Speaker bios - 2021 Tokyo Forum on Dispute Resolution
DAY 2：Wednesday ,8 December[Session 2] 10:00 – 12:00 JST / 1:00 – 3:00 GMT
ICSID Rules Amendment and ISDs in the digital era
SessionSpeakerBioMeg Kinnear(Secretary-GeneralICSID )Meg Kinnear is a Vice President of the World Bank
Group and Secretary-General of the International
Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes(ICSID). As Secretary-General, she oversees astaff of 70 people, administering more than 300
investment arbitrations each year.
Ms. Kinnear was formerly the Senior GeneralCounsel and Director General of the Trade Law
Bureau of Canada. In November 2002, Ms.
Kinnear was also named Chair of the NegotiatingGroup on Dispute Settlement for the Free Trade ofthe Americas Agreement. From October 1996 toApril 1999, Ms. Kinnear was Executive Assistant tothe Deputy Minister of Justice of Canada. Prior tothis, Ms. Kinnear was Counsel at the Civil
Litigation Section of the Canadian Department ofJustice (from June 1984 to October 1996).
Ms. Kinnear is called to the Bar of Ontario (1984)
and the Bar of the District of Columbia (1982). She
received a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) from Queen’sUniversity in 1978; a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) fromMcGill University in 1981; and a Master of Laws
(LL.M.) from the University of Virginia in 1982.
Ms. Kinnear is currently Editor-in-Chief of theICSID Review, has published numerous articles oninternational investment law and procedure, and isa frequent speaker on these topics. She is also aco-author of Investment Disputes under NAFTA(published in 2006 and updated in 2008 & 2009),
Federal Court Practice (1988-1990, 1991-1992,and 1993-2009 annually) and 1995 Crown Liabilityand Proceedings Act Annotated (1994).

Campbell Mclachlan QC(Professor, Victoria Universityof
Wellington; Associate
Member(BanksideChambers,Auckland&Singapore;
EssexCourtChambers, London))Campbell McLachlan is Professor ofInternational Law at Victoria University of
Wellington and an Associate Member ofBankside Chambers (Auckland & Singapore)and Essex Court Chambers (London). He is
co-authorofInternational
Investment
Arbitration: Substantive Principles (2nd edn
Oxford UP 2017), a Specialist Editor of Dicey,
Morris & Collins on the Conflict of Laws andJoint Editor-in-Chief of the ICSID Review–Foreign Investment Law Journal. In 2015, hewas elected to the Institut de DroitInternational and served as Rapporteur of its
18th Commission on Equality of Parties before
International Investment Tribunals, whose
resolution was adopted by the Institut in 2019.
His Commentary on the Equality Resolution
was published by Cambridge University Press
in November 2021. Nominated by the New
Zealand Government to the ICSID List of
Arbitrators and as a member of the National
Committee of the Permanent Court ofArbitration, he has served as president or
member of numerous international arbitral
tribunals.
Eduardo Zuleta(Founding Partner, Zuleta
Abogados Asociados)

Eduardo Zuleta focuses his practice ininternational arbitration (commercial andinvestment) and human rights. He has
been Vice President of the ICC Court,
member of the LCIA Court, Chair of theIBA Arbitration Committee and Presidentof the Latin American Arbitration
Association. Eduardo was included in thePresident´s list of arbitrators of ICSID in2011 and then in the list of the Republicof Colombia in 2018. He has acted asarbitrator in numerous investment cases
involving States and investors from Latin
America, Europe, Asia and the Middle
East and as counsel and arbitrator incommercial cases under the rules of themajor arbitral institutions in cases related
to construction, project finance, agency
and M&A. He is a member of theSanctions Board of the World Bank andAdjunt Professor at Georgetown Law.

Jeffery Commission(Director, Burford Capital)

Jeffery Commission is a Director, based in
Washington, DC, with Burford Capital. He
has 20+ years of experience representing andfunding claimants in investment treaty
disputes and international commercial
arbitrations under ICSID, ICSID Additional
Facility, ICC, LCIA, SCC, and UNCITRAL
Arbitration Rules. He previously practiced inthe International Arbitration Group at
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in London,New York, and Washington, DC. He is coauthor of Procedural Issues in International
Investment Arbitration (Oxford UniversityPress, 2018) and the forthcoming Third-Party

Funding in International Arbitration: Law andPractice (Oxford University Press, 2022).
May Tai(Managing Partner, Herbert
Smith Freehills)

May is the Managing Partner of the firm's nine
Asia offices. She is based in Hong Kong but
also spends time in Herbert Smith Freehills'
Shanghai and Beijing offices, and has also
practised in London, Singapore and Tokyo.
In addition to her management role, May
specialises in international arbitration. She
regularly advises governments, governmentowned entities and commercial clients(including financial institutions and energy
companies), including acting as counsel andadvocate in arbitrations under various rules.
She also sits as arbitrator in ICC, HKIAC,
SIAC and UNCITRAL Rules proceedings, andhas also sat as an Emergency Arbitrator.

Toby Landau QC(Barrister(London),
Advocate(Duxton
Hill
Chambers,Singapore),
Arbitrator)

Toby Landau QC is a barrister, advocate andarbitrator, and a member of the Bars of England& Wales, Singapore, New York, the BVI andNorthern Ireland (and registered in the DIFC).
He practises in London as a sole practitioner
and in Singapore from Duxton Hill Chambers(Singapore Group Practice). As Counsel, hehas had a broad commercial and international
practice in London since 1994 and in Singapore
since 2017. He has argued hundreds of majorinternational commercial, investor-State andinter-state arbitrations, as well as groundbreaking cases in the highest courts of England,Singapore, Hong Kong, Pakistan and theCaribbean. He is the first QC to have beenpermanently called to the Singapore Bar andsince April 2012 he has been a member of thePanel of Advisors to the Attorney-General ofSingapore.
As Arbitrator, he has extensive experience as
Chairman, Co-Arbitrator and Sole Arbitrator incommercial and investor-State disputes undermost of the world’s leading ad hoc andinstitutional rules. He is a member of various
panels, including ICSID.
He is Visiting Professor at Kings CollegeLondon; a Vice President of the SIAC Court ofArbitration; Member of the Governing Board ofICCA; Fellow of the CIArb and Chartered
Arbitrator; UK delegate to the UNCITRAL
Working Group on Arbitration (1994-2013); adraftsman of the English Arbitration Act 1996;
thePakistanArbitration(InternationalInvestment Disputes) Ordinance, 2006; theMauritius International Arbitration Act 2008, as
well as many institutional rules.
He holds a first-class law degree and a first class
BCL from Oxford University (Eldon Scholar),and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School(Kennedy Scholar).

Yoshimi Ohara(Partner, Nagashima Ohno& Tsunematsu)

Ms. Yoshimi Ohara is a partner at Nagashima
Ohno & Tsunematsu in Tokyo, Japan. Her
practice focuses on dispute settlement bymediation, arbitration and litigation. She served
as counsel in international arbitration under therules of the ICC, ICSID, AAA/ICDR, SIAC andJCAA. She also served as co-arbitrator, solearbitrator and chair arbitrator under rules of theICC, SIAC, JCAA, KCAB, ICDR andUNCITRAL. She is a member of the Governing
Board of the ICCA, a member of the Board ofthe Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA) and amember of the Executive Director of the Japan
Association of Arbitrators (JAA). She is a former
Vice President of the London Court ofInternational Arbitration (LCIA) and the ICC
International Court of Arbitration (ICC). She islisted as a member of the ICSID panel ofarbitrators. She is admitted to the Japanese Bar
and the New York Bar and received a LLM
degree from Harvard Law School.