Stavros Brekoulakis is the Michael and Laura Hwang Chair in International Arbitration at the National University of Singapore.
Stavros is widely recognised as a leading authority in the field of international arbitration and has been invited to give the Summer Course on Private International Law at the Hague Academy of International Law in 2026.
As a recognition of his contribution to the field, Stavros is listed as a Global Elite Thought Leader by Who’s Who Legal: Arbitration Thought Leaders, recognised as “a critical and novel thinker as an academic”; “a reigning thought leader in the arbitration space”; “one of the great minds in the international arbitration world”.
Stavros is a leading public speaker contributing to the public debates in the field of international arbitration through his keynote speeches and public lectures. In 2020, he received the Global Arbitration Review Award for Best Public Lecture for his Roebuck Arbitration Lecture on “The Policy Favouring Arbitration Under English Law”.
He is currently leading two thought-leadership initiatives: first, as the Co-convenor of the Institute of Transnational Arbitration Task Force on The Rule of Law in International Investment Law and Arbitration; and second, as the Co-Chair of the EY Arbitration Colloquia on Innovation in International Arbitration.
Brekoulakis has led important policy projects and advised governmental, intergovernmental, and non-governmental organisations:
- As a Co-Chair of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration Task Force on Third Party Funding, he co-authored the leading report on Third Party Funding in International Arbitration which has informed legislative regulatory policy (Singapore and Hong Kong) and arbitration rules of international institutions (International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes and Vienna International Arbitration Centre);
- As a member of the London Bar Reform Committee, he has provided consultation to the Law Commission of England and Whales currently reviewing the 1996 Arbitration Act;
- As a member of the Steering Committee of the UNCITRAL Academic Forum on Investor-State Dispute Settlement, he has informed in the discussions of the UNCITRAL Working Group III currently considering proposals to reform the system of resolving international investment disputes;
- As a member of the Investment Expert Trade Advisory Group of the UK Department for International Trade (as it was then), Stavros has informed UK’s policy on international investment law and dispute resolution;
- As an international arbitration expert, Stavros has advised the Greek Law Reform Committee on the amendment of the 2023 Arbitration Act;
- As a member of the Supervisory Body of the Hellenic Financial Stability Fund, which was founded by the European Commission and the European Central Bank in the wake of the financial crisis, Stavros provides advice to the Greek Ministry of Finance on the proper functioning of Greek Banking system.
Stavros serves in several boards and commissions of leading arbitration institutions including being a member of the:
- Governing body of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration
- Court of the London Court of International Arbitration
- Commission on Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce
- Academic Council of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration
- Co-rapporteur of the International Law Association, Committee of International Commercial Arbitration
He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Arbitration, Mediation and Dispute Management; the General Editor of the Journal of International Dispute Settlement; the Co-editor of Kluwer’s International Arbitration Law Library Series; a member of the Editorial Board of the Arbitration International; the International Chamber of Commerce Bulletin on International Arbitration; and the Arab Yearbook of Public & Private International Law.
He has been a visiting professor at the Vienna University, Geneva University and Graduate Institute of Geneva, New York University (NYU), National University of Singapore and Athens University.
Stavros has strong experience in senior administrative positions in academia being the Director of Graduate Studies and the Director of Research of QMUL’s School of Law for several years, leading the School’s Research Excellence Framework (REF) submission in 2021.
Stavros is a member of the leading commercial Chambers of 3 Verulam Buildings (Gray’s Inn) where he practices as arbitrator in international commercial and investment arbitrations.
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