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Nadia Darwazeh is a Partner at Vanguard International Dispute Resolution. She has over 25 years of experience acting as counsel in commercial and investor-state arbitrations. She also regularly sits as arbitrator.

Nadia has extensive experience acting as counsel and sitting as arbitrator in commercial and investor-state arbitrations under the auspices of all major arbitral institutions.

Clients have described Nadia as an 'excellent lawyer with a pragmatic and commercial approach, a strategic thinker and a very strong cross-examiner' (Chambers Global) and have praised her 'remarkable intelligence and dynamism' (Who's Who Legal). She has also been recognized as one of Who's Who Legal's Future Leaders.

Nadia is a member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration, the ICC Taskforce on Maximizing the Probative Value of Witness Evidence and is one of three members of the DIS Appointing Committee.

Nadia earned her LLM in International Public Law from the University of Cambridge and her LLB from the University of Warwick. She conducts arbitrations in French, German and English and speaks Dutch and Mandarin Chinese.