Resolution and Director of the Center for International Dispute Resolution at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg.

Since January 2022, Stefan Kröll serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors at the German Arbitration Institute. Since 2012 Stefan Kröll is one of the directors of the Willem C. Vis Arbitration Moot Court, the leading student competition in the fields of international commercial law and arbitration with more than 380 participating Universities. Stefan Kröll’s publications include several internationally renowned monographs, treatises and commentaries, as well as a considerable number of articles in international journals.

Cristina M. Wagner Mastrobuono is a Brazilian/German lawyer, acting as an independent arbitrator in disputes arising from complex contracts, including those under concession and PPP model. She served the Legal Department of the State of São Paulo where she developed a large experience in public business law involving all forms of interaction between the public and private sectors, such as structuring concession projects, privatization and deregulation processes, constitution of real estate investment fund, assignment of

receivables and corporate law aspects of state enterprises and state-owned companies. She is a JD from Universidade de São Paulo and holds an LLM degree from the University of Chicago. Cristina is a Fellow from CIArb and is the Vice-Chair of the Brazil Branch. She is also a member of the Board of InfraWomen Brazil/IWB and IBDiC – Instituto Brasileiro do Direito da Construção. Recognised as a “valuable practice” by Leaders League

Elke Umbeck is partner of Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek (ranked among the top ten German law firms), based in Hamburg, and co-heads the firm’s dispute resolution practice group.

With over 20 years of experience, she regularly acts as arbitrator and counsel in national and international commercial arbitration, and advises national and foreign clients in complex disputes. Elke has been a board member of the Hamburg Arbitration Circle eV (HAC) for over 10 years.

She is listed in “The Legal 500 EMEA 2022” (recommended in the fields of dispute resolution and arbitration including international arbitration) and as “National Leader” in the field of arbitration by Who’s Who Legal (WWL).