Gabrielle 

KAUFMANN-KOHLER

Professor Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler practices international commercial, investment and sports arbitration. She is regularly ranked among the top arbitrators worldwide; a study of investment arbitration released in 2016 concluded that she was the “most influential arbitrator in the world”. Gabrielle is a Professor Emerita at Geneva University Law School where she is also the founder and on the Faculty of the Geneva LLM in International Dispute Settlement (MIDS), a joint program of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and Geneva Law School, and the President of the Council of the Geneva Center for International Dispute Settlement (CIDS). She is or was a Visiting Professor at several universities (NUS, Tsinghua, Georgetown, Sciences Po Paris, MIDS). She teaches international arbitration law and taught private international law in the past.

Among other positions, Gabrielle is Honorary President of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration, which she headed from 2018 to 2020. She is also Honorary President of the Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA), which she presided from 2001 to 2005. She is further a founder of the Foundation for International Arbitration Advocacy and the President of its Advisory Board, and a former member of the ICC Court, LCIA Court, and AAA Board. She was and is a member of the Swiss delegation to UNCITRAL Working Group II on transparency, and to Working Group III on the reform of investor-state arbitration, for which she co-authored two CIDS reports and one book on the interaction of national courts and ISDS.