Introduction

We recorded late into the night. As is often the case when you put together people who find what is in the parentheticals more interesting than the surrounding text, Thomas I did not strictly follow our plan of making a short and focused audio interview about how parties go about appointing the chair of an arbitral tribunal. Instead, we tended to digress even within our own digressions. But it was consummate Thomas that he was generous both in his hospitality in putting me up in his home for the night and his willingness to share candid opinions about international arbitration ...