Speaker bios - 2021 Tokyo Forum on Dispute Resolution
DAY 1：Tuesday ,7 December[Session 1] 16:30 – 18:15 JST / 7:30 – 9:15 GMT
Opening & Stocktaking of developments in dispute resolution in thedigital economy (Part I)
SessionSpeaker

Stocktaking of Anna Joubin-Bretdevelopments(The Secretary, UNCITRAL)
indisputeresolution
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digitaleconomy(Part I)

Bio
Anna Joubin-Bret is the Secretary of the United
Nations Commission on International Trade Law
and Director of the Division on International
Trade Law in the Office of Legal Affairs of theUnited Nations. She was appointed on 24
November 2017.
Prior to her appointment, Mrs. Joubin-Bret wasa practicing Attorney-at-law of the Paris Bar. She
specialized in International Investment Law andInvestment Dispute Resolution. She focused onserving as counsel, arbitrator, mediator andconciliator in international investment disputes.
She served as arbitrator in several ICSID,UNCITRAL and ICC disputes. Prior to 2011 andfor 15 years, Anna was the Senior Legal Adviser
for the United Nations Conference on Trade andDevelopment (UNCTAD). In this capacity, shemanaged the research and advisory work on
international investment law issues as well as
thetechnicalassistanceprogramoninternational investment agreements (IIAs).
During her tenure, Anna assisted countries andgovernments in the formulation of investment
policies and frameworks and the managementof investor-State disputes. Anna has edited andauthored seminal research and publications on
international commercial law and international
investment law, notably the Sequels to UNCTADIIA Series. She co-edited with Jean Kalicki abook on Reform of Investor-State Dispute
Settlement in 2015. She lectured oninternational investment law in various
universities and institutes all over the world. Sheholds a post-graduate degree (DEA) in Private
International Law from the University of Paris I,
Panthéon-Sorbonne,a Master’s Degree inInternational Economic Law from the University
Paris I, a Bachelor’s Degree of Arts in Political
Science from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques
and a Bachelor’s Degree of Arts in Private Law
from the Université Jean Moulin (Lyon III). She
has been Legal Counsel in the legal departmentof the Schneider Group, General Counsel of theformerly French KIS Group and Director-Exportof Pomagalski S.A.
She hasbeen
appointed judge at the Commercial Court inGrenoble (France) and was elected RegionalCounsellor of the Rhône-Alpes Region in 1998.

Takashi Takashima(Senior Attorney, Ministry ofJustice, Japan)

Jae Sung Lee(Legal Officer, UNCITRAL)

Mr. Takashi Takashima has been Senior
Attorney of the Litigation Bureau and theMinister’s Secretariat International Affairs
Division of the Ministry of Justice since January
2019. His primary responsibilities are to engage
in the formulation of the Japanese
Government’s strategies on international
disputes and to represent meetings andcoordinate policy on legal issues in multilateral
forums with a special focus on UNCITRAL andICSID.
Alongside his extensive experience in disputesettlement, having served as Judge of various
domestic courts in Japan, he has diplomatic
experience as second secretary of thePermanent Mission of Japan to the United
Nations.
Mr. Takashima functioned as coordinator for theprocess on the enlargement of UNCITRAL
membership and successfully led thenegotiations to a consensual adoption of aresolution increasing UNCITRAL membershipfrom the current sixty to seventy at the United
Nations Sixth Committee in November 2021. Healso served as Rapporteur for the UNCITRALWGII project on the expedited arbitration rules.
Jae Sung Lee is a legal officer at theInternational Trade Law Division (ITLD) of theUnited Nations Office of Legal Affairs, whichfunctions as the substantive secretariat for theUnited Nations Commission on International
Trade Law (UNCITRAL). He currently
functions as the Secretary of the Working
Group on Dispute Settlement (II), which
prepared the Expedited Arbitration Rules andwill look into issues relating to dispute
resolution in the digital economy. He further
services the Working Group on Investor-State
Dispute Settlement Reform (III) and has
previously functioned as the Secretary of theWorking Groups on Secured Transactions (VI)preparing the Practice Guide to the Model
Law on Secured Transactions and on
Electronic Commerce (IV) preparing theModel Law on Electronic Transferable
Records. Before joining the United Nations in2007, Jae Sung served in the Korean Ministryof Foreign Affairs.
Anna Masser(Partner, Allen & Overy LLP)

