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. He was a visiting researcher and lecturer at the Catholic University of Milan and the University of Ferrara. Currently, he is coach of the Cambridge Willem C. Vis Moot team and co-founder of the Cambridge Arbitration Society (CAS).
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  Pedro Schilling De Carvalho

  Pedro is an LLM Candidate at the University of Cambridge and a PhD Candidate at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, where he obtained his LLB. He has experience in commercial arbitration, having practised in a GAR-100 ranked firm, where he represented clients in domestic and international proceedings under the ICC, LCIA, AAA, and CAM-CCBC rules. He has also published articles on arbitration, commercial law, and corporate insolvency.
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  Aliki Athina (Alina) Papanastasiou

  Alina is an LL.M. student at the University of Cambridge, focusing on international economic law. She holds an LL.B. (distinction) from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, a Minor in Finance from the American College of Greece and has attended courses at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Harvard University and the International Academy for Arbitration Law in Paris, where she was awarded the Laureate of the Academy Prize.
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  Katarina Lundahl

  Katarina is an Associate in the international arbitration practice of Von Wobeser y Sierra, based in Mexico City. She focuses her practice on investment arbitration and international commercial arbitration across industries in the energy and construction sectors in Latin America. Before joining Von Wobeser y Sierra, Katarina clerked at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and worked at the Permanent Mission of Finland to the UN in matters related to public international law. She has published articles on the responsibility of international organisations and is currently a lecturer in international dispute resolution at Escuela Libre de Derecho in Mexico City.
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  Nikola Klímová

  Nikola is an LLM student and scholar at the University of Cambridge, specialising in public international law. She holds master’s degrees in Law and International Relations from Charles University in Prague with distinction. She works as an associate at Squire Patton Boggs in Prague, focusing on international and domestic dispute resolution, including commercial and investor-state arbitration.
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  Alexa Biscaro

  Alexa Biscaro is a research associate at Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP. Her bilingual practice focuses on commercial litigation, constitutional issues, international arbitration, and business ethics and anti-corruption. After completing law school, Alexa clerked at the Supreme Court of Canada for Justice Thomas Cromwell. She is currently completing her LLM in Public International Law.
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  Chisom Ozoemena

  Chisom Ozoemena is an LLM student at the University of Cambridge. She completed an LLB degree (summa cum laude) at the University of Nigeria and thereafter qualified as a solicitor and advocate in Nigeria. She worked in G. Elias & Co., a top tier law firm in West Africa where she focused on commercial arbitration and taxation. She is currently researching on a topic in International Trade Law
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  Ibrahim Alturki

  Ibrahim is a PhD candidate focusing on international commercial arbitration and finance at the University of Cambridge where he is also a blog editor at the Cambridge International Law Journal. He was a lecturer in commercial law at Qassim University where he taught Dispute Resolution, International Trade Law, and Privat International Law among other courses. He holds a Bachelor degree (Hons) from Qassim University and an LL.M. (Dist) from Georgetown University in International Business and Economic Law with a certificate in International Arbitration and Dispute Resolution.