Meg Kinnear
Secretary‐General,

International

CentreforSettlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID)
andVicePresident,

WorldBankGroup

Washington, DCMeg Kinnear is the Secretary‐General of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment
Disputes (ICSID) and a Vice President of the World Bank.
Prior to joining ICSID, she worked as Senior General Counsel (2006‐2009) and Director General ofthe Trade Law Bureau of Canada (1999‐2006). Prior to this, she was the Executive Assistant to theDeputy Minister of Justice of Canada (1996 ‐1999) and Counsel at the Civil Litigation Section of theCanadian Department of Justice (1984‐1996).
She has frequently spoken on and published with respect to international investment law andprocedure, including as a co‐author of Investment Disputes under NAFTA (Kluwer Law Publications,June 2006; updated editions released January 2008 and June 2009).
She holds degrees from the University of Virginia (LL.M.) and McGill University (LL.B.). She isadmitted to the Bar of the Law Society of Upper Canada (Ontario) and the District of Columbia Bar.

Anna Joubin‐Bret
Secretary,

UnitedNations

CommissiononInternational Trade Law (UNCITRAL)
and Director, International Trade Law Division

Anna Joubin‐Bret is the Secretary of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law(UNCITRAL) and the Director of the International Trade Law Division in the Office of Legal Affairs ofthe United Nations, which functions as the substantive secretariat for UNCITRAL. She is the ninth
Secretary of the Commission since it was established by the General Assembly in 1966.
Prior to her appointment on 24 November 2017, she practiced law in Paris, specializing inInternational Investment Law and Investment Dispute Resolution. She focused on serving ascounsel, arbitrator, mediator and conciliator in international investment disputes. She served asarbitrator in several ICSID, UNCITRAL and ICC disputes. Prior to 2011 and for 15 years, she was theSenior Legal Adviser for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). She
edited and authored seminal research and publications on international investment law, notably
the Sequels to UNCTAD IIA Series and co‐edited with Jean Kalicki a book on Reform of Investor‐State
Dispute Settlement in 2015.
She holds a post‐graduate degree (DEA) in Private International Law from the University of Paris I,
Panthéon‐Sorbonne, a Masters Degree in International Economic Law from University Paris I and in
Political Science from Institut d'Etudes Politiques. She was Legal Counsel in the legal department ofthe Schneider Group, General Counsel of the KIS Group and Director‐Export of Pomagalski S.A. She
was appointed judge at the Commercial Court in Grenoble (France) and was elected RegionalCounsellor of the Rhône‐Alpes Region in 1998.

Judith Knieper (online)
Legal Officer, United Nations Commission onInternational Trade Law (UNCITRAL)

Judith Knieper is a legal officer at the Secretariat of the United Nations Commission on International
Trade Law (UNCITRAL) in Vienna. She is the Secretary of Working Group II on Dispute Settlement,
also services Working Group III on Investor‐State Dispute Settlement Reform and is responsible forMediation.
Until her appointment to the Secretariat, she had been working in South East Europe from 1998
‐2013 for numerous donors/organizations, e.g. OSCE, CoE, Worldbank and GIZ, the Deutsche
Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit, the German international cooperation.
She obtained both Legal State Exams in Frankfurt, Germany as well as her PhD and is also qualified
and certified as a Mediator.

Mitsuru Claire Chino / 茅野みつる
Managing

Executive

OfficerandGeneral

Manager, Corporate Communications Division,
ITOCHU Corporation
Attorney at Law (California)
Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators/ 伊藤忠商事株式会社 常務執⾏役員 広報部⻑カリフォルニア州弁護⼠、英国仲裁⼈協会 Fellow

Mitsuru Claire Chino is a bilingual and bicultural (U.S. and Japan) senior business executive with aFortune Global 500 company and an international lawyer with 30+ years’ experience. She was apartner of an international law firm prior to joining ITOCHU, a diversified industrials. With ITOCHU
over the years, she has served as Global General Counsel, CEO of its North American operations andan Audit & Supervisory Board member. Since April, Claire is Managing Executive Officer in charge ofcorporate communications.
She is a graduate of Smith College (B.A. cum laude) and Cornell Law School (J.D.), where she serveson the advisory board. She has been recognized by the World Economic Forum (Young GlobalLeader), Newsweek Japan (100 Japanese Women Recognized by the World), Yale University (YaleWorld Fellow), Financial Times (Top 10 Global General Counsel), California Lawyers Association(Warren Christopher International Lawyer of the Year), Smith College (Smith Medal), among others.
スミス・カレッジ卒業（BA cum laude）、コーネル・ロースクール修了（JD）。カリフォルニ
ア州弁護⼠。国際法律事務所のパートナーを経て、伊藤忠商事に⼊社。２０１３年に⼤⼿総合商社初の⼥性執⾏役員に就任、同年、伊藤忠商事法務部⻑に就任。伊藤忠⽶国法⼈（伊藤忠インターナショナル会社）社⻑兼 CEO、伊藤忠商事常勤監査役を経て、２０２３年４⽉より現職。
Young Global Leader（世界経済フォーラム）、Asia21（アジア・ソサエティ）、「世界が認めた⽇本⼈⼥性 100 ⼈」（ニューズウィーク⽇本版）、Yale World Fellow（エール⼤学）、Top 10 Global
General Counsel（ファイナンシャル・タイムズ）、Warren Christopher International Lawyer of theYear (カリフォルニア弁護⼠会)、Smith College Medal (スミス・カレッジ） 等に選出。

Hi‐Taek ShinArbitrator

atTwenty

EssexChambers

inLondon/Singapore

Professor Hi‐Taek Shin is an arbitrator at Twenty Essex Chambers in London/Singapore.
He has unique experience combining a successful career as a counsel, academic, and arbitrator, as
well as in the public service. Until 2007, he had long been a partner of Kim & Chang, the leading
Korean law firm. From 2007 to 2017, he was a professor at Seoul National University Law School
teaching international investment law and investor‐State arbitration. From 2016 to 2019, he served
as the Chairman of the Korea Trade Commission, the trade‐remedy authorities of the KoreanGovernment. He also served as the Chairman of KCAB INTERNATIONAL, the international division ofthe Korean Commercial Arbitration Board until recently.
He has been appointed as a sole, presiding, and co‐arbitrator in international investment andcommercial arbitrations under the ICSID Convention and rules of major international arbitralinstitutions. He is on the panel of arbitrators of HKIAC, AAA/ICDR, ICSID, JCAA, KCAB
INTERNATIONAL and SIAC, to name a few.
He co‐authored a chapter in Balancing the Protection of Foreign Investors and State Responses inthe Post‐Pandemic World (Y. Levashova and P. Lorfing, eds., Wolters Kluwer2022) and “ICSID
Administrative and Financial Regulations” in ICSID Rules and Regulations 2022: Article‐by‐Article
Commentary (R.Happ and S.Wilske, C.H.Beck, 2022).

Joe Tirado
Partner at leading Spanish and Latin American
firm, Garrigues

Joe Tirado has over 30 years of dispute resolution experience and has handled hundreds of cases
across a broad range of industry sectors as counsel, arbitrator, mediator, conciliator, adjudicator andexpert determiner in more than 65 jurisdictions. He is a partner at leading Spanish and Latin
American firm, Garrigues.
He has represented sovereign governments, multi‐national corporations and high net worth
individuals. He has been recognized consistently as a ranked individual for international arbitration
and ADR in leading legal directories. He has been described as “first class” and “best known for hiswork on energy‐related disputes, but is also recognized for his financial services and public
international law expertise”.
He is a solicitor‐advocate with full rights of audience before all civil courts in England & Wales, anaccredited commercial and Investor‐State mediator, a Civil Mediation Council Fellow, an ICSID
conciliator and a panel member of a number of leading invitation‐only arbitration and mediation
panels, including the European Union and the United Nations.
He is a past Co‐Chair of the IBA Mediation Committee.

Isomi Suzuki / 鈴⽊五⼗三Partner at Koga & Partners
Attorneys‐at‐Law, in Tokyo and New York/ 古賀総合法律事務所代表パートナー、ニューヨー
ク州弁護⼠

Isomi Suzuki is the managing partner at Koga & Partners, Attorneys‐at‐Law, in Tokyo (also admittedto New York). He received his LL.B. from Hitotsubashi University and graduated from the Legal
Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court. He also received an LL.M. from the Universityof California at Berkeley while studying on a Fulbright Scholarship.
He has served as a commissioner on the United Nations Security Council Compensation
Commission from 1998 to 2005. He also served as the president of the Committees of Japan
Federation of Bar Associations on Enactment of Laws Concerning Private International Law andInternational Jurisdiction and on Review of the Investor‐State Disputes Arbitration in the Trans
Pacific Partnership Agreement. He served as the president of LAWASIA ("Law Association for Asiaand the Pacific). In addition, currently he is an adviser of the Center for Alternative Dispute
Resolution Regarding Fukushima Nuclear Accident for the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports,Science and Technology, and on the Panel of Conciliators designated by the Japanese governmentfor International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes.
第⼆東京弁護⼠会所属、古賀総合法律事務所代表パートナー、ニューヨーク州弁護⼠。
⼀橋⼤学法学部卒業後、フルブライト留学⽣としてカリフォルニア⼤学バークレー校にて法学修⼠取得。
1998 年〜2005 年国連安全保障理事会補償委員会コミッショナー、LAWASIA 元会⻑。⽇弁連
では、国際私法現代化及び国際裁判管轄制度に関する検討会議、国際商事・投資仲裁 ADRワーキンググループなどにおいて座⻑を歴任。現在、福島第⼀原⼦⼒発電所事故に関わる
原⼦⼒損害賠償紛争解決センター顧問、ICSID（国際投資紛争解決センター）⽇本政府指名調停⼈候補。

Yoshimi Ohara / ⼩原淳⾒
Partner at Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu
Governing Board member, International Council
for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA)/ ⻑島・⼤野・常松法律事務所パートナー、International Council for Commercial Arbitration（ICCA）理事

Yoshimi Ohara is a Partner at Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu. Her practice focuses on international
dispute settlement, including arbitration, complex litigation and mediation. She serves as counsel aswell as an arbitrator in arbitrations under the rules of major arbitration institutions in a wide rangeof areas, including joint ventures, M&A, natural resources, investment, insurance, construction,technology transfer, IP licensing, distributorship and sales. She is a member of ICSID Panel ofArbitrators nominated by Japanese government. She is a member of the Governing Board of ICCA,
Executive Director of the Japan Arbitrators Association (JAA), a member of the Board of the Swiss
Arbitration Association (ASA), and former Vice President of the ICC Court and LCIA Court.
⻑島・⼤野・常松法律事務所パートナー。国際紛争解決の交渉、訴訟、仲裁、調停及び紛争予防を主に⼿がける。JV、M&A、資源、投資、保険、建設、技術移転、知財ライセンス、販売代理店等の幅広い分野の紛争に関する主要な仲裁機関の仲裁において代理⼈、仲裁⼈を務める。⽇本政府の指名による ICSID 仲裁⼈パネルメンバー。ICCA 理事、⽇本仲裁⼈協会（JAA）常務理事、スイス仲裁協会（ASA）理事、ICC 国際仲裁裁判所（ICC Court）及びロンドン国際仲裁裁判所（LCIA Court）の元副所⻑。