CAD Organising Committee

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  Damien Charlotin, Co-Convenor

  Damien is a PhD student at the University of Cambridge, where he conducts empirical and data-based analyses of international dispute-settlement. He has a Master from Sciences Po Paris and a Certificate in International Business Law and Global Governance from Columbia University and Université Paris I Sorbonne. He works as a contributor for Investment Arbitration Reporter.
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  Faidon Varesis, Co-Convenor

  Faidon is a PhD candidate and scholar at the University of Cambridge focusing on International Commercial Arbitration and Conflict of Laws. He also holds an MJur (LLM equivalent) from the University of Oxford with distinction having already completed an LLM in Civil law and an LLB from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. Currently, he is co-convenor of the Cambridge Arbitration Day and coach of the Willem C. Vis Moot team representing the Faculty of Law of the University of Cambridge.
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  Eirini Kikarea, Head of the Committee

  Eirini is a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge specialising in international trade and investment law and a Scholar of Onassis and Leventis foundations. She is a Graduate Teaching Assistant, tutoring Cambridge LLM students in the field of international economic law, Vice Editor-in-Chief of Cambridge Law Review, and General Editor of Cambridge International Law Journal. She holds an LLM from the University of Cambridge with Distinction and an LLB with Honours from the University of Athens. Before commencing her graduate studies, she worked at a top-tier law firm in Athens, advising on commercial and banking law cases.
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  Fabio Santacroce, Arbitration Lunches

  Fabio is an LLM candidate at the University of Cambridge where he is conducting research on the role of human rights in international investment disputes. He graduated summa cum laude from Bocconi University School of Law, Milan in 2012 and his graduate dissertation was awarded the “Daniele Padovani Prize” of the Italian Society of International and EU Law for the best graduate dissertation on private and procedural international law. Fabio is now a qualified attorney in Italy, where he practices international commercial and investment arbitration. He publishes regularly on international arbitration topics with the most prestigious academic journals in that field
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  Alice Nagel, Advertising and Social Media

  Alice is a Master of Law candidate at the University of Cambridge. She holds a Bachelor of Arts/ Bachelor of Laws (Hons) degree from the Australian National University and is admitted as a lawyer in Australia.
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  Olga Kacprzak, Advertising and Social Media

  Olga is a Master of Law candidate specialising in commercial law at the University of Cambridge. She holds a Bachelor’s degree with honours in European Law from Maastricht University in the Netherlands. She participated in the 24th Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot, where her team reached the quarterfinals and obtained an honourable mention for the Respondent Memorandum.
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  Isuru Devendra, Arbitration Lunches

  Isuru is an LLM student specialising in international law. Prior to the LLM, Isuru was an Associate in the International Arbitration Group of Clifford Chance in Australia and Singapore. He has acted as counsel in investor-State and international commercial arbitrations and has published various textbook chapters and journal articles on international arbitration.
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  Ntayi Bandawa, Logistics & Catering

  Ntayi is an LLM student at the University of Cambridge. He obtained his Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Maiduguri in 2014, as the best graduating student of the class. He was subsequently admitted to the Nigerian bar in 2015, after passing the bar examinations with First Class Honours. He worked with top law firms in Abuja, Nigeria for about two years where he was exposed to diverse practice areas including dispute resolution.
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  Natalia Kubesch, Logistics & Catering

  Natalia is an LLM student at the University of Cambridge, specialising in international law. She holds a LLB in Politics, Philosophy and Law from King’s College London and is a scholar of the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation Germany. Next year she will commence a training contract at a top-tier commercial law firm in London.
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  Alex Allan, Advertising and Social Media

  Alex is a PhD candidate at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, researching English civil procedure, prior to which she obtained her LLM from UCL and BA in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic from the University of Cambridge. She is a qualified solicitor and practised for several years at Reed Smith LLP in London, specialising in shipping dispute resolution and economic sanctions.
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  Raveena Sethia, Logistics & Catering

  Raveena is an LLM candidate at the University of Cambridge focusing on Commercial Laws, having already completed a BA LLB from Jindal Global Law School, India. Currently, she is on the organising committee of the Cambridge Arbitration Day