Anna heads the international arbitration practice inGermany.
Shefocuses
on internationalcommercial arbitration and advises on all stages ofdispute resolution.
Anna acts as lead counsel in internationalcommercial arbitrations, in particular in the energy,
plant engineering and renewable energies sectors.
She also advises on disputes under long-term
contracts in general. She has experience ofconducting arbitrations under a wide range of rules
including those of the ICC, SCAI, DIS, LCIA, SCC,
as well as in ad hoc arbitrations also under
UNCITRAL rules. She was qualified in Switzerland
until 2016 and advises on German and Swiss law
issues. She equally deals with issues relating tothe recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards
and judgments and is regularly appointed asarbitrator. Anna is a CEDR Accredited Mediator.

Noradèle Radjai(Partner, LALIVE)

Anna has been recognised by Who’s Who Legalas a Future Leader from 2017 to 2020, as “one ofEurope’s top names”, and as an “efficient andpragmatic lawyer who is great to work with”.
Additionally, she is praised as “very analytic” with“excellent strategy skills”. Since 2021, Who’s Who
Legal ranks her as global leader in arbitration andshe is also ranked by Chambers for her specificexperience in Switzerland. Legal 500 Germany
mentions her as a key contact. She serves as amember of the ICC Commission on Arbitration andADR. Anna is a member of DIS, ASA and VIAC, an
immediate past Global Advisory Board Member ofICDR Y&I and has led the German DIS 40 groupfor three years.
Noradèle Radjai is a partner in the international
arbitration team of LALIVE, specialising incommercial and investment arbitration in theenergy, telecommunications and construction
sectors. She has acted as counsel and arbitrator inover 50 international arbitration proceedings(under the ICC, LCIA, SCC, ICSID, AAA/ICDR,UNCITRAL and Swiss Rules), including disputes
arising from share sales and acquisitions, joint
ventures, and large projects, governed by a variety
of procedural and substantive laws.
Ms Radjai is highly recognised by the leading legal
directories. She was ranked as one of the top 5arbitration partners globally under the age of 45 in
Who’s Who Legal: Future Leaders – Arbitration2017 and is currently ranked in Who’s Who Legal’s
global ranking for all arbitration practitioners. She
is also included by Chambers Global and Europe

in their Europe-wide and Switzerland rankings ofthe leading arbitration counsel.
Ms Radjai is Vice-Chair of the IBA ArbitrationCommittee (as well as co-chair of its Corporate
Counsel Subcommittee), a member of the
Executive Committee on the Board of ASA (SwissArbitration Association), a member of the Pledge
Steering Committee and the CPR European
Advisory Board. In addition, she is a member of the
Swiss Arbitration Centre Marketing Committee anda member of several other professional
associations, namely the LCIA, the BIICL, theAmerican Bar Association and Arbitral Women
Ms Radjai is a Solicitor-Advocate of the Senior
Courts of England and Wales. Prior to joining
LALIVE she worked in the international arbitrationgroup of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & FlomLLP in London.

Michael Schneider(Senior Counsel, LALIVE)

Michael E. Schneider is a founding partner ofLALIVE and now senior counsel. He has practised
in international arbitration for more than 40 years
as counsel and arbitrator in many countries, undervarious rules and concerning disputes involving
States and corporations in construction, industrial
engineering and infrastructure projects and manyother fields. Mr Schneider chaired the UNCITRAL
Working Group II (Arbitration) at its Sessions inNew York and Vienna (2006-2010) on the revisionof the Arbitration Rules and on the revision of theNotes on Organizing Arbitral Proceedings (20142015) and was Vice-Chair of the Commission(2015-2017). He continues to represent
Switzerland in Working Group II. He is honorarypresident of the Swiss Arbitration Association(ASA). He was vice chair of the ICC Commission
on Arbitration until 2014 and has been a memberof several of its working groups (1998 and 2012
revisions of the ICC rules, construction, pre-arbitralreferee). He is past president of the International
Academy of Construction Lawyers (IACL) and ismember of the Board of Trustees of the Cairo
Regional Centre for International Commercial
Arbitration (CRCICA) and of the Court ofArbitration of the Singapore Arbitration Centre. His
many publications include: The Paper Tsunami inInternational Arbitration: Problems, Risks for theArbitrators’ Decision Making and PossibleSolutions, in: Written Evidence and Discovery inInternational Arbitration, 2009, Dossier ICC
Institute of World Business Law.

