Profile

Professor em. of International Business Law, University of Cologne (Germany); President, German Institution of Arbitration (DIS); Member of ICCA and ICC Arbitration Commission. Practice as arbitrator and president of arbitration tribunal in many national and international arbitrations of the ICC, ICSID, NAFTA, AAA, UNCITRAL and others. He was: President, LCIA (1993-1997); President, Iran-United States Claims Tribunal (1984-1988); Panel Chairman, United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC) 1994-1996; President, International Law Association (2004-2006).