ICSID International Centre for Settlement of Inv : New Designations to the ICSID Panels

Some 19 States designated 101 individuals to ICSID's Panel of Arbitrators and Panel of Conciliators in the 2017.

Each ICSID Contracting State may designate up to four persons to each Panel. The designees may, but need not, be nationals of the designating country. In addition, up to ten persons may be designated by the Chairman of the ICSID Administrative Council. Each designee serves for a renewable term of six years.

From January 1 to December 31, 2017, designations to the ICSID Panels were made by the governments of Albania, Algeria, Australia, Chile, China, Croatia, Egypt, Estonia, Ghana, Jordan, Luxembourg, Mauritania, Oman, Pakistan, Paraguay, Peru, Timor-Leste, Togo, and the United Arab Emirates.

Dr. Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group, in his capacity as Chairman of the Administrative Council, designated 10 persons to the Panel of Arbitrators and 10 persons to the Panel of Conciliators, effective September 16, 2017.

The names of the designees and the effective dates of their terms in office are listed below. For some of the designees the acceptance procedure is to be completed.

The complete list of the members of the ICSID Panels of Arbitrators and of Conciliators is updated on a regular basis and can be foundhere.

Designations by the Chairman

Panel of Arbitrators
Designations effective September 16, 2017:
Olufunke Adekoya SAN, Stanimir A. Alexandrov, Yas Banifatemi, Gabriel Bottini, Zachary Douglas QC, Lucinda A. Low, Vaughan Lowe QC, Loretta Malintoppi, Ricardo Ramírez Hernández, Yuejiao Zhang

Panel of Conciliators
Designations effective September 16, 2017:
Mohamed Abdel Raouf, Phillip Bliss Aliker, Mariana H. C. Gonstead, Tomoko Ishikawa, Barton Legum, Marie-Andrée Ngwe, Rashda Rana SC, Glenn Sigurdson, Joseph Tirado, Hannah Tümpel

Designations by Contracting States

ALBANIA

Panel of Arbitrators and of Conciliators
Re-designation effective August 15, 2017:
Yves Derains, George Kahale III

Panels of Arbitrators and of Conciliators
Designations effective August 15, 2017:
Cherie Blair, Toby Landau

ALGERIA

Panel of Arbitrators
Designations effective January 18, 2017:
Farid Ben Belkacem, Mohamed Chemloul, Ali Haroun, El Oualid Laggoune

Panel of Conciliators
Designations effective January 18, 2017:
Hocine Benissad, Boudra Belgacem, Ahcѐne Bououden, Mohamed Améziane Baileche

AUSTRALIA

Panel of Arbitrators
Re-designation effective February 2, 2017:
Gavan Griffith, Doug Jones, Michael Pryles

Panel of Arbitrators
Designation effective February 2, 2017:
Annabelle Bennett

Panel of Conciliators
Re-designation effective February 2, 2017:
Neil Brown, Richard Ian Hanger

Panel of Conciliators
Designation effective February 2, 2017:
Bronwyn Lincoln, James Spigelman

CHILE

Panel of Arbitrators
Re-designation effective September 4, 2017:
Andrés Jana Linetzky, Enrique Barros Bourie

Panel of Arbitrators
Designation effective September 4, 2017:
Felipe Bulnes Serrano, Ricardo Vásquez Urra

Panel of Conciliators
Re-designation effective September 4, 2017:
Jorge Carey Tagle, Carlos Eugenio Jorquiera Malschafky, Gonzalo Biggs

Panel of Conciliators
Designation effective September 4, 2017:
Alejandro Jara Puga

CHINA

Panel of Arbitrators
Designations effective August 22, 2017:
Hu Li, Yuqing Zhang, Xuehua Wang, Teresa Cheng

Panel of Conciliators
Designations effective August 22, 2017:
Huaqun Zeng, Song Lu, Wenhua Shan, Jingxia Shi

CROATIA

Panel of Arbitrators
Designations effective August 2, 2017:
Petar Miladin, Ðuro Sessa, Hrvoje Sikirić, Zoran Vukić

Panel of Conciliators
Designations effective August 2, 2017:
Damir Kontrec, Dubravka Akšamović, Mladen Vukmir, Srdan Šimac

EGYPT

Panel of Arbitrators
Designations effective May 3, 2017:
Mohamed Sameh Amr, Karim Hafez, Tarek Riad

ESTONIA

Panel of Arbitrators
Designations effective February 15, 2017:
Triinu Hiob, Pirkka-Marja Põldvere, Toomas Vaher

Panel of Conciliators
Designations effective February 15, 2017:
Ilmar-Erik Aavakivi, Leon Glickman

GHANA

Panel of Arbitrators
Designations effective July 28, 2017:
Ace Anan Ankomah, Francis Botchway, Emmanuel Amofa

Panel of Conciliators
Designations effective July 28, 2017:
Mangowa A. Ghanney, Mercy Louise Ohene, Vincent Kizito Beyuo, Kow Essuman

JORDAN

Panel of Arbitrators
Designation effective November 1, 2017:
Salaheddin Al-Bashir, Ayman Odeh, Hisham Al-Tal, Sharif Ali Zu'bi

Panel of Conciliators
Designations effective November 1, 2017:
Mahasen Jaghoub, Tariq Hamouri, Ahmad Ziadat, Omar Al Jazi

LUXEMBOURG

Panels of Arbitrators and of Conciliators
Re-designations effective November 13, 2017:
Philippe Dupont, Steve Jacoby, Marc Seimetz, Alex Schmitt

MAURITANIA

Panels of Arbitrators and of Conciliators
Designation effective November 28, 2017:
Jemal Ould Agatt

OMAN

Panel of Arbitrators
Designations effective October 16, 2017:
Ahmed Ali Al Ajmi, Moosa Salim Al Azri

Panel of Conciliators
Designations effective October 16, 2017:
Hamed Sulaiman Al Wahaibi, Salim Humaid Al Khusaibi

PAKISTAN

Panel of Arbitrators
Designations effective December 6, 2017:
Abid Hassan Minto, Makhdoom Ali Khan, Nasir-ul-Mulk, Nudrat Piracha

Panel of Conciliators
Designations effective December 6, 2017:
Farrukh Karim Qureshi, Khilji Arif Hussain, Shakil Hadi, Tassadiq Hussain Jilani

PARAGUAY

Panel of Arbitrators
Designations effective March 2, 2017:
Benigno M. López Benitez

PERU

Panels of Arbitrators and of Conciliators
Designations effective November 1, 2017:
Fernando Cantuarias Salaverry, Carlos Cárdenas Quirós, Fernando Piérola Castro, Elvira Martínez Coco

TIMOR-LESTE

Panel of Arbitrators
Designation effective October 19, 2017:
Timothy J. Feighery

TOGO

Panels of Arbitrators and of Conciliators
Designations effective May 8, 2017:
Sena Agbayissah. Hounaké Kossivi, Tchitchao Tchalim

Panel of Arbitrators
Designation effective February 1, 2017:
Dorothy Udeme Ufot

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

Panel of Arbitrators
Designation effective March 13, 2017:
Mohammed R. Alsuwaidi, Abdulla Mohammed Al-Yousuf, Hassan Arab

Panel of Conciliators
Designation effective March 13, 2017:
Abdullah Ibrahim Al Muhairi, Ahmed M. Al Mutawa, Abdul Wahid Al Ulama, Saleh Ahmed Alobeidli