Kim Rooney(Arbitrator/Hong KongBarrister)

Kim M Rooney is an international arbitrator andHong Kong barrister. Member, ICC’s
International Court of Arbitration; eBRAM
International Online Dispute Resolution Centre’sBoard member; Editor, IBA’s “DisputeResolution International”. Formerly partner ofWhite & Case LLP, heading its Asianinternational dispute resolution practice.
Chaired the Hong Kong Law Reform
Commission’s Subcommittee on Third Party
Funding for Arbitration. Senior ADR Expert, EU
Funded ADR project in the Indonesian publicsector (2013-2016); World Bank-funded project
leader advising the Lao PDR Ministry of Justiceon international arbitration law reform (19981999). Admitted as English solicitor andWestern Australian barrister and solicitor.

Camilla Macpherson(Head of Secretariat,P.R.I.M.E.)

Camilla Macpherson is Head of Secretariat for
P.R.I.M.E. Finance. P.R.I.M.E. Finance isbased in The Hague and was established tohelp resolve disputes concerning complex
financial transactions. Camilla previously
practised international arbitration andlitigation at Allen & Overy LLP, focusing oncomplex, high value cross-border disputes,
and is former Head of Knowledge
Management (UK litigation and regulatory)
and Brexit Counsel for DLA Piper. She is aFellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
and a member of the Law Society of Englandand Wales' International Committee.

Barton Legum(Partner, Denton)

Barton Legum is a partner in Dentons’ Paris
office and head of the firm's investment treaty
arbitration practice. Bart has more than 30years' experience in litigating complex cases
before international courts and arbitration
tribunals.
He is a member of the Board of the Arbitration
Institute of the Stockholm Chamber ofCommerce, and is a conciliator for investment
disputes before ICSID. Bart formerly served
as Chief of the NAFTA Arbitration Division in
the Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S.
Department of State, winning every case.
Bart is an editor of the Investment Treaty

Arbitration Review, and regularly publishes
and speaks on international dispute
resolution, arbitration and public internationallaw.
Amy J. Schmitz(Professor, University ofMissouri School of Law)

Professor Amy J. Schmitz joined the University ofMissouri School of Law and Center for Dispute
Resolution as the Elwood L. Thomas Missouri
Endowed Professor of Law in 2016. Previously she
was a Professor at the University of Colorado
School of Law for over 16 years. In January, 2022,
Professor Schmitz will join The Ohio State Moritz
College of Law and Program on Dispute
Resolution as the John Deaver Drinko-Baker &Hostetler Endowed Chair in Law. Prior to teaching,Professor Schmitz practiced law with large law
firms in Seattle and Minneapolis, and served as alaw clerk for the U. S. Court of Appeals for the 8thCircuit. Professor Schmitz teaches courses inContracts, Lawyering and Problem-Solving, Online
Dispute Resolution (ODR), AI, Data Analytics andthe Law, Arbitration, International Arbitration, andConsumer Law. She has been heavily involved inArbitration and ODR teaching and research for along time and is a Fellow of the National Center forTechnology and Dispute Resolution, as well as theCo-Chair of the ABA Technology Committee of theDispute Resolution Section and the ODR TaskForce. Professor Schmitz hosts The Arbitration
Conversation, is a researcher with the ACT Project
exploring AI and dispute resolution at theCyberjustice Lab in Montreal, presents on dispute
resolution throughout the world, and has publishedover 60 articles in law journals and books, and abook, The New Handshake: Online Dispute
Resolution and the Future of Consumer
Protection, with Colin Rule.