Profile

Alexandre Genest is an international arbitration practitioner with experience representing corporations, individuals and States in investor-State and commercial arbitrations.

Alexandre has significant international dispute settlement work experience covering investor-State disputes (ICSID, UNCITRAL, PCA, VIAC), commercial arbitration disputes (ICC) and State-to-State disputes (ICJ, WTO).

Alexandre also carries out legal advisory work for both corporations and States. In particular, Alexandre advises multinational corporations on Canadian sanctions law and modern slavery and supply chains law. Alexandre further advises governments on international trade law.

Over the past 15 years Alexandre worked for the World Trade Organization (WTO), the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the Government of Canada and as a lawyer in private practice.

Alexandre lectured on international investment law at the Center for Transnational Legal Studies in London; on public international law at the University of Ottawa; and on comparative legal and economic integration and the law of the sea at Leiden University